“what is the signature of the artist when compared to the gesture of the machine?”
— brad borevitz
pen plotter drawings
prints are drawn with a pen plotter from instructions generated algorithmically using computer programs written by the artist brad borevitz.
the pen plotter at work
the computing machine is a thing that can write according to what it reads
[anthropomorphic Turing Machine illustration from 1955]
14 x 11 inch pen plotter drawing: ink on paper.
the algorithm which produced this work is a simulation of a gravitational field. the image shows the trace of the movement of particles under the attractive and repulsive influence of massive bodies. there are 13 masses and 1968 particles represented here.