Long Beach FLOOD

Kamran Assadi

Kamran Assadi migrated to U.S from Iran in 1984. He attended CSULB from 1985-1990 studying painting and drawing. From 1990-1999, he produced several bodies of work in mixed media, painting, sculpture and photography. In 1999, co-founded Utopia good food & fine art as a hybrid restaurant and gallery, exhibited over 100 solo and group shows featuring emerging and established local and international artists.

In 2001, Kamran co-founded Long Beach FLOOD Inc. with the desire to raise awareness as well as engender appreciation for new and emergent art, exposing aesthetic sensibilities that exist outside those of the mainstream. As one of FLOOD's productions, SoundWalk, an international indoor/outdoor sound installations event in downtown Long Beach, was inaugurated in 2004 and continued for 10 years.

Kamran joined the Arts Council for Long Beach Board of directors from 2005-2013, during which he chaired Advisory Committee for Public Art (ACPA) from 2006-2009. He also served as the president of the ACLB from 2009-2011 focusing on art administration and policies as it relates to public and private funding, arts education, public arts and creating more opportunities and financial assistance for Long Beach artists. Because of his passion for the arts and the vital role that Arts Council plays as the city's lead agency for the arts, Kamran has continued his support with the Arts Council in various capacities.

In 2014, after almost 20 years of hiatus, Kamran began producing numerous works in variety of disciplines such as painting, photo montage, mixed media and assemblage.

Victoria Bryan

Victoria Bryan is a theatre artist, visual artist, educator and member of FLOOD since 2016. She co-founded and co-directed two theatre companies: STOP-GAP from 1978 to 2001 and east village caravanserai from 2018 to present. She teaches in Liberal Studies, Cal State Long Beach, College of Education, and was executive director, Arts Council for Long Beach, from 2014 to 2016. Victoria's photographic work can be seen at guidedbytheeye.com. Past arts experience includes: adjudicator for the National Speech and Drama Festival, Harare, Zimbabwe; curator for various Long Beach and San Pedro art spaces; designer for various small theatres in Southern California, as well as the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland; educational television writer and presenter for National Iranian Television/British Council, Tehran, Iran.

Sheriann Ki Sun Burnham

Sheriann Ki Sun Burnham is a visual artist and designer, and member of FLOOD since October 2015.

Sheri explores handmade and computational systems in creating mixed media/digital painting, sculpture, and time-based media art. She also is a freelance designer working in graphics and creative production. Sheri has utilized digital technologies in her artistic practice since 1981. She received a B.A. in Studio Art from Cal State Long Beach in 1982. Her digital fine art has been exhibited and published, nationally and internationally since the mid-1980's, including: multiple ACM SIGGRAPH Art Shows and Traveling Shows, Graphite in New Zealand, Artware: Kunst und Elektronik in Germany, The New York Digital Salon and Traveling Show, John Wayne and Ontario International Airports, and the Long Beach Museum of Art. Sheri has worked on collaborative projects at Caltech and Brown University, and in 2018 was Visiting Artist in Digital Media at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. In 2004 she received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Long Beach Public Corporation for the Arts.
Sheri is the primary graphic designer and webmaster for soundpedro.

Marco Schindelmann

Marco Schindelmann, voise (voice + noise) artist. Member of FLOOD since 2006.

Affiliations, exhibitions, presentations, publications, recordings, adjudication, grants include: University of Redlands; Arts Council for the City of Long Beach; Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayersische Staatsballet, Munich; MLuM; Scary Culture; NPR; Radio Vaticana; Il Corral; Dung Mummy Festival; Music Box Henry Fonda Theater; SIGGRAPH; Los Angeles Municpal Art Gallery; Galerjia '73 Belgrad; Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona; CEMC/EMSAN, Beijing, China; NUS Arts Festival, Singapore; Hong Kong Arts Centre, 1Teater Kecil 2Taman Ismail Marzuki, Jakarta, Indonesia; Yogyakarta Contemporary Music Festival; Computer Music Journal; Centaur Records; New World Records; Los Angeles Music Center; NEA; American Geo-Spatial Agency.

Betsy Lohrer Hall

Visual artist, curator and educator, Betsy Lohrer Hall has been a member of FLOOD since 2015. She makes process-oriented works on paper, installations and performances. Degrees include an MFA from California State University, Fullerton, and a BA from Colorado College. She also studied the arts in London and Florence, and briefly at The New School for Design in New York City. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S., in Thailand and in Taiwan. She is owner, director and curator of Flux Art Space, an experimental artist-run project space founded in 2018 and she has taught drawing, painting, life-drawing, printmaking, art appreciation, and writing in the arts at colleges and universities throughout southern California for more than 15 years. She currently teaches at California State University, Fullerton.

Nick Dynice

Nick Dynice is a musician, sound artist, recording engineer, art photographer, and marketer in Long Beach, Ca, USA. He has certificates in Record Production, Recording Engineering from Long Beach City College, His musical output in the lo-fi/ambient/hauntology/library music genres. His sound design is focused mostly sound design methods and flavors used in science fiction, mystery and animation in the 50's through the 70's. His art photography, video creation and graphics design is mostly concerned with prism light as the subject. Nick manages the FLOOD websites, and participates in FLOOD's social media accounts.

Kay Erickson

Kay Erickson received her first camera at age 7, and watched her Mother transform black & white photographs into color by hand tinting them with photo oils.

After receiving a BFA from the University of Minnesota, Summa cum Laude, she earned an MS from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Kay's work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis, Colorado, Washington, Amsterdam, Turkey, Paris, and Spain. She was awarded a Mayoral Proclamation from Santa Monica, California for her work in teaching math standards through the art of photography.

Kay presently resides in the East Village of Long Beach, California

Frauke von der Horst

Frauke von der Horst, PhD., has taught at Otis College of Art and Design.

She specializes in critical theory, museology, and modernism, lecturing extensively on museology both in the U.S. and Germany.

Dr. von der Horst has curated exhibitions at Illinois State Museum, and Long Beach Museum of Art.

As a member of FLOOD, she was involved with several events and exhibitions and co-curated SoundWalk from its inception to its final year.