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GAZIRA BABELI BOREDOMRESEARCH EELCO BRAND MARGRET EICHER ELECTRONIC SHADOW GERO GRIES JEAN-PIERRE HÉBERT LAB[AU] HOLGER LIPPMANN GERHARD MANTZ MANFRED MOHR VERA MOLNAR MARK NAPIER NICOLE NICKEL C.E.B. REAS JOHN F. SIMON ROMAN VEROSTKO JAMES FAURE WALKER MARIUS WATZ MARK WILSON ARTWORKS AVAILABLE: HERBERT W. FRANKE QUIDO SEN ANNETT ZINSMEISTER		Profile CV Press/Publications Gallery Exhibitions CLick for more images "Roman Verostko, a founding member of the algorists, has practiced drawing and painting since graduating from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1949. Reflecting on well over a half century of his work he sees continuity between drawing with his hand and drawing with his code, a technique he calls drawing with my “mind-hand”. Since the mid 1980’s all of his algorithmic works are works on paper drawn with pen plotters guided by his original coded procedures. With ink pens and occasional oriental brushes mounted in the plotter’s drawing arm, Roman’s “mind-hand” draws worlds of form he could only dream about in his pre-algorist period." Alice Wagstaff, PhD "My pursuit as an artist My algorithmic work is rooted in the tradition of early 20th Century artists who sought to create an art of pure form. Influenced by the work and writings of artists like K.Malevich and P. Mondrian my work became a lifelong quest for pure visual form. Such work does not refer to “other” reality. Indeed the art form becomes a “new reality”. All of my current work, generated with coded procedures, continues the same quest for “pure form” that seduced the first generation purists and permeated my own pre-algorist work. Transition to algorithmic form generators In 1970, following a course in Fortran at the Control Data Institute in Minneapolis, I experienced the awesome "form-generating" power of algorithms coupled to computing power. Within a decade, with a personal computer in my own studio, I learned to write my own drawing instructions. These instructions, also known as "algorithms", mimed methods I used as an artist in the 1960's. These procedures brought me to a new frontier of visual forms, forms I could never envision without the power of algorithmic recursion driven with computing power. These art forms do not describe or refer to “other” realities - rather they have a visual life of their own. Each one is a new reality. Titles Title sources are arbitrary. Some titles derive from evocative qualities I see in the finished form. Some works remain untitled and are given numbers much like musical compositions. Often works are titled to celebrate a text, commemorate a person, or mark an event. However the art forms themselves are always presented as visual realities to be experienced, similar to the way one might experience a musical form, a flower, or a tree. Meanings. My art reflects coded procedures driving the technologies that shape our culture. Each drawing visualizes the code by which it was generated. With surprising grace and beauty, these visualizations invite us to ponder the power of form-generating code with its seemingly stark logic. By doing so, this art celebrates the mysterious nature of coded procedures that underlie the shape of our evolving selves." Roman Verostko, 2007

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"Roman Verostko, a founding member of the algorists, has practiced drawing and painting since graduating from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1949. Reflecting on well over a half century of his work he sees continuity between drawing with his hand and drawing with his code, a technique he calls drawing with my “mind-hand”. Since the mid 1980’s all of his algorithmic works are works on paper drawn with pen plotters guided by his original coded procedures. With ink pens and occasional oriental brushes mounted in the plotter’s drawing arm, Roman’s “mind-hand” draws worlds of form he could only dream about in his pre-algorist period."
Alice Wagstaff, PhD

"My pursuit as an artist

My algorithmic work is rooted in the tradition of early 20th Century artists who sought to create an art of pure form. Influenced by the work and writings of artists like K.Malevich and P. Mondrian my work became a lifelong quest for pure visual form. Such work does not refer to “other” reality. Indeed the art form becomes a “new reality”. All of my current work, generated with coded procedures, continues the same quest for “pure form” that seduced the first generation purists and permeated my own pre-algorist work.

Transition to algorithmic form generators

In 1970, following a course in Fortran at the Control Data Institute in Minneapolis, I experienced the awesome "form-generating" power of algorithms coupled to computing power. Within a decade, with a personal computer in my own studio, I learned to write my own drawing instructions. These instructions, also known as "algorithms", mimed methods I used as an artist in the 1960's.
These procedures brought me to a new frontier of visual forms, forms I could never envision without the power of algorithmic recursion driven with computing power. These art forms do not describe or refer to “other” realities - rather they have a visual life of their own. Each one is a new reality.

Titles

Title sources are arbitrary. Some titles derive from evocative qualities I see in the finished form. Some works remain untitled and are given numbers much like musical compositions. Often works are titled to celebrate a text, commemorate a person, or mark an event. However the art forms themselves are always presented as visual realities to be experienced, similar to the way one might experience a musical form, a flower, or a tree.
Meanings.
My art reflects coded procedures driving the technologies that shape our culture. Each drawing visualizes the code by which it was generated. With surprising grace and beauty, these visualizations invite us to ponder the power of form-generating code with its seemingly stark logic. By doing so, this art celebrates the mysterious nature of coded procedures that underlie the shape of our evolving selves."

Roman Verostko, 2007

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