Paul Hertz

Paul Hertz is an independent artist and curator who teaches new media art history and studio courses at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He developed algorithmic practices for creating art in the 1970s in Spain, before he used computers. He delights in dysfunctional fortunetelling, faux symbolism, intermedia, code sourcery, glitching and social interfaces.

deadpan_taiwan_1995.jpg

"Taiwan" from the series "Deadpan, or, the Holy Toast," 1995

archival pigment print, reeditioned 2009

Processed text from three different sources

Documentation: http://paulhertz.net/worksonpaper/toast/index.html

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erosion_2013.jpg

"Erosion," 2013

Algorithmically generated Unicode text, glitched

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flightSchool_003_2012.jpg

"Flight School 003," 2012

archival pigment print

glitched photographic images, text

Documentation of the series to which this image belongs: http://paulhertz.net/works/glitchez.html

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mots_tomtom_1999.jpg

"Mot's Tomtom," 1999

archival pigment print

Processed text and text-like graphs

Documentation: http://paulhertz.net/worksonpaper/pages/motstomtom.html

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talkInCodeAnim_06_detail_2012.gif

"Talk In Code," animated GIF

glitched found image, animated

Documentation: http://paulhertz.net/works/gifz.html