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The Department of Digital Arts will present the panel discussion
“Code and the Artist’s Mark,” featuring digital artists Jean-Pierre
Hbert, C.E.B. Reas, and Camille Utterback on Wednesday, March 5, from
12:30 to 2:30 PM on the Brooklyn campus. The panel will be located in the
ARC Building, E-2 Lecture Hall, Lower Level. The event is free and open
to the public.

Hbert, Reas, and Utterback are all represented in the Pratt Manhattan
exhibition “Impermanent Markings,” on display at Pratt Manhattan Gallery
from March 7 though April 17. The exhibition focuses on work in ephemeral
media such sand, fire, earth, water, code, motion capture, performance,
and video. Linda Lauro-Lazin, adjunct associate professor, Digital Arts,
and curator of “Impermanent Markings,” will moderate the panel.

Jean-Pierre Hbert pioneered the creation of conceptual drawings based on
original code proofed by computer-driven devices. He produces
algorithmic, lyrical and spiritual works on paper, on sand, visual music
and installations. His work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and
has achieved international recognition. Hbert is currently Artist in
Residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at U.C. Santa
Barbara and has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner grant.

C.E.B. Reas is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He focuses
on defining processes and translating them into images. He is an
associate professor and chair of the department of Design | Media Arts at
the University of California, Los Angeles. With Ben Fry, Reas initiated
Processing.org, an open source programming language and environment for
creating images, animation, and interaction. In September 2007, they
published Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and
Artists, a 736 page comprehensive introduction to programming within the
context of visual media (MIT Press).

Camille Utterback is an internationally acclaimed artist whose
interactive installations and reactive sculptures engage participants in
a dynamic process of kinesthetic discovery and play. Her work explores
the aesthetic and experiential possibilities of linking computational
systems to human movement and gesture in layered and often humorous ways.
Her work focuses attention on the continued relevance and richness of the
body in our increasingly mediated world. Utterback received a Masters
degree from The Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York
University’s Tisch School of the Arts.