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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Artbound Season 1 Episode 1 - Jackrabbits and Date Farmers
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    #1 - Jackrabbits and Date Farmers

    S1:E1

    The premiere episode of Artbound features the pop art of Coachella Valley artists the Date Farmers, the world of Muslim American fashion, an exploration of the Morongo Desert's "jackrabbit" homesteads, the history of steel houses in Palm Springs, and a musical performance by Cut Chemist.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Artbound Season 4 Episode 1 - Metralleta de Oro and Ultraviolet
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    #2 - Metralleta de Oro and Ultraviolet

    S4:E1

    In this episode, Artbound heads to San Bernardino to explore the tubular sandbagging construction techniques of the California Institute of Earth Architecture, whose handmade structures are redefining sustainable housing. In Boyle Heights, the group Public Matters’ Market Makeover project is addressing the "grocery gap" in "food deserts," areas that have limited access to quality, healthy food.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Artbound Season 4 Episode 2 - Machine Project Field Guide to L.A. Architecture
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    #3 - Machine Project Field Guide to L.A. Architecture

    S4:E2

    Machine Project recently invited and filmed over 20 artists to create performances that respond to notable architectural sites throughout Los Angeles, collectively creating The Machine Project Field Guide to L.A. Architecture. The project was part of the larger Getty initiative, Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L. A., celebrating California’s modern architectural heritage.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Artbound Season 4 Episode 3 - East is Eden
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    #4 - East is Eden

    S4:E3

    In this episode, Artbound investigates arts practices from communities East of Los Angeles, venturing from Lincoln Heights to San Bernardino. Meet the group Metralleta de Oro, who specialize in Sonidero, a sub-genre of the Mexican cumbia in Lincoln Heights. In Boyle Heights, the group Public Matters’ Market Makeover project addresses the “grocery gap” in food deserts.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Artbound Season 4 Episode 4 - MOCAtv
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    #5 - MOCAtv

    S4:E4

    Artbound presents an hour-long special featuring short, vibrant videos from MOCAtv, the art video channel developed as a digital extension of the education and exhibition programming of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). Featuring an eclectic mix of videos profiling artworks like Barry Le Va's "Shatterscatter" and prolific artists such as Sterling Ruby, Nan Goldin, and more.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Soko

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  6. Artbound Season 4 Episode 5 - 100 Mules Walking The Los Angeles Aqueduct
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    #6 - 100 Mules Walking The Los Angeles Aqueduct

    S4:E5

    "Artbound" travels with Lauren Bon and the Metabolic Studio as they perform "One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct," a commemorative artist action to reconnect Los Angeles to its water supply by walking the entire 240-mile route of the Los Angeles Aqueduct with a team of 100 hundred mules. The action marked the 100-year anniversary of the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Artbound Season 6 Episode 1 - American Purgatory
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    #7 - American Purgatory

    S6:E1

    Artbound explores the paintings of Marc Trujillo who brings the techniques of the Dutch Masters to the subject of commercial architecture and fast-food in Southern California; Kim Stringfellow’ s Mojave Project discovering the eclectic desert communities of the Mojave Desert; Dave Lefner’s colored wood block prints of neon signs in Los Angeles; and the subculture of Brazilian cholos.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Artbound Season 6 Episode 2 - Borderlands
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    #8 - Borderlands

    S6:E2

    Artbound explores art along the U.S.-Mexico border. Featuring Mexicali Rose, an artist organization in Mexicali, where locals are encouraged to create art to galvanize community involvement; Drones as art, where multiple projects re-appropriating military drones play with the idea of surveillance and mobility; Paul Turounet’s photographs of undocumented border-crossers printed on galvanized metal.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Artbound Season 6 Episode 3 - Steel Modern
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    #9 - Steel Modern

    S6:E3

    Artbound explores the architectural past and present in Southern California. Featuring Danny Heller’s paintings of mid-century modern architecture in Palm Springs; the superadobe construction techniques of Cal-Earth whose experimental designs are challenging the ubiquitous cookie-cutter suburban communities in the urbanized southwestern Mojave Desert and more.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Artbound Season 6 Episode 4 - Monomania L.A.
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    #10 - Monomania L.A.

    S6:E4

    A series of short documentary films in partnership with USC Libraries profiles four "L.A. as Subject" collectors who have obsessively focused on a narrow slice of Southern California history. Featuring Carol Wells, Founder of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics; David Boule, private collector and author of "The Orange and the Dream of California," and more.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Artbound Season 6 Episode 5 - The State of Creativity
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    #11 - The State of Creativity

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    An Artbound special episode on the Otis Report on the Creative Economy: Using key data from the newest issue of the report, the documentary explores the vibrant network of creativity in Southern California, examining how creative businesses are investing in community building and driving economic activity in Boyle Heights; the network of industries involved in the denim manufacturing; and more.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Artbound Season 6 Episode 6 - Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser
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    #12 - Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch's Accuser

    S6:E6

    An Artbound special episode in partnership with the Grand Central Art Center. “Vireo: The Spiritual Biography of a Witch’s Accuser” considers the usage of “female Hysteria” throughout the decades in operatic form. Vireo is the brainchild of long-time collaborators, composer Lisa Bielawa and librettist Erik Ehn.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Artbound Season 6 Episode 7 - MOCA: Episode 3
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    #13 - MOCA: Episode 3

    S6:E7

    This "Artbound" special episode, in partnership with MOCAtv, features The Museum of Contemporary Art's current programming, including an Elaine Sturtevant retrospective and exhibition "William Pope.L's Trinket." The episode also features Martine Syms, Jeffrey Vallance, Jasmin Shokrian, and music videos by Devin Kenny and Teengirl Fantasy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Artbound Season 8 Episode 1 - Charles Lummis - Reimagining the American West
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    #14 - Charles Lummis - Reimagining the American West

    S8:E1

    In this new season, Artbound travels back to pre-industrial Los Angeles to explore one of its key and most controversial figures – Charles Lummis. Writer and editor of the LA Times, avid collector and preservationist, Indian rights activist, and founder of LA’s first museum, – The Southwest – Lummis’s genius and idiosyncratic personality captured the ethos of an era and a region.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Artbound Season 8 Episode 2 - Artesanos / Artisans
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    #15 - Artesanos / Artisans

    S8:E2

    The highly skilled labor of artisans migrating from Mexico and Latin America are the backbone of high-end design and retail in Los Angeles, producing some of the most exquisite furniture, textiles, and design goods. Artbound uncovers their stories and their role in making Los Angeles and Southern California the creative capital of the world.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Artbound Season 8 Episode 3 - Fallujah - Art, Healing, and PTSD
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    #16 - Fallujah - Art, Healing, and PTSD

    S8:E3

    U.S. Marine Sergeant Christian Ellis was a machine gunner in Iraq, whose platoon was ambushed, leaving him with a broken back and only one of a few survivors. Ellis returned home to join millions of Americans who struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder and inspired the first opera about the Iraq war -- "Fallujah" -- a production by the Long Beach Opera.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Artbound Season 8 Episode 4 - MOCA - Beyond The Museum Walls
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    #17 - MOCA - Beyond The Museum Walls

    S8:E4

    Artbound explores the programming of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, investigating new programming and curatorial approaches that are redefining what it means to be a 21st century museum. This episode features three new programs by The Underground Museum, Wolvesmouth, and Public Fiction.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Artbound Season 8 Episode 5 - Third L.A. with Architectural Critic Christopher Hawthorne
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    #18 - Third L.A. with Architectural Critic Christopher Hawthorne

    S8:E5

    Architectural critic Christopher Hawthorne partners with Artbound to look at the future of Los Angeles by examining its architecture, urban planning, transportation and changing demographics, giving us a glimpse of Los Angeles as a model of urban renewal for the nation and the world.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Artbound Season 8 Episode 6 - Hopscotch - An Opera for the 21st Century
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    #19 - Hopscotch - An Opera for the 21st Century

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    Artbound explores the groundbreaking opera Hopscotch, which unfolded in cars throughout Los Angeles, telling a single story of a disappearance across time. Audiences experienced the work in both the intimacy of a car, where artists and audiences shared a confined space, or in a larger central hub, where all the journeys were live streamed to create a dizzying panorama of life in Los Angeles.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Artbound Season 9 Episode 2 - Desert X
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    #20 - Desert X

    S9:E2

    The vast, strange, sometimes contradictory world of the urban desert and its people are explored in 11 public art exhibits and their respective locations. Desert X is a site-specific biennial exhibition that first took place in the spring of 2017 where artists from different parts of the world were invited to create work in response to the unique conditions of the Coachella Valley.

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  21. Artbound Season 9 Episode 3 - Electric Earth: The Art of Doug Aitken
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    #21 - Electric Earth: The Art of Doug Aitken

    S9:E3

    This episode profiles prominent artist Doug Aitken who for more than 20 years has shifted the perception and location of images and narratives. His multichannel video installations, sculptures, photographs, publications, happenings and architectural works demonstrate the nature and structure of our ever-mobile, ever-changing, image-based contemporary condition.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Artbound Season 9 Episode 4 - Variedades: Olvera Street
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    #22 - Variedades: Olvera Street

    S9:E4

    This look at Los Angeles’ Olvera Street is part-history lesson and part-immersion in stereotype of the birthplace of Los Angeles. Emmy® award-winning journalist, author and musician Rubén Martínez, explores the sometimes-violent, 200-year struggle for the political and symbolic control of the city as told in “Variedades” – an interdisciplinary performance series.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Artbound Season 9 Episode 5 - La Raza
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    #23 - La Raza

    S9:E5

    In East Los Angeles during the late 1960s and 1970s, a group of young activists used creative tools like writing and photography as a means for community organizing, providing a platform for the Chicano Movement in the form of the bilingual newspaper/magazine La Raza.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Artbound Season 9 Episode 6 - No Trespassing: A Survey of Environmental Art
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    #24 - No Trespassing: A Survey of Environmental Art

    S9:E6

    The natural beauty of California has inspired artists from around the world. Today, as artists continue to engage with California’s environment, they echo and critique earlier art practices that represent nature in “The Golden State” in a particular way. Featuring artists Richard Misrach and Hillary Mushkin.

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  25. Artbound Season 9 Episode 7 - Artist and Mother
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    #25 - Artist and Mother

    S9:E7

    While matriarchs may hold enormous symbolism in art history, women taking on motherhood may be the last taboo in contemporary art. Mother artists Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Tanya Aguñiga, Rebecca Campbell and Andrea Chung confront the stakes while exploring the realities of art and motherhood.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Jackrabbits and Date Farmers" is the worst rated episode of "Artbound". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 8/16/2012. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Metralleta de Oro and Ultraviolet".