Los Angeles Arts Preview: Sept. 23, 2010

Glow - this Saturday, September 25th - is the major media art event for this week, with an all-night extravaganza set on the beach and nearby streets of Santa Monica. Check out work by LA artists, including Synn Labs' "DNA Sequencer," which consists of LED lights suspended from the trellis at Crescent Bay Park to create a gigantic DNA spiral. The lights are responsive, so please do touch! Anne Bray of Freewaves is collaborating with Super Expo on a giant live video projection piece that will appear on the seven-story Holliday Inn building at the corner of Ocean and Colorado titled "Intersection," with a mix of text, images and sound.Other highlights in Southern California arts:

Sunday, September 26
On Sunday, between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m., join the art collective Knifeandfork at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions for Knifeandfork "Relay Drawing," which will "explore the psychogeography of Hollywood using mobile telephone interactions in a generative process." [Here's a fuller discussion of "Relay Drawing."]

Later on Sunday, head over to the Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian for a screening of short films selected for preservation by the Library of Congress Film Registry. Included in the current selection is LA-based filmmaker Janie Geiser's mesmerizing "The Red Book," an 11-minute animated collage centered on memory, language and loss. The show is titled The Film Registry Show Returns! Selections from recent picks by the Library of Congress, and it starts at 7:30 p.m. Visit the Los Angeles Filmforum's website for more information.

Monday, September 27, 8:30 p.m.
On Monday, REDCAT will screen animations from the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Titled "The Best of Ottawa 2009," the show features a terrific line-up of shorts, including work by two of the most intriguing animators working today, Martha Colburn, who will screen "Myth Labs," and Jim Trainor, who is represented by his short "The Presentation Theme," another hand-drawn piece which captures the filmmaker's fascination with morbid themes.