Nickerson’s artwork included in Digital ’07: Pattern-Finding exhibit
Stevens professor based poster on his genetic optimization work
HOBOKEN, N.J. — Associate Professor Jeffrey Nickerson, Director of the Center for Decision Technologies at Stevens Institute of Technology’s Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management, will have artwork included in “Digital '07: Pattern-Finding,” the 9th Annual International Exhibition of Digital Prints. The exhibition runs from October 6, 2007 to January 27, 2008, with an Art ist Reception on October 27, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., at the New York Hall of Science, Queens, N.Y. This event is organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI). Nickerson’s poster was based on his work on genetic optimization.
The annual digital print exhibition is an international jurored competition. This year's theme, "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, this 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, Nickerson was one of 23 who were selected from around the world. The selection process was also 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 Mr. 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 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.”
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