His work, along with the early history of EZTV was included in the Getty’s inaugural region-wide initiative; “PST”

In 2014, for the 35th anniversary of EZTV, USC’s ONE Archives and Museum, in collaboration with the City of Santa Monica and LA SIGGRAPH, presented a series of exhibitions, screenings and panel discussions about EZTV. This coincided with USC acquiring some of EZTV’s archives as part of their permanent collection. Artforum hailed one of Masucci’s videos as among their favorites.

Since 2021 he has been experimenting with life-sized, full motion and full-color holography in collaboration with Dr. Gregory Carpenter, the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s iEXCEL facility (which houses the first holographic theater in academia), performance artist Alina Kalinouskaya and choreographer Donna Sternberg.

In 2024 he co-created DNA Festival Santa Monica, a year-long series of exhibitions, panel discussions, installations and live performances. This coincided with the Getty’s region-wide initiative on art & science. One of Masucci’s events, a panel discussion on the canonization of digital art history, was hailed by Art in America magazine as among “The best of PST.” In 2026, Santa Monica College published a book about DNA, with Masucci serving as co-editor and lead essayist. 

Masucci’s art and career have been chronicled in a number of the world’s leading and most respected Digital Art publications, including as cover story of NFT magazine, a profile in Right Click Save, Film Maker, and was asked to write a long-form article on his own and EZTV’s early contributions to digital art for French scholars associated with the Pompidou and commissioned by the French government.

His views on art expanded into a more general, social and philosophical nature have been published in interviews such as in Mobilized News and in a variety of Podcasts (see below). 

He has given guest lectures on his own art as well as the history and work of EZTV include the Computer Arts Society (U.K.), the College Art Association’s National Conference, the Art Historians of Southern California and the LA Breakfast Club.
 
Masucci served for 12 years as a Commissioner on the Santa Monica Arts Commission (including the maximum two terms as Chair), was on the Board of Directors of the Santa Monica Arts Foundation and was Chair of the Santa Monica Public Art Committee, as well as Chair (and founder) of its Media ARTS Subcommittee and Chair of its Bergamot Station Arts Center Committee. He was awarded 6 commendations by the Mayor and City Council for his many contributions to the Arts in Santa Monica.

Masucci, was a founding member of the video art group and alternative theater/gallery space EZTV, and along with computer art historian Patric Prince, created CyberSpace Gallery, one of the world’s first art galleries dedicated to digital art. According to the Victoria & Albert Museum, CyberSpace gallery “literally put digital art of the map. “ This was further recognized as being included in the V&A published book :Digital Art 1960-Prsent, where CyberSpace Gallery is included in the timeline of essential events in digital art history.

Collaborations for which Masucci has served in a principal role have been exhibited internationally, at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), and the American Film Institute (Los Angeles), on commercial television as well as in festivals, galleries conferences and universities.

In 2011, Masucci’s early video art work “Standing Waves” was included in the Getty Museum and Research Center’s massive 60-venue exhibition “Pacific Standard Time” (PST). Additionally, he moderated a panel of leading Feminist Performance Artists, and organized a five-part series of live events, screenings and panel discussions, “Hacking the Timeline v2.0”, as part of PST. The intent of PST is to present in a scholarly manner, the pivotal role that key Los Angeles artists played, post-WW2, in the development of today’s worldwide contemporary art movements.

As a curator, Masucci has staged many dozens of exhibitions and has shown literally hundreds of artists, including many of the pioneers of digital art. His work with noted philosopher/psychologist Dr. Timothy Leary, included a series of live EZTV multimedia performance events- “How to Operate Your Brain”. His other exhibitions include a wide range of artists, filmmakers and thinkers, including Jean Luc-Goddard, Robert Altman, gay activist Michael Kearns and various performance artists. 
 
Fostering “Artist-run Philanthropy”, he has given free use of his exhibition space to a variety of activities ranging from the Los Angeles Psychological Association, to numerous young independent artists.

His work with California Lawyers for the Arts resulted in his film work being awarded a prestigious Cine Golden Eagle, for his production/direction of the PSA “Art Makes Us Human”. He was named twice to A/V Video Producers Magazine’s “Top 100 Producers”, as well as other awards. Grants for which Masucci was a principal collaborator include awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the California Arts Council. Commissions include the Durfee Foundation and the Cultural Affairs Departments of the County as well as the City of Los Angeles and the City of Santa Monica. He and EZTV were commissioned by the City of Los Angeles to create a series of video art documentaries on international artists in Los Angeles. He served s producer and photographer on the documentary “LA Woman”, as well as completed his role as co-director (with Kate Johnson) and co-writer (with Esther Kiss) of the video art project “Double Take.”

He was Director of Photography and Story Consultant for the Emmy-winning PBS documentary “Mia: A Dancer’s Journey.”
 
Earlier in his career, Masucci served as a cinematographer for the Lannon Literary Series, a 32-part series of historical one-hour interview documentaries, directed by Lewis Macadams and John Dorr, on many of the leading living writers and poets of the time Including Alan Gisnburg) , including Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize literary giants . This series is in the collection of many university libraries and appeared on television in Chicago and LA. Masucci also served as Associate producer and Film Editor for the critically acclaimed documentary on filmmaker Robert Altman- “Luck, Trust & Ketchup” which appeared on the BBC, as well as on BRAVO, also screening at Cinematheque Francaise and the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theater.

His directorial stage work in the 1990’s, include an authorized production of the play version of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. He was also asked to direct one of the finalists in the Promenade Playhouse’s New Plays Festival.
 
His musical efforts include guest performances on stages with legendary performance artist Barbara T. Smith, pop artist Kate Crash , and multimedia artist Kate Johnson, Over the years he has composed original scores for Donna Sternberg & Dancers, Zina Bethune & Dancers, and throughout the 1980’s in the performance art/media duo Vertical Blanking. Vertical Blanking’s video, music and performance art received a received a retrospective at REDCAT and at Anthology Film Archives
 
Masucci’s early work has been profiled in a variety of media, including on PBS and the Discovery Channel, as well as in a variety of print media, including the Los Angeles Times, Variety, Artweek and the Hollywood Reporter. His original video art work has been critically acclaimed in a variety of print media, including the LA Weekly, and is in collections including the Institute of Contemporary 
 
Masucci’s writings have appeared in the SIGGRAPH Journal, Computer Graphics Magazine, the Independent Film & Video Monthly, and in several books, including the seminal “CyberArts-Exploring Art & Technology” (edited by Linda Jacobsen) as well as writing the foreword to “Going Digital”.

Massuci’s earliest professional career (in the mid-late 1970’s) was in the New York photographic industry, where he served most notably, as a photo-muralist at Modernage Photographics, working on museum-level projects for photographers, such as Richard Avedon’s historical “Southwest Project”.
 
Masucci has a long-standing history as a social activist and over the years has served on the boards of directors of a number of community-oriented cultural institutions, including Fringe Festival/Los Angeles, Avaz International Dance Theater, Highways Performance Space, Infinite Dreams, as well as on the arts advisory board of the LA Free Clinic. He collaborated with the Emmy-award winning group of environmental filmmakers: “Earth Alert!”

He has served as a judge and/or judging panelist to a number of grants and awards, including the American Film Institute, SONY, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, National/State/County Partnership, 18th Street Arts Center, and the City of Santa Monica’s Art of Recovery Program.
 
He has taught Digital Media at the Otis College of Art & Design, as well as having guest lectured at CalTech, UCLA, University of Helsinki (Finland), Changchun Film Studios (China), Parsons School of Design, University of Southern California, the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), University of Arizona, the American Film Institute, Claremont College, School of Visual Arts (New York), Santa Monica College as well as the major conferences in the field of digital art, including SIGGRAPH, DV Expo, Internet World, ShowBiz Expo, and the Global Entertainment & Media Summit. In addition to speaking at conferences in his own field, he has also spoken at conferences concerning cyber security and transhumanism (see videos below).

Masucci’s earliest career achievements include his tenure at Modernage Photographics, working a a master exhibition mural printer for numerous world-class photographic projects, including the printing of the mural version of Richard Avedon’s Dimona with Elephants, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Masucci is also trained as a mediator, and has a J.D., receiving four CALI Awards in the legal fields of Environmental Law, Professional Responsibility, Remedies, and Business Organizations. He holds certificates in music production, graphic design, cryptocurrency, computer coding, and film production.