Michael Masucci
Los Angeles, California, United States
Michael James Masucci is an award-winning media producer, video-artist, writer, musician, curator, mediator and educator.
Collaborations for which Masucci has served in a principal role have been exhibited internationally, at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), and the American Film Institute (Los Angeles), on commercial television as well as in festivals, galleries conferences and universities.
A founding member of the video-art group and alternative theater/gallery space EZTV, he also co-created CyberSpace Gallery, one of world’s first art galleries dedicated to digital art.
He is the creator of the autoethnographic online archive for EZTV and CyberSpace Gallery:
www.eztvmuseum.com
In 2011, Masucci’s early video art work was included in the Getty Museum and Research Center’s massive 60-venue exhibition “Pacific Standard Time” (PST). Additionally, he moderated a panel of leading Feminist Performance Artists, and organized a five-part series of live events, screenings and panel discussions, “Hacking the Timeline v2.0”, as part of PST.
Masucci’s work has been profiled in a variety of media, including on PBS and the Discovery Channel, as well as in a variety of print media, including the Los Angeles Times, Variety, Artweek and the Hollywood Reporter. His original video art work has been critically acclaimed in a variety of print media, including the LA Weekly, and is in collections including the Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
Masucci’s writings have appeared in the SIGGRAPH Journal, Computer Graphics Magazine, the Independent Film & Video Monthly, and in several books, including the seminal “CyberArts-Exploring Art & Technology” (edited by Linda Jacobsen) as well as writing the foreword to “Going Digital”.