Curtis Stage is fond of: the endless To-Do list, the triangle offense, rugs tying together rooms, pretending cutting the grass is "lawn sculpture", sad songs, the voice of Vin Scully in the summer, friends with beer fridges with good beer in them, people making stuff that challenges, my kids aha moments, my wife's knowing look.
Contact me: curtis @ gmail.com or my office phone 818.364.7771 (which fwds to gmail)
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All of Curtis Stage's work is an exploration of sound and vision, which collides the worlds of contemporary music and art. Stage's work addresses the possibility that video/sound/images can be a seemingly endless archive of cultural and personal associations to be layered, ripped apart, and re-mixed by the artist and viewer to create new "narratives". For Stage, reinterpretation, plundering and rearranging to create a collision of imagery and sound that is at once alluring and dizzying, fuels his interest in communication and our cultural need to connect with each other.
Curtis Stage is a Los Angeles based artist working with media art and photography. For the last few years much of his work has revolved around relationships to the self and how we connect with each other in a culture of technological experience. We have wrapped music, television, cinema, and the Internet into the fabric of our lives and it has influenced our sense of time, place and identity. Curtis used to show work in Los Angeles at Fringe Exhibitions (RIP) in Chinatown(soon to have a new venue). He also is the Vice Chair and Assistant Professor of Multimedia at the Institute of Arts and Multimedia at Los Angeles Mission College and Visiting Artist of Digital Art at Claremont Graduate University.
Curtis also owned and directed a Multimedia Production company which produced broadcast commercials, documentaries, motion graphics and web sites. Currently Curtis works in Multimedia Production on a freelance basis doing Post Production and Motion, Camera Operation, and Web App/Web Interface design. Clients have included: MGM Studios, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Touchstone Pictures/ILM, Suissa Miller, and Sierra Club.
