Links IX more sc 1562

Name: Ragnar Digital, LLC
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Herbert Brün

1992

Plotter Drawing

13"x33". Signed, titled, dated in pencil.

Description

The intertwining of artwork and process in Links IX exemplifies Herbert Brün’s approach to generative art, informed by his background as a composer and pianist.

This work was created with Links, a graphics program Brün wrote in Fortran to generate works for display and divided into six subsets:” two,” “both,” “three,” “more,” “many,” and “all.” Links IX is part of the subset “more,” with each drawing generated by entering a seed number at the beginning of the program. The seed determined the specific arrangement the plotter produced.

In Links IX, lines form circles, fans, and abstract shapes that sit closely together on the page. Around the drawing are notations from the Zeta plotter, showing the date and time the program was run, the file path of the code, the length of paper used, and Brün’s credit balance, logged as part of the university system in which Brün worked. These details reflect the conditions of the early 1990s, when artists often relied on university computers and shared resources to produce their work.