The Anaheim City Council voted Tuesday to...

The Anaheim City Council voted Tuesday to pay $145,000 to video artist Nam June Paik to create an arch of 100 monitors for the $103-million, 19,200-seat Anaheim Arena, scheduled to open next summer. The monitors will show rapid-fire sequences of imagery drawn from global and Southern California sources. Last month, the council agreed to pay $70,000 to Los Angeles painter Renee Petropoulos for a set of hanging banners for the sports and entertainment complex.

Art projects for the arena are expected to cost a total of $540,000 and also involve a roof piece by New York artist Keith Sonnier. (The council is expected to approve a pending $325,000 allocation for Sonnier, stadium art consultant Marc Pally says.) A seven-member advisory committee chose the artists from a pool selected by panel of art professionals. Designs for the projects will be unveiled this fall.

L.A. gang and street violence is the focus of an art symposium tonight at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa. Irini Vallera-Rickerson, OCC art professor and director of the campus art gallery, will join psychology professor James A. Kowalski and sociology/anthropology professor Terry Timmins in three discussion topics, including: “The Arts as Visual Communication,” “How Art Reflects the Society That Produces it” and “The Psychological and Sociological Aspects of the Los Angeles Riots.” The symposium, from 7 to 10 p.m. in the campus Fine Arts Hall, Room 119, is being held in conjunction with “The Gates of Hell: L.A. Landscapes of the 1990s,” an exhibition of recent work by Los Angeles painter Sandow Birk, on view through Oct. 1 in the gallery. Admission to the symposium and the exhibition are free. (714) 432-5039.