Six Millions Spet Cent Soixante-Cinq Mille Teux Cent Une Sainte-Victoire (Six Million, plus one hundred and sixty-five thousand, two hundred and one Sainte-Victoire)

an artist book printed in March 2012, edited by Bernard Chauveau, with an interview of the artist by David Quéré. 250 copies were printed including: 25 copies reserved for the artist and were signed and numbered from I to XXV 5 hors commerce copies reserved for collaborators and were signed and lettered from A to […]

Random War

signed and dated lower right in ink hardware: IBM 7094 output machine: CalComp 565 drum plotter “Featured at the opening at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts ICA in 1968, “Cybernetic Serendipity” was one of the first international exhibitions devoted to the relationship between the computer and the arts. Artists, mathematicians, engineers, composers and poets all […]

Feeding Time

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. […]

Sine Curve Man

signed and dated in ink hardware: IBM 7094 output machine: CalComp 565 drum plotter “Csuri created this revolutionary self portrait known as the first figurative computer drawing done in the U.S. As a fine art professor at The Ohio State University, he used an IBM 7094 considered one of the most powerful computers of the […]

Fidenza #517

signed and dated on the accompanying certificate of authenticity in graphite printer: a local, professional fine-art printing service in Austin, Texas, using an extremely high-quality pigment printer paper: 350gsm Hahnemühle Museum Etching cotton paper Fidenza is by far my most versatile algorithm to date. Although the program stays focused on structured curves and blocks, the […]

Rota – 45

signed lower right in graphite titled lower center in graphite artist’s inkless embossment stamped lower left hardware: IBM 1130 Computer software: FORTRAN output machine: IBM 627 Drum Plotter RCM Galerie, Paris, France label adhered to the back of the frame exhibited in Tendencies 5 in Zagreb, Croatia, 1973

Torus

signed lower right in graphite titled lower center in graphite artist’s inkless embossment stamped lower left hardware: IBM 1130 Computer software: FORTRAN output machine: IBM 627 Drum Plotter RCM Galerie, Paris, France label adhered to the back of the frame exhibited in Tendencies 5 in Zagreb, Croatia, 1973

Elips

signed lower right in graphite titled lower center in graphite artist’s inkless embossment stamped lower left hardware: IBM 1130 Computer software: FORTRAN output machine: IBM 627 Drum Plotter RCM Galerie, Paris, France label adhered to the back of the frame exhibited in Tendencies 5 in Zagreb, Croatia, 1973