1. Pascal Dombis was born on 1965 and is a French digital artist who uses computers and algorithms to produce excessive repetition of simple processes.
12 Facts About Pascal Dombis
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In 1993, Pascal Dombis was awarded an honorary mention from Ars Electronica in Linz and in 2003 he received a Canon digital award.
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Pascal Dombis is noted for his excessive use of simple algorithmic rules.
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Pascal Dombis initially worked with simplistic rules: drawing a straight line for instance.
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Pascal Dombis lays down simple rules and lets them go through a series of interactions.
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Certainly, Pascal Dombis uses the computer for its original and primitive essence: a powerful computational tool that can reproduce simple calculation incessantly.
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Pascal Dombis's work has been shown in numerous exhibitions around the world and is part of several public and private collections.
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In 2005 Pascal Dombis started to work on spam proliferations and realized several installations at Chateau de Linardie in Senouillac.
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Pascal Dombis's work was included in the 2008 retrospective Imaging by numbers: a historical view of the computer print at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art in Evanston, Illinois.
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In 2010, Pascal Dombis realized Text~Fils, a monumental 252 meter long floor ribbon commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture for the Palais-Royal in Paris.
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In 2013, Pascal Dombis participated in Noise, an official collateral show of the 55th Venice Biennale of Art, based on Joseph Nechvatal's book Immersion Into Noise.
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Pascal Dombis presented Post-Digital Mirror, a large lenticular piece that follows the observer's movements and produces organic and irregular shapes and lines.