Juan Herrera

Future Stars class compilation album John Tejada, a frequent guest on Touched Music compilations, hatched the idea of turning the final project for his CalArts “Advanced Electronic Music Production” class into a compilation album for the established label. John Tejada Presents Future Stars features 15 of Tejada’s students at their best, as well as an […]

CalArts Graphic Designers 2020 TAI MIN AHN SULAIMAN ALFASSAM AISHA ALKINAEY DOV ANNUSE EMMA BERLINER JACK BUSICK DAVID CATERINI MAGGIE CAO CONNY CAVAZOS ALEX CERUTTI LAURA CHALAND NOAH CHANG CAIHUI CHEN EMILY CHOI HAN-SOL CHUNG MACKENZIE COSTA MAXINE DAVISON XIYU DENG ANTHONY D’EREDITA HYUNBAE EARM BRYAN GELDERBLOOM CATHERINE GONG NATALIE GOODEN PAULINA GRUZDEV NADIA HAILE […]

Hyperreal Gesstures This project is a reflection of the gestures we perform on a routine basis in order to interact (as the trigger and the data input) with networked devices such as smartphones and laptops. These gestures are abstracted/flattened in the design process and transformed into online behaviors. This habit-formation process only takes us a […]

Alternative Facts (Hechos Alternativos) A reflection on the phrase “Alternative Facts” used during a press conference in January 22, 2017

Live Your Fantasy! Daniel L Rappaport is a CalArts alum (graphic design ’01) and is a graduate of the FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (digital media ’08). His ascendants are Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, and others, and he hails from the disgustingly famous Beverly Hills, CA. He has over 25 years of digital media […]

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A Drum Solo Visualized Hello, I am a Jazz Drums MFA ALUM (’19). My goal with this submission has been to find a way to make visuals that clearly represent what drummers practice –moving around the kit and using multiple limbs at once to create music. I wondered if there was a way to visualize […]

Happy Headroom “Happy Headroom” was part of my mid-residency show titled “Living Threads” in February 2020. The immersive installation consisted of 4-channel video and sculptures. In this video, my mom and I perform rituals as a visceral process to create a dialogue between changing states of self and site. Hair, simultaneously dead and living, functions […]