From Olympia to Los Angeles, musicians and film artists up and down the Pacific coast are getting together to liberate the music video from its status-quo context as self-promotional tool and transform it into a new, confrontational art form, displacing major-label preen with honest, direct address and DIY visual kinesis Despite having next-to-nothing budgets, production… Read more »
Students from the Conceptual Information Arts department at San Francisco State University show new work in video and installation, including digital animation and performance-based pieces. Participants (from Katherin McInnis’s digital video class) include: Josefina Bolufer Cervero, Elisa Brydum, Brenda Contreras, Emily Davis, Ethan Hopfer, Matt Kennedy, Artie Luna, David Luraschi, Yuya Morita, Erika Nakada, Michael Namkung, Claudia Ramirez, … Read more »
Every street of the Mission District has a Beauty Salon. Because the concept of Beauty is something cultural, the immigrant that comes from outside feels the impulse to create or reinvent places where to capture this concept of beauty. In this case the Beauty Salon is a space where people from the same cultural background… Read more »