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Film & Media Arts
For video artists and underground filmmakers, the shadow of Southern California’s outsized film industry provides the perfect environment to experiment. Kenneth Anger’s visual anarchy and Paul McCarthy’s grotesqueries tested audiences’ patience, earned critical acclaim, and urged viewers to contemplate the nature of art itself. Video, as a medium, toys with expectations of the audience. It appropriates the format of surveillance films and amateur home footage, revealing the intimacy and paranoia of watching and being watched. The media arts is a slice of life or a exploration of dreams, codifying the human experience into moving images.
Eddo Stern and the Art of Games
Los Angeles + Film/Media Arts
Eddo Stern and the Art of Games
by Robert Nashak
September 10, 2013 1:00 AM
Southern Californians live in the epicenter of much of what's happening in video games today and Eddo Stern is one of the leading forces shaping gaming's future.
San Bernardino Art + Film Lab: A Travelogue from the LACMA9 Outpost
San Bernardino + Film/Media Arts
San Bernardino Art + Film Lab: A Travelogue from the LACMA9 Outpost
by Sarah Jesse
September 5, 2013 1:00 AM
LACMA9 Art + Film Lab recounts the projects' five-week residence in Perris Hill Park, and the stories of community that unfolded.
Best of Southern California Photography
Counties + Film/Media Arts
Best of Southern California Photography
by Artbound
August 21, 2013 1:00 AM
We selected the best photography stories from Artbound's second season.
Thirty Years of 'Style Wars'
Los Angeles + Film/Media Arts
Thirty Years of 'Style Wars'
by Oliver Wang
July 25, 2013 1:00 AM
"Style Wars," a 1983 documentary on the culture of New York graffiti crews of the late '70s and early '80s, had a large influence on L.A. graffiti writers.
Redlands Art+Film Lab: A Travelogue From the LACMA9 Film Outpost
San Bernardino + Film/Media Arts
Redlands Art+Film Lab: A Travelogue From the LACMA9 Film Outpost
by Hanul Bahm
July 24, 2013 1:00 AM
LACMA's mobile educational initiative, the LACMA9 Art + Film Lab, reports on their first city run in Redlands.
Stripping Away Artifice with Photographer Christofer Dierdorff
Los Angeles + Film/Media Arts
Stripping Away Artifice with Photographer Christofer Dierdorff
by Victoria Looseleaf
July 17, 2013 1:00 AM
Capturing some of the world's most celebrated people, photographer Christofer Dierdorff calls his portraits "confrontational" due to their uncomfortable size and perspective.
Walking East of West L.A.: The Photography of Kevin McCollister
Los Angeles + Film/Media Arts
Walking East of West L.A.: The Photography of Kevin McCollister
by Lynell George
July 16, 2013 1:00 AM
Photographer Kevin McCollister captures the beauty of L.A.'s lonelier, hidden contours.
LACMA9: A Nomadic Community Film School
San Bernardino + Film/Media Arts
LACMA9: A Nomadic Community Film School
by Lilledeshan Bose
July 3, 2013 12:30 PM
LACMA's new educational initiative, the LACMA9 Art + Film Lab, is a traveling interactive installation/event and community space that will visit nine SoCal communities over a 16 month period.
MOCAtv: The Art of Punk
Los Angeles + Film/Media Arts
MOCAtv: The Art of Punk
by Bryan Ray Turcotte
June 11, 2013 11:50 AM
MOCAtv and curator Bryan Ray Turcotte present "The Art of Punk" about the stories of inspiration and creation of such iconic punk symbols and sleeves from the Punk Scene.
The Transformative Nature of David Wojnarowicz's ITSOFOMO
Los Angeles + Film/Media Arts
The Transformative Nature of David Wojnarowicz's ITSOFOMO
by Jennifer Doyle
May 23, 2013 1:00 AM
"ITSOFOMO: In the Shadow of Forward Motion" is considered one of the most intense works of art produced during the years that the AIDS crisis cut through the art world.
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