Thursday, Oct 23 

• MFA Media Arts Fall exhibition: .CALM, at New Wight Gallery, Culver City / West LA. Works by John Brumley, Aliah Magdalena Dark, Julieta Gil, Camella DaEun Kim, Jane Chang Mi, Miguel Nobrega, Kate Parsons, Saakshita Prabhakar, Alex Rickett & Daniel Schwarz. Facebook Event opening reception 5-8pm thru Oct 31
• SpectreFest: Metropolis (live score by Chrome Canyon), at Cinefamily, West Hollywood. Live score to Fritz Lang’s tale of an expressionist tomorrowland.  Co-presented by the Stanley Film Fest, a 4-day horror soiree at The Shining hotel.  Plus, there’s an absinthe bar on the patio! Facebook Event 7:30pm
• Chasms / All Your Sisters / Mortal Bodies, at Complex, Glendale. DJs Sarah Bernat x Sarah Toon. Visuals by Sporay (Experimental Half-Hour). 9pm

Friday, Oct 24 

• Mauve, at Secret Recipe, Silver Lake. Works by Michael Henry Hayden, Daniel Lane & Dani Tull at the one-night only exhibition space in a repurposed garage. Facebook Event opening x closing 7pm-1am
• Code X 2: I Am I Said, at Eastside International, Lincoln Heights. Screening of new video works from LA artists united in their documentation of performance strategies. Facebook Event 7:30-10:30pm
• .NTER (a performance by God Doll), at Human Resources, Chinatown. A 3D modeled projected universe transports viewers into another dimension in which the drag-clad artist is the lone inhabitant. Facebook Event opening reception 8pm-12am thru Sun Oct 26
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (live score by Nora Keyes x Jimi Cabeza de Vaca), at hm157, Lincoln Heights. …LA Drones after the show. 9pm

Saturday, Oct 25 

• David Lloyd: New Paintings, at Klowden Mann, Culver City. New works from the LA artist synthesize formal abstraction x narrative irreverence. Facebook Event opening reception 6-8pm thru Jan 10
• Roland Wegerer: The White Digger, at Traction Arts, DTLA. Ongoing screening launches in the video venue’s storefront window in the Arts District. thru Nov 29
• Experimental Music Yearbook: issue 2014, at the wulf, DTLA. Final EMY of 2014 with works by Olivia Block, James Saunders, Anne Guthrie x Billy Gomberg, John Lely, Matt Marble & Nomi Epstein (performed by local musicians). Facebook Event 8pm
• 2 LIVE ACID, at (the) Handbag Factory, DTLA. Celebrate Everything x Darkmatter Soundsystem present a special showcase of electronic music feat: WMX, Kid606, Vytear, Baseck & SPECIAL GUEST! 9pm-2am

• Echiko Ohira: Red, at Offramp Gallery, Pasadena. Natural hybrids form from a myriad of paper layers in the artist’s debut solo show of large-scale sculptures. Facebook Event opening reception 2-5pm thru Nov 23

• decolonizing the white box, at Human Resources, Chinatown. Community forum moderated by Raquel Gutiérrez. Facebook Event 8pm
• ∆ PRISM PIPE ∆: Dog Is In The Machine, at pehrspace, Echo Park. 10th ed. of the monthly series, curated by The Current Sea x Screaming Claws.  Glitch visuals in looping GIFs.  Music from Brian Griffith, White Boy Scream & Evan Hemsley. 8-11:30pm

• Names | Nephila | Sleepwalkers Local, at MATA, Mid-City. Names (Gerritt Wittmer & Jesse Jackson) x Nephila (Shannon Kennedy) x Sleepwalkers Local (Grant Capes). 10pm
• Murder Ballads & Dark Songs Tribute Show, at the Echoplex, Echo Park. Halloween turns the venue into a seated theater, with performances honoring the ‘greatest songs ever written about killers, death… & other savory doom-driven subjects.’

• Madame Dracula’s Consensual Sex Dungeon, at The Dragonfly, Hollywood. A melodic audiovisual monster mash with stimulating performances from Geneva Jacuzzi, Drab Majesty, Pleasures & More Ephemerol. 8:30pm

last-looks 

• Tobias Madison: Deficiency Depletion, at Freedman Fitzpatrick, Hollywood. A 2-part exhibition confronting 2 modes of circulation: the linearity of going some place, & the circularity of staying in one place. thru Oct 25
• Pascual Sisto: The Sum Over Histories, at Smart Objects, Echo Park. New works in sculplture, neon, & video based on drawings of Nobel Prize winning author Richard Feynman. Facebook Event gallery hours Fri x Sat 2-6pm | thru Oct 26
• 43° 42′ 46.4148’’ N, 79° 20′ 30.5988’’ W) By Calvin Marcus, at Public Fiction, Eagle Rock. A proposal for hypothetical spaces blurring lines between artwork x exhibition, artist x curator, & the monumental x un-monumental.  Feat: Edgar Bryan, Andrew Cannon, Michael Dopp, Samantha Gregg, Orr Herz, Ravi Jackson & Jane Levy. nighttime hours x gatherings | thru Oct 28
• Better Climate Options, at Downtown Photoroom, DTLA. New works by Débora Delmar & Carson Fisk-Vittori examine ideas of potential through the latent & ubiquitous nature of the photographic image. Facebook Event thru Nov 1
• In Search of Turrell, at JAUS, Santa Monica. Group exhibition exploring the Dutch seacoast through the eyes of 11 artists, commencing in the dunes of  Scheveningen & culminating in Kijkduin at James Turrell’s land artwork Celestial Vault. thru Nov 2