Jean-Pierre Hébert
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Jean-Pierre Hébert is an independent artist, algorithmic art: drawings and mixed media since the 70's. Cofounded the algorists in 1995. Lives in Santa Barbara. Has pioneered computer art, merging traditional art media and techniques, personal software and custom built devices to create an original body of works. Recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award.
Hébert produces works on paper: ink and pencil drawings, paintings, etchings and dry points from polymer and copper plates, and recently digital prints. He also creates sand installations, algorithmic visual music, works for wall displays, physics based algorithmic pieces, etc... the work has been exhibited extensively and has been frequently juried in the Siggraph art gallery.
Community activities: since 2003, artist in residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB).
[1] personal site
[2] pages with digital arts museum pioneers
