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.
Sharing Ojai is often a fundamental part of what the city's cultural festivals intend to do. The Ojai Film Festival, from October 24th-28th, reflects the spirit and character of the hillside city itself.
Visual artist Charlie White collaborates with avant electronic musician Boom Bip aka Brian Hollon, on a new endeavor, Music For Sleeping Children, which pairs interviews with adolescent girls with club-rocking beats.
"Yo Gabba Gabba" art director Parker Jacobs inspired the Aquabats and also inspired a whole generation of kids to be gleefully weird. The most influential Hungtington Beach artist that you've never heard of recalls his long, strange, colorful path to fame.
Professional skateboarder-turned-filmmaker Stacy Peralta revisits his past in the new documentary "Bones Brigade: An Autobiography."
Freewaves and game designer, Happy Dojo, have developed a video art gallery app that highlights the most challenging and controversial videos by L.A.-based digital artists made for L.A. buses.
Several recent cinematic works reveal an astonishing depth of riches in the stories of the people whose lives are staked out along the Salton Sea.
Marsia Alexander-Clarke is interested in developing silent video pieces similar to notated musical compositions with the use of small fragments of recorded video material.
The SEE CHANGE installation, located at LAX, contains four hours of video art. Watch a clip from the airport exhibit to see how some of the 17 artists participating, ask: can you distinguish reality from illusion?
Artist Steve Roden explores order. His piece at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions overlays six new video pieces that are the result of an intertwining avant-garde composer John Cage, philosopher Walter Benjamin, and choreographer Martha Graham.
This weekend Freewaves and 20 artists are launching "SEE CHANGE," 2 groundbreaking video installations featuring 27 original, site-specific artworks, located in the arrivals hall of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, permanently accessible to the public.
Five local bands from the Coachella Valley chat about their takes on the local music scenery, the de
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Frederick Fisher takes a practical approach to architecture, a restraint that belies his early years
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What part of human existence should we preserve for future generations? San Diego multimedia artist
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Songs in the Key of Los Angeles continues with singer Aloe Blacc's take on "When The Girl You Love L
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Architecture/ Design
California becomes an international export by redefining the concept of city and home.
Community Arts
Through workshops, education and placed based projects, art is the connective tissue of a community.
Cultural Politics
Funding bubbles, cultural deserts and the politics of access to the arts in the 21st century.
Film & Media Arts
At the shadow of the entertainment industry, video artists and underground filmmakers take a stand.
Literature
Noir, sunshine and dystopia create a multi-ethnic narrative that is read, watched and admired around the globe.
Multi-Disciplinary
Multi-hyphenate works that combine disciplines, remix dogmas, and reinvent the wheel.
Music
A dialogue between cultures, the music of our state serves up the California dream like no other artform.
Visual Arts
Breaking away from the European and New York vanguard, California reinvents the art world.
