The 9th Annual New Original Works (NOW) Festival wraps up this week at REDCAT with three new works by performance artist Emily Mast, choreographer Melanie Rios Glaser and theater artist Heather Woodbury….
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Week Two: NOW Festival Continues at REDCAT
The New Original Works (NOW) Festival continues this week with three new works for the stage. The week two program includes experimental choreographers Nick+James, sound/video artist and CalArts alumnus Jinku Kim (Music MFA 12)…
Continue reading »Made in L.A. Soundmap iPhone App Features Artist, ‘CalArts Groupie’ Simone Forti
As we previously posted, Made in L.A. 2012, L.A.’s first biennial exhibition featuring the work of 60 local artists, runs through Sept. 2 at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, LAXART in Culver…
Continue reading »Susan Allen Performs in Concerts Celebrating Artist Yuri Titov in Paris
Renowned harpist and CalArts faculty member Susan Allen is in Paris this week, performing in a series of concerts (July 26-28) that honor Russian-born artist Yuri Titov. Titov, who will…
Continue reading »Jazz Saxophonist Gavin Templeton Releases Debut Album
On Saturday (July 28), the Gavin Templeton Quintet, a group consisting of composer and alto saxophonist, Gavin Templeton (Music MFA 08), guitarist/CalArts faculty member Larry Koonse, pianist Gary Fukushima (Music MFA…
Continue reading »Video: An Animated History of Machines
The animated short above, Machine History, was made at CalArts in 1983 by Doug Miller (Film/Video MFA 82) in a class taught by Jules Engel, the late founding director of the Experimental Animation Program….
Continue reading »School of Art Dean Tom Lawson Speaks at Jack Goldstein Exhibition
[nggallery id=”266″] Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) is currently hosting the exhibition Jack Goldstein x 10,000 through Sept. 9. It’s the first American retrospective of the work of the late…
Continue reading »Writer-Director Kevin Smith Gives Advice to Film Students via ‘Smodcast’
Writer/Director Kevin Smith, known for helming films such as Clerks, Chasing Amy and Dogma, has recently taken to hosting with long-time producer collaborator, Scott Mosier, several weekly podcasts released on SModcast Internet Radio. (“SModcast” is a mashup…
Continue reading »CalArtian Composer’s Scarf Controllers Featured in Wired, The Huffington Post
This spring, CalArts’ composer and Music Technology student Jeff Bryant (Music MFA 13) controlled the performance of a player piano wirelessly through a set of specially knitted scarves. Created as a…
Continue reading »CalArts Animation Summer Film Festival Lineup
JiSoo Kim’s ‘Thembi’s Diary’ screened at Animafest 2012 last month. In addition to a CalArts retrospective at the Annecy Film Festival and a selection in the Los Angeles Film Festival, many…
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