DJ Waxturnal serves as the nom de plume for Robert Loveren (Film/Video BFA 89). We recently asked him a few questions about his music, CalArts pirate radio and for a…
Continue reading »The E.A.R. Unit at this Year’s Carlsbad Music Fest
The above video is a performance of “The Light Within” by the E.A.R. at REDCAT in L.A. last year. Click here if you cannot see the video. The California E.A.R….
Continue reading »CalArts Alum Creates The Panza Monologues
(There’s an opening musical performance in this video before Grise takes the stage at 3m 20s. Click here if you can’t see the video.) Pooch. Inner tube. Jelly roll. Gut….
Continue reading »AH! Opera No-Opera Continues at REDCAT and on the Web
AH! Opera No-Opera took to the stage last night mixing an array of robotic and interactive musical technologies, ingenious stagecraft and multinational musicians and performers. Created by David Rosenboom, composer-performer…
Continue reading »Colorist with a Camera: CalArts Alum Robert Glenn Ketchum
Color is the primary focus of photographer-artist Robert Glenn Ketchum (Art MFA 74) His most recent imagery, exhibitions, lectures and writings on the “Evolving Perspective of Nature” address the political…
Continue reading »Going Bananas with the Fallen Fruit Collective
Fallen Fruit, a Los Angeles-based activist art project co-founded by CalArts faculty Matias Viegener and alum David Burns (Art BFA 93) with photographer and videographer Austin Young, presents a lecture…
Continue reading »Rick and Steve’s CalArts Beginnings
Q. Allan Brocka’s (Film/Video MFA 01) stop-motion animated sitcom Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World is back on U.K. channel E4 for its second season….
Continue reading »A CalArts Critical Studies Grad Constructs Stories on Top of Ruins
Cheryl Klein’s (Critical Studies MFA 02) latest novel Lilac Mines takes place in a small, one-time ghost town in Northern California. When the main character first arrives, she’s skeptical about…
Continue reading »Alison Knowles, James Tenney and the House of Dust at CalArts
In the first few years of its existence CalArts’ faculty included some of the key figures from the Fluxus and happenings circles, including Allan Kaprow, Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins,…
Continue reading »Documentary on Jazz Great, CalArts Faculty Charlie Haden Making Festival Rounds
There’s always an air of mystery surrounding the program for the Telluride Film Festival. Organizers don’t reveal what’s on the program until visitors reach the mountain. And filmmakers are sworn…
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