John F. Simon, Jr. is one of very few artists for whom the writing of computer code is a central part of the creative process. “My heroes are Mondrian and Paul Klee,” Simon explained. “Klee was describing lines in motion and forces that influenced the way shapes form. His idea of a line was a point that sets itself in motion… His writings were like starting conditions for software. But once you write a piece of software and run it on the computer, then it is a very fluid language. Every variable that you choose in the software becomes subject to abstraction.”
