Introduction
Verostko adapted brushes to a plotter arm so that his programs could execute brush paths. The 1987 experiments combine code, apparatus, ink and manual loading rather than eliminating studio labour.
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Code-driven brush painting: work and context
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Work, material and process
His paper distinguishes automatically generated paths from the contemporary need for an assistant to supply the brush, and notes a later self-inking development in 1995. Materials, mechanical adaptation and code all matter. Automation must be described for a particular apparatus and period.
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Historical significance and questions
Editorial interpretation: code does not operate outside material conditions. Brushes, paper and maintenance affect the work. This practice provides a comparison between an artist developing a tool and an artist working within a platform’s supplied controls.
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Date displayed for this node: 1987 · Historical date recorded for the source: 1987
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Code-driven brush painting
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Provenance, translation & verification
Archive node #237 · Work and artistic practice
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Date as recorded: 1987
Epigenetic Painting: Software as Genotype ↗
Epigenetic Painting: Software as Genotype
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