Computer Assisted Serigraphy #4, Serigraph
Much of my mathematical art falls in the category of computer graphic generative systems. Multiple drawings can be generated by a single computer program. Variations in drawings are, to varying degrees, unanticipated by me. My programs act as one step of a two-step process known as Stochastic, which requires a random component followed by a selection mechanism. In biology the random component is call a mutation and the selection component is environmental conditions.
The Arts Center Corvallis, Oregon
Arrested for Debt from A Rake's Progress, Plate 4, Engraving
The English painter, engraver, and satirist William Hogarth was born in London, where he lived and worked all his life. When he was 10 his family was put in a debtors prison, and this experience provided William with a chance to develop the keen observation of human foibles that he was later to use in his art. At 16 he was apprenticed to a silversmith, and learned to engrave armorial designs on gold and silver work. But his frustrated artistic ambition led him to take up unorthodox methods of self-instruction, which ultimately contributed much to his originality as an artist. He set up in business as an engraver in 1720 and in the following year he produced his first dated engraving, a satire on the government's “South Sea Company” investment crisis.
"Hogarth William (1697 - 1764)." A Biographical Dictionary of Artists, Andromeda. London: Andromeda, 1995. Credo Reference. Web. 11 October 2012.