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Roman Verostko - Artist talk and presentation
13 October 2009
At: Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street, Brighton BN1 4AJ
Doors & Bar: 6:30pm
Artist Talk: 7pm
FREE
We are pleased to host a presentation by acclaimed digital artist Roman Verostko who has recently been honored by ACM SIGGRAPH* with a Distinguished Artist Award for a Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art. Best known for his computer generated pen and brush drawings, Verostko will be presenting audiences with an overview of his seminal algorist work and his pioneering contribution to the development of digital art over the past thirty years.
In 1982, Roman added digital imaging to his already established career as an artist with his animated Magic Hand of Chance. By 1986, Verostko was creating innovative drawings made up of layers of elegant lines created by pen plotters programmed to draw richly coloured and beautifully intricate images. This process was founded on the use of algorithms to set a series of rules for a computer to follow in order to guide up to fourteen pens at a time. His later introduction of oriental brushes to the computer driven plotter in 1987 enabled Verostko to create images made up of expressive brush strokes.
For his talk at Lighthouse, Verostko will outline the sources that have dominated his pursuit as an artist for over the past sixty years. He identifies “form generating” ideas from pioneers of non-objective art that shaped his pre-algorist work and have continued to shape his approach to algorithmic art. His presentation illustrates the transition from what he calls “art-mind guiding hand” to “art-mind guiding machine”. By doing so he suggests that the “decision bit” and one’s art ideas are inseparable. For this session he will include a brief addendum on his 2008 project, the Upsidedown Book and Mural for which he resurrected pre-algorist drawings and transformed them with digital tools (upsidedownbook.com).
* NEW ORLEANS, July 28, 2009 – Recognizing the intersection of arts and computing, ACM SIGGRAPH, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques: www.siggraph.org
For more information on Roman Verostko see: www.verostko.com and
www.algorists.org
For more information about ACM SIGGRAPH see: www.siggraph.org
  
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