Pathways

In these works the� "all-over" distributions are linear�random walks with numerous iterations.� The text-like inscription is an algorithmically generated visual label

These works were achieved with� routines used in the artist's earliest pen plotted drawings. The procedures grew from his Magic Hand of Chance (1982-85), a work that drew animated linear sequences on a monitor. �Prototypes of these software procedures may be found in forms of automatism practiced by some dada artists and surrealists in the early 1920's. "Automatic" writing� and drawing� sought to explore� unconscious regions of human experience using spontaneous or non-rational methods as�in making a thoughtless "doodle"

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