Multimedia Events

Multimedia Events

These adventurous projects blur the boundaries between artistic disciplines and explore innovative technologies in developing new forms of expression.

April 11 - April 12

The ongoing series for new works and works-in-progress offers adventurous audiences the opportunity to experience original, ambitiously offbeat performances by an interdisciplinary mix of experimental Los Angeles artists. Previous editions of Studio have featured Ana Maria Alvarez, Nao Bustamante, Sheetal Gandhi, Nataki Garrett, Ayanna Hampton, Prumsodun Ok, Poor Dog Group, Wu Ingrid Tsang, and Kristina Wong.

June 6 - June 7

REDCAT's series for interdisciplinary experimentation continues with a curated program of six new works and works-in-progress by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia artists.

Past REDCAT Multimedia Events

March 4 - March 5

The genre-bending festival from the CalArts Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology returns with two concerts that each run from abstract reveries to flat-out sonic raucousness. The first night features John Wiese, founding member of the concrète grindcore band Sissy Spacek, Peruvian-born avant-garde turntablist Maria Chavez, and composer Marcus Schmickler, of Pluramon pop fame. The second night of the fest continues with electronics and laptop interpenetrations by Better Than Future, a multimedia performance by Steve Roden, and a smashing finale courtesy of Bloody Claws, aka Carla Bozulich.

February 10 - February 21

North Atlantic takes a satiric look at the role of the military and the growing influence of technology in American culture during the late Cold War period, after Vietnam and before the fall of the Berlin Wall. A nostalgia piece, it brings the analog (pre-digital) 1980s to life through slang, song and dance.

January 27

Global music forms meet the digital surge of the 21st century as the KarmetiK Machine Orchestra, directed by Ajay Kapur, convenes an international lineup of musicmakers, engineers and digital artists who use custom-built robotic instruments and new and expressive interfaces in live music performance.

November 18 - December 13

LATE NIGHT SHOWS ADDED 12/5 & 12/12!

In this deliriously madcap fantasy revue, the soaring song stylings of drag diva Joey Arias are surrounded by an eye-popping theatrical extravaganza conjured by a team of puppeteers directed by the legendary Basil Twist. Celluloid dreams, macabre nightmares and bizarre premonitions take the audience on a breathless ride.

November 3

Sure to bend more than a few minds, this ravishing “play of light” explores rhythmic abstractions in the tradition of Oskar Fischinger and visual music animation offering a remarkable array of award-winning animated shorts from around the world, most of which are screening in Los Angeles for the first time.

November 1 - November 2

The ongoing series for new works and works-in-progress offers adventurous audiences the opportunity to experience original, ambitiously offbeat performances by an interdisciplinary mix of experimental Los Angeles artists. This edition of Studio features work by Rae Shao-Lan Blum, The LippyLu's, Prumsodun Ok, Armen Ra, UEM with Jasmine Orpilla, and Kendra Ware and Billy Mark.

October 26

Mosca and the Meaning of Life is a groundbreaking multimedia piece questioning the truths and lies with which we live out our lives, in which animated characters leap off the screen and join up with a live performance crafted by award-winning filmmaker and animator Christine Panushka and theater and spoken word artist Beto Araiza.

October 14 - October 18

On a quest to preserve, inside pristine shards of ice at the top of the world, a seed containing the wealth of all human history, Cloud Eye Control charts an epic journey across a vast arctic expanse with a mix of projected animation, live theater and electronic music.

October 7

Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of dublab, the trailblazing Los Angeles-based web radio collective, this evening of experimental exploration is the first-ever public performance by enigmatic folk singer Linda Perhacs, whose legendary 1970 album Parallelograms is an uncanny, ruminative masterpiece of psychedelia.

September 16 - September 18

Bringing together an array of robotic and interactive musical technologies, ingenious stagecraft, and flights of phenomenal musicianship, REDCAT is transformed into an immersive visual and sonic environment for the world premiere of this inventive international collaboration, composed and performed by creators from around the globe and inspired by the classic Buddhist text, the Diamond Sutra.