On Thursday and Friday (Feb. 7-8) at 8:30 pm, the CEAIT (CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology) festival is back at REDCAT, featuring writer-musician Bonnie Jones on…
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Dance on Camera Fest Screens CalArtian Multimedia Work Tonight at Lincoln Center
The Next Step Is (Trailer) from Victoria Sendra on Vimeo. Tonight (Feb. 5) at 5:30 pm, The Next Step Is—a new collaborative piece by several CalArts alumni—screens at the Dance On…
Continue reading »Involution/Involución: Video Works Presented at Tandem Screenings in Mexico, CalArts
On Tuesday (Feb. 5) at 7 pm in CalArts’ Bijou Theater, the School of Film/Video Structuring Strategies class and screening series presents the program, Involution, featuring several videos by Mexican and…
Continue reading »Animation ‘Ambassador’ Maureen Furniss Embarks on Thailand Tour
Character and Experimental Animation faculty member Maureen Furniss is traveling throughout Thailand this week as an “animation ambassador” on behalf of the U.S. Embassy Bangkok’s Speakers Program. She’s been lecturing…
Continue reading »CalArtian Projects at LA Art Book Fair
Printed Matter’s LA Book Fair runs this weekend (Feb. 1-3) at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. A companion to the New York version held every fall, organizers are expecting representatives…
Continue reading »CalArts, REDCAT Celebrate Alexander Mackendrick’s Centennial
A clip from the 1986 documentary, Mackendrick: The Man Who Walked Away, directed by Dermot McQuarrie for Scottish television. Alexander Mackendrick, director of The Man in the White Suit (1951)…
Continue reading »WHAP! Lecture Series Kicks Off Spring Semester With ‘Political Fictions’
Tonight (Jan. 30), the West Hollywood Aesthetics & Politics (WHAP!) guest lecture series continues its 2012-13 season at the Common Room of the West Hollywood library at 8 pm. The…
Continue reading »MFA Writer’s Story on Bud Light Lime Noticed by ‘The Atlantic’
Tom Dibblee, an MFA 2 student in CalArts’ Creative Writing Program and editor of Trop Magazine, recently wrote a review of William Knoedelseder’s book Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall…
Continue reading »Structuring Strategies Presents CalArts Alumnus David Fenster
Tonight (Jan. 29) at 7 pm, the CalArts Structuring Strategies class and screening series features the works of filmmaker and CalArts’ alumnus David Fenster (Film/Video MFA 04). Fenster screens the…
Continue reading »Tony Oursler on David Bowie’s ‘Where are We Now?’ Video
Rock legend David Bowie surprised the music world by releasing his first new song in 10 years, “Where are We Now?” on his 66th birthday without much fanfare. He dropped…
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