Original Fine Art by Roman Verostko
Now showing several works
at:
Through
the Looking Glass
April 15-30, 2000, Beachwood
Center, Beachwood,
Ohio.
Copyright, 2000. All
rights reserved.
The Manchester Illuminated Universal
Turing Machine
Paper Size: 22" by 30"
Date: 1998.
Original pen plotted
drawing on hot pressed Arches.
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The
Universal Turing Machine in Roman's Manchester series is quoted from Roger
Penrose’ The Emperor’s New Mind (Chapter 2) and consists of
5,495 binary digits. These digits represent an algorithm, in
expanded binary, for a "U". This specific algorithm
holds a special place in the history of computing machinery since
all general computers are Universal Turing Machines. In the tradition of illuminated sacred texts this algorithm is
presented as a valued authoritative text of our own times. The
form enhancements that celebrate the value of the text are generated
with the artist’s code that requires the logic of "U"
for its execution, thus being a form of “Turing on Turing”!
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Two
Thousand Improvisations, #10001
Paper Size: 24” by 40”
Date: 2000.
Original
pen plotted drawing on rag paper
Each
version, in the Two Thousand Scarab series, presents a unique sequence of two thousand improvisations individually
drawn with
pen and ink, line for line, without any repetitions. The two thousand
improvisations are achieved with algorithmic procedures created by the
artist. In this series there are no repetitions and each work within the
series displays a unique set of pen drawn improvisations. The drawings
for each version are penned with a single color mixed by the artist.
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Hildegard Visions, #C
Paper size: 23” by 29”
Date: 2000
Algorithmic pen plotted drawing on rag paper.
This recent series evolved from a procedure the artist
developed in the 1980's as a form of computer automatism.
The original procedure, without the use of symmetries, grew out of the
artist’s earlier work as a painter. The roots are found both in Dada
and in early surrealist procedures such as the
“exquisite corpse”. In the early twenties some
surrealist poets played with nonsense for generating poetry. The
"exquisite corpse" was the random assembly of blind word contributions of its participants.
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