Catalyst

   

Digital Art Happenings + Performances
Curated by Cody Lee Edison



El Cid
4212 W Sunset Blvd
Silver Lake, Los Angeles


Supported by
Assembly
Friends with Benefits









UPCOMING
PROGRAM

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PAST 
PROGRAMS

SpeakerProgram Title
Date

Daniel Temkin

Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code (Book Launch at Plot)

10.14.25

Jeffrey Cudder 

Aesthetic Computer (Performance)

9.30.25

Parag Mital

Manufacturing Consciousness

5.20.25

Sarah Friend

Artist’s Model (Performance)

2.18.25

Sammie Veeler

Prayer Circle (Performance)

10.8.24

David Lebrun

Re-Animating the Past: From Analog to Digital

9.22.24

Nancy Baker Cahill + Christiane Paul

in Conversation

9.12.24

Ana Maria Caballero

What the Book Can (and Shall) Do in the Digital Age

8.20.24

Cy Berspace with Skirt Cocaine and Skynsuit

[Custom Object] lip-sync//dance  (Performance)

8.6.24

Leah Smithson

Sanctuaries for Reflection: A look Beyond Reality with Art, Tech & ‘The Unspoken’

6.20.24

Zsofi Valyi-Nagy

Drawing with Vera Molnar: A new Media Archaeology of Early Computer Graphics

5.7.24

Sarah Zucker

Magic Vision

4.16.24

BYVIKI

Metahuman Conceptual

3.19.24

Mitchell F Chan

How to Make Art and Influence People: Make Games, You Cowards

Lorna Mills

She is a Shy Woodland Creature

2.27.24

Ruby Thelot


A Cyberarchaeology of Checkpoints

2.20.24

Duane King, Dina Chang and John F. Simon, Jr.

Dialog Box (Online Conversation)

Ann Hirsch

Through The Looking Glass

11.14.23

Ibuki Kuramochi

Butoh Dance and Physical Transformation

Chris Coleman + Laleh Mehran

Topo-Logical

 10.17.23

Autumn Breon + Rick Garzon

Care is Essential: Beauty and Care as Antidoes to Harm

Edgar Fabian Frias + Sarah Zucker

VisionVision Returns FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! (Performance)

 9.26.23

Michael J. Masucci

Escaping Digital Feudalism: The EZTV Museum and the Building of Independent Community

 9.19.23

David Em

On the Archeology of the Metaverse: Five Firsts

Andrew Benson

 Crashing Through The Feed: Digital Exuberance and Experimental Graphic Systems

Walter Langelaar

On Digital Material, Cultural Currency and Object Permanence

 8.22.23

Huntress Janos + Kasey Kauffman in conversation with Kate Parsons

Cyber Wave Feminism: A Love Letter to Los Angeles’ Coastal Chaparral Curated by Femmebit

Nancy Baker Cahill + Lauren Lee McCarthy

Body as Material: Reproduction, Privacy, and Public Interventions

 8.8.23

Rollin Leonard

Crash Kiss: Live Portrait Processing (Programatic Portrait Project)

TheVERSEVERSE, Connie Bakshi, Dina Chang, Carla Gannis, Katie Peyton Hofstadter, Elisabeth Sweet, Chris Wood and Ellie Pritts

in Conversation + Poetry Reading

MUXX Collective + Alice Scope

NFT and Multimedia Art in the Context of Queerness and Cultural Identity

LoVid

Xs + I0s: Translating Web0-Web3 and Back Again

Anne Spalter

Meet Up with Anne Spalter

Victor Acevedo

From the Void Matrix to the Blockchain

5.9.23

Cole Root + Sean Moss-Pultz

LeeMillican.PCX & Feral File: A Painter’s Early Experiments with Digital Art

5.2.23

Lauren Lee McCarthy, Qianqie Ye, Shun (Sonia) choi and Casey Reas

Processing Community Catalog (Book Launch + Reading Party)

4.25.23

Jesse Draxler + Chanel Verdult

in Conversation

4.18.23

Behnaz Farahi

Visual Pleasure & The Gaze

4.11.23

Alice Bucknell

Ways of Worlding: Building More-Than-Human Worlds

2.21.23

Charlotte Kent

 A Critic Walks into a Bar: On the Absurd

2.14.23

Maya Man

Selling Out: Art, Authenticity, and the Internet!!!

2.7.23

Jah

Contemporary Futurism

1.24.23

Sammie Veeler

A Time Capsule or a Grave: Hybrid Virtual Performance (Performance)

1.16.23

Operator + Anika Meier

Unsigned Digital Billboard (Exhibition), Presented in collaboration with Vellum & Standard Vision

1.1.23

Operator

Hello, Operator: Experiential Art & The Blockchain

12.20.22

Cactoid Labs

Experimental Impulse: Art, Decentralization & Museums at the Code Level

12.13.22

Alex Estorick

Encrypted Histories: Right Click Save and the New Voices of Web3

12.6.22

Francisco Garcia Nava + Mieke Marple

Cold & Silent Like A Heart

11.1.22

Ellie Pritts

On Art + Curation + Electric Psychedelia

10.24.22

Connie Bakshi

Ex Machina: The Myth of Other

10.18.22

Matthew Dunnerstick

Frank Stella Geometries: The Inside Story of an Art Icon’s NFT

10.9.22

Marie Heilich

Between Earth & Sky: The Biography of Luchita Hurtado

9.27.22

Ana Maria Caballero + Sasha Stiles

Fire in Silver Lake Edition Release and Poetry Reading

8.23.22

Tuna Bora

On Roaches

8.16.22

Jimmy Edgar + Alice Scope

Oxygen

8.9.22

Jeff Frost

Celestial Light Painting

8.2.22

Katie Peyton Hofstadter

Bodies On The Blockchain

7.26.22

Cassils + Nancy Baker Cahill

 Talk $hit: White Male Artist +  Mushroom Clouds

7.19.22

Peter Wu+  (EPOCH)

CRYOSPHERE

6.28.22

NFT Asia

Meetup at BierHaus NYC

6.21.22

Shu Zhu + G. Wilson

Ash Valley : A Transmedia Narrative Project

6.14.22

Alida Sun

Flow States

6.7.22

Shaun McCallum

NFT Financed Architecture Pavillion and extended realities

5.31.22

Luna Ikuta

World Building: Remember Me

5.24.22

Jen Stark

Vortexes (and Pineapple Margaritas)

5.17.22

Joe Sola

SolaCoin

5.3.22

Arama

Music + Web3

4.26.22

Lonliboy

On Collecting

4.19.22

Yassi Mazandi + Jamison Edgar

In Flight

4.12.22

Waambat

Art, Utility Mechanics and Tezos

4.5.22

Maya Man, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Waambat, Sammie Veeler, Ellie Pritts, Aya, Patricia El and Mieke Marple

Artists Who Code: A moderated panel discussion at Vellum LA

3.29.22

Aya & Patricia El

New Paths with Generative Tools

3.22.22

Parker Day

ICONS

3.15.22

Space Popular

Civic Teleportation in the Metaverse

3.8.22

Tony Herrera + Mona Kuhn

ObscuraDAO 

2.22.22

Mia Carucci 

Party at Vellum LA

2.19.22

Jesse Damiani + Sinziana Velicescu

The Decentralized Unicists: A Botto Solo Show

2.15.22

Amanda Lopez

Guadalupe

2.1.22

Sutu (Stuart Cambell)

Sutuverse

1.25.22

Peter Wu+ (EPOCH)

On Curating, Exhibition Building and Equitable Smart Contracts

1.18.22

Lindsey Byrnes & Jeff Nicholas

WVRPS by WarpSound

1.11.22

Switzon S. Wigfall, III

Everydays

1.4.22

Raven Trammell

50mm Collective

12.7.21

Las Fotos Project

Empowerment through Creativity, Community and Mentorship

11.30.21

David Leonard

The Rise of Hic Et Nunc 

11.23.21

Ellie Pritts

Glitch Journey

11.16.21

Mieke Marple

Medusa Collection

11.9.21

Cole Root, Director of the Estate of Lee Mullican

Computer Joy

11.2.21

Catalyst

Red Lion Tavern Meetup

10.26.21

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