Roman Verostko: Illuminated Universal Turing Machine
Artist(s):
Title:
- Illuminated Universal Turing Machine
Exhibition:
- SIGGRAPH 1995: Digital Gallery
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More artworks from SIGGRAPH 1995:
Creation Year:
- 1995
Medium:
- Plotter drawing on rag paper
Size:
- 40 x 30 inches
Category:
Artist Statement:
My work fuses high technology with venerable artistic traditions. Over a period of ten years I have developed software to embody my working style as an artist. With this software, a personal computer, and a multi-pen plotter, I compose worlds of form from randomly generated bits of information. Viewed as “precious objects,” these works are often illuminated with gold to celebrate the computing processes of our “information age.”
For the 1995 SIGGRAPH show – piece the algorithm for a Universal Turing Machine has been plotted and illuminated in a format reminiscent of a medieval manuscript. This algorithm, based on a version presented by Roger Penrose in The Emperor’s New Mind, is a specific number represented with 5,495 binary digits. Presented in the manner of illuminated “scripture” it holds special authority in our information age as the prototype procedure for general computing machinery. The illumination forms were initiated from randomly cast coordinates acting as control points. Gold leaf, applied by hand, emphasizes the controlling generator derived from those control points. This work celebrates the genre of algorithm with which it was made.
All Works by the Artist(s) in This Archive:
- Roman Verostko
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Illuminated Universal Turing Machine
[SIGGRAPH 1995] -
Carnival, Pathway Series
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
Pathway series
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
Heaven and Earth
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
Nested Swallow
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
Diamond Lake Apocalypse: Buddha
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
Scarab Series
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
Folio 700. N.Diamond Lake Apocalypse
[SIGGRAPH 1992] -
Lung Shan II
[SIGGRAPH 1990] -
The Rocktown Scrolls, Black Elk Speaks
[SIGGRAPH 2006] -
Flowers of Learning: “Hortus Conclusus...
[SIGGRAPH 2007] -
Illustrated Limited Edition of George Bo...
[SIGGRAPH 2005] -
Limited Edition of George Boole's "Deriv...
[SIGGRAPH 2005] -
Pearl Park Scripture, George Boole on th...
[SIGGRAPH 2005] -
Twenty-Six Visions of Hildegarde
[SIGGRAPH 2004] -
Gaia Triptych
[SIGGRAPH 2004] -
Cyberf/ower # VII
[SIGGRAPH 2004] -
Cyberflower Duet: Red and Green
[SIGGRAPH 2003] -
Woo Way
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
Illuminated Universal Turing Machine
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
Ezekiel Series
[SIGGRAPH 1997] -
Epigenesis: The Growth of Form (Scale Mo...
[SIGGRAPH 1997]