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California Institute of the Arts. Washington University in Saint Louis.
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Larry Cuba
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Born in 1950 in Atlanta, Georgia, he received Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in Saint Louis in 1972 and his Master"s Degree from California Institute of the Arts which includes parallel schools of Dance, Music, Film, Theater, Fine Arts, and Writing. The Cal Arts faculty included abstract animator Jules Engel, Expanded Cinema critic Gene Youngblood, and special effects artist Pat O"Neill. In 1975, John Whitney, Senior invited Cuba to be the programmer on one of his films.
The result of this collaboration was "Arabesque".
Subsequently, Cuba produced three more computer-animated films: 3/78 (Objects and Transformations), Two Space, and Calculated Movements. Cuba also provided computer graphics for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1977.
His animation of the Death Star is shown to pilots in the Rebel Alliance. Cuba received grants for his work from the American Film Institute and The National Endowment for the Arts and was awarded a residency at the Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie).
He has served on the juries for the Siggraph Electronic Theater, the Montpellier Festival of Abstract Film, The Ann Arbor Film Festival and Ars Electronica.
Cuba currently serves as the director of the iotaCenter in Los Angeles, California.
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