Travess Smalley is a New York-based artist who uses technology as a means to move drawing, painting, collage and sculpture into and out of the digital realm. He is interested in how code and systems can construct, transfer and disrupt images. Born in Huntington, WV, Smalley studied painting at Virginia Commonwealth University and earned his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2010. His works have appeared in exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, Kunsthal Rotterdam and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and is included in the collections of High Museum of Art and the Hood Museum.
Courses
Fall 2023 Courses
CTC 2011-01 - PROGRAMMING IMAGES
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Computation,Technology, and Culture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
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CTC 2011-01
PROGRAMMING IMAGES
LevelUndergraduate
UnitExperimental and Foundation Studies
Subject Computation,Technology, and Culture
PeriodFall 2023
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Travess SmalleyLocation(s): Waterman Building, Room 33Enrolled / Capacity: 16Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Every art practice is a series of decisions. What happens when those decisions are executed as a script of code? How does an artist's sense of value shift when a hundred images are as easy to produce as one image? As pressure grows on creatives of all fields to "generate content" we can look to contemporary procedural generation models in video games as well as the history of generative systems in art and design to challenge the limits of quick and unique production models.
