Sculpting Time Conversation: Nicolas Reeves
The Time-Based + Media Art area presents Sculpting Time, a new series of conversations for members of the WashU community, featuring invited media artists, composers, and researchers who work with and investigate time. Curated by associate professor Monika Weiss, the series is inspired by the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky’s notion of “sculpting in time” and his book of the same title.
The second invited speaker is Nicolas Reeves, an internationally recognized artist and researcher, as well as a professor at the School of Design at the University of Quebec in Montreal. In his lecture, Reeves will discuss his research into substituting space for time in musical composition and investigation of the potential of space-based generative systems for spectral music. A Q&A will follow.
About Nicolas Reeves
A graduate of Plymouth and MIT, trained in architecture and physics, Nicolas Reeves is a creator-researcher at the School of Design at the University of Quebec in Montreal. His works, which pertain to the field of science-art/technological arts, are characterized by a highly poetic use of science and technology. He was the founding member, then scientific director of the Hexagram Institute (2001-2012), as well as vice president of the Montreal Society for Technological Arts for 10 years. He now heads the NXI Gestatio Design Lab, which explores the impact of digital technologies in all fields related to creation. Several of his works have had a major media and public impact, including Cloud Harp, Aérostabiles (flying cubic automata capable of developing autonomous behaviors) and Point d.Origine (transposition of major architectures in music). The winner of several awards and grants, he has presented his work and given lectures on four continents.