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John Maeda (US)

Brucknerhaus
07.09. to 11.09. from 10:00

John Maeda develops software to realize his conceptualizations of new forms of visual expression. For example, the contents of a packet of salt are strewn on the glass screen of a scanner and a series of scans is made of them. Then, his custom-developed software determines the number of salt crystals (approximately 70,000). In this way, images of everyday objects are broken down into pixels and formed into optically new works of art. Art as code.

John Maeda (USA) is Muriel Cooper Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Maeda’s early work redefined the use of electronic media as a core material for expression by combining skilled computer programming with sensitivity to traditional artistic concerns. Maeda is author of two books: Design
By Numbers
, and MAEDA@MEDIA. Maeda’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and was the subject of two simultaneous one-man shows at the California College of Arts and Crafts Logan Galleries in 2000.

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