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Jean-Pierre Hébert (1939–2021)

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Considered one of the pioneers of digital art, I started experimenting with drawing with a computer in the mid-1970s. From 1984 on, I dedicated myself to the exploration of algorithmic digital drawings. In 1995, I co-founded the Algorists. I coined the word and coded an algorithmic definition of it.

Fascinated by the line, which is the essence of drawing, I have developed a diversity of drawing families using mathematics, geometry, physics and poetry. For each conceptual idea, I write algorithms which my personal software interprets and transforms into a drawing, a visual poem. After discovering John Cage's work, and strongly in tune with his philosophy, my initial obsession with precise line constructions has opened up to chance, motion, light, and text. Since 1999, I create ephemeral installations with sand, water, wind. The aim of my work remains an expression of quiet beauty and peaceful meditation.

Current and recent shows (more on the résumé page):

“Action & Structures”, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio (Oct 9, 2021 - May 2022)

“Saint Somebody, Technologies of the Divine”, Art Vault, Thoma Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico (Apr 30, 2021 - Apr 15, 2022)

“Materialia Lumina: Contemporary Artists' Books from the Codex International Book Fair”, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries (Feb 24 - Aug 28, 2022)

“CODEX VIII, Words on the Edge”, with Turkey Press/Edition Reese, Richmond, California (Apr 10 - 13, 2022)

“Beginnings 2”, Boston Cyberarts, Boston, Massachusetts (Oct 29 - Dec 19, 2021)

“The Algorists: Historic Computer Art”, Orange Door Chicago, Thoma Art Foundation, Chicago, Illinois (Sep 2019 - July 2020)

“Collecting On The Edge”, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Utah (Part II: Jan 17 - May 4 2019)