Photo gallery: Tristan Perich’s “Machine Drawing”

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Students observe the machine, which will draw on the canvas constantly until May 15.

New York-area artist and musician Tristan Perich installed his visual art, “Machine Drawing,”  March 18 at St. Cloud State University’s Integrated Science and Engineering Laboratory Facility (ISELF).

“Machine Drawings” uses a pen controlled by a machine, designed and built by Perich, which draws a pattern on a wall over a period of time.

The motors’ movements are the result of code executed precisely by machine, but the final drawings come from the motion of pen on surface and are wedded to effects from the physical world, Perich said.

The exhibit will run continuously through May 15 and is being live streamed. The project is part of the School of the Arts 2015 Creative Art Series.