IM31 (3) P 0.5 4.X.78
Plotter Drawing
1978 (made)
1978 (made)
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IM31 is from Dominic Boreham's Interference Matrix series. The computer assisted drawing was produced at the Slade School of Fine Art's Experimental and Computing Department, where Boreham studied during the 1970s. He created the artwork using FORTRAN IV, a computer programming language which passed commands to a flatbed plotter equipped with a rotring pen.
Object details
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| Title | IM31 (3) P 0.5 4.X.78 (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Plotter drawing; Rotring ink on paper |
| Brief description | IM31, plotter drawing by Dominic Boreham, Rotring ink on paper, London, 1978 |
| Physical description | Linear plotter drawing composed of two layers drawn one on top of the other. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Gallery label | Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers (2018)
DOMINIC BOREHAM (born 1944)
IM31
UK, 1978
Dominic Boreham produced this computer-assisted drawing while studying at the Slade School of Fine Art’s Experimental and Computing Department in the mid 1970s. He created it using FORTRAN IV, a programming language that passed commands to a flatbed plotter equipped with a pen. The artwork forms part of his Interference Matrixseries. Boreham was the editor of the Computer Arts Society’s PAGE bulletin from 1979 to 1982.
Plotter drawing
Given by GV Art gallery, London
Museum no. E.646-2015(07/07/2018-18/11/2018) |
| Credit line | Given by GV Art gallery, London |
| Summary | IM31 is from Dominic Boreham's Interference Matrix series. The computer assisted drawing was produced at the Slade School of Fine Art's Experimental and Computing Department, where Boreham studied during the 1970s. He created the artwork using FORTRAN IV, a computer programming language which passed commands to a flatbed plotter equipped with a rotring pen. |
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| Accession number | E.646-2015 |
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| Record created | September 11, 2015 |
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