Faculty ::

 Recent Faculty Publications

art, computational media, tactical media, interface, gaming, information design, design, performance.

Current projects:

Slightly Sociopathic Software, Emergence

Area of Interest: art
computational media
tactical media
gaming
information design
design
performance.

Casey Alt is an artist whose work explores how interface mediates power and culture. Though primarily engaging in problematics and processes of computational media, his works often span multiple mediums, including software, design, installation, and performance. He is currently engaged in two ongoing projects. The first is entitled Slightly Sociopathic Software™ and involves the creation of a software startup company that critiques the relationship between corporate capitalism and software design in the New Economy. The second project, Emergence, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that foregrounds diplomacy and player collaboration over violence.

Education:

• Master of Fine Arts UCLA 2009
• Master of Arts Stanford University 2006
• Bachelor of Arts Stanford University 1999

Office Hours:

Thursdays from 2:00-4:00p in Smith Warehouse, Bay 12, Room 241.Teaching (Fall 2009):

• Artsvis 173.001, Gaming the system Synopsis

  Smith 228, W 11:40 AM-02:10 PM

• Artsvis 173.01l, Gaming the system Synopsis

  Smith 101, Th 10:20 AM-12:20 PM

• Visualst 192l.001, Virtual form and space Synopsis

  Smith 228, Tu 07:30 PM-10:00 PM

• Visualst 192l.01, Virtual form and space Synopsis

  Smith 228, Th 07:30 PM-09:30 PM

1. Casey Alt. "Objects of Our Affection: How Object-Orientation Made Computation a Medium." Media Archaeologies: Approaches, Applications, and Implications. Edited by Erkki Huhtamo & Jussi Parikka.  (2010).
2. Casey Alt. "Slightly Sociopathic Software." Real Nature is Not Green: The Best of the Visual Power Shows (DVD). Edited by Koert van Mensvoort & Mieke Gerritzen.  (September, 2009). (DVD with over twenty visions of artists, scientists, designers, filmmakers and thinkers who present their powerful imagery, radical ideas and visionary statements on how we can design, build and live in on the nature caused by people. Filmed during the Biggest Visual Power Shows at Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL), Zeche Zolverein (DE) and the Million Dollar Theater in Los Angeles (USA). Among the presenters are Floris Kaayk, Kevin Kelly, Tobie Kerridge, Jack van Wijk, Sunny Bergman, Hendrik-Jan Grievink, Karl Grandin, Casey Alt, Amir Admoni, Jos de Mul, Tracy Metz, Henk Oosterling and many more.)
3. Casey Alt, Owen Astrachan, Jeffrey Forbes, Richard Lucic, and Susan Rodger. "Social Networks Generate Interest in Computer Science." SIGCSE ProceedingsSequencing the Body: Comics, Media, and Embodiment  (March, 2006). [pdf]
4. Casey Alt. "Viral Load: The Fantastic Rhetorical Power of the Computer Virus in the Contemporary U.S. Technoscape." Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft. Edited by Philipp Sarasin. Fremdkörper Special Issue vol. 16.3 (2005): 133-149. [pdf]
5. Casey Alt and Tim Lenoir. "Flow, Process, Fold: Intersections in Bioinformatics and Contemporary Architecture." Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors. Edited by Antoine Picon and Alessandra Ponte.  (2003): 314-353. (Republished in German in Henning Schmidgen, Peter Geimer und Sven Dierig (Hrsg.), Kultur im Experiment, Berlin: Kadmos, 2004, S. 37-81. Reprinted in David Bell & Barbara M. Kennedy (eds.), The Cybercultures Reader, 2nd edition (London: Routledge, 2007).) [pdf]