P-049/621290 by Manfred Mohr - bitforms gallery

P-049/621290

Plotter drawing ink on canvas51.5 x 51.5 in / 130.8 x 130.8 cm

Mohr's work bridges handmade and machine-calculated art, reflecting a shift from geometric experiments to hard-edge painting by 1967, just before he began using computers for art. His fascination with electronic hardware and circuitry influenced his adventurous use of computers in the late 1960s. In this particular piece, Mohr utilized a FORTRAN program he wrote, creating an alphabet of signs with varying line characteristics. This work, from his early algorithmic phase (1969-72), highlights the "formalism" of the software medium, linking line to language, process, and conceptual systems.

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1964-2011, Réflexions sur une esthétique programmée