Friday Talk
Friday, October 23 at 1pm in the library
Jean-Pierre Hébert: Sketching Scripts, Scripting Drawings
Artist-In-Residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB
Jean-Pierre Hébert (b. 1939 in Calais, France) lives and works in Santa Barbara. From the 70s on, he has pioneered computational drawing and focuses on defining algorithmic drawing processes and translating them into images in traditional and new media. He has been artist-in-residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara since 2003, and has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award in 2006. More details on Hébert can be found here- http://www.sciarc.edu/faculty.php?id=273
This talk is held in conjunction with Jean-Pierre Hébert’s exhibition in the Library Gallery, Drawings as Thoughts.
Friday, October 23 at 1pm in the library
Jean-Pierre Hébert: Sketching Scripts, Scripting Drawings
Artist-In-Residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UCSB
Jean-Pierre Hébert (b. 1939 in Calais, France) lives and works in Santa Barbara. From the 70s on, he has pioneered computational drawing and focuses on defining algorithmic drawing processes and translating them into images in traditional and new media. He has been artist-in-residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara since 2003, and has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award in 2006. More details on Hébert can be found here- http://www.sciarc.edu/faculty.php?id=273
This talk is held in conjunction with Jean-Pierre Hébert’s exhibition in the Library Gallery, Drawings as Thoughts.
SCI-Arc Gallery Exhibition
Opening reception: Friday, October 23 from 7-9pm
deegan day design: Blow x Blow
Blow x Blow stages a bout between two trends in exhibition: the claiming of gallery space by architects, and the ceding of that space to the ambient possibilities of new media. To chart this collision, techniques of cinematic projection and scripting are repurposed to spur new orders of spatial and structural sequencing, and new environments for communing with new art.
In the SCI-Arc Gallery, the initial ‘bounce-line’ scripting, in which a single projection-based vector was allowed to rebound ad infinitum through the space of the gallery, evolved in two more disciplined directions. First, the space of the gallery was reconceived as a 6’x7’x8’ gridded frame, the proportions of which allow a 4:3 televisual image on one face, and a 9:16 cinematic aspect ration on the diagonal. Within this matrix, a randomized 16-part vector path was developed, in which each third vector point was triangulated back to its origin to create a continuous, facetted surface. A ‘braid’ of two of these paths supports two dual-screen projection areas. Rather than simply blacking out the gallery, the spanning surfaces of the vectorpaths create a ‘grey room’ condition in which viewers may see each other, but projected images are shaded from clerestory exposure.
More information on the exhibition can be found here- http://www.sciarc.edu/exhibition.php?id=1393
Joe Day is a designer and architectural theorist in Los Angeles, where he leads deegan-day design llc and serves on the design and history/theory faculty at SCI-Arc. Day's teaching and writing has focused on the themes of exhibition, incarceration, urban studies and the nexus of contemporary art and architecture. More details about Joe Day can be found here- http://www.sciarc.edu/faculty.php?id=42
http://www.deegandaydesign.com/
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Library Gallery Exhibition
Opening reception: Friday, October 23 from 7-9pm
Jean-Pierre Hébert: Drawings as Thoughts
In the SCI-Arc Library Gallery, Jean Pierre Hébert presents recent computational line drawings. These works on paper are the result of a process in seven steps, beginning with the initial thought and progressing through clear vision, concept, desire, coding and calculation. Once the computational has been completed, only a single proof is produced on the ink-jet or the plotter: these are hands-off drawings. More information on the exhibition can be found here- http://www.sciarc.edu/exhibition.php?id=1428
http://jeanpierrehebert.com/
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