Roman Verostko, , Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry, 11, 24, 2019

Verostkos presentation identifies artform sources ideas that dominated his work in the late 1950s and 1960s. He illustrates how those underlying art concepts shaped his approach when he began writing computer code for artform generators. He illustrates the transition from art ideas in mind to art ideas in code. In doing so he identifies the seductive leverage of algorithmic formgenerators and the recursive charm of the forms they yield. He concludes with projects celebrating three pioneers of the Algorithmic Revolution: George Boole for Boolean Algebra; Alan Turing for the Turing Machine and Norbert Wiener as the father of Cybernetics. Verostko, who pioneered robotic brushwork, is also known for his richly colored algorithmic pen ink drawings. With a major in illustration he graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1949. He entered monastic life at St Vincent Archabbey, Latrobe, PA, where he created his New City Series and his first electronically synchronized