The Expanded Practice of Drawing

Lim kok yoong5 Aug 2010

Image generated from a mathematical model

Artist set the ground rules/ formula, then set a random/ semi-random process to work on those elements

Drawings made by the ‘hand’ of machines

drawing machine 3.1415926 v.2, Aluminum, Steel, Electronics, Wood, Glass, Vellum, Papermate Pen, Variable Size, 2001

Alan Storey: Handle with Care,1991.

Ostensibly a shipping crate - except when folded out onto it's integral six hinged interior sides it is revealed to be a canvas and drawing substrate for a specially prepared pen carriage which translates the movements of the container, experienced on the journey to the exhibition space onto the 'canvas'.

Alan Storey: Handle with Care, Lithograph, Montréal to Vancouver (Trans-Canada Higway,) 1994.

Mark that would be otherwise difficult or impossible by hand

"Alan Storey: Device for Drawing the Movements of a Ballerina", Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver Canada, 2008.

Alan Storey: "Device for Drawing the Movements of a Ballerina", detail of drawing tracing out the stage movements of the dancer on consecutive evenings. The pen uses a different color for each successive performance.

Machinery or systems that create drawing on their own

Alan Storey:Climatic Drawing Machine, 1991. The POWER PLANT, Toronto.

The direction of the wind rotates the paper recording drum via the weather vane on the roof of the building. The drum is moved up and down according to the velocity of the wind.

The paper covered receiving drum of the Drawing Machine is oriented to the prevailing wind via the weather vane on top of the building. The wind speed itself moves the drum up or down and determines the vertical position of the pen relative to the drum. Hence the 'activity' in the lower left correspond to a south/westerly wind gusting at low speeds and the activity on the upper right, a north easterly storm.

Rebecca Horn

Abraham Palatinik

used mechanical and electrical equipment to produce his art.

Machine that makes drawing at thestate of ‘consciousness’ …

Drawing Machine 3.1415926 v.2Fernando Orellana(2000)wood, aluminum, steel, glass, motor, custom electronics, slip rings, Mylar, Papermate pen

Drawing Machine 3.1415926 v.2 explores the possibility of creating machinery or systems that create art objects on their own. In this case, the machine has been designed to listen to its environment (using a series of microphones installed around the gallery) as a method for generating the drawings it makes. What it hears is interpreted by the machines software and used as the primary driver or inspiration, to make complex, non-representational drawings. Since the noise the machine hears is relative to the given event or venue, the drawings generated can be said to be the machine's interpretation or portrait of that experience.

What is the ‘natural’ way to draw?