Abstract concept art by Jesse Colin Jackson
An Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium lecture co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice and the Department of Geography with Jesse Colin Jackson, Associate Professor, Department of Art, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine
Jesse Colin Jackson explores the architectures we construct—from buildings to landscapes to virtual worlds—through objects and images made with digital visualization and fabrication technologies. In this talk, Jackson will present ten years of creative work that interpret the places we live through the tools (and troubles) of the information age.
About the Artist:
Jesse Colin Jackson is a Canadian artist and designer based in Southern California. His interactive Marching Cubes performances and installations (2016—present) have been featured in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Mexico City, Stockholm, and Tehran. His exhibitions focused on the places we live have been reviewed in The Globe and Mail (2014, 2019) and the LA Review of Books (2021). He was a 2014-15 Hellman Fellow at the University of California, Irvine,and a 2008-10 Howarth-Wright Fellow at the University of Toronto. Jackson is Associate Professor of Electronic Art & Design at the University of California, Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts, where he also serves as Associate Dean, Research and Innovation and Executive Director of the Beall Center for Art + Technology.