Manfred Mohr - A Formal Language: Celebrating my 50 Years of Artwork and Algorithms (1969 - 2019)

bitforms gallery, New York

September 7 - November 3, 2019

This exhibition is a celebration of the 50 year anniversary of Manfred Mohr's writing algorithms and creating algorithmic art (1969 - 2019).

TIMELINE: from random walks (1969) to algorithmic modulations (2019), my history of writing algorithms

Global views of the exhibition        Installation photos courtesy bitforms gallery (click for larger image)

Closeup photos courtesy bitforms gallery        (click for larger image) Bild-1963 [Hommage à Sonderborg-1], ink on paper, 1963 P-018-mf_13, 16, 18, 19, Random Walk, 4 light beam plotter drawings, 1969 P-036-D, White Noise, pen plotter drawing on paper, 1970 - 1972 P-062-A, Floating Points, pen plotter drawing on paper, 1970 P-082-A, Polystaple, pen plotter drawing on paper, 1971 P-073-D, Vibrations, pen plotter drawing on paper, 1971 P-148f, inschrift, pen plotter drawing on paper, 1973 Images from 16mm film "Cubic Limit", 1973-1974 P-159-N/R801, Cubic Limit, pen plotter drawing on paper, 1974 P-200-A, Cubic Limit II, series of 10 pen plotter drawings on paper, 1977 P-201-25, Cubic Limit II, pen plotter drawing on paper, 1977-1978 P-332-B, Divisibility I, acylic pen plotter drawing on canvas, 1980-1983 P-370-G, Divisibility II, acrylic pen plotter drawing on canvas, 1984-1985 P-359-H, Divisibility II, acrylic pen plotter drawing on canvas, 1984-1985 P-395-D1, Divisibility III, pen plotter drawing on paper, 1986 P-455b2, line cluster, pen plotter drawing on paper, 1989-1990 P-454-D, line cluster II , 2 overlayed pen plotter drawings on paper, 1989-1992 P-454-E, line cluster II, 2 overlayed pen plotter drawings on paper, 1989-1992 P-511-O, half planes, acrylic pen plotter drawing on canvas / wooden relief, 1995-1997 P-522/H, half planes , painted steel relief , 1997 P-701-B1, space.color, pigment ink on canvas, 1999-2000 P-777_MA1, space.color.motion, non-repetitive real-time screen-based computer animation, 2002 (hardware replaced 2019) P1272_18106, klangfarben, pigment ink on paper, 2007-2010 P-1414_14046, parallelResonance, pigment ink on canvas, 2009-2011 P-1612_1204, Artificiata II - baseline , pigment ink on paper, 2012 P-1682_1884, Artificiata II - parity, pigment ink on paper, 2014 P2330_A, Transit Code, non-repetitive real-time screen-based computer animation, 2017-2019 P2300-1690_1035, Transit Code, pigment ink on paper, 2017-2018 P2300-1690_5062, Transit Code, pigment ink on paper, 2017-2018 P2400-299_714_large_4, Transit Code, pigment ink on canvas, 2018-2019 (1977) P2400-297d__white (triptych, part 1), Transit Code, pigment ink on paper, 2018 (1977) P2400-297d__7543_line (triptych, part 2), Transit Code, pigment ink on paper, 2018 (1977) P2400-297d__5225_black (triptych, part 3), Transit Code, pigment ink on paper, 2018 (1977) P2602-mm_0, Algorithmic Modulations, pigment ink on paper, 2019 P2602-mm_10, Algorithmic Modulations, pigment ink on paper, 2019 P2602-cc_14, Algorithmic Modulations, pigment ink on paper, 2019 P2602-mm_15, Algorithmic Modulations, pigment ink on paper, 2019 P2610_A, Algorithmic Modulations, non-repetitive real-time screen-based computer animation, 2019

More Works and Installation Views        Installation photos by Estarose Wolfson and Manfred Mohr (click for larger image) P226-B, Dimensions I, pen plotter drawing on paper, 1978 P308-F (Series of 5 reliefs - 20 parts), Divisibility I, acrylic pen plotter drawings on canvas, 1980-1992 P1011-M, subsets, pigment ink on canvas, 2004 Installation images: projection of computer generated algorithmic 16mm film "Cubic Limit", 1973-1974

	Invitation
	Press Release
	Some Videos from the exhibition - Manfred Mohr "I Can Trust the Machine", 50th Anniversary Video Interview, bitforms gallery Vimeo channel, Sept 2019 - Manfred Mohr, Video, Collaboration of Interests, P61VMag Series 03 and Battery Journal, Issue 28 Oct. 11, 2019
	Some Press about the exhibition - Walker Downey, Surveying Manfred Mohr's Five-Decade Collaboration with the Computer, New York at bitforms, Reviews     Art in America, November 2019 edition in print, Oct. 10, 2019 online - Charlotte Kent, Manfred Mohr: A Formal Language, The Brooklyn Rail, Oct. 2019 - Susan Happersett, Manfred Mohr at Bitforms, fibonaccisusan - Mathematical Art, Oct. 26, 2019 - Charlotte Kent, Art and Algorithms: The Work of Manfred Mohr, Litro Magazine, US Edition, Dec 25, 2019