I am one of the people interviewed in this piece on cosmopolitan.com in October 2014. I’m really happy Rachel wrote this piece.I did not choose anonymity. I am the older one.
Scratch that. As of at least March 5, 2018, this link has been replaced by an article titled 4 People Explain What It’s Like Being Genderqueer, and I have been replaced by someone many years younger. This may be some new journalism practice that is entirely unfamiliar to me. What do you think?
I’m one of the dancing fools in this beautiful video in response to the tragic Orlando Pulse shooting. Produced by Victor Élan and Christopher Landavazo
49: Share Your Voice #keepdancing
Wanting to stand out in the crazy world that is the Women Seeking Women section on craigslist’s personal ads, our hero creates a video showing exactly how exciting a date with her will be.
Directors: Nina Rota, Kate Johnson
Actors: Nina Rota, Kate Johnson
I’m really happy to announce that my essay Passing has been published online at Eunoia Review. I write about gender issues so other people can handle these things better than I have, and if it’s not online who’s gonna find it?
While investigating the gender transition of LA Times Sportswriter Mike Penner/Christine Daniels, I found myself in the middle of my own gender identity crisis. A second transition lead me to the deeper nature of all life transitions, and an understanding of the impossible position Christine found herself in.
Passing first appeared in Witness Magazine.
My short story Smiling Jenny has been published in this month’s Diverse Voices Quarterly. (This is a PDF of the DVQ , search for “Smiling Jenny” to read my story.)
Dan has given up on human girlfriends because they all leave him—probably because he insists on having sex with other women in front of them. As our story begins, Dan is unpacking his newest silicone doll and preparing to have sex with her in front of his current synthetic live-in girlfriend, Smiling Jenny. She is none too pleased about this and not at all shy about expressing her feelings
Hey Everyone, My essay The Shadow Temple has been published in the Sex Issue of Red Fez.
The Shadow Temple describes an explicit inner sexual fantasy in which a female narrator is an older man seducing a much younger man. We then follow the narrator’s experience of acting out the fantasy in real life with someone she meets at a gathering.
Fly By was a live, 15 minute, site-specific multimedia performance for dancers, telematic avatar performers, musicians, video installation and drone camera pilot. Performed on May 31st, 2014, it was part of the outdoor art exhibition: ONE Night: EZTV, LA ACM SIGGRAPH and Digital Art in West Hollywood. This exhibition was the finale of the three-month long retrospective series about EZTV’s history, presented by ONE Museum and Archives at USC.
A collaboration between EZTV, Donna Sternberg & Dancers, Vanessa Blaylock & Co., David Raiklen, Nina Rota, Prof. Gregory Tarle of Univ. of Michigan and Dr. Brian Nord of Fermi Lab.
Concept: Michael J. Masucci, EZTV
Choreography: Donna Sternberg and Dancers
Avatar Choreography: Vanessa Blaylock
Composer: David Raiklen
Producers: Joan Collins, David Frantz, Kate Johnson, EZTV
Tech. Dir./Assoc. Producer: Marc Rosenthal
Scientific Consultants: Gregory Tarle, PHD, Brian Nord, PHD
Drone Captain: Nina Rota
Drone Pilot: Bernie Seidler
Sponsored by the City of West Hollywood, BARCO Projectors, ONE Archives USC, LA ACM SIGGRAPH. Additional support from ARC Grant, MCubed Grant, U of Michigan.
In the summer of 2013, I traveled to England with my sisters Helen and Lindy, and met up with my brother Richard and our cousins Angela and Diane in Essex. We traveled back to the villages and houses where we grew up. Along the way, I recorded images and audio on my iPhone.
Editor: Kate Johnson, EZTV
A multimedia/documentary project profiling pioneering, emerging, innovative and otherwise compelling Los Angeles-based female artists, philosophers and social entrepreneurs. In their own worlds and contexts.
Directed by: Kate Crash
Produced by: EZTV & Michael Masucci
This is an interactive project. You can view the intro, the entire documentary (above), and individual clips arranged by interviewee.
Interviewees in Alphabetical Order:
Lita Albuquerque, Zina Bethune, Jessie Bliss, Strawn Bovee, Dorit Cypis, Susanna B. Dakin, Simone Forti, Nana Ghana, Carol Gillam, Kate Johnson, Anna Homler, Dr. Linda Lack, Lina Lecaro, Dianne Magee, Donna Enad Napper, Rika Ohara, Nina Rota, S.Pearl Sharp, Barbara T. Smith, Jessica Sohn, Donna Sternberg, Tiffany Trenda, Valerie Velazquez, Jan Williamson.
Photography & Editing: Kate Johnson. To watch Luscious, click here
The images in Luscious were captured with a digital still camera. The movement of the camera lens and the shutter made it impossible to register the images so my animator, Carolyn Stockbridge, and I used a camera with a removable manual lens and we locked the shutter in the open position. While we solved the problem of movement, the camera’s exposure was randomly off and we had to go back and manually adjust the brightness of most of the images.
