P-455a3

signed and dated in graphite lower right “Works from Mohr’s Line Cluster phase (1989-1990) are based on the 5-dimensional hyper-cube, a structure built from a set of eighty lines. A subset of twenty lines, containing four lines from each “dimensional-direction” are chosen from this structure. Each “dimensional-direction” consists therefore of four parallel lines, represented by […]

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 […]

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