Description:

Using software processes of his own design, Jason Salavon generates and reconfigures masses of communal material to present new perspectives on the familiar. Though formally varied, his projects frequently manipulate the roles of individual elements arranged in diverse visual populations. This often unearths unexpected pattern as the relationship between the part and the whole, the individual and the group, is explored.

Salavon will discuss his artwork - including photographic prints, installations, and software projects - as well as his creative process.

Salavon's work has been shown in museums and galleries around the world, and is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among numerous others. He previously worked as an artist and programmer in the video game industry and is currently associate professor in the Department of Visual Arts and the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago.

Presented by the Ordinary Media Research Workshop of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the Department of Art History.