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just enough chance #24 (2005)
digital print, 30x20 on 33x24in.

algorist's statement

abu abd-allah ibn musa al khwarizmi introduces al-jabr and algorithms (813-833). algorists versus abacists. alan turing formalizes the concept of algorithm and computation with his turing machine (1936). donald knuth's definitions. the algorist group story: hébert coins the term algorist to define their group practice of algorithmic art with roman verostko (1995). original algorists web page. algorithmic art: schools, styles, techniques, systems, methods, concepts. conceptual art / systems art / art and systems: a few algorists among many: michael noll, jean tinguely, vera molnar, manfred mohr, frieder nake, agnes martin, james sienna, francois morellet, max bill, mondrian, malevich, rheinhardt: anyone in fact who invents and uses consistently one or several procedures to compose, construct, produce, create art or to solve art problems.

art and systems

art of extreme robotics

Art, Time and Technology, by Charlie Gere

i finally made a program out of boredom. after all these years i think now that for a long time i have paraphrased schopenhauer.
(ad reinhardt)

creative commons license jean-pierre hébert contact. (09 Oct 2008)