CLUFest highlights best multimedia works

(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – March 27, 2015) CLUFest 2015 will showcase California Lutheran University students’ best multimedia creations and exploration of groundbreaking technology using still, 3-D and motion graphics.

“Modern Dimensions” will feature the work of about 40 multimedia students from April 18 through May 16 in the Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture. A reception will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, April 25.

CLUFest recognizes the university’s most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers and computer artists. The exhibit includes displays on the Oculus Rift virtual reality experience, projection-mapping art and three-dimensional immersive art and video.

Gabriela Ramirez of Newbury Park creates graphics that incorporate lines, shapes, photography and contrasting colors and her display will include a stylized self-portrait photo. Myles Moore from Philadelphia is a filmmaker whose primary passion is 3-D animation and game design and the exhibit will include his 3-D artwork and a video game he designed called “The Original.” The show will also feature infrared photography stills by Scott Stevens of Simi Valley and a four-dimensional architectural layout of a kitchen by Per Martin Haaheim of Norway. Rachel Blaznek of Cincinnati, Ohio, will exhibit an original film.

The gallery is located in the Soiland Humanities Center at 120 Memorial Parkway on the Thousand Oaks campus. It is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Parking is available at the corner of Olsen Road and Mountclef Boulevard.

The Multimedia Department is sponsoring the free exhibit. For more information, contact Tim Hengst at 805-493-3241 or thengst@callutheran.edu.