»George Boole's "Derivation of the Laws..."« by Roman Verostko | i |
 
creators: Roman Verostko
title: George Boole's "Derivation of the Laws..."
year: 1990
material:

drawing, c., computer-generated

Algorithmic brush and pen ink drawing.

All algorithmic procedures and parameters for the front and end pieces were created and monitored by Roman Verostko. For each brush stroke an interactive brushing routine paused the procedure and requested a brush for the plotter’s drawing arm.

The front and end pieces were pen-plotted in an algorithmic serial edition. Each drawing, “one of a kind”, was drawn or brushed, stroke for stroke with a pen plotter driven by the artist’s software. Two families of form, 125 originals in each, introduce a radically new procedure in “post mechanical” reproduction.

The limited edition of 125 copies, bound in leather, was pulled by hand at the St. Sebastian Press in Minneapolis in 1990. Each copy has original, “one of a kind”, front and end pieces with pen and brush plotted drawings executed in the artist’s studio. Other illustrations were pulled with line cut plates made from original pen plotted drawings. The work was also issued in a reproduction paperback version based on the original type setting and plotter drawings (February 1991, ISBN 1-879508-07-9). The press is no longer active. The artist retains a limited number of copies of each edition.

artwork type: drawing
Description

An illustrated limited edition of Chapter II from George Boole’s(1815-1864) Investigation of the Laws of thought. The code generated illustrations, achieved with Boolean Logic, are visual expressions of “Boole on Boole”.

“In Proposition IV he (George Boole) identified “the fundamental law of thought” as Aristotle’s principle of contradiction – that “it is impossible for any being to possess a

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Locations of originals in libraries & public collections:

Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston. IL, USA
Duquesne University, Pittsburg, Pa.
Minneapolis College of Art & Design
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville, MN
St. Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, PA
Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
ZKM, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.

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