Jean-Pierre Hébert is an independent artist of algorithmic art

Algorithmic art

Algorithmic art, also known as algorithm art, is art, mostly visual art, of which the design is generated by an algorithm. Algorithmic artists are sometimes called algorists.- Overview :...

, drawing

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...

s, and mixed media

Mixed media

Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct...

. He co-founded the Algorists in 1995 with Roman Verostko

Roman Verostko

Roman Verostko is an artist who produces algorithmic art. Verostko developed his own software to control a line plotter that produces unique pen and ink drawings. He also modified the plotter to hold an oriental paintbrush...

.

Hébert lives and works in Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara, California

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. He is a pioneer in the field of computer art from the mid 70's on, merging traditional art media and techniques, personal software, plotters, and custom built devices to create an original body of work. He was the recipient of Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Pollock-Krasner Foundation

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the purpose of providing financial assistance to individual working artists of established ability. It was established at the bequest of Lee Krasner, who was an American abstract expressionist painter and the widow of fellow painter Jackson...

 and David Bermant Foundation awards.

Hébert produces works on paper, including ink and pencil drawings, paintings, etchings and dry points from polymer and copper plates, and recently digital prints. He also creates sand, water and sound installations, algorithmic visual music, works for wall displays, physics based algorithmic pieces, and many more things. His work has been exhibited extensively and has been frequently juried in the SIGGRAPH

SIGGRAPH

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 Art Gallery. It is present in several museums and institutional collections, including the digital art collections of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art

The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The Block Museum was established in 1980 by Chicago art collectors Mary and Leigh B. Block...

 (Northwestern University, Chicago) and the Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...

 (London.)

Since 2003, he has been an artist in residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics is a research institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara. KITP is one of the most renowned institutes for theoretical physics in the world. KITP programs bring theorists in physics and related fields together to work together on topics at...

 (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...

 (UCSB), where he has organized several Algorists group shows. These shows have included Hans Dehlinger, Channa Horwitz, Roman Verostko

Roman Verostko

Roman Verostko is an artist who produces algorithmic art. Verostko developed his own software to control a line plotter that produces unique pen and ink drawings. He also modified the plotter to hold an oriental paintbrush...

 (in 2006), Jean-François Colonna, Helaman Ferguson

Helaman Ferguson

Helaman Rolfe Pratt Ferguson is an American sculptor and a digital artist, specifically an algorist.Ferguson's mother died when he was about three and his father went off to serve in the Second World War. He was adopted and raised in New York. He was a graduate of Hamilton College and received a...

, Casey Reas (in 2008), and David Em

David Em

-Life and work:David Em is one of the first artists to make art with pixels. He was born in Los Angeles and grew up in South America. He studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and film directing at the American Film Institute....

, Paul Hertz, Robert Lang

Robert Lang

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(in 2009).

External links

• List of works held by the Victoria and Albert Museum