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He has specialised in art, science and technology since the late 1960s and in computational and generative art since the mid 1970s. Paul was at the Slade School of Art's experimental computer art unit in the 1970s.  \r\n\r\nThis print is produced by a 'C' program developed and run on a Silicon Graphics Iris workstation and output on a Canon D500 Colour Laser Printer.","physicalDescription":"This colour laser print depicts a kind of matrix, made up of 17 x 17 smaller matrices set on a light-blue background. Each smaller matrix is a square consisting of eight cells or \"neighbours\", as the artist calls them, plus a light-blue centre.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Brown, Paul","id":"C6049"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"toner","id":"AAT254720"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"laser printing","id":"AAT254422"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Colour laser print on paper","categories":[{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2009BX1696","2009BX5927"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"TOPIC","shelf":"AI","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Melbourne","id":"x32322"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1991","earliest":"1991-01-01","latest":"1991-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by the American Friends of the V&A through the generosity of Patric Prince","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"28","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"without border","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"28","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"without border","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"42","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"with border","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"29.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"\"NEIGHBOURHOOD COUNT. 4/10 First Edition, Paul Brown (signature) '91 FOR PATRIC","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Signed below print on bottom border with pencil."}],"objectHistory":"The print is produced by a 'C' program developed and run on a Silicon Graphics Iris workstation and output on a Canon D500 Colour Laser Printer.\r\nProgramming Assistance by Barry Trippit and Andrew Cassin. Hardware came from the Advanced Computer Graphics Centre at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.","historicalContext":"'The proposition of the piece: A cell in a square matrix is surrounded by eight neighbours. If each neighbour can take one of only two states (ie. ON or OFF) there will be 256 unique neighbourhood states in total.\r\n\r\nThis piece illustrates this proposition as a sixteen by sixteen matrix addressed by four-component indices each counting from zero to fifteen. These indices also multiplex to form the neighbourhood states. This is to say that the \"address\" and the \"content\" are identical or that the piece is self contained and self referential.\n\r\nThe piece also represents the finite states of a single boundary 2-D cellular automation. The self referentiality of the piece can therefore be considered to include time since all possible past and future states are also included.\r\n\r\nVon Neumann's Theory of Self Reproducing Automata, John Horton Conway's Game of Life and The I Ching or Book of Changes have all contributed to the development of this work which is the latest in a series begun in 1976.' \r\n\r\n(cit: statement by the artist, 26th May, 1991).","briefDescription":"Colour laser print on paper, 'Neighbourhood Count', by Paul Brown, 1991. No. 4 in a first edition of 10, signed and dated by the artist, dedicated \"For Patric\" (Patric Prince).","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Limited edition","id":"THES48862"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"Patric Prince: Digital Art Visionary\r\n\r\nPaul Brown (b. 1947)\r\nNeighbourhood Count\r\n1991\r\nColour laser print produced using ‘C’ programming language\r\n\r\nThe pattern in this artwork was made using an algorithm that surrounds each blue cell within a square matrix with a unique combination of yellow and purple. Brown was influenced in this choice by different theories of chance and automation. He was one of Prince’s key links to the UK digital art scene and addresses her in the note on this print.\r\n\r\nGiven by the American Friends of the V&A through the generosity\r\nof Patric D. Prince\r\nMuseum no. E. 1066-2008","date":{"text":"14/08/2023-15/09/2024","earliest":"2023-08-14","latest":"2024-09-15"}}],"partNumbers":["E.1066-2008"],"accessionNumberNum":"1066","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2008,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"4/10 first edition","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-05-18","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-08","availableToBook":false}}