Art + Activism: Norman Klein

Location: EDA, Broad Art Center

About the Lecturer:

Norman Klein is a cultural critic, urban and media historian, as well as a novelist. His books include “The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory,” “Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon,” and the data/cinematic novel, “Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-86” (DVD-ROM with book), His latest book is “The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects.”

His essays appear in anthologies, museum catalogs, newspapers, scholarly journals, on the WEB-- symptoms of a polymath's career, from European cultural history to animation and architectural studies, to LA studies, to fiction, media design and documentary film. His work (including museum shows) centers on the relationship between collective memory and power, from special effects to cinema to digital theory, usually set in urban spaces; and often on the thin line between fact and fiction; about erasure, forgetting, scripted spaces, the social imaginary.