[ISEA2011] Artist Statement: Roman Verostko – Geometries of the Sublime

Artist Statement

Screen images for “Geometries of the Sublime” transform the poetry of algorithmic pen & ink drawings into a poetry of architectural light.

  • Roman Verostko, a founding member of the algorists, is best known for his richly colored algorithmic pen and brush drawings. Primarily a painter in his pre-algorist work, he also created electronically synchronized audio-visual programs in the 1960s. In the 1970s he followed a course in Fortran at the Control Data Institute and exhibited his first fully algorist work, The Magic Hand of Chance, in 1982. His generative software controls 14 pen plotter stalls achieving exquisite penmanship and expressive brush strokes guiding both ink pens and brushes with plotters. His recent show at the DAM in Berlin, “Algorithmic Poetry”, celebrates nature via visual forms generated with brushes and ink pens driven with his algorithms. Distinctions: 2009 SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement; Artec ’95, Recommendatory Prize, Nagoya, Japan; Golden Plotter Award, Germany, 1994; Professor Emeritus, MCAD, 1994; Prix Ars Electronica, Honorable Mention, 1993; Executive Director ISEA93; Bush Fellow, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, 1970; Outstanding Educators of America, 1971, 1974.

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