Nicolas Reeves (b.1957, Ithaca, NY, USA)
Artist, researcher, curator. Graduated with a BS and MS, majoring in physics, from the University of Montreal, and an MA in architecture in 1998 from MIT (Cambridge). His artistic research explores the basic concepts of order, organization, and information, including various types of coding systems and the possibility of dysfunction. Reeves has created numerous works based on algorithmic systems that develop different kinds of evolving architectonic – formal or sonic structures – continuously, including A Cloud Harp (converting the structure and geometry of clouds into music and audio sequences), The Sixth Diffractal (architectonic systems generated by the evolution of digital biocultures based on J.S. Bach compositions), Computer Architectones (research-creation work investigating the potential of artificial life), Voiles / Sails (flying cubic automata developing collective behaviors), The Garden of Ovelyniers (translating metabolic processes in sound sequences) and Nox Mater (demonstration of the immanence of interstellar space in all places of daily life). His works have been presented in Canada, USA, France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland and Lebanon. He has given lectures at different institutions worldwide, among them: Santa Fe Institute (Santa Fe), Los Alamos National Laboratories (Los Alamos), University Sabanci (Istanbul), the Federal University of Brasilia (Sao Paulo) and the University of Sydney (Sydney). Reeves is currently Vice-President of the Society for Arts and Technology (Montreal), Scientific Director at the Hexagram Institute for Research and Creation in Media Arts and Technologies (Montreal) and Director of the NXI GESTATIO Design Lab for Arts and Professor at the University of Quebec (Montreal, Canada).