VOID: The Presence of Absence, Friday May 18th - May 26th

Alejandra Abad, Mark Beasley, Frederick Elms, Joshua Felix, Natasha Fountain, Aaron Henderson, Tiffany Holmes, Aaron Koelsch, Jared Madere, Matthew Nelson Eliza Ryus, Joshua Stanholz, Emily Siefken, Bruno Torquato In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication">communications</a>, a code is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator">rule</a> for converting a piece of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information">information</a> into another form or representation, not necessarily of the same type. In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication">communications</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_processing">information processing</a>, encoding is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process">process</a> by which a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source">source</a> performs this conversion of information into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data">data</a>, which is then sent to a receiver, such as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_processing_system">data processing system</a>. <em>Wikipedia</em> &ldquo;Code is the only language that is executable.&rdquo; <em>Lev Manovich</em> VOID: The Presence of Absence Opening Friday May 18, 2007 In January of 2007, fourteen artists at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago began a fourteen-week investigation of the practice of programming for drawing. According to Whitney curator Christiane Paul, code is the paint and canvas of the digital artist. Yet code transcends traditional mediums because it enables artists to literally create their own tools. VOID: The Presence of Absence exhibition presents a glimpse of the process of learning how to sketch in code. The display of algorithmic drawings includes a series of emulators, or software that generates art using the compositional rules of Giorgio Morandi, Piet Mondrian. Sol Lewitt, and Ellsworth Kelly. Other works include a group of information visualizations and creative responses to depicting time. Please join us for a reception on May 18th from 6-9pm. Exhibition curated by Tiffany Holmes and Matthew Nelson.