NORMAN KLEIN

Artist Biography

Norman Klein is a professor at the California Institute of the Arts, author of The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory, and Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon.  He is completing his next book, The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects. His exhibition "Scripted Spaces: The Chase and the Labyrinth" was shown at the Witte de With (Rotterdam), and the Kuenstlerhaus at Stuttgart. A cultural critic and novelist, he has published dozens of essays on media, urban culture, animation, architecture, globalization.

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