CalArts’ Center for Integrated Media’s online project space Viralnet.net has launched its 2013-2014 season with three new online projects plus a collaboration. Scholar Chi-ming Yang pens the essay “Culture in…
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This summer, CalArtian jazz outfit Winston filmed and released a series of videos of performances in the studio. The six-month-old band consists of keyboardist John Schwerbel (Music BFA 14), drummer…
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Jonathan Mann, the CalArts alumnus who’s earned web fame for crafting a song a day on YouTube for the past four years, brought his music to the live stage last…
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EventAugust 22 - 25, 2013
More than 70 dance pieces, 50 choreographers and eight dance styles come together at Santa Monica’s Miles Memorial Playhouse this weekend (Aug. 22 through 25) for the 7th Annual MixMatch…
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EventSeptember 2 - 3, 2013
Organizers of the 70th Venice Film Festival, which opens on Aug. 28 and runs through Sept. 7, recently announced the festival’s 54 official film selections. Among more familiar directors’ names—such as Alfonso…
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In July The New York Times’ Robert Ito and Jeremy Egner named the five young rising animators to watch. Among them—who not only have shows on major TV networks but also Oscar…
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ReleaseAugust 6, 2013
On Aug. 6, Cinedigm Entertainment released the global graffiti documentary Bomb It 2, by award-winning filmmaker, author and CalArts faculty Jon Reiss, to video on demand. “Going where no graffiti doc has…
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EventAugust 14 - 26, 2013
Edinburgh Festival Fringe is in full swing and the CalArtian productions we reported on in a previous post, Mask, Goose and Whispering in the Dark, are receiving their share of critical praise….
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EventAugust 3 - September 1, 2013
The Speakeasy Society, aka Julianne Just (Theater MFA 12), Genevieve Gearhart (Theater MFA 13) and Matthew Bamberg-Johnson (Theater MFA 13), recently premiered their latest immersive theatrical production KITCHEN/SUGAR/BULLET/BLANK (KSBB) at a bungalow style house…
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There’s high art, and then there’s art that involves a 23-foot steel wheel. CalArts Center for New Performance (CNP), the School of Theater’s professional producing arm, teams up with The…
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