Liz Ohanesian

The year is 949 A.F. at the opening of The Solar Grid, a comic book series from multi-disciplinary artist Ganzeer. A.F. stands for "after the flood" and two young people are digging through an abundance of trash. They work under the glare of the sun, searching for items that can......

Ask me where I'm from and I'll answer you literally: Los Angeles. I'll say that even when I know that's not what you mean. You want to know the story behind my ambiguously ethnic looks and my last name, which seems so unusual but actually isn't. Ohanesian is a common......

Whenever VRLA hits the L.A. Convention Center, it brings with it a wave of excitement and anticipation for the future of a nascent medium. Part trade show for virtual reality makers and part fan con for virtual reality users, this weekend's iteration had everything from virtual meditation to a mixed-reality Easter......

"What's the difference between facts and insults, right?" Jibz Cameron asks a small class of teenagers inside UCLA's Hillel Center on a recent Thursday afternoon. Cameron, better known as the performance artist Dynasty Handbag, has given a small group of students a deceptively simple task: one volunteer will describe a......

"There's a joke in game development that you're always six months away from release," David OReilly says. For OReilly, the acclaimed animation artist, those last "six months" of developing his latest game, Everything, stretched out for over two years. In that time, he moved his headquarters from an offsite office......

Ever miss the days of field trips? Instead of sitting in the classroom staring out the window, you got to file into a bus and head out someplace where the learning was as fun as, well, anything you might do on a weekend. For those who grew up in Los......

Hue doesn't see colors anymore. He has lost his ability to write too. His life is black and white and blah, and in the demo for the eponymous virtual reality interactive film Hue, he sits in a room, despondent. It's up to the viewer to try and bring color and......