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Arts Preview, October 8, 2010

By Holly Willis
October 7, 2010
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The collage animation Lewis Klahr

The old and the new collide this week in Los Angeles, with a festival of independent game design coinciding with spectacular examples of cinematic bravado by iconic filmmakers Jonas Mekas, Ken Jacobs and Carolee Schneemann.Friday, October 8
Art Center College of Design's Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery presents a group show titled "Energy," which continues the gallery's exploration of the intersection of art and science by featuring a video installation titled "At Any Given Moment, Fall 1" by LA-based media artist Rebeca Méndez, who is on the faculty of the Design | Media Arts program at UCLA.

LA-based media artist Rebeca Méndez

Méndez, known both for her work in graphic design and with photography, film, video and installation art, has recently been exploring some of the extremes of nature. "I have working with scientists to make a difference," she said recently. "I am interested in conveying the force of life," she continued, adding, "It is not benevolent." The show will be up until January 9, 2011.Friday, October 8 - Sunday, October 10
IndieCade, a new festival dedicated to independent game design, infiltrates Culver City this weekend, transforming galleries into play-zones rich with new directions in gaming. Highlights include a preview of Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad's game documentary "The Cat and the Coup," as well as a series of "Outdoor Big Games" co-curated by Colleen Macklin and Jeff Watson, including "as if it were the last time," a "subtlemob" game experienced via headphones as you wander through the city. Created by UK artist Duncan Speakman, the project asks participants to sign up in advance, download an MP3 file, and then turn up at a secret location to listen to the soundtrack at a specific time. It's like a movie, but out in the open...

Monday, October 11
LA's master of collage animation Lewis Klahr will present a selection of his recent work in a screening at REDCAT titled "Dreaming Over the Flux of Things Past" on Monday, October 11 at 8:30 p.m. Klahr captures the essence of an aesthetics in transition, channeling the poignancy of the past through his choice of materials, but reckoning as well with digital media and its own particular desires and longings.

Carolee Schneemann's counter cinema

Thursday, October 14 - Saturday, October 16
Icons of the American avant-garde Jonas Mekas, Ken Jacobs and Carolee Schneemann will present examples of their work in celebration of '60s counter cinema during a three-day festival titled Counter Cultures, Counter Cinemas at the Pacific Design Center in the SilverScreen Theater. The event offers a rare opportunity to meet several of the most significant cinematic pioneers whose work continues to dazzle and shock. Indeed, the rise of today's DIY digital media, with its own form of appropriation, collective action and transgression, offers an interesting context - or counter point - through which to view the earlier work, which is all of those things, but in a bigger way, and with decidedly more at stake. Counter Cultures, Counter Cinemas takes place Thursday, October 14 - Saturday, October 16, with screenings and discussions.

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