Mike McMann

I have recently been awarded University Small Research Grant (USRG) award to assist in covering the costs of travel, lodging, and materials toward a research trip slated for next summer. I am currently investigating growth processes and emergence in the built environment, in particular, the correlation between urban growth and biological processes including Cellular Automata, Lindenmayer systems and Brownian motion. I create digital models of urban environments generated by programming that is based on these systems and from them derive videos, prints, and drawings for national and international exhibition. The research trip outlined below will allow me to collect photographs, video and drawings from the field as well as collect images and texts from archives to be used in the creation of these models and ultimately the artworks themselves. My department is excited about this work, and has thus far contributed funding for materials toward this endeavor.

New KSU Art Department Site

I’m in the process of dredging up faint memories of mathematics, weird symbols and languages that I haven’t looked at in a serious way, since high school.

As part of my Residency, I gave a talk about my work to a group of students and faculty at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Solo show featuring 12 new prints and a video installation. The work featured here was completed over the summer as Artist-In-Residence in the Graphics Area at the Department of Art at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Continue more or view the gallery below.

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Ive got a video/animation piece on display at the Satisfaction Town exhibition. You can view the video in it’s entirety here and you can also see it in action during a performance at the opening.

I’m here in lovely Chicago Illinois for the annual Southern Graphics Council Conference. The 2009 Global Implications Conference features exhibitions, demonstrations, lectures, panel discussions, private collection viewings, and special events at over 40 locations around Chicago.

Developed site for Univeristy of Madison – Wisconsin.

UW-Madison Student Jobcener Website

Solo show at the 734 Gallery in Madison, WI.
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