Holly Willis
Holly Willis teaches in USC's School of Cinematic Arts and writes about new media art. She is the author of "New Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image" and editor of "The New Ecology of Things" on pervasive computing.
Wired contributing editor Frank Rose traces the emergence of transmedia storytelling in cinema, game design and advertising in an expansive new book that's essential reading for Hollywood creatives.
Can we invent a reality as exciting and compelling as the best video games? Jane McGonigal, who will speak at the Petersen Museum February 9, thinks we can.
LA's media art scene this week is international in scope, featuring work from Colombia, Iran and Germany....
The Getty presents a rare chance to see new video art from China, Art Center speculates on our ambiguous reality, and CSULA lights up the night sky with projections of video art by LA artists...
Research shows that mobile phones might actually be good for kids, and a few LA-based artists and educators share the apps that keep their kids interested.
Video performance, video rituals, video myths, video interventions: there's a ton of video screening in LA this week!
Steve Anker has helped galvanize the LA alternative media scene, and this month presents an amazing series of film programs in conjunction with "Radical Light," a book he co-edited that documents the San Francisco avant-garde film scene.
Offworld promises pure possibility, while Radical Light revels in alternative visions of the world around us.
From wormholes to railroads, mid-century graphic design to Medieval manuscripts, this week's LA media art scene is all over the map...
Hippies, bikers, rebels and thieves are a few of the characters who make up one of America's best movie genres, the road movie, featured this month in a great series at LACMA.
Sex doll designers, skateboarders and Mariachis are a few of the Californians profiled in the new web series California Is a Place by Drea Cooper and Cackary Canepari.
Erik Loyer's lovely new iPhone app delivers a powerful and poetic experience of music and storytelling based on the evocative state produced by rain.