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.
This week's media arts scene features the beginning of several large events, including Filmforum's 24-show screening series dedicated to experimental filmmaking in Los Angeles, as well as UCLA's excellent series, LA Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cine...
Susan Orlean's engaging new book about the immortal German Shepherd Rin Tin Tin is a rollicking portrait of Hollywood fame, fortune and folly, as well as a more sober testament to love and loyalty.
The opening of Pacific Standard Time, a soundwalk, tiny films, video projections and more make this a busy weekend for media art lovers.
Her extraordinary feature film debut is well named as it's a study precisely of the making and unmaking of selves, a brutal and exhilarating endeavor that the British artist captures with aplomb.
This week's media art projects feature clarinets, a muted trumpet, hand processing, future paranoia, Method acting and sculptures driven by data.
The Ambassador Hotel is recalled in an intriguing sculptural video installation currently on view at Las Cienegas Projects.
LA-based filmmaker Sharon Lockhart's film 'Podworka' bristles with a riveting intensity.
LEDs, infrared light, utopian fantasy, inappropriate material and Hollywood's impact on politics all contribute to this week's media art scene in LA.
The bodies in many of the shorts and music videos screening in the upcoming Flux Screening Series this Thursday, September 15, are totally out of control.
Spatialized sound, eye movement research, light sculpture, mediated images and an interactive dandelion are part of this week's LA media art scene.
"Rebels in Paradise: The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s" by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp offers a fast-paced and often hilarious introduction to the origins of the Los Angeles art scene.
Technicolor's Tom Burton describes the dazzling restoration of a celebrated 1902 silent film, "A Trip to the Moon," slated to screen Tuesday, September 6.