Roman Verostko was an American artist and educator who created code-generated imagery, known as algorithmic art.
18 Facts About Roman Verostko
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In coding his software Roman Verostko conceives of the machine's drawing arm as an extension or prosthesis for his own drawing arm.
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The plotter normally draws with ink pens but Roman Verostko adapted oriental brushes to fit the drawing arm and wrote interactive routines for achieving brush strokes with his plotters.
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Roman Verostko was born in Tarrs, Pennsylvania, a coal-mining town fifty miles east of Pittsburgh.
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Roman Verostko was a psychologist and gave seminars at the monastery when Verostko met her.
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Roman Verostko resided in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he taught at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design from 1968 to 1994 and held the title of Professor Emeritus.
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Roman Verostko died in Minneapolis on June 1,2024, at the age of 94.
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Roman Verostko then traveled to Paris, where he studied printmaking at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 from 1962 to 1963, as well as took courses at the Ecole du Louvre and visited religious sites.
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Many of the themes Roman Verostko would explore in his life's work - EXAMPLES - emerged in this time period in and around Paris.
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Roman Verostko resumed creating abstract expressionist paintings and toured an innovative light-and-sound show he had created based on the Psalms, while editing the New Catholic Encyclopedia in Washington, DC.
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Roman Verostko wrote his first code in punch cards at the Control Data Institute in the late 1960s.
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In 1982, Roman Verostko developed an interactive program which produced a computer-generated light show called the "Magic Hand of Chance".
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Roman Verostko went on to create his Hodos software, an integrated program of routines that, to his mind, attempted to mime some of the procedures he had used in his pre-algorist years.
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Roman Verostko created routines for driving oriental brushes adapted to the machine's drawing arm.
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In 1990, Roman Verostko published an artist's book in honor of George Boole, in a limited edition.
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In 2008, Roman Verostko installed an "upside-down" mural, with 11 units spanning two stories inside the main entrance of the Fred Rogers Early Childhood Learning Center located on the Saint Vincent College campus, Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
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Roman Verostko's work is held by the Victoria and Albert Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Saint Vincent College, Spalding University in Louisville, and the Frey Science and Engineering Center at the University of St Thomas in St Paul.
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Roman Verostko's drawings have been featured in over 30 exhibitions in shows in Rome, Berlin, Istanbul, Lima, Tokyo and New York.