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About

Artist, composer, and teacher, Frank Mauceri, lives and works in southern Maine. His creative projects focus on generative and interactive systems. His work includes audio art, video, prints, and performances. He has written about the effects of technology on music and the arts. He studied music composition and art theory at Oberlin College, and earned a doctorate in composition at the University of Illinois. He teaches music and new media at Bowdoin College.

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Artist's Statement

I work to create processes, leaving traces I don’t yet recognize.

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Beyond their mere existence, these traces invite me – and, I hope, others –
to discover and invent
the sense or meaning they have,
in the context of the processes that left them.

 

I depend on surprise and disorientation, both in the course of making work
and in my encounters with the finished results.

 

Frequently inspired by musical processes,
most structures I develop are informed by my work as a composer.

 

I am drawn to systems that organize materials at every scale –
where the logic of local actions accumulate to form large scale structure.

 

Rather than make the patterns I want, patterns emerge from the systems I want.

 

I use the computer as a tool for stipulating procedures and constructing systems,
while leaving marks that refer to, and resist the gestures of drawing.

 

I observe myself, living within systems,

many of which I name undesirable.

Struggling to find meaning, in the consequences of those systems,

I compose processes.

Processes composed offer analogies to alternative versions of ourselves;

societies we don’t yet recognize,

(but perhaps worthy of our desires).

Traces left might be taken as their artifacts.

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