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| "That (Jack) Valenti and EZTV foundation director
Michael Masucci should be reinforcing each other's arguments about budgetary
propriety is a jaw dropper in itself, even if they don't necessarily agree
on the means of achieving said propriety. Certainly Masucci's idea
that using digital media for all aspects of production (not just effects
and set pieces) has immediate applications for animation, feature or otherwise,
where the experimentation phase can be utilized in the name of budget
reduction in a way that can't yet be done with live action.
-John Voland
On Production ( a Variety Publication
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| "media revolutionary with digital panache, demonstrating
how Hollywood production values can be achieved using today’s desktop
technology"
-Top 100 Producers Award
AV Video and Multimedia Producer
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internet.com
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-Linda Jacobson
(From the Book) CyberArts-Exploring Art
and Technology
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| "He is a person who looks into
the future and takes action to make it happen...It can be postulated that
in the years to come we will see Masucci's visions come true one way or
another."
-Oiva Knuuttila
Tekniikan Nakoalat
(Translated from Finnish by the
author)
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-Miles Beller
Artweek
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| "With a clear chronology of work, it's evident that affordable
technology was able to radically reshape the aesthetic vision."
-Austin Bunn
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| "There is a place where dance and technology can coexist harmoniously and create beautiful moves together...Masucci and Bethune use technology as a means to an end, a tool to express a point, to get the message across. They understand that technology featured as the principal performer will soon wear out its novelty and star quality." |
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-Jody Leader
Daily News
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| " phenomenal...the artists also had the opportunity to hear from
moderator and videographer Michael Masucci of EZTV who offered his technical
expertise. His suggestions for tactics he has used to produce videos
on a shoe string budget were both reassuring and inspiring."
-Nola Mariano
California Arts Council
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| "His affinity for the visual arts had already been nurtured
through his job at Modernage Photographics in New York...The company's
client list ranged from giant corporations to famed artists like Richard
Avedon..But Masucci's aesthetic is at odds with the narrative stories and Hollywood film values...He prefers interpretive collaborations with performance artists, dancers and actors looking to stretch themselves."
-Don Snowden
Los Angeles Times
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-Rodger Clark
The (London) Independent
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-Robert Gelman
Live Netcast
10th Anniversary Digital Be-In
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| Deposition:
"striking and original, "Deposition" combines surreal imagery and haunting narrative to evoke the experience of post-abduction trauma-and, daringly, relates it to the UFO experience."
-Kevin Thomas
L.A. Times
-Greg Stacy
OC Weekly
-Mark Chalon Smith
LA Times (Orange County)
"Weekend Pick."
-Elmer Dills
KABC-TV
"I was really impressed with this...it could be used not just in video organizing and exhibition, but to raise consciousness about issues relating to mental illness and to women, and to empowerment."
-Arian Manov
KPFK
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Apollo The video artistry of Michael Masucci is as beautiful
as it is poignant and intentionally disturbing."
-Joseph Rosen
Daily Breeze
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-Mary Beth Crane
LA Weekly
" Pick of the Week...Museum level."
-Peter Frank
L.A. Weekly
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| "Fast Art for an Accelerated Culture",
"Curated by Michael Masucci, director of West Hollywood's EZTV video salon
and the CyberSpace Gallery, and KCRW's Liza Richardson, who hosts the
experimental performance program Man on the Moon, the show exhibits
artists ranging from young unknowns to acid guru and neo-virtual realist
Timothy Leary. Something of a Lollapalooza of the art world, the
multimedia sideshow will feature works by the newest wunderkinds to roll
off the information superhighway, including computer-generated prints
(some of which could pass for stills from Metropolis ), images stored
digitally on disk, performance-art pieces, experimental videos and even
works that sample and manipulate images the way rappers sample sound
bites."
-Laura Meyers
Los Angeles Magazine
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-Joe Rosen
Santa Monica Evening Outlook
"a poignant 'must see'...served well to illustrate as only pictures
can, the horrors of the Death Camps, and brought into sharpest focus the
very real results of what happens when prejudice is allowed to run its
course."
The Outlook
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-Michael Wilmington
LA Times
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| Dance Outreach in the People's Republic,
"An inspiring profile...successfully captures Bethune's uniquely positive
approach to dance and life which transcends the barriers of language,
hearing and sight impairment...into a world of physical and mental liberation."
-Mary Beth Crane
L.A. Weekly
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Hollywood Reporter
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-Michael Wilmington
L.A. Times
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