Roman Verostko (September 12, 1929 – June 1, 2024) was an American artist and educator who created code-generated imagery, known as algorithmic art.
[2] A painter in his early life, he also studied as a Benedictine monk at Saint Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, from 1952 to 1968, joining the faculty there in 1963.
Verostko then traveled to Paris, where he studied printmaking at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 from 1962 to 1963, as well as took courses at the École du Louvre and visited religious sites.
In the summer of 1970, with a Bush Foundation Fellows Grant to explore "the humanization of new technologies", he worked with Gyorgy Kepes at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS).
[3] In 1982, Verostko developed an interactive program which produced a computer-generated light show called the "Magic Hand of Chance".
[3] He went on to create his Hodos software, an integrated program of routines that, to his mind, attempted to mime some of the procedures he had used in his pre-algorist years.
[7] Each copy of the book contains unique multi-pen plotter drawings with the frontispiece including a single brush stroke created using the same algorithm.
In 2008, Verostko installed an "upside-down" mural, with 11 units spanning two stories inside the main entrance of the Fred Rogers Early Childhood Learning Center located on the Saint Vincent College campus, Latrobe, Pennsylvania.