Roman Verostko
Minneapolis, USA
About this artist
Roman Verostko (September 12, 1929 – June 1, 2024) was an American artist and educator who created code-generated imagery, known as algorithmic art. Verostko developed his own software for generating original art based on form ideas he had developed as an artist in the 1960s. His software controls the drawing arm of a machine known as a pen plotter that was designed primarily for engineering and architectural drawing. In coding his software Verostko conceives of the machine's drawing arm as an extension or prosthesis for his own drawing arm. The plotter normally draws with ink pens but Verostko adapted oriental brushes to fit the drawing arm and wrote interactive routines for achieving brush strokes with his plotters. In 1995, he co-founded the Algorists with Jean-Pierre Hébert.
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- “Somewhat of Roman Verostko's work, who's recently passed away.”WATCH1:02:36
Colin Goldberg · Salon 97 · August 7, 2025 - “Who's A pretty important artist, I would say, quite an important artist in the context of this group, particularly by the name of Roman Verostko.”WATCH12:35
Colin Goldberg · Salon 83 · June 6, 2024 - “You know, and so, and, you know, Roman Verostko is 93.”WATCH1:22:13
Patrick Lichty · Salon 47 · July 6, 2022
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- “And I met this guy named Roman Verostko.”WATCH39:01
Patrick Lichty · Salon 37 · February 16, 2022 - “Roman Verostko is one of the artists well known for plotter drawings.”WATCH49:26
Colin Goldberg · Presentation 9 · February 24, 2021 - “… influenced by Kandinsky but one of the big things that really split is that when I started working with what Roman Verostko an artist in Minneapolis would call algorithm in other words using code to kind of work with the notion of …”WATCH27:35
Patrick Lichty · Salon 9 · January 19, 2021
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