Inside it Opens Up As Well

signed, dated, and numbered 14/25 lower right in ink hardware: iPad and stylus software: Apple Brushes app output machine: inkjet printer The iPad Drawing prints are created via a touchscreen application (Brushes) from a file exported from Hockney’s iPad as an editable image file to the studio computer. From there we enlarge using image editing […]

72 Hours (from the Teotwawki Series)

signed, titled, dated, and numbered 1/8 on the reverse of the frame in graphite excerpt from the artist’s website regarding this work: “The title for this series is a well-known acronym within survivalist communities, standing for The End Of The World As We Know It, generally referring to an unknown but all-encompassing threat. 72 Hours is […]

Computer Nude (Studies in Perception I)

artist’s names, date, and copyright printed lower right Computer Nude (Studies in Perception I) is the most widely circulated early artwork made using a computer. It demonstrates the unique capacity of the viewer’s brain to interpret a composition of abstract symbols grouped to emulate areas of tonal value as a human figure. Leon Harmon, a researcher in cognitive […]

Plastik 1 (Sculpture 1)

Computergrafik MIT (image created with) Siemens-System 4004 printed lower right gezeichnet mit (draw with) ZUSE-Graphomat printed lower right This serigraph was created from the design for a sculpture that Nees produced using a machine that could mill, or cut, a 3D shape. The machine followed the computer calculated image as a guide. The artist used […]

Tamahagane

excerpt from the artist’s website regarding this work: “What appears in these paintings as free form linear abstractions are also actually pages of text, reference materials and poetry transformed by hand, line by line using digital tools into the final artworks. That gives them a hidden time based reality, so that if you could run […]

Nested Swallows Version I

signed and dated lower right in graphite artist’s seal printed in red ink middle right margin description from direct communication with the artist: “Shown at SIGGRAPH in 1997 this work was part of my “Struggle” series that was first shown at Artec’95 in Nagoya Japan. The characters are non-rational strokes generated with coordinates that control […]