Intersections - Nguyen Dang Binh

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Hans Dehlinger
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26 inches x 22 inches
Algorithmic image, plotter drawing, gel pen on paper
ARTIST STATEMENT
My focus of interest is experimenting with the algorithmic generation
of pen-plotter drawings. I wrote a program to realize a conceptual
idea for a drawing, and it demanded all the strictness and logic
common to computer programs. It also strongly contributes to
the clarification of the conceptual idea. later, it may use additional
processes drawn from other software programs.
To write a program for the purpose of generating a piece of art is
pure luxury, and it is a highly enjoyable personal experience. Such a
program does not solve a pressing problem, no client is waiting for
code, nobody is interested, there is no real purpose, it is serious and
challenging, but it is intimately connected to pleasure, nothing but
pleasure.
I make use of a number of programming languages, some of them
running on very old computers, some of them still running on my
Macs. Programming languages die, computer systems die, and the
peripheral computer device I love most, the pen-plotter is already
dead or almost so. But its high potential for realizing drawings of all
types have not nearly been fathomed before it was replaced by printing
technology. The plotter uses strings of HPGl code, which, in the
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CONTACT
Hans Dehlinger
Univeresität Kassel, Kunsthochschule
Stiegelwiesen 3
D34132 Kassel, Germany
dehling@uni-kassel.de
most simple case, are coordinate pairs that provide the commands
pen-up and pen-down. It was a most irritating experience recently,
after many years of serious programming, to be able to produce one
of my drawings with a sort of program that consists only of a few
successive search-and-replace statements applied to a list of
coordinate pairs in a standard word processor.
The simplicity of the line and its indefinite richness of expression
in drawings are fascinating, even more so when the design of the
drawing is based on strict rules of generation.
TECHNICAl STATEMENT
The generative process is programmed to leave larger areas toward
the center of the image empty. The blurring is deliberately produced
by minor scaling operations. The image is part of a series of experiments
with unsharp boundaries.