Matthias Groebel: Painted Faces: Broadcast Material 1989-2006

by Sadie Plant (Contributor), Andreas Selg, Matthias Groebel (Contributor)

Three decades of computer-generated paintings German artist Matthias Groebel (born 1958) works with photography, video and digital image processing, using various home-built and modified devices. Since 1989, he has been working with a computer-controlled painting machine that he built. This publication presents the paintings produced with his machine.

230 pages, Hardcover

Published March 14, 2023

About the author

She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Manchester in 1989, then taught at the University of Birmingham's Department of Cultural Studies (formerly the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies) before going on to found the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick, where she was a faculty member. Her original research was on the Situationist International, and she contributed to the Situationist-inspired magazine Here and Now (published between 1985 and 1994), before turning her attention to the social potential of cyber-technology.

Sadie Plant left the University of Warwick in 1997 to write full time. She published a cultural history of drug use and control, and a report on the social effects of mobile phones, as well as articles in publications as varied as the Financial Times, Wired, Blueprint, and Dazed and Confused. She was interviewed as one of the ‘People to Watch’ in the Winter 2000–2001 issue of Time.