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Ohm January 7 - February 26, 2000
Three person show, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Philadelphia
Drawing Machine installation

From Philadelphia Inquirer review 1/23/00:

“Computers aren’t able to think yet, but an artist in Columbus, Ohio, is teaching his to draw. The group exhibition at Nexus Gallery in Old City includes a computerized “drawing machine” developed by Matthew Lewis. He has written a Linux program that generates more than 80 drawing strokes. A computer combines these strokes to produce abstract drawings that are printed out in the gallery twice daily.

The examples at Nexus aren’t good art, but they are noteworthy in one respect - the marks, which are mostly irregular loops and blobs, exhibit a hand-drawn quality. I have seen similar drawings produced by living, breathing artists.”