Tuesday, February 3, 2009

'Sustainability Spurs Innovation in Everything' C.E.B. Reas lecture at Gallery 400 (2/17). On Tuesday, February 17, Los Angeles-based artist C.E.B. Reas will speak about his work as part of Gallery 400's Spring 2009 Voices Lecture Series + Design Lecture Series: "Sustainability Spurs Innovation in Everything." Media artist Reas makes both conceptually and perceptually driven works that explore process and abstraction. His installations, photographs, video and interactive works are informed by systems theory, biology, artificial life, and information patterns. In 2001, Reas and designer Ben Fry initiated Processing.org, an open source programming language and environment for creating images, animation, and interaction. This ongoing project is documented in Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists (MIT Press). Reas has exhibited and screened his work internationally in galleries and museums including P.S.1, New York; Institute for Contemporary Art, London; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston; Laboral, Gijon, Spain; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; and the National Museum for Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo. He is associate professor and chair of Design | Media Arts at UCLA. His lecture is presented in collaboration with Interactive Arts & Media at Columbia College. The Voices Lecture Series hosts artists, designers, architects, critics, curators and art historians at the leading edge of artistic discourse. All lectures are on Tuesday at 5pm inside the Gallery 400 lecture room at 400 S. Peoria Street. Admission is Free By  (christa). [ArtSci Chicago] 8:12:09 PM

Don McLean: Buddy Holly was a genius --- Singer-songwriter Don McLean's hit song "American Pie" called the 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson "the day the music died." The following is based on a tribute McLean wrote for a book by Alan Howard: "The Don McLean Story: Killing Us Softly With His Songs" and on an interview with CNN.com. --- Don McLean: Buddy Holly was a genius. Of all the unique oddities of my career, I am perhaps proudest of the fact that I am forever linked with Buddy Holly. [CNN.com - Entertainment] 8:09:49 PM