Blur + Sharpen
Blur + Sharpen is an insider's look at Los Angeles' vibrant and globe-trotting community of new media artists. It is curated by Holly Willis. You can also keep up with Holly and Blur + Sharpen on Twitter by following @blurandsharpen.
Erik Loyer's lovely new iPhone app delivers a powerful and poetic experience of music and storytelling based on the evocative state produced by rain.
Joel Tauber's three-channel sculptural video installation opens at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects this week.
Gerry Fialka is LA's tireless advocate for alternative media, especially as it's rendered using the PXL 2000 toy video camera, celebrated in the 20th iteration of the PXL This festival.
There's a lot of video screening around town this week, from the low-tech, low-res Pixelvision delights at the PXL This fest to the latest digital experiments that comprise the quarterly Flux screening at the Hammer Museum.
The 58-screen video installation that greets passengers in the Tom Bradley terminal at LAX is a terrific embodiment of LA's sophisticated visual culture.
Video documentation captures Chris Burden's newest work-in-progress, dubbed "a portrait of LA" by LACMA's director Michael Govan.
The LA-based designers Charles and Ray Eames are recognized for their visualization skills with a competition inviting two-minute video responses to the pair's iconic 1968 short film, Powers of Ten.
Some cities are developing so quickly that they resemble the fast-paced imagery of contemporary media artists who depict urban spaces as generative artworks.
This week, Cinefamily presents a great line-up of films, including Exit Through the Gift Shop on the street artist Banksy, and the Second Los Angeles Animation Festival International.
Carl Rosendahl offers a unique vision of last month's Fresno County Fair in his short video "Slitscan Carnival."
Hilja Keading's four-channel video installation at Angles Gallery features an 800-pound bear named Bonkers and the artist, alone together in a very small room.
Blum & Poe gallery features a stunning film installation by artist Matt Saunders made with ink drawings on mylar.
Anne Bray of LA Freewaves is working on a project to bring videos to city buses called "Out the Window."
"Los Angeles is most beautiful when seen in a close-up," says Thom Andersen, who provides this intimate view of the city in his new film "Get Out of the Car" screening on Monday night at REDCAT.
The band OK Go will use a new iPhone app to write its name across the city by driving, sensing and visualizing their cross-town jaunt.
Doug Aitken's new video installation on view at the Regen Projects Gallery is a meditation on catastrophe, mediation and how we understand our world.
Dan Graham's show at Regen Projects II features videos and a pavilion that reflect, literally, on contemporary architecture and urban spaces.
John Whitney Jr.'s dazzling three-screen abstract animation offers a delicious psychedelic treat this weekend as part of the Alternative Projections symposium at USC.
This week in Southern California Media Arts, you can remember LA's incredibly vibrant history of avant-garde filmmaking with the Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles event, or look to the future with an exceptional line-up of new work. Thursday,...
LA media artist Natalie Bookchin likens video blogging to the ancient Greek chorus, reflecting on the turmoil of the gods...
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