A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.

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Lee Blalock

Associate Professor

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Education: BS, 1994, Spelman College, Atlanta; AA, 1999, Bauder College, Atlanta; MFA, 2011, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibitions and Performances: "[Dis]position" (In Kepler's Gardens), Ars Electronica; "not in, of, along, or relating to a line" (group exhibition), NYU Abu Dhabi; "Unsettling Time" (group exhibition), the wrong biennale; "a2p" (group exhibition) online artist-to-artist trading system; "Refiguring the Future" (group exhibition), Hudson Gallery, NY; "I Sing the Body Cybernetic" (solo exhibition), Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago; "Tag: Proposals on Queer Play and the Ways Forward" (group exhibition), ICA, Philadelphia; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Elastic Arts, Chicago; "Neue" (Solo Exhibition), Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Art Gallery of Mississagua; Leitmotif/Nuit Blanche, Toronto; Chicago Public Access Television; ExTV; Kepco and Gallery Dot, Ulsan, South Korea; Le Flash!/Nuit Blanche, Atlanta; Baldwin Burroughs Theatre, Atlanta; Mint Gallery, Atlanta; Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta; Alliance Theater, Atlanta. Publications: Neural Magazine; Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture; ats@50: Art and Technology Studies 1969-2019; Neue An4t0_M3 Vol.1; Conduit. Bibliography: ASAP Journal; Cacophony Magazine. Podcast Interview: "Art and technology forging the future", The National Podcast.

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Description

This is a studio course that will make use of vintage technologies available through the ATS Retro Lab. Students will learn early programming languages for use on some of the first home computers while deepening their study of creative computing. Students will also have access to early 1970s synthesizers and image processing systems to combine techniques and create multimedia projects throughout the semester. No programming skills are necessary, though experience with newer programming languages will only enrich your understanding of the content.

Lectures and discussions will be based around topics in software studies and the history of computing. The text '10 Print CHR$(205.5+RND(1));:GOTO 10' will ground us in our discussions and some of the scholars/artists we will study include Nick Monfort, Sonia Sheridan, Vera Molnar and Casey Reas. Students should expect to produce weekly programming sketches, a mid-term, and a final project.

Class Number

2226

Credits

3