About Robert Dewar

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I made my first digital art prints in 1967 using an IBM 1400 series impact printer and got hooked on the idea of being a “computer artist”, so after getting my BFA degree, I found employment where I could have access to state-of-the-art computer systems. I foresaw the potential for digital printing and invented a digital halftone system to make process color prints before dot matrix or inkjet printers existed. In 1982, I published a paper in Leonardo on my invention of an n-body particle system for making sculptures. This was the beginning of my abiding interest in quasiperiodic patterns and structures. I have shown my sculptures and digital prints in galleries and museums around the world. In 2009, I published a paper on 15th century Islamic girih tiles and their relationship to 20th century nonperiodic tile patterns. I wrote about how girih tiles could be used in their own right to produce new tessellation patterns not related to Islamic art and showed several examples. I presented my paper to the Symmetrion Symmetry Festival in Budapest, Hungary attended by scientists and artists from around the world. Since 2009 I have been exploring new methods of tiling the plane that has become the basis of my current painting project.