On the afternoon of Dec. 6, visitors to CalArts were treated to an odd installation near the main entrance—garbage—strewn about by students in CalArts’ faculty member Christine Wertheim’s Critical Studies…
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Les Figues Press, ‘Slake’ Magazine Editors Lecture at CalArts Tonight
Tonight (Nov. 29) at 7:30 pm in Butler Building 4, the School of Critical Studies MFA Writing Program’s Visiting Writers Series welcomes Les Figues Press founding editor Teresa Carmody, Slake Magazine founding editors Joe Donnelly and…
Continue reading »Artist, Faculty David P. Earle Presents Collaborative ‘Sculptures’ in New Book Release
Earlier this month, artist and CalArts faculty member David P. Earle began a residency at Side Street Projects, an organization temporarily located in a vacant 25,000 square-foot lot in Pasadena. Funded…
Continue reading »ENTER > text: an Immersive Reading Installation
Concord art space in Los Angeles presents ENTER> text, an interactive reading event at which performers and attendees engage with each other to explore new ways of encountering text. Unlike…
Continue reading »CalArts Faculty Barry Schrader Premieres Composition at Final SCREAM Festival
In 1986, composer and CalArts faculty member Barry Schrader founded the Southern California Resource for Electro-Acoustic Music (SCREAM), an annual music festival featuring works of that idiom. The festival’s final concert takes place…
Continue reading »Filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-Ha at CalArts and REDCAT this Week
Trinh T. Minh-Ha, a Vietnamese-American filmmaker, writer, composer and academic, visits CalArts and REDCAT this week for a series of screenings and discussions, presented by REDCAT and the CalArts School…
Continue reading »Aesthetics and Politics Conference Investigates Cognitive Capitalism
Beginning Friday (Nov. 9), Aesthetics and Politics Program Director Arne De Boever, along with Delft [The Netherlands] School of Design faculty Warren Neidich and Art Center faculty Jason Smith, co-host the academic conference…
Continue reading »CalTech-CalArts Collaboration Explores Animating with Fluorescent Bacteria
Last month, several CalTech students and three CalArts students—Charles Hodgkins (Film/Video BFA 14), Theresa Latzko (Film/Video BFA 14) and Michael Piazza (Film/Video BFA 14)—teamed up to create short animations via petri…
Continue reading »New Print Edition of [out of nothing] Features CalArtian Work
[out of nothing], a theme-based, arts publication released in online installments, is now available in an inaugural print edition. Titled Issue #0: theoretical perspectives on the substance preceding [nothing], the anthology features new…
Continue reading »‘Some Assembly Required’: A Les Figues Press and MFA Writing Program Book Launch
By Nicholas Katzban / Special to 24700 Every anthology of conceptual writing deserves its own conceptual release event. On Saturday (Oct. 27), Les Figues Press and the CalArts MFA Writing…
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