ATTENDED LECTURE BY NORMAN KLEIN AT
ART, PUBLIC SPACE AND URBAN AESTHETICS SEMINAR
ROM FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE, OSLO
08 FEBRUARY 06
In March/April I will be going on an exploration to California/New Mexico,
visiting people and sites of interest in relation to my project. In relation
to this trip, Laura Beloff suggested that it would be interesting for me to
attend a lecture by Norman Klein that she organised at ROM.
Here's Norman's short bio taken from the ROM website:
NORMAN KLEIN is the author of numerous books and essays on mass culture,
media and urban studies, most notably, "The Vatican to Vegas: The History
of Special Effects," "Bleeding through Los Angeles in Layers",
1920-1986, a DVD-rom on the history of Los Angeles, "The History of Forgetting:
Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory," and "Seven Minutes: The
Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon." His Web credits include:
co-author of "The Freud-Lissitzky Navigator" (with Lev Manovich);
co-author of "Cinematic Imaginaries of Los Angeles" (working title,
with Stephen Mamber); and director of the Research Institute for Cultural
Change (through Cal Arts, at www.impsresearch.com). He is a professor at the
California Institute of the Arts, and adjunct at UCLA and Art Center College
of Design.
He is currently developing a new work on "Imaginary Twentieth Century",
a database novel in DVD-rom.
MET NORMAN
KLEIN
I met Norman Klein after his lecture, where we continued to talk about layered
histories, scripted spaces and fascinating places to visit in Los Angeles.
He suggested that we could take a customized guided tour of interesting and
off-beat sites in Los Angeles in March.
LINKS:
Seminar webcall:
http://www.r-o-m.no/no/nyhet.aspx?id=10
The Freud-Lissitzky Navigator
by Lev Manovich and Norman Klein
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/gallery/gallery351/manovichklein.html