Real Time Live! Live Cinema Performance and Workshops with Mia Makela
Real Time Live presents acclaimed media artist Mia Makela (aka Solu), one of several international visual innovators dedicated to live cinema, an emerging artform in which moving images and sounds are mixed live, and cinema becomes a performative event unfolding in real time. Makela’s work has been described as “a dark delirium of images, a disintegrated vision on a complex world - a digital version of William Blake's poetry,” and her style ranges from minimal abstractions to multilayered compositions following a dreamlike narrative journey. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see Makela's live performance and learn to create your own live cinema experience! RSVP requested for workshop participants.
Workshops: October 9 and Saturday, October 10, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: IML Blue Lab, 746 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles
Performance: October 10, 2009, 8:30 p.m.
Location: SCA 112, George Lucas Building, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles
Presented by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy
Workshops
Makela will explore the history, tools and techniques of live cinema in two free, hands-on workshops open to the first 20 participants to sign up via email (iml@cinema.usc.edu). Session one takes place on Friday, October 9, from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.; session two takes place on Saturday, October 10, from 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Performance
The live performance event will feature Makela performing a live cinema mix in SCA 112.
About Mia Makela
The Finnish media artist is also a teacher, investigator and curator currently residing in Berlin. Her previous work includes the study of shamanism, media art and design, and her current work includes performance, instruction and presentation. Until 2002, she was part of the fifyfifty.org collective, where she organized the Hacker Techniques workshops, the Gameboy Sound Lab and the Playtime events. Makela began performing with visuals in 2001 as Solu at festivals around the world; she has presented at Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, Sonar in Barcelona, Transmediale in Berlin, Transit_MX in Mexico City, Ars Electronica in Linz and more. She has also collaborated with many experimental musicians, including ARBOL, Heidi Mortenson and DJ Rupture, and she has worked with theaters (Conservas and the Dani Panullo Dance theater). Makela has also written and lectured on the history and forms of live cinema internationally, and is a leader in the field.