Thursday, Nov 6

• EUREKA & the BIOMASS, at 5 Car Garage, Santa Monica. A ‘Beauty & the Beast’ set in 2100, Megan Daalder’s sci-fi musical follows a human’s love affair with a synthetic organism: ‘the biomass,’ a spectacular behemoth, humanoid puppet.  Performances are sold-out, but meet the biomass today 1-4pm & by appt.  RSVP for location map x info. thru Nov 10

Friday, Nov 7

• Photo by Fredrik Nilsen, at Downtown Photoroom, DTLA. Nilsen’s recent documentation of artists’ works alongside a past portrait series of LA artists x gallerists recontextualized into a sculptural format. Curated by Kathryn Andrews. Facebook Event opening reception 6-9pm thru Jan 31
• Keith J Varadi: Nu Haiku, at Smart Objects, Echo Park. Solo exhibition of new works from the LA-based artist, writer, & curator. Facebook Event opening reception 7-10pm thru Dec 12
• Ryoji Ikeda: superposition, at Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, Westwood. The sound artist presents a disorienting performance exploring the reality of nature on an atomic scale. Facebook Event 8pm
• The Wizard of CalArts: Film & Video by John Hawk, at Echo Park Film Center, Echo Park. Screening of works from the CalArts School of Film/Video wizard himself— who has taught experimental media at CalArts for two decades. 8-11pm

• Taking the Waters with High Desert Test Sites, at Various, Mojave Desert. Site-specific installations, performances, films, tours, & more make-up this two-day program evolving around a search for water.  You’ll be dehydrated in good co. with artists: Korakrit Arunanondchai, Matthew Coolidge, Alyse Emdur, Robert Fulton, Marc Ganzglass, Emilie Halpern, Sant Khalsa, Alice Könitz, Nancy Lupo, Erin Schneider, & Kim Stringfellow.  Organized by Aurora Tang.  Details.
• Brian Bress: You Can’t Sleep on a Door, at Cherry and Martin, Culver City. Objects, paintings & sculptures with time based components propel traditions of abstraction & representation into new mediums x genres. opening reception 4-7pm thru Jan 3
• Scott Short: More and The Same, at Christopher Grimes, Santa Monica. Meticulously hand painting machine derived markings, new paintings & drawings touch on absurdism, banality, & the relationship between the original x the copy. Facebook Event opening reception 6-8pm thru Jan 3
• Frau Fest, at Secret Vacant Retail Space, DTLA. Talks, performances, & installations transform a vacant retail space into a one-night celebration of the female frau energy in all.  With Narcissister, Morgan Borchardt, Eclipse, Sarah Harron, Lukas Kanter, Jeepneys, Amanda Sage, & more. RSVP (req’d) 6-9pm
• Finding A Form, at PØST, DTLA. Group show adopting a William H. Gass title as a curatorial lens for works by Jack Brindley, Michael Freeman, Christopher Miles, Yelena Popova, Neal Rock, Rachelle Rojany, & Cody Trepte. Curated by Neal Rock. Facebook Event opening reception 7-10pm thru Nov 11
• Maid in Cyberspace REVISITED, online exhibition, at htmlles.net Net artists Gaby Cepeda, Émilie Gervais, Faith Holland, Jessica MacCormack, & Shawné Michaelain Holloway present online works paying homage to women web artists of the ’90’s. Facebook Event online launch 7pm thru Dec 31
• Ghosting Volume 13, at 1205 N Main St, DTLA. The monthly hang-out for experimental animators & video artists feat. screenings from Natalia Stuyk [above], Joseph Bennett, Alexandre Louvenaz, Jordan Speer x live score by Benedek (PPU) x games by LA Game Space. Facebook Event 8pm-2am | BYOB

• White Rainbow, at Ham And Eggs Tavern, DTLA. Come to BYOB LA III?  Then maybe you were lucky to catch White Rainbow with us…  See him tonight at A man A plan A canal‘s LA debut with artists Fishing, Earth Like Planets, Caspar Sonnet, Graham MacRae, & Thank You Rosekind. 8pm-1am

Sunday, Nov 9

• Frank Bretschneider: Sinn + Form, at Human Resources, Chinatown. A project by the Berlin-based musician, composer & video artist based on attempts to ‘control, & change’ fundamental chaos.  A modular synth spectacular, with audio made visible through a software-generated correlation meter. Facebook Event 8pm

• Shizu Saldamando: OUROBOROS (revolutionary cycles, rebirth, or dancing in a circle), at South Of Sunset, Echo Park. Interested in social dynamics & physical codes, the artist presents large-format works documenting intimate social interactions from LA’s dance club scene & premieres a new video. Facebook Event opening reception 8-10pm thru Dec 3
• Lost & Found Film Club: From the Vaults, at Cinefamily, West Hollywood. A curated mix of industrial, educational, sponsored, & OUT THERE films in fuzzed-out 16mm from our favorite cinema ephemera aficionados — satisfy your taste buds, too, with grilled cheeses served on the patio. Facebook Event 10:30pm

• Joel Holmberg: Witness, at Harmony Murphy Gallery, DTLA. Video, painting, sculpture & sound works ‘beyond’ Post-Internet art. thru Nov 8
• Cayetano Ferrer: Composite Arcade, at Château Shatto, DTLA. An ‘environment’ playing on ‘civic & fictional space,’ including Endless Columns, a column lit with flashing neon lights within a mirrored room, reflecting a sense of displaced infinity within a cavernous kaleidoscopic casino. thru Nov 9
• Cory Arcangel: tl;dr, at Team (gallery, inc.), Venice. Selected works by the NY artist, a leading purveyor of technology-based art. Inaugural west coast gallery exhibition x Acangel’s LA solo show debut. thru Nov 9
• JPW3: 32 LEAVES I DON’T THE FACE OF SMOKE, at Night Gallery, DTLA. If you’ve only heard about it… go to hear the sound collab with Daniel Pineda— a 360 degree sound bath worthwhile… Wash your eyes-out with cerulean next door at Sayre Gomez’s I’m Different at François Ghebaly. thru Nov 15