Automatist Human Drawings are free improvised, semi-conscious drawings created with Pigma Inks on paper. They reflect associative imaginary spaces, lines, forms, and rhythm. As I was drawing these, I was enjoying the fictitious narratives that were coming to mind reflecting an interest in communication and interaction.
They are part of an ongoing practice I have had for 30 years, often as a relaxation from more technical art pursuits.
After I created 73 of these drawings, I made them into a digital coloring book for further development and the addition of color.
The works are on display at the Urban Arts Space in Columbus, Ohio, in 2019.
Automatist Robot Drawings 2010 are from custom drawing robots invited and commissioned by the Universidad Tres Febrero in Argentina in 2010 — created on-site in Argentina by deconstructing and reconstructing bump and turn robotic toys.
I attached pens and allowed gravity and the constraints of a gold frame to limit their wanderings in these mindless machine automatist drawings. At the exhibition at the UAS, t was fun to juxtapose these robotic drawings with more imagistic approaches to human drawings.
Exhibitions
ANTONIO PRATES GALLERY Lisbon, Portugal, June 23-Sept 15, 2022
A solo worldwide premiere of the exhibition Synthetic Evolution works using artificial intelligence software to evolve original drawings inspired by the intertwining of human and machine interactions. Invited by Antonio Prates in collaboration with Centro Portuguese de Serigraphia and Joao Prates.
THE URBAN ART SPACE Columbus, Ohio Oct-Nov 2019
Faculty of the Department of Art exhibition showing the 3D animation of the Continuous War Train, the worldwide premiere of the Maximum Frustration Compressor & Automatist human and machine drawings.
