Basic Information
Artist(s):
Title:
P-148 Inschrift (Inscription)
Medium:
Surface Size:
19.5 x 19.5 in.
Framed Size:
26 x 26 in.
Date Created:
1973
Inventory #:
Mohr-1973-01
Description
signed and dated lower right
The drawing is constructed from a series of 2 horizontal solid lines spaced a distance apart. Between each pair of lines, a third line is broken up into short equal length pieces and a random sequence of 0’s and 1’s decides the position of each piece.
For each short line if it’s random number is 1, it is drawn at the bottom of the top line and if its random number is 0, it is drawn at the top of the bottom line.
As an aesthetic decision, not to start or end with a solid horizontal line, the surface is treated as a torus. Thus the top and bottom of the drawing have complementary short lines (as described above). The original version of the program, also from 1973, did not have this – i.e. the surface was treated as a flat plane.
Detail images of the work
signed lower right in graphite titled lower center in graphite numbered E.A. lower left in graphite artist’s name, date, and program title printed within image lower left provenance: from the Grace Hertlein Collection and Archives
signed lower right in graphite numbered E.A. lower left in graphite artist’s name, date, and title printed within image lower left provenance: from the Grace Hertlein Collection and Archives
signed lower right in graphite numbered E.A. lower left in graphite provenance: from the Grace Hertlein Collection and Archives The portfolio was commissioned by Systems Dimensions Limited, an early Canadian computer services firm, in 1973 as a way of promoting computers not only as a tool to expand industrial and administrative efficiency, but also as […]
signed and dated lower right in graphite numbered E.A. XIV/XXX lower left in graphite provenance: from the Grace Hertlein Collection and Archives Random points chosen within a circular area of each square are linearly transformed to each of square’s 4 sides and densely to its center point. Details: http://emohr.com/sc69-73/vfile_112.html A work from this algorithm was […]
