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.
Animator Jim Trainor is among this year's Alpert Award winners, and is featured in a terrific overview on the Alpert website rich with video clips and information.
LA filmmaker Janie Geiser, known for her animations which are by turns magical and haunting, will show a selection of work at USC this week.
Books and moving images meet in several title sequences dedicated to showing words in motion...
Halloween gets an early start with events and screenings featuring obsession, ghosts and hauntings.
The old and the new collide this week in Los Angeles, with a festival of independent game design coinciding with spectacular examples of cinematic bravado by iconic filmmakers Jonas Mekas, Ken Jacobs and Carolee Schneemann.
LA media artists Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad will present their intriguing new game based on the coup that toppled Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh this weekend at IndieCade. The game follows the antics of Mossadegh's cat.
This week's media art events are interested in the location of art...
Finnish filmmakers Pia Tikka and Mauri Kaipainen are in Los Angeles this fall, exploring new forms of cinematic expression using neuroscience, sensors and films produced through audience emotions.
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.
Sue Huang of the art collective Knifeandfork talks about her work in anticipation of "Relay Drawing" coming up at LACE, which unites mobile phones, generative drawing and the psychogeography of Hollywood.
Form+Code, a new book by UCLA instructors Casey Reas and Chandler McWilliams, offers a terrific introduction to computational aesthetics.