Dmitry Kemell

Professor of Multimedia Arts, College of Communication and Fine Arts Loyola Marymount University

  • Los Angeles CA

Professor of Multimedia Arts (Studio Arts Program)

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Biography

Dmitry Kemell (formerly Kmelnitsky) is a Professor of Multimedia Arts within the Studio Arts program at Loyola Marymount University. He is also the founding director of Lustre, an interdisciplinary art studio that develops work for display in galleries, public art festivals, performing arts venues, as well as screen-based theatrical venues. These works include video art installations and environmental projections, concert visuals, music videos and animated digital films. Professor Kemell's diverse artistic repertoire explores the thematic fusion of myth, memory, culture and transcendent states through creative media transformation of surface, form and space. In addition to his artistic repertoire, he is also a composer and music producer with credits on diverse video, animation, and multimedia projects.

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: London Art Biennale, 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

Areas of Expertise

Media Arts
Art Direction
Creative Direction
Installation Design
Projection Design
Motion Graphics
Graphic Design
Multimedia Design
Video Production
Visual Effects & Compositing
3D Design
Audio Production
Music Composition
Sound Design

Industry Expertise

Education/Learning
Media Production
Audio Visual
Design

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

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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...

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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...

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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.

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Courses

Art 3766 Multimedia Narratives

Storytelling approaches for time-based and interactive media. Students explore new tools, formats, and platforms for narrative development with a focus on audio/video fundamentals and practices.

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Art 3774 Motion Graphics

Exploration of motion graphic design as an experimental and applied communication medium, covering methods for animating graphics and typography, sound synchronization and post-production video/visual effects.

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Art 1002 Foundation 2: Digital Arts

This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of digital arts. Through hands-on exercises, students learn to design interactive interfaces and responsive environments. Survey lectures focus on the history of new media and current practices. Students will also be introduced to principles and practices of electronic imaging as they apply to graphics, art, and design.

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