
Dmitry Kemell
Professor of Multimedia Arts, College of Communication and Fine Arts Loyola Marymount University
Biography
Dmitry Kemell's creative work has been featured in numerous online publications and art reviews as well as in Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly and CNN, and has been exhibited widely at venues such as: Art Platform, Art Basel, Glow-Santa Monica, Autumn Lights, Athens Digital Art Festival, ISEA, 404 Festival of Art and Technology, Optronica, Digital Graffiti, Festival Miden, Nanjing Institute of Visual Arts Museum, Archaeological Museum of Messenia, The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Skirball Cultural CenterBell-Roberts Contemporary Art Gallery, e4c media gallery, Gallery 825,The Standard Hotel, Highways Performance Space, Ford Theatre, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Grand Performances, Los Angeles Theater Center.
Education
University of California, Los Angeles
M.F.A.
Design|Media Arts
2001
University of California, Los Angeles
B.A.
Art History
1997
Social
Areas of Expertise
Industry Expertise
Accomplishments
Best Visual Effect Award
2025-01-27
Best Visual Effect Award for “The Glass Menagerie”, in “Synthetica and Alterica”, Silicon Valley International Contemporary Art Review Exhibition. ArtX Gallery. https://www.instagram.com/artxgallery_official/p/DFUxReVTcH7/?img_index=1
Best Video Award
2024-11-18
Best Video Award in “Loneliness and Poetics”,
2024 London Contemporary Art Review Competition” Awards. Gallery Nat. London, UK.
Stage Raw Theater Awards Nomination
2016-05-16
Nominated for Best Projection Design by Stage Raw Independent Theater Awards
Best of Show Award
2009-06-07
Best of Show Award for "Lure of the Sirens", Digital Graffiti Festival. Alys Beach, Florida.
Affiliations
- Los Angeles Art Association
- American Society of Composers Authors & Publishers (ASCAP)
- Multiplex Dance
Media Appearances
LandEscape Art Review Anniversary Edition 2015
LandEscape Art Review print
I seek to create multi-dimensional poetry that opens portals onto the transcendent by applying artistic vision, creative expression and innovative uses of technology to the interplay of physical, virtual, musical and visual forms...
Stigmart VideoFocus Special Edition ESP
Stigmart Artpress print
SOURCE is an audio-visual meditation on the mystical origins of creation and future states of consciousness. This short motion graphics film presents a coded ambient journey laden with inspiration from quantum physics, Kabbalah, and science fiction. SOURCE is a prologue for the multichannel multimedia installation "SPaRks" that is a larger investigation of the theme of creation...
Research Grants
The WORD Grant: Bruce Geller Memorial Prize
Institute for Jewish Creativity. American Jewish University.
2018-03-14
The WORD Grant: Bruce Geller Memorial Prize for Inter[We]ave, a Virtual Reality visual-music experience. The project strives for a sensory fusion as it explores the threads between the earthly and the mystical, summoning the spirit of the Shekinah through its immersive audio-visual poetry.