On Friday night (Oct. 26), CalArts held its 2012 Halloween Party, with the Main Gallery and adjoining halls decked out under the theme of Cyber Apocolypse. We’ve selected a few…
Continue reading »CalArtians Present Work at Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival
This weekend (Nov. 2-4), the 4th Annual Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival takes over multiple venues around L.A. On the festival program are transgender comedies, documentaries, experimental works, art films and…
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 »Suffering Fools Haunt the Moose Lodge in Glendale
This Sunday (Oct. 28), CalArts students and alumni present an evening of immersive, eerie performances in various locations at the Moose Lodge in Glendale from 7-11 pm. The “charmingly rustic”…
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…
Continue reading »Platform Animation Festival at REDCAT
Platform, a multidimensional animation festival, brings artists and animators together for film screenings and competitions at REDCAT this week (Oct. 26-28), while simultaneously showcasing installations and works for websites and…
Continue reading »CalArtians Fabricate Bike Path Sound Installation in Santa Clarita
CalArts students, faculty and alumni recently collaborated with the city of Santa Clarita to create Stroll, a new interactive sound installation constructed along Santa Clarita’s South Fork Trail. The series of poles…
Continue reading »Godfather of Techno Morton Subotnick Performs at Moogfest
On Oct. 26, electronic music pioneer and former CalArts faculty member Morton Subotnick performs at Moogfest in Asheville, North Carolina. Subotnick, who helped plan music curriculum for CalArts in 1969 and became…
Continue reading »Olga Koumoundouros: ‘A Notorious Possession’
By Nicholas Katzban/Special to 24700 The house at 3411 Holyoke Drive in the Glassell Park section of Los Angeles looks inauspicious from the outside—except for the fact that it’s painted…
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