Pathway Series, Bird 2

Roman Verostko (born 1929 USA) was one of the earliest artists experimenting with algorithmic art - work created using an algorithm or set of instructions written by the artist - and has been a key figure in its development. He was a member of the ‘The Algorists’, a term coined in 1995 to describe a set of artists, who, since the 1960s and 1970s, had been working with a shared interest in the use of bespoke software for generating art using the computer.

Verostko was one of the first artists to incorporate brush work in his computer-generated drawings, adapting a pen plotter to hold a Chinese brush. This example includes a single plotter-driven brushstroke that uses the same 'gesture' as the numerous smaller pen and ink lines behind it. The three carefully placed rectangular shapes were also created by the pen plotter.