Digital'07: Pattern-Finding" exhibition opening reception Feb. 12

Please join us for the opening reception of "Digital'07: Pattern-Finding" on Tuesday, February 12, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc (ASCI) in 2007, and originating at the New York Hall of Science, this exhibition features digital prints by artists, scientists and technologists. "Pattern-Finding" is the first collaboratively sponsored exhibition by the Art & Technology program in the College of Arts & Letters, the Howe School of Technology Management and the Schaefer School of Engineering and Science at Stevens. For more information, please read the press release below.

Digital'07: Pattern-Finding exhibition at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, Feb. 13 – March 10. There is an opening reception in the Babbio Center on Wednesday, February 12, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. The exhibition features digital prints by artists, scientists and technologists. For directions to Stevens, go to

HOBOKEN, N.J. — Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) and Stevens Institute of Technology are pleased to announce the opening of, Digital'07: Pattern-Finding, ASCI’s 2007 version of its annual, international, digital print exhibition that originated at the New York Hall of Science. The show will be held in the Babbio Center Atrium and DeBaun Auditorium at Stevens, February 13 to March 10, 2008. There will be an opening reception in Babbio on February 12 from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.

This international jurored competition with the theme of pattern-finding, challenged artists, scientists and technologists to submit digital prints made on the computer that look at structure and pattern in the universe, whether visible or invisible to the naked eye. More specifically, the exhibition explores how today's scientific fields of systems science, chaos and string theory, fractals, nanoscience, genetics, molecular science, the wavelets or frequency of sound, mathematical data-sets, software programs, and statistical analysis, plus nature itself, are being utilized to create two-dimensional art of provocative and sumptuous pattern.

Of the 116 entrants to the Digital'07 competition, 23 were selected from around the world. Associate Professor Jeffrey Nickerson, Director of the Center for Decision Technologies at Stevens’ Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management, has artwork included in the exhibition. Nickerson’s poster was based on his work on genetic optimization.

The exhibition will also feature work from James Ambrogi (Pennsylvania); Elizabeth Bajbor (Warsaw/Poland); Paul Barrington (Tasmania/Australia); David Bookbinder (Massachusetts); Willa Davis (Michigan); Helen Ferry (New South Whales/Australia); Lis Fields (London/UK); Mark Fischer (California); Peter N. Gray (Chicago); Laura Hewitt (Alaska); Cesar Hidalgo (Connecticut); Sung Dae Hong (Seoul, South Korea); Terry Monaghan (Georgia); Gongbing Shan (Alberta/Canada); Cliff Singer (Las Vegas); Victoria Skinner (Florida); Mark Stock (Massachusetts); StarLight Tews (Wisconsin); Charles Thurston (San Francisco); Zach Vitale (Massachusetts); Lorraine Walsh (North Carolina); and Yvan Rebyj (Saint Florent/France).

The selection process was a collaboration of art and science. JD Talasek, director of Exhibitions and Cultural Programs at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington , D.C. and Cynthia Pannucci, founder/director of Art & Science Collaborations, made the tough decisions based on the criteria of concept, unique sources and aesthetics of pattern.

As Talasek states as part of his juror statement, “The creative practitioners represented in this exhibition only just begin to scratch the surface of the almost unfathomable potential provided by digital technologies to mediate traditional patterns and to discover new ones. In these works, nature is rediscovered; the spiritual path of the Mandala is resolved visually with that of modern psychiatry; and new data-sets, never before imagined, offer the artist a new vocabulary. Visual culture, once again, provides a platform to consider the intersections between technology, science, and culture.”

And in her juror statement, Pannucci makes a prediction when she says, “I found myself seduced by images of sumptuous repeats with many visual layers of exquisite details. In the end, I believe this created a natural counterpoint to those artworks with strong and provocative conceptual frameworks that captured the attention of my co-juror, thus providing two different perspectives that often converged. I predict that pattern-finding will become a highly developed, lively, interdisciplinary artistic genre in the 21st century, at a time when its scientific utilization is rapidly increasing.”

This event is the first collaboratively sponsored exhibition by the Art & Technology program in the College of Arts & Letters, the Howe School of Technology Management and the Schaefer School of Engineering and Science.

For more information, please visit the Digital'07: Pattern-Finding online exhibition http://www.asci.org/artikel910.html

For more information please contact:

Julie Harrison
Artist-in Residence, Art & Technology
Morton
Room 208
Phone: 201.216.8583
Fax: 201.216.8245
jharriso@stevens.edu