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Roman VEROSTKO    
 

Biography

Artists statement: Algorithmic Fine Art

Artist, historian, Roman Verostko, was born in 1929 in the coal fields of Western Pennsylvania (USA). In the early 1980's, following 30 years of painting, he began executing algorithmic drawings with a pen plotter. Today his studio includes a network of computers coupled to pen plotters driven with his own original software. By 1987 he created the world's first software driven 'brushed' paintings with oriental brushes mounted on his pen plotter. His studio integrates coded digital procedure with fine arts traditions.

Further details about Roman Verostko are available at http://www.verostko.com

For more information on Roman Verostko's pre-algorithmic work visit http://www.verostko.com/history.html

 

This is an archive of the Digital Art Museum for historical reference.
See dam.org for the current site.

   

MFA, Pratt Institute '61
BA, St. Vincent College '55;
Diploma, Art Institute of Pittsburgh '47;
Atelier 17, Paris (1962-63)

Roman Verostko

Awards / Appointments

1994 Golden Plotter Award, First Prize, Gladbeck, Germany
1993 Prix Ars Electronica, Honorary Mention
1993 Director, Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Art
1968- Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Professor Emeritus, 1995
1985 Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China, Visiting Professor
1970 Bush Leadership Fellow, Visiting Scholar, CAVS at MIT

Murals

1997 Epigenesis: The Growth of Form. Eleven pen plotted units spanning 360 square feet. Frey Science and Engineering Center, University of Saint Thomas, St. Paul Minnesota.
1967-68. Cast concrete reliefs in load bearing walls. Installed in the monastery at St. Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, Pa.; Molds prepared in studio and cast on construction site. Project architect: Tasso Katselas (Pittsburgh).

Art exhibitions related to Electronic Technology include:

Roman Verostko: Algorithmic Fine Art - 20 Years, Arizona State University, 2001
Ars (Dis)Symmetyrica '99, Ernst Museum, Budapest (Hungary), 1999.
Computerkunst 2000, 1998, 1994, Stadtische Galerie, Gladbeck, Germany.
SIGGRAPH:'97; '95; '92; '90; Computer Museum, Boston, '90; Intn'l Tours, '91-92; '95.'97-'00.
The New York Digital Salon, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1993.
Creativity & Cognition, LUTCHI, Loughborough, UK, , 1996.
ARTEC '95, Nagoya, Japan (May-June 1995).
International Symposium Electronic Art, Helsinki '94, Minneapolis '93, Sydney '92.
Genetische Kunst - Kunstliches Leben, Linz, Austria, 1993.
Seoul International Computer Art Festival, Seoul, Korea, 1992.
Dada /Data: Developing Media Since 1970, Maryland Art Place & UMBC, Baltimore, 1991.
The Technological Imagination: Machines in the Garden of Art,Mpls, 1989.
CRASH, Computer Assisted Hardcopy, Wright Museum, 1988.
Psalms in Sound and Image, 1967-68, Synchronized Sound-Visuals; Sites included Marymount Manhattan, N.Y.; Duquesne University, Pittsburgh; Fisk University, Nashville; Loyola University, Chicago.