There are many artists working with algorithmic procedures where certain values are decided in real time by the program. Paul Brown has used such methods and his son
Daniel Brown has a well-deserved reputation as a programmer with an acute sensibility for the organic structures behind nature and reality. Both these artists are focused on process rather than final product but this is not what is most apparent
when looking at their work. The emphasis may be on process but the works engage on many levels as complete statements. Although they may have been ‘stepping
stones in the mist’ to quote Paul Brown, they still enable us to find our balance and look both backwards and forwards.