Join us on Thursday, January 23, 7 p.m., for an Artist Talk by Frank Mauceri regarding his work in our Paperwork exhibition.

Mauceri is an artist, composer, saxophonist, and educator based in southern, Maine. His work ranges from digital prints and animations to interactive musical performance. His print work explores generative systems often informed by musical processes. His solo performances, and his collaborations with dancers, singers, instrumentalists, and video artists experiment with digital signal processing and sensor technologies as an extension of the expressive body. Frank studied music composition and art theory at Oberlin College and earned a D.M.A. from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He has taught music and new media in the Music Department of Bowdoin College since 1998. 

As described by the artist: “My work engages the problem of designing systems. I find myself writing computer code that outputs sounds or visuals. I am fascinated by the heuristic potentials of generative systems and I depend on being surprised by the traces they leave. I am often inspired by musical processes and processes of human interaction. 

I notice myself living within systems that I find undesirable. And so, the need for designing systems – analogies to the systems we desire. I want human made systems, rather than system made humans. I am not so concerned with producing images or sounds that I like; my preferences are conditioned by systems already in place. Rather than make the patterns I want, patterns emerge from the systems I want.”