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For almost 20 years, Pascal Dombis has been using computers and algorithms to produce excessive repetition of simple processes. By computationally reproducing a geometrical or typographical sign, he creates destructuring structures and develop irrational environments.

You have more information about what Pascal Dombis wants to express in his statement "Irrational environments".

More details about his work process and background are found in interviews:

Interview realized in 2008 for "Irrationnal Geometrics" at Galerie Municipale, Vitry, France

Interview realized in 2005 for a show at Chateau de Linardie, France.

You can also read a selection of essays that gives an external view to his work

Christine Buci-Glucksmann is a Paris based art philosopher.
"Time spirals: from the immemorial to the ephemeral" by Christine Buci-Glucksmann (pdf)

Frank Popper is Professor Emeritus of Aesthetics and the Science of Art at the University of Paris VIII. He is the author of Origins and Development of Kinetic Art, Art of the Electronic Age and other influential works on art and technology
From Technological to Virtual Art (extract), Frank Popper

Henri-François Debailleux is a Paris based art critic, writing regularly in the newspaper "Liberation"
"States of the Line" by Henri-François Debailleux

Blackhawk is a New York based critic and theorist involved with new media and digital art practice for most than 20 years.
"La Main de l'Homme" by Blackhawk

Joseph Nechvatal is a New York and Paris based artist and art theoretician.
"The Curvaceous Computational Paintings of Pascal Dombis" by Joseph Nechvatal

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