[nggallery id=296] 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…
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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
[nggallery id=294] 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…
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…
Continue reading »FOUND Magazine Comes to CalArts
FOUND Magazine co-creator and editor Davy Rothbart and musical accompanist—his brother Peter—stop at CalArts tonight for FOUND Magazine’s 10th Anniversary Tour. Sponsored by the MFA Writing Program at CalArts, the…
Continue reading »Alumna Curates With a Name Like Yours… Exhibit at UC Irvine
[nggallery id=”278″] On Thursday (Oct. 4) curator Claudia Slanar (Critical Studies MA 10, MFA 11) presents a new exhibition, With a Name Like Yours, You Might Be Any Shape, at the Contemporary…
Continue reading »CalArts Authors at West Hollywood Book Fair this Weekend
Even though it’s Carmaggedon weekend in Los Angeles, a number of CalArts authors are braving the 405-less city to participate in the West Hollywood Book Fair this Sunday. Among the…
Continue reading »WHAP! Screening: U.S. Premiere of Simondon of the Desert
On Tuesday (Oct. 2), the WHAP! Lecture Series presents the U.S. premiere of director François Lagarde’s film, Simondon of the Desert—a documentary celebrating the work of French philosopher of technology, Gilbert Simondon (1924–1989)….
Continue reading »WHAP! Lecture Series Returns: Electoral Politics and the Fight for Equality
WHAP!—the MA Aesthetics and Politics program’s year-long series of lectures and events in West Hollywood is back. The series opens tonight (Sept. 21) with author, historian, civic leader and political commentator Nancy…
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