Plottersketch "Skew" from Mark Wilson, created in 1984

BERLIN, GERMANY.- Digital Art Museum [DAM] presents The Algorists – Group Exhibition: Plottersketches of Jean-Pierre Hébert (F), Roman Verostko (USA), Mark Wilson (USA), Manfred Mohr (GER-USA), and Hans Dehlinger (GER), on view through May 19, 2007. Discussions of algorithms, code and the algorists often evoke a wrinkled forehead and blank stares. An algorithm may be best understood as a detailed step-by-step procedure for carrying out a task such as a musical score for singing. The code for singing would be the musical notation. For the algorithms dicussed here, the code would be written in a compatible computer language. All computer programs such as word processors and spreadsheets are algorithms. An algorist is an artist who includes his own original algorithms in the process of creating art. Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19636