Siebren Versteeg
Siebren Versteeg (born 1971) is an American artist known for his painting and video works created through digital processes. Early life and education. Versteeg was born in 1971 in New Haven, Connecticut. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 1995 and his Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Exhibitions. In 2016, the University of Michigan Museum of Art held a temporary exhibition called "Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II," in which "a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm, and then runs  a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s 'search by image' feature, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed." Collections. His work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Chicago Video Data Bank and the RISD Museum.