Introduction
Verostko exhibited The Magic Hand of Chance in 1982, connecting his established artistic practice with coded generation. It precedes his later plotter work and should be documented as a distinct experiment rather than collapsed into robotic brush painting.
RESEARCH ACCOUNT
The Magic Hand of Chance: work and context
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-02
Work, material and process
His résumé distinguishes the 1982 coded work from the 1987 adaptation of a plotter arm for paintbrushes. The sequence records changes in tools and output within a studio practice, rather than the one-time adoption of a supposedly fixed digital style.
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Historical significance and questions
Editorial interpretation: distinguishing a running program from its material outputs makes it possible to ask where the work resides—in execution, a displayed state or a selected object. The question recurs in later continuously running AI installations.
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Sources for this account
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Continue with a comparative question
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Code-driven brush painting.
Compare the methods, forms of control or presentation contexts of this entry and Memories of Passersby I.
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 1982 · Historical date recorded for the source: 1982
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The Magic Hand of Chance
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Provenance, translation & verification
Archive node #236 · Work and artistic practice
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Date as recorded: 1982
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