Special Lecture: 10.23.09 1pm in the Library, Sketching Scripts, Scripting Drawings

In the SCI-Arc Library Gallery, Jean Pierre Hébert presents recent computational line drawings. Unlike conceptual art created from instructions given to a draftsperson, the drawings in this show are created from instructions given to a computer and printing device. The concept is precisely set not in English, but in original computer code, using scripting language such as Python, Scheme, or Mathematica.

These works on paper are the result of a process in seven steps, beginning with the initial thought and progressing through clear vision, concept, desire, coding and calculation. Once the computational has been completed, only a single proof is produced on the ink-jet or the plotter: these are hands-off drawings.

Some of the works presented in this installation blend lines with snippets of texts, keywords and quotations flowing with the lines to create and abstract landscape of reveries, thoughts and memories of Hébert's personal architectural readings, encounters and experience.