Holly Willis
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Holly Willis teaches in USC's School of Cinematic Arts and writes about new media art. She is the author of "New Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image" and editor of "The New Ecology of Things" on pervasive computing.
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REDCAT will showcase a collection of iconic music videos from the '80s, each an experiment with a different technique designed to push the boundaries of art video, in a show titled "Music + Image."
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Posted Media Arts Preview: An Outside Perspective of L.A., 'Making Chinatown' and More
in SoCal FocusL.A. media art reimagines the past this week with several events designed to rethink earlier films and genres, and it looks to the future with large-scale multimedia projects filled with bombast and intrigue. -
Projects this week recall and remake the past, from John Cage to Lou Reed.
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Artist Brody Condon returns to Machine Project this Thursday night to present "Future Gestalt," a new performance described as a '70s group encounter session set in the far future.
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L.A. continues to be both the site and subject for innumerable artworks across the city, from a large-scale performance and public art festival to screenings featuring films about L.A., by L.A. filmmakers.
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Bill Mohr's new book on poetry in Los Angeles is a rich, exuberant and pleasurable history of nearly 50 years of extraordinary writing.
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One of this week's highlights in art is the opening of what LACMA director Michael Govan dubs "a portrait of LA," namely to Chris Burden's exhilarating freeway sculpture, "Metropolis II."
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Wim Wenders uses 3-D cinematography in groundbreaking ways to render the exquisite artistry of German choreographer Pina Bausch in his new film, "Pina," opening January 13, 2012.
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LA-based artist Erin Cosgrove has created an eerie and disturbing book trailer for Ben Marcus' new novel, The Flame Alphabet.
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This week's media art scene is political, conceptual, beautiful and provocative, a perfect way to start a new year.
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Gift-giving is easy this year, thanks to a spate of terrific, recently published books suited to several different reading predilections. Here are four to consider...
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Don't miss the one-week run of "Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel" at the Nuart Theater.
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The photographer known as Weegee created a series of lurid and surreal images of L.A. between 1947 and 1952, many of which are currently on view at MOCA, and collected in a book.
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Over his career Saul Bass would revolutionize the art of movie title design, reinvent the ways in which advertising campaigns were conceived and carried out, and basically change the foundations of visual communication in American popular culture.
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This week's media art scene includes exciting new work from artist Kara Walker, a new feature film by brilliant filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, and a new book on the great designer Saul Bass.
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One of the highlights this weekend in media arts is the Filmforum screening of work by underground artists and Topanga Canyon bohemians...
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As technologies proliferate, a 40-year-old debate about the use of computers in the classroom resurfaces. Eugene Schwartz recently offered a compelling argument for avoiding technology in the classroom almost entirely.
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With Michael Snow's rigorous structural film, Wavelength, and Haile Gerima's politicized Sankofa leading the way, this week's LA media arts scene offers examples of iconic filmmaking from the past.
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Experimental filmmmaker, an icon in the American avant-garde tradition, brings new work to a special two-night screening at REDCAT.
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L.A. considers its rich history of avant-garde and activist media with numerous events dedicated to reconsiderations of the past.
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Catch up on the histories of film and video this week with surveys of Italian Neo-Realism, Black cinema, textural sleaziness and video art, plus a peek into the future via AFI Fest.
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This week, look for classic scary films from the 1920s, political films from the 1970s, and unnerving animations from the last few years.
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Posted A Love Story About Sex: Sam Benjamin's Memoir Details a Brief Career in the Adult Video Industry
in SoCal FocusSam Benjamin's often humorous memoir chronicles a search for honesty, beauty, the naked and the raw in sexual cinema, but finds something else entirely. -
This week's media scene is nostalgic, looking back at the rich and varied history of media art practice in Los Angeles.
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Janie Geiser's short animated films take you into the realm of the uncanny, the marvelous and the in-between.
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This week's media arts scene is a hall of mirrors, with events designed to disrupt, rearrange and reset your sense of perception.
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A new book co-written by a UCLA neuropsychiatrist and a parenting specialist grounds smart, useful childrearing strategies in brain science to offer a terrific guide for parents.
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Posted Media Arts Preview: L.A. Rebellion, IndieCade & Experimental Film in Los Angeles
in SoCal FocusThis week's media arts scene features the beginning of several large events, including Filmforum's 24-show screening series dedicated to experimental filmmaking in Los Angeles, as well as UCLA's excellent series, LA Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema. -
Susan Orlean's engaging new book about the immortal German Shepherd Rin Tin Tin is a rollicking portrait of Hollywood fame, fortune and folly, as well as a more sober testament to love and loyalty.
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The opening of Pacific Standard Time, a soundwalk, tiny films, video projections and more make this a busy weekend for media art lovers.
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REDCAT will showcase a collection of iconic music videos from the '80s, each an experiment with a different technique designed to push the boundaries of art video, in a show titled "Music + Image."
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Posted Media Arts Preview: An Outside Perspective of L.A., 'Making Chinatown' and More
in SoCal FocusL.A. media art reimagines the past this week with several events designed to rethink earlier films and genres, and it looks to the future with large-scale multimedia projects filled with bombast and intrigue. -
Projects this week recall and remake the past, from John Cage to Lou Reed.
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Artist Brody Condon returns to Machine Project this Thursday night to present "Future Gestalt," a new performance described as a '70s group encounter session set in the far future.
-
L.A. continues to be both the site and subject for innumerable artworks across the city, from a large-scale performance and public art festival to screenings featuring films about L.A., by L.A. filmmakers.
-
Bill Mohr's new book on poetry in Los Angeles is a rich, exuberant and pleasurable history of nearly 50 years of extraordinary writing.
-
One of this week's highlights in art is the opening of what LACMA director Michael Govan dubs "a portrait of LA," namely to Chris Burden's exhilarating freeway sculpture, "Metropolis II."
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Wim Wenders uses 3-D cinematography in groundbreaking ways to render the exquisite artistry of German choreographer Pina Bausch in his new film, "Pina," opening January 13, 2012.
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LA-based artist Erin Cosgrove has created an eerie and disturbing book trailer for Ben Marcus' new novel, The Flame Alphabet.
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This week's media art scene is political, conceptual, beautiful and provocative, a perfect way to start a new year.
