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Central Library
The Central Library Video Wall is a 28-foot video screen located in the
library
’s Tom Bradley Wing. A component of the S. Mark Taper Foundation
Digital Commons
, the video wall is a space for storytelling—about our community, our institution, and our world. Video Wall content is intended to delight, inform and educate library visitors with compelling visual stories.
Commissioned Work
Historical Portraits Project
In partnership with
StandardVision
, we've produced a series of digital art pieces for the Central Library Video Wall.
This project involved creating cinematic moving "portraits" of Los Angeles historical figures, portrayed by library patrons and community members.
Read more
about this project.
Generative Animations
A series of generative digital animations which draw inspiration from the art and architecture of Central Library, especially the decorative ceiling patterns painted by Julian Garnsey. There are roughly 6 or 7 unique patterned rooms in the Library—each with their own color palette, shapes, and compositions. The generative pattern system is organized as a series based on these various rooms—freeing the ornament from the bounds of ceiling decoration and reintroducing it as dynamic digital content. The final result is a piece that illustrates a systematic approach to decoration, placemaking, and interior design—both new and old.
Learn more
about this project.
Collaborations
Universum
Universum
is the first product of Substrate, a LACMA Art + Technology Grant project by artist Nancy Baker Cahill, which examines the equitable distributive properties of mycelial networks, and how they relate to emerging data-sharing technologies. Substrate connects civic institutions, cultural resources, and data storage systems as a collaborative test case for civic hubs citywide, including the Los Angeles Public Library, LACMA, and Long Beach City College working in tandem, imagining new ways of eliminating barriers to access, of structuring permission, and of producing and sharing knowledge. Using blockchain, Substrate connects these public resources as metaphoric "Mother Trees" with the potential to nourish communities through distributed networks of multi-stakeholder cultural initiatives.
Curated Selections
In addition to original content, the video wall features original art, films, and animation. Current selections include works by the following artists:
WE by Sarah Elgart
Sarah Elgart
is a Los Angeles–based choreographer
and director whose award-winning work spans stage,
screen, and site-specific performance. Her film WE
situates dance in the layered landscape of Venice
Beach, where displacement and scarcity coexist with
affluence. Through a meeting between two men at an
alleyway intersection, the work navigates themes of
belonging, isolation, compassion, and disdain—
painting a portrait of the city’s contradictions and the
human longing that lives within them.
Western Fronts by Rick Silva
Rick Silva
is an Oregon-based artist whose digital media works
explore the aesthetics and politics of the natural world. His film
Western Fronts responds to the proposed reductions of four
U.S. national monuments, juxtaposing sweeping drone footage
of the American West with geometric overlays and a
foreboding soundscape. At once beautiful and unsettling, the
work critiques authoritarian threats to public lands while
reflecting on the urgent intersections of environmental
exploitation, climate crisis, and cultural preservation in America
today.
In Our Time by Jaime Yao
Jaime Yao is a Los Angeles–based digital artist whose
work blends advanced software and generative AI to
craft immersive, human-centered narratives. His short
film In Our Time unfolds over a single night in Barcelona,
following an ordinary volunteer in the International
Brigades. A quiet tribute to solidarity across borders and
languages, the piece reflects on fate, transformation,
and the unseen ecosystems born of sacrifice. Using
emerging technologies as storytelling instruments rather
than spectacle, Yao expands the emotional possibilities
of narrative, illuminating intimate histories and collective
memory in ways that feel both timely and deeply
humane.
Micronaut Odyssey by Wendi Yan
Wendi Yan
constructs speculative epistemologies through
research-driven worldbuilding and metafictional
simulation, using CGI, game engines, and documentary
practices to probe and play with the artifice of
knowledge. Inspired by scientist Michael Levin’s research
in bioelectricity and regenerative biology, Micronaut
Odyssey imagines speculative biological robots with
different shapes and movements wandering in space,
against the backdrop of Martian terrains under a
microscopic lens. Yan’s film visualizes a science fictional
world centering the soft, the living and the microscale
high–tech futures.
The Perfect Mashed Potatoes by Elena Rendina
Swiss-Italian visual artist
Elena Rendina
works across
photography, performance, and animation to create stylized,
intimate worlds that explore the tension beneath traditional
ideals of femininity. Often using her own image, she stages
ironic and uncanny vignettes that subvert domesticity through
hand-crafted sets, costumes, and props made from everyday
materials like bread, pasta, and tablecloths. Her work
humorously reclaims the language of homemaking as a form of
self-expression and critique.
Mountains by Daniel Savage
Daniel Savage
is an artist and animator based in Los Angeles
CA. Daniel’s work is inspired by printmaking techniques,
creating a grid-like structure that brings consistency to organic
forms, often depicting nature with an aesthetic that blurs the
lines between digital and physical. This piece expands on his
Mountains series, exploring the layers and vibrant colors of an
abstract landscape, drawing rhythm from the natural
waveforms of mountains.
Winter by Jamie Scott
Jamie Scott
is an artist and visual effects specialist whose work captures the quiet poetry of nature in transition. His time-lapse films are composed from thousands of meticulously gathered photographs, revealing seasonal change as a slow, immersive rhythm. Scott weaves shifting colors, light, and atmosphere into cinematic portraits of landscapes in flux. His process blends patient observation with technical precision, allowing viewers to experience transformation as both intimate and expansive.
LA Impression by Jaime Yao
Jaime Yao is a Los Angeles–based digital artist whose work blends advanced software and AI to create immersive, human-centered abstractions. LA Impression drifts between clarity and disappearance, rendering the city as something remembered more by feeling than by sight. Familiar structures dissolve into thousands of shifting particles that collapse and rise in gentle, breath-like rhythms. The piece gathers, disperses, and reforms with patient fluidity, inviting viewers into a space of quiet reflection.
Past Artists
The following artists have previously exhibited work on the video wall.
Alice Bucknell
Alexis Jamet
Ana Maria Caballero
Andreas Fischer
Andrew Bryce Myers
Behnaz Farahi
Casey Kauffmann
Casey Reas
Christy Lee Rogers
Dalena Tran
Dan Chen
Danielle Parsons
David Guerrero
Dirk Koy
Enrique Agudo
Johnathan McCabe
Kristen Roos
Leo Isikdogan
LIA
Lifeforms.io
Pascual Sisto
Robert Seidel
Sabrina Ratté
Sandro Bocci
Sasha Stiles
Sean Capone
Teun van der Zalm
Tom Carroll
Yuge Zhou
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LinkedIn Learning
Online Learning
Research Guides
Aerial Photographs
African -American Literature (PDF)
African-American Ingenuity
Bilingual English-Spanish Material (PDF)
Census Tract Maps (PDF)
Environmental Impact Reports
Financing New Business (PDF)
Food and Drink
Genealogy
Grants
History of Your House
Holiday Cookery
Job Hunting and Money Guides
Literary Criticism Locator
Map Collection
Maps of Los Angeles
Military and Industry Standards and Specifications
Newspapers
Obituaries in LA County
Philosophy Research
Play Locator
Representative Maps in Los Angeles History and Growth
Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlases
Sheet Music Locator
Short Story Locator
Small Business Research (PDF)
Treaty Research
Vital Records
Student Success
Verify Student Success Card
Tessa: Photo & Digital Collections
L.A. in Focus Videos
Shades of L.A. Oral Histories
Services & Programs
Adult Literacy
Ask a Librarian
Be a Successful Street Vendor
Overview & Permits
Cell-Ed Pathways
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Book a Librarian
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Explore L.A.
Homeless Resources
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Veterans Resources
Voter Information
Wireless Printing
Neighborhood Science
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Central 100 Celebration
Expedition L.A.
Exhibits
Kids
L.A. Made
Seniors
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Special Collections
Appointment Request Form
Appraisals
Californiana
Gifts/Donations
Introduction to Special Collections
Mexicana
Photographs
The Special Collections Room Story
Teen'Scape
Directions
Parking
Art And Architecture
Central Library Video Wall
Historical Portraits Project
Goodhue Building
Painting
Public Art Projects
The Literate Fence Quotations
Sculpture
Themes and Inscriptions
Tom Bradley Wing
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Central Library
The Central Library Video Wall is a 28-foot video screen located in the
library
’s Tom Bradley Wing. A component of the S. Mark Taper Foundation
Digital Commons
, the video wall is a space for storytelling—about our community, our institution, and our world. Video Wall content is intended to delight, inform and educate library visitors with compelling visual stories.
Commissioned Work
Historical Portraits Project
In partnership with
StandardVision
, we've produced a series of digital art pieces for the Central Library Video Wall.
This project involved creating cinematic moving "portraits" of Los Angeles historical figures, portrayed by library patrons and community members.
Read more
about this project.
Generative Animations
A series of generative digital animations which draw inspiration from the art and architecture of Central Library, especially the decorative ceiling patterns painted by Julian Garnsey. There are roughly 6 or 7 unique patterned rooms in the Library—each with their own color palette, shapes, and compositions. The generative pattern system is organized as a series based on these various rooms—freeing the ornament from the bounds of ceiling decoration and reintroducing it as dynamic digital content. The final result is a piece that illustrates a systematic approach to decoration, placemaking, and interior design—both new and old.
Learn more
about this project.
Collaborations
Universum
Universum
is the first product of Substrate, a LACMA Art + Technology Grant project by artist Nancy Baker Cahill, which examines the equitable distributive properties of mycelial networks, and how they relate to emerging data-sharing technologies. Substrate connects civic institutions, cultural resources, and data storage systems as a collaborative test case for civic hubs citywide, including the Los Angeles Public Library, LACMA, and Long Beach City College working in tandem, imagining new ways of eliminating barriers to access, of structuring permission, and of producing and sharing knowledge. Using blockchain, Substrate connects these public resources as metaphoric "Mother Trees" with the potential to nourish communities through distributed networks of multi-stakeholder cultural initiatives.
Curated Selections
In addition to original content, the video wall features original art, films, and animation. Current selections include works by the following artists:
WE by Sarah Elgart
Sarah Elgart
is a Los Angeles–based choreographer
and director whose award-winning work spans stage,
screen, and site-specific performance. Her film WE
situates dance in the layered landscape of Venice
Beach, where displacement and scarcity coexist with
affluence. Through a meeting between two men at an
alleyway intersection, the work navigates themes of
belonging, isolation, compassion, and disdain—
painting a portrait of the city’s contradictions and the
human longing that lives within them.
Western Fronts by Rick Silva
Rick Silva
is an Oregon-based artist whose digital media works
explore the aesthetics and politics of the natural world. His film
Western Fronts responds to the proposed reductions of four
U.S. national monuments, juxtaposing sweeping drone footage
of the American West with geometric overlays and a
foreboding soundscape. At once beautiful and unsettling, the
work critiques authoritarian threats to public lands while
reflecting on the urgent intersections of environmental
exploitation, climate crisis, and cultural preservation in America
today.
In Our Time by Jaime Yao
Jaime Yao is a Los Angeles–based digital artist whose
work blends advanced software and generative AI to
craft immersive, human-centered narratives. His short
film In Our Time unfolds over a single night in Barcelona,
following an ordinary volunteer in the International
Brigades. A quiet tribute to solidarity across borders and
languages, the piece reflects on fate, transformation,
and the unseen ecosystems born of sacrifice. Using
emerging technologies as storytelling instruments rather
than spectacle, Yao expands the emotional possibilities
of narrative, illuminating intimate histories and collective
memory in ways that feel both timely and deeply
humane.
Micronaut Odyssey by Wendi Yan
Wendi Yan
constructs speculative epistemologies through
research-driven worldbuilding and metafictional
simulation, using CGI, game engines, and documentary
practices to probe and play with the artifice of
knowledge. Inspired by scientist Michael Levin’s research
in bioelectricity and regenerative biology, Micronaut
Odyssey imagines speculative biological robots with
different shapes and movements wandering in space,
against the backdrop of Martian terrains under a
microscopic lens. Yan’s film visualizes a science fictional
world centering the soft, the living and the microscale
high–tech futures.
The Perfect Mashed Potatoes by Elena Rendina
Swiss-Italian visual artist
Elena Rendina
works across
photography, performance, and animation to create stylized,
intimate worlds that explore the tension beneath traditional
ideals of femininity. Often using her own image, she stages
ironic and uncanny vignettes that subvert domesticity through
hand-crafted sets, costumes, and props made from everyday
materials like bread, pasta, and tablecloths. Her work
humorously reclaims the language of homemaking as a form of
self-expression and critique.
Mountains by Daniel Savage
Daniel Savage
is an artist and animator based in Los Angeles
CA. Daniel’s work is inspired by printmaking techniques,
creating a grid-like structure that brings consistency to organic
forms, often depicting nature with an aesthetic that blurs the
lines between digital and physical. This piece expands on his
Mountains series, exploring the layers and vibrant colors of an
abstract landscape, drawing rhythm from the natural
waveforms of mountains.
Winter by Jamie Scott
Jamie Scott
is an artist and visual effects specialist whose work captures the quiet poetry of nature in transition. His time-lapse films are composed from thousands of meticulously gathered photographs, revealing seasonal change as a slow, immersive rhythm. Scott weaves shifting colors, light, and atmosphere into cinematic portraits of landscapes in flux. His process blends patient observation with technical precision, allowing viewers to experience transformation as both intimate and expansive.
LA Impression by Jaime Yao
Jaime Yao is a Los Angeles–based digital artist whose work blends advanced software and AI to create immersive, human-centered abstractions. LA Impression drifts between clarity and disappearance, rendering the city as something remembered more by feeling than by sight. Familiar structures dissolve into thousands of shifting particles that collapse and rise in gentle, breath-like rhythms. The piece gathers, disperses, and reforms with patient fluidity, inviting viewers into a space of quiet reflection.
Past Artists
The following artists have previously exhibited work on the video wall.
Alice Bucknell
Alexis Jamet
Ana Maria Caballero
Andreas Fischer
Andrew Bryce Myers
Behnaz Farahi
Casey Kauffmann
Casey Reas
Christy Lee Rogers
Dalena Tran
Dan Chen
Danielle Parsons
David Guerrero
Dirk Koy
Enrique Agudo
Johnathan McCabe
Kristen Roos
Leo Isikdogan
LIA
Lifeforms.io
Pascual Sisto
Robert Seidel
Sabrina Ratté
Sandro Bocci
Sasha Stiles
Sean Capone
Teun van der Zalm
Tom Carroll
Yuge Zhou
If you have a comment, question or suggestion related to content on the Video Wall, contact us below:
Español
Kids & Parents
Teens
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How do I get a library card?
How do I get a Student Success Card?
How do I print from my laptop? (wireless printing)
How do I reserve a computer?
How do I renew my books?
How do I update my address/phone/e-mail online?
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ALOUD
Children Chatting
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Read Freely
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California Index
Government Documents
High School Diploma
LAPL Indexes
Behymer Collection Index
Bookplate Collection
Business Magazine Index
Business & Economics Reference Works
California Documents Index
California Fiction Index
California Index
California Prints Index
Casey Fashion Plates
City Directories Index
Cookery Ephemera Index
Environmental Impact Reports
Genealogy & Local History Index
Gladys English
Government Documents - Business
Japanese Prints Index
Library Images Index
Lummis Autograph Collection Index
Menu Collection
Native American Index
Orchestration Catalog
Play File Index
Public Art Index
Series and Sequels
Short Story File Index
Song Index
Theater Program Collection
Toy Movable Database
Turnabout Theater Archive
LinkedIn Learning
Online Learning
Research Guides
Aerial Photographs
African -American Literature (PDF)
African-American Ingenuity
Bilingual English-Spanish Material (PDF)
Census Tract Maps (PDF)
Environmental Impact Reports
Financing New Business (PDF)
Food and Drink
Genealogy
Grants
History of Your House
Holiday Cookery
Job Hunting and Money Guides
Literary Criticism Locator
Map Collection
Maps of Los Angeles
Military and Industry Standards and Specifications
Newspapers
Obituaries in LA County
Philosophy Research
Play Locator
Representative Maps in Los Angeles History and Growth
Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlases
Sheet Music Locator
Short Story Locator
Small Business Research (PDF)
Treaty Research
Vital Records
Student Success
Verify Student Success Card
Tessa: Photo & Digital Collections
L.A. in Focus Videos
Shades of L.A. Oral Histories
Services & Programs
Adult Literacy
Ask a Librarian
Be a Successful Street Vendor
Overview & Permits
Cell-Ed Pathways
Resources & Links
Small Business Help
Book a Librarian
Community Outreach
Cybernauts
Explore L.A.
Homeless Resources
Jobs, Money & Small Business
Memory Lab
New Americans
Octavia Lab & Koreatown Media Lab
Reentry Resources
Reserve a Computer
Seniors
State Park Pass
STEAM
Tech2go
Veterans Resources
Voter Information
Wireless Printing
Neighborhood Science
Events
Adults
Babies & Toddlers
Bilingual Events
Calendar
Celebrations
Central 100 Celebration
Expedition L.A.
Exhibits
Kids
L.A. Made
Seniors
Teens
Locations & Hours
All Branches
Central Library
Departments and Services
Art, Music, & Recreation Department
Business and Economics Department
Children's Literature Department
Computer Center
History & Genealogy Department
International Languages Department
Literature & Fiction Department
Low-Vision Service Centers
Popular Library
Science, Technology, & Patents Department
Social Science, Philosophy & Religion Department
Special Collections
Appointment Request Form
Appraisals
Californiana
Gifts/Donations
Introduction to Special Collections
Mexicana
Photographs
The Special Collections Room Story
Teen'Scape
Directions
Parking
Art And Architecture
Central Library Video Wall
Historical Portraits Project
Goodhue Building
Painting
Public Art Projects
The Literate Fence Quotations
Sculpture
Themes and Inscriptions
Tom Bradley Wing
Central Library Docent Tours
Central Library Virtual Tour
Facility Rentals
Policies
Rates & Occupancy
Holiday Closures
Get Involved
Become a Friend of the Library
Join the Library Foundation of Los Angeles
Make a Donation
Shop The Library Store
Volunteer
About LAPL
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App
Blog
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