Basic Information

Title: Feeding Time
Artist(s): Charles “Chuck” Csuri
Date Created: 1966
Unframed Dimensions: 36 x 31 in.
Medium: plotter drawing in ink on paper
Inventory ID: Csuri-1966-06

Description

signed and dated lower right in ink

hardware: IBM 7094
output machine: CalComp 565 drum plotter

The concepts of randomness and chance have influenced Csuri’s art since he began working with computers in the early 1960s. Feeding Time, like Random War, explores the notion of randomness, but uses Csuri’s light-hearted drawing of a common housefly. Through the use of a random number generator, each fly was given a size, an orientation, and a set of landing coordinates within a series of one-inch concentric rings. As noted by Thomas Linehan, this work prefigures much of the current and future work being done in algorithmic control software used to guide robotic systems and the mathematical models to describe the flocking.

 

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