UC Berkeley presents “Superconcentrated: Image, Media, Software” with UCLA Professor and artist Casey Reas as part of their ongoing Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium. The event will be held February 24, 2014 and full details are available here.

Abstract:

Within the visual arts, software is a misunderstood medium. It’s dismissed by some and championed by others, but it remains an enigma to most. Certainly, software is the dominant tool for design and production, but it can be more. Will software emerge as the next prominent art medium in the post-photographic world? What is a software studio? What is unique about working with software in the context of the visual arts? How does an artist learn to write software? Casey Reas has written custom software for over a decade to explore visual systems and emergent form. In this presentation, a hybrid of a screening and a presentation, he’ll share a selection from twelve years of work to address these questions.