Creativity & Cognition 2009
Berkeley Art Museum & UC Berkeley
CREATIVITY IS PRESENT IN ALL WE DO
The 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference (CC09) embraced the broad theme of Everyday Creativity. This year the conference was held at the Berkeley Art Museum and focused on a series of presentations and performances aimed at addressing what Mihály Csíkszentmihályi has described as creativity [...]
Walker evolving in Detroit
WalkerOne, the simulation, is part of an exhibition at Work Detroit titled Time. The simulation will run for the duration of the show (22,194 generations as of Saturday), collecting data all along that I will incorporate into new animations. Some curious juxtapositions between the simulation and the “real” world occur since WalkerOne is projected onto [...]
Dimensional Figures and Environments: Artists Engaging Technology
Dimensional Figures and Environments: Artists Engaging Technology opened this past Tuesday at the Northern Illinois University Art Museum. The exhibition is really three small solo shows curated by Jessica Gondek of Loyola University Chicago and is part of a larger “suite” of exhibitions and events centered around the theme of art and technology. I’m exhibiting [...]
SIGGRAPH 2009–BioLogic: A Natural History of Digital Life
This year’s SIGGRAPH Juried Art Gallery was titled BioLogic: A Natural History of Digital Life. As chair of the juried art committee, I chose the theme as a way to explore artists’ responses to the increasing significance of digital technologies (socially, politically, personally, ecologically…), but particularly to the collision of technology and nature—the natural world, [...]