Carl Bass

Instagram: carl.bass

Website: http://www.carlbass.com

Bio: Carl Bass was born and raised in New York City. He attended Cornell University where he took 10 years to get an undergraduate degree in math. About half of those ten years was spent designing and building things and working as a whitewater river guide. After college, Bass started a software company called Flying Moose Systems and Graphics Ltd, which was later renamed Ithaca Software and eventually sold to Autodesk. Bass spent much of his career at Autodesk in a variety of roles working on computer graphics, animation and modelling software. Bass retired in 2018 to pursue his interests in designing and building software and physical artifacts

Statement: I am mainly interested in exploring various forms and the relationship between computers and art. About ten years ago, I was working with a group of people and we imagined how art and design could change as the cost of computing fell dramatically and there was infinite computing available to explore new ideas. The three chairs in this exhibition were the result of generative software we wrote. We were interested in seeing if we could use this software to generate new forms rather than merely document old ones.