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  1. Andy Piper @[email protected] ·

    Last year, I gave a number of talks on the subject of pen plotters / drawing machines, and how they have been used in different ways to realise different forms of art.

    I wasn’t immediately able to share the main talk (the closing keynote from QCon London 2024), but I posted about the shorter edition that I delivered at Electromagnetic Field, and I’ve also written about the distinction between computer art generated using algorithms, and generative AI creations.

    It took some time for the video to become available to share, but you can now take a look at the closing keynote that began it all, on the InfoQ website: Where is the Art? a History in Technology. I really enjoyed researching the subject.

    This year, I plan to tinker with building more of my own plotters, in different formats.

    Plotting with paint

    Next up, we have our fifth (!) Wimbledon Art Fair – next month, May 8-11. We’re still working with the plotter and pouring paints, and have upgraded from the AxiDraw A4 SE to a larger NextDraw 1117 for some of our more recent work. If you’re in the neighbourhood, do come and take a look!

    https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/04/17/pen-plotters-and-the-history-of-computer-art/

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  2. Andy Piper @[email protected] ·

    My talk from Electromagnetic Field 2024 is now available to watch on YouTube.

    This was a shorter version of a talk I gave as the closing keynote at QCon London1. It covers the work we’re doing with pen plotters at Forge & Craft, as well as telling the story of my exploration of the history of computer art – and pioneering plotter artists such as Nake, Nees, Molnár and Cohen, as well as modern makers and artists – over the course of the past 18 months.

    There was a bit of a technical issue midway through (edited out of the video, although you will hear the applause when the system recovered!) so the latter part is a bit more sped up and raced through than I intended – hopefully I’ll have an opportunity to do a “complete” version of this talk at some point. A big thank you to the EMF video team for making the talk watchable; I’m sure there was a lot of clever editing required! 👏🏻

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jyZkEsr1vs

    You can find links to the resources mentioned in the closing section of the presentation, on an accompanying website.

    If you want to read about our experiences at EMF 2024, I wrote about those back nearer the time.

    1. The QCon one should be online in about a month from now 🤞🏻 ↩︎

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    https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/12/15/where-is-the-art/

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