Opening Reception: Friday, 07.24.09 7-9pm

Exhibitors: CRABstudio Architects, Eric Owen Moss Architects, Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Morphosis Architects, and Zaha Hadid Architects.

Exhibition Symposium: Wednesday 08.05.09 at 6:30pm
“L.A. in Wien/On the Couch” with Hitoshi Abe, Peter Cook, Thom Mayne, Eric Moss, Peter Noever, Wolf Prix, Moderated by Anthony Vidler

Graduate students present their final thesis projects.

Exhibition discussion TBA

Jean-Pierre Hebert (b. 1939 in Calais, France) lives and works in Santa Barbara. From the 70s on, he has pioneered computational drawing and focuses on defining algorithmic drawing processes and translating them into images in traditional and new media. He has been artist-in-residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara since 2003, and has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award in 2006.

Hebert has exhibited his work internationally at institutions including The Brooklyn Museum (New York), The Kiasma Museum (Helsinki, Finland), The Block Museum at Northwestern University (Chicago), and The Tweed Museum at University of Minnesota (Duluth), and at independent venues including the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Arizona State University Computing Center (Tempe), and the San Luis Obispo Art Center, at galleries including Galerie Alphonse Chave (Vence, France), SolwayJones Gallery (Los Angeles), and DAM (Berlin), and at conferences including Isea, Siggraph and Imagina.

Hebert has coined the word Algorist and founded the Algorists group with Charles Csuri, Manfred Mohr, Ken Musgrave, Roman Verostko, Mark Wilson. His work is present in collections including The Victoria and Albert Museum (London), The Brooklyn Museum, The Getty Research Institute, The Block Museum, and the Tweed Museum.

http://jeanpierrehebert.com/