Frank Mauceri
Frank 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.”
Artist Talk (2020): https://youtu.be/O5qThzYXhCg
Education
1987 - BA Contemporary Art Theory; BM Music Composition, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
1989 - MM Composition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1996 - DMA Composition, minor in Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Artist Residencies
Takt, Berlin, Germany
Agosto Foundation Artist in Residency Program, Tabor, Czech Republic
STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Selected Exhibitions
2019
Be Absolutely Concrete, Hase29 Gallery, Osnabruck, Germany
On the Other Side, Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin, Germany2018
Automatic Writing, Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin, Germany
Above Below Behind Within, Danforth Gallery, August, ME2017
Uberflussig, Unverweslich, Geheim, Tapir Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Another Space, Tapir Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Iteration, Gallery 623, Cambridge, MA
