The Bre Pettis Collection of Computer Art

pavlopulus

Pavlopulus is Pablo Azócar, an engineer, photographer and algorithmic artist working in Santiago, Chile. His motto is the whole method: "Drawn by machine. Authored by hand." Each piece begins as an algorithm he writes, which a drawing machine then executes in real ink on paper — every decision of form, colour and composition made by him, and no two impressions identical. Three series run through the work: TRIP0, where circles of varying size layer and bleed into one another so that density builds by repetition and overlap; LANDXCAPES, in which horizontal and vertical rulings are interrupted by Simplex and Perlin noise until they read as terrain; and K.O.L.L., where elementary triangles, squares and circles are set in a grid and then algorithmically bent until they curve and ripple. These are one part generative art and one part op art.

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Works in the collection