Mike McMann

Join Assitant Prof Jason Scuilla and I as we present the “Non-Toxic Electro-Etching Using Traditional and Digital Intaglio Techniques” demonstration at SGC 2010 in Philadelphia!

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.

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 at the 734 Gallery in Madison, WI.
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