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SITE SANTA FE PRESENTS A CONVERSATION
BETWEEN JOHN F. SIMON, JR. AND JAMES P. CRUTCHFIELD
August 24, 2002
Santa Fe, NM - SITE Santa Fe presents a conversation between John F. Simon,
Jr., exhibiting artist, and James P. Crutchfield, research professor
at Santa Fe Institute. The conversation is part of the ongoing Artists On
SITE series of gallery talks with exhibiting artists, and will be held on
Saturday, August 24 at 5 pm. Admission is free with museum admission.
John F. Simon, Jr., whose exhibition of digital art is on view at SITE Santa
Fe through September 8, 2002, uses cutting-edge computer technology to forge
new ways of making, seeing, and thinking about art. With a dual background
in the arts and computer science, Simon has created drawing software and written
interactive software programs in order to make works of art that reference
art history, systems theory, and digital principles.
James P. Crutchfield is a theoretical physicist whose accomplishments include
the founding of the Art and Science Laboratory, a nonprofit research center
in Santa Fe, New Mexico, dedicated to fostering a dialogue between the arts
and the sciences. Crutchfield's areas of research have included nonlinear
dynamics, critical phenomena and phase transitions, chaos, and pattern formation,
among others. His current interests center around emergence, natural computation,
evolutionary dynamics, the dynamics of learning, and collective cognition.
Simon and Crutchfield both have a strong interest in the nature of self-expression.
Using some of Simon's work as illustration, the conversation will focus on
the creative aspects of computer coding, including the play between code that
creates itself (the internal program on the computer) and the act of writing
code (the author/programmer). A catalogue, designed by the artist in collaboration
with SITE Santa Fe, will be published to document Simon's exhibition. This
full-color catalogue will feature a conversation between Simon and Crutchfield,
a curatorial statement, and installation photography.
John F. Simon, Jr. holds an M.F.A. degree from the School of Visual Arts in
New York, and an M.A. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Washington University,
St. Louis. He lives and works in New York City. James P. Crutchfield received
his Ph.D. in Physics and his B.A. in Physics and Mathematics from the University
of California at Santa Cruz. He is currently a full-time resident at the Santa
Fe Institute.
SITE Santa Fe's Art & Culture series, which includes the Artists On
SITE gallery talks, is supported by Lannan Foundation, LLWW Foundation, Madelin
Coit and Alan Levin, Bobbie Foshay-Miller and Chuck Miller, and Marlene Nathan
Meyerson.
Concurrent with this event are SITE Santa Fe's exhibitions Gary Simmons,
John F. Simon, Jr., and Sarah Morris: Capital, which are on view
through September 8, 2002.
SITE Santa Fe is located at 1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Exhibition
hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 pm; Friday, 10:00 am
-7:00 pm. Admission is $5.00 for adults and $2.50 for students and seniors;
members are free. Free admission is offered on Fridays, made possible by a
grant from The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston. Free guided tours are offered
on Fridays at 6:00 pm and Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 pm. Tours in Spanish
are by appointment. SITE Santa Fe gift certificates are available. Call 505.989.1199
for more information. This announcement is partially funded by the City of
Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers' Tax.
Contact: Press Office
Tel: 505.989.1199
Fax:505.989.1188
email: press@sitesantafe.org
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