Jeffrey Alan Scudder

Jeffrey Alan Scudder (born January 24, 1989) also known as Jeffrey Heart or JAS is an American artist, educator, and software programmer who primarily presents his work by giving improvisational lecture performances on picture-making theory. Scudder's work includes elements of performance art, digital painting, new media art, programming, and the making of computational and conceptual instruments that define new approaches to traditional drawing and painting. He has collaborated with the electronic musician Goodiepal and artist Casey Reas.
Work
Scudder has taught at Parsons School of Design and UCLA Design Media Arts (DMA) and has lectured at additional institutions, including Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard University, Yale University, Oberlin College, UC Santa Barbara, Temple University, Rutgers, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Cooper Union, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Jutland Art Academy, Estonian Academy of Arts, Oslo National Academy of the Arts and ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.
The performances have involved live digital painting, chalk talk, and demonstrations of the artist's homegrown software orchestrated with store-bought video game and MIDI controllers. Often with McLuhanesque probes like "Drawing is the best video game" or "Resolution has more to do with behavior than fidelity", Scudder discusses and expands on a variety of topics including resolution, computer literacy, transmediality, drawing, abstract painting, and video gaming. Since 2016 he has used the label Radical Digital Painting (inspired by Radical Computer Music) to refer to both the ideas and artifacts he presents.
Biography
The artist was raised in Assonet, MA and attended Ringling College of Art and Design from 2007-2011 where he studied graphic design before switching to fine arts. During this time Scudder inspired the fictional character "Jeffrey" in the 2009 novella Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin, in which he describes his plan to "break in" to the art world by rollerskating down the spiral-shaped Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan.
In 2013 he earned a Masters of Fine Arts from department of Sculpture.
Scudder worked for the NYC design studio Linked by Air from 2013-2014 before beginning his career as an artist and educator.
Collections
Scudder's software work Ten Minute Painting, based on Eleven Minute Painting (2002) by Tan Lin, is on view as part of the International Goodiepal Collection in the National Gallery of Denmark.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
* 2017 - Tumpin, left.gallery, Online
* 2017 - Imaginary Screenshots, Whitcher Projects, Los Angeles, CA
* 2016 - No Paint: Release One, Essex Flowers (Digital Commission), Website
* 2016 - What do we see when we close our eyes?, SCREEN_, Email
* 2013 - Attn: Trap, Parallelograms, World Wide Web
* 2008 - Open Your Heart To Me, Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL
Group Exhibitions
* 2018 - Radical Digital Painting w/ Julia Yerger, Johannes Vogt Gallery, NYC
* 2018 - OPEN CODES (Schloss Solitude Web Residencies), ZKM - Center for Art & Media, Karlsruhe
* 2017 - drawinghomework.net Presents, February Gallery, Austin, TX
* 2017 - New Dawn, Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin
* 2017 - Coping Copy, Konstanet, Online
* 2016 - Becoming That, becomingthat.com, curated by Levi Easterbrooks, Online
* 2016 - Drawing Homework, Online
* 2015 - VIDEO MIXER, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
* 2015 - P.S.1 Commencement, ALLGOLD @ MoMA PS1 Printshop, Long Island City, NY
* 2015 - RENDER SERIES (3), ALLGOLD @ MoMA PS1 Printshop, Long Island City, NY
* 2015 - Clorox/Envy, STILL HOUSE GROUP, Brooklyn, NY
* 2013 - ‘Toonskin, Artspace, New Haven, CT
* 2013 - APARTMENT SHOW - Hosted by Nouriel Roubini, Nouriel Roubini’s Apartment, New York, NY

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