Roman Verostko

INTRODUCTION
This essay is based on Roman Verostko a contemporary international artist working with technology as his medium to produce artworks, this discussion continues to discuss why he uses this technology, how it informs his art and how it fits into the socio- economic and political context of the works production. Questions such as what is technology and when did it start in art may need to be addressed before going further into the artist intentions and the relationship of his art to socio economic and political aspects. Verostko (2014:1) was born in 1929 in Western Pennsylvania, United States of America. He earned a diploma in illustration from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in 1949 and the in following year he joined St Vincent

This artist uses algorithmic art as his technology to create artworks, this is a computer generated art to create code-generated and ink imagery, It is an art piece that you can touch and also feel the paint like painted by an artist, such lively, by same materials with just one difference. Instead of an artist hand, the brush or pen is hold by pen plotter which is driven by drawing instructions written by the artist via computer. It is identified as a machine with drawing arm. Algorithm or algorism may be viewed simply as a detailed recipe for carrying out a task. His works emerges from the tradition of early 20th Century pioneers who sought to create art using pure visual form. Verostko (2004:1) was inspired by the theory and practice of Mondrian, Kandinsky and Malevich. He explored with what Henri Focillon identified as the life of forms in art. He also engaged in arbitrary and constructive procedures experimenting with visual form. He creates original forms that are unique realities without reference to other objects or images (Verostko 2004:1). In 1970, through a programming course at the Control Data Institute in Minneapolis, Verostko (2004:1) experienced the form-generating possibilities of coded procedures coupled to computing power. With this technology he could create instructions for generating visual forms and as well compose the score for drawing. With the advent of personal computers, he began writing elementary drawing instructions that mimed some methods he uses to create art forms. Since then his work has concentrated on developing and refining a program of procedures based on his practice as a painter. In his current work all forms are generated with original algorithms. These procedures have brought him to a new frontier of visual