Casey R Alt, Visiting Assistant Professor of the Practice of Visual Arts and FVD Faculty of Arts of the Moving Image

Contact Info:
Office Location:  Smith Warehouse, Bay 12, Room 241
Office Phone:  (917) 515-4042, (919) 613-6723
Email Address:   send me a message
Web Page:   http://caseyalt.com

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
Teaching (Spring 2010):

  • ARTSVIS 54.01, INTRO. TO VISUAL PRACTICE Synopsis
    Smith 228, F 08:30 AM-11:30 AM
  • VISUALST 194CL.001, INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS Synopsis
    Smith 228, W 08:30 AM-09:45 AM
  • VISUALST 194CL.01L, INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS Synopsis
    Smith 228, W 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
Office Hours:

Mondays, 3:30-5:00
Education:

Master of Fine ArtsUCLA2009
Master of ArtsStanford University2006
Bachelor of ArtsStanford University1999
Research Interests: art, computational media, tactical media, interface, gaming, information design, design, performance.

Current projects: Slightly Sociopathic Software, Emergence

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.

Areas of Interest:

art
computational media
tactical media
gaming
information design
design
performance.

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Casey Alt, Objects of Our Affection: How Object-Orientation Made Computation a Medium, in Media Archaeologies: Approaches, Applications, and Implications, edited by Erkki Huhtamo & Jussi Parikka (Accepted, 2010), University of California Press .
  2. Casey Alt, Slightly Sociopathic Software, in Real Nature is Not Green: The Best of the Visual Power Shows (DVD), edited by Koert van Mensvoort & Mieke Gerritzen (September 15, 2009), All Media (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..)  [author's comments].
  3. Casey Alt, Owen Astrachan, Jeffrey Forbes, Richard Lucic, and Susan Rodger, Social Networks Generate Interest in Computer Science, in Sequencing the Body: Comics, Media, and Embodiment, SIGCSE Proceedings (March, 2006), ACM [pdf] .
  4. Casey Alt, Viral Load: The Fantastic Rhetorical Power of the Computer Virus in the Contemporary U.S. Technoscape, Fremdkörper Special Issue, edited by Philipp Sarasin, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, vol. 16.3 (2005), pp. 133-149 [pdf] .
  5. Casey Alt and Tim Lenoir, Flow, Process, Fold: Intersections in Bioinformatics and Contemporary Architecture, in Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors, edited by Antoine Picon and Alessandra Ponte (2003), pp. 314-353, Princeton Architectural Press (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] .