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"sketch", Digital print, 1998<p />

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Ohm January 7 - February 26, 2000<br />
Three person show, Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia<br />
Drawing Machine installation
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Exerpt from Philadelphia Inquirer review 1/23/00:</p>

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"Computers aren't able to think yet, but an artist in Columbus,
Ohio, is teaching his to draw.  The group exhibition at Nexus Gallery
in Old City includes a computerized "drawing machine" developed by
Matthew Lewis.  He has written a Linux program that generates more
than 80 drawing strokes. A computer combines these strokes to produce
abstract drawings that are printed out in the gallery twice daily.

The examples at Nexus aren't good art, but they are noteworthy in
one respect - the marks, which are mostly irregular loops and blobs,
exhibit a hand-drawn quality. I have seen similar drawings produced by
living, breathing artists."
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