[NetBehaviour] Fwd: Harold Cohen "Collaborations With My Other Self" Opens October 27 at gallery at calit2

[Patricia Stone]

Save the date! from gallery at calit2

 *COLLABORATIONS WITH MY OTHER SELF*

*HAROLD COHEN*

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*OCTOBER 27-DECEMBER 9, 2011*

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*Opening Reception Thursday October 27, 5pm-7pm, gallery at calit2*

*Panel Discussion Friday October 28, 12pm-2pm, Calit2 Auditorium*



Harold Cohen, founding director of the Center for Research in Computing and
the Arts (CRCA), was an English painter with an established international
reputation when he came to UCSD in 1968 for a one-year Visiting
Professorship. His first experience with computing followed almost
immediately, and he never returned to London. Cohen is the author of the
celebrated AARON program, an ongoing research effort in autonomous machine
(art making) intelligence, which began when he was a visiting scholar at
Stanford University's Artificial Intelligence Lab in the early 1970s.
Together, Cohen and AARON have exhibited at London's Tate Gallery, the LA
County Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and
many more of the world's major art spaces. They have also been shown at a
dozen science centers, including the Ontario Science Center, the Boston
Science Museum and the Los Angeles Museum of Science and Industry. Cohen
represented the U.S. in the world’s fair in Tsukuba, Japan, in 1985. He has
permanent exhibits devoted to his work in the Museum of Computing History in
Mountain View, CA, and in the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh.



An acknowledged pioneer in relation to computing in the arts, Cohen has
given invited papers on his work at major international conferences on AI,
computer graphics and art technologies, and his work is widely cited in the
literature.



More than forty years of continuous work on and with AARON has significantly
transformed the typical artist/medium—or programmer/program—relationship for
Cohen. One of the few artists ever to have become deeply involved in
artificial intelligence, he began with a strong thrust towards program
autonomy, in the course of which AARON became the only program in existence
to function as a world-class colorist. Today, however, he regards AARON as
collaborator rather than independent artist. The changing states of this
relationship are reflected in the three groups of works in this exhibition:
works on paper made by AARON and presented as "orthodox" editioned prints:
one-off printed images that have then been permanently mounted and
surface-treated to function as "paintings." In the most recent work, AARON
generates "underpaintings" rather than completed images, printing them on
canvas for Cohen to develop by hand. The exhibition also includes a
screen-based version of the program in the exhibition, which continuously
modifies a single image for the duration of the show.



Gallery events are FREE and open to the public.



Please RSVP to Trish Stone, Gallery Coordinator, tstone at ucsd.edu

Media Contact Doug Ramsey, dramsey at ucsd.edu



http://gallery.calit2.net


-- 
Trish Stone
Tour and Gallery Coordinator
Calit2, University of California San Diego
Desk: 858-822-5307
Cell: 858-336-6456




-- 
Trish Stone
Tour and Gallery Coordinator
Calit2, University of California San Diego
Desk: 858-822-5307
Cell: 858-336-6456
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