Brush Traces  I,  2005 (c) Alain Bittler
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I use 3d programs to experiment. Computers let us imagine new ways to draw pictures or to make paintings. We can create our own brushes (with virtual meshes) and we can use them with other perceptions than before. In European design and graphic arts we start the thinking process by making a pencil sketch, but now I can do things that I am unable to do with a pencil.
We can say that's a new mean of expression. We can create our own rules, our own tools. We are only at the beginning of important changes, tools are gaining maturity, computer calculate faster and faster, so in spite of copying things we can try things that was impossible before.
The giant calligraphies at the National Museum, in Tokyo left me with a great impression, feeling lots of mystery in those works. That's why I started the Brush Traces series in July 2005.
"Movement" serie is a standalone digital art print serie. I've started it at the end of 2003. It has been made with Algorithm program. My work is between an abstraction digital art painting with a touch of digital art calligraphy. By this I invite people to meet my poetic visions.

This last work is the results of ten years of standalone research on computer graphics and the use of 3d programs as a tool for making research.
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In "Brush Traces" serie, I revisit Asian Brush Painting with the addition of another dimension: The European perspective (art). A visual-musical (or mathematical) partition-vibration, trace referring to music, oscillation and traces of time or some sorts of language.
        In my composition I associate opposition (contrast)  light and shadow, movement and stasis, order and disorder, visual music and visual imagery, european perspective and asian flatness, between physics and quantic physics, between orient and occident, to an harmony, to a true dynamic equilibrium, without extrem way, in a virtual time-space generated by computer.
Movement 54, 60x80cm, 2005(c)  Alain Bittler
" INK I "  60x80cm, 2005(c)  Alain Bittler
" Movement XVII"  60x120cm, 2005(c) Alain Bittler - Between calligraphy and algorithm art
" Movement II "  60x80cm 2003(c)  Alain Bittler , algorithm art
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THANKS TO
all associations, institutions, corporations that have supported or awarded me and /or will support my work .
Siggraph - Japan Media Art Festival - The Computer Graphic Art society (Japan) - Agency for Cultural Affair (Japan) - Asian Digital Art Awards - The Florence Biennale of contemporary art - Origine Art Association - The Scarfone/Hartley Gallery - European Center of Artistic Action of Strasbourg - Region Alsace .
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