Holly Willis
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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One of the highlights this weekend in media arts is the Filmforum screening of work by underground artists and Topanga Canyon bohemians...
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.
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.
Experimental filmmmaker, an icon in the American avant-garde tradition, brings new work to a special two-night screening at REDCAT.
L.A. considers its rich history of avant-garde and activist media with numerous events dedicated to reconsiderations of the past.
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.
This week, look for classic scary films from the 1920s, political films from the 1970s, and unnerving animations from the last few years.
Sam 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.
Janie Geiser's short animated films take you into the realm of the uncanny, the marvelous and the in-between.
This week's media arts scene is a hall of mirrors, with events designed to disrupt, rearrange and reset your sense of perception.
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.