Frieder Nake
Frieder Nake ( born December 16, 1938 in Stuttgart ) is a German mathematician, computer scientist and pioneer of computer art.
Life
After graduation in 1958 at the Leibniz -Gymnasium in Stuttgart- Feuerbach Frieder Nake studied mathematics at the University of Stuttgart and received his doctorate in 1967 on probability theory. 1968/1969, he conducted research at the invitation of Leslie Mezei about computer art at the University of Toronto. From 1970 to 1972 he was Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Frieder Nake is considered one of the pioneers of computer art. Influenced by Max Bense Nake began in 1963 with first artistic experiments on Graphomat ( Zuse Z64 ) in the Computing Center Stuttgart Polytechnic (now University of Stuttgart). After the exhibition of Georg Nees in the study gallery of TH Stuttgart ( February 1965 ) and by A. Michael Noll in the Howard Wise Gallery in New York ( April 1965 ) his exhibition was in November 1965 in Wendelin Cute in Stuttgart, together with Georg Nees, the third of computer art world. The term " computer art " or " Computer Art " was then introduced immediately in general. His next exhibition in January / February 1966 at the German data center in Darmstadt for the first time achieved a broad interest in the press, radio and television. For her there was computer music of Lejaren Hiller and Ben German man (USA) and computer poems by Gerd Stickel. In 1968 he participated in the famous exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity in London, and at the Symposium Computers and Visual Research, Zagreb part. In 1970 he was represented at the special " proposal for an experimental exhibition" at the Venice Biennale.
In the 1970s, Frieder Nake was a member of the Communist League West Germany ( KBW ), for which he has unsuccessful candidate in the choice of the Bremen City Parliament in 1979.
Since 1972 Nake is a professor of Computer Graphics and Interactive Systems at the University of Bremen, where he deals inter alia with political, economic and epistemological critique of computer science and has published numerous writings - highlight here is his book Aesthetics as information processing (1974 ) representing founded by Max Bense and Abraham Moles comprehensive information aesthetics, while also criticizing and produces a far-reaching for that time synthesis with technical questions. In addition, Frieder Nake taught at the University of Vienna, University of Aarhus, University of Oslo, University of Basel, International School for New Media Lübeck. Since 2005 he has been a visiting professor or lecturer in Digital Media at the University of the Arts Bremen.
In the years 2004 and 2005 was his exhibition " The precise pleasure," which showed in addition to a retrospective of his own work and interactive installations that had been created in collaboration with staff and students of the University of Bremen to see in the Kunsthalle Bremen and at the ZKM Karlsruhe. Since then he has participated in several other exhibitions, including at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum in Evanston, IL, at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, at the Museum of Concrete Art in Ingolstadt and at Tama Art Museum an institution of Tama Art University in Tokyo.
Writings
- Production of graphic representations, sound sequences and texts with electronic computing systems. Darmstadt 1966.
- Aesthetics as information processing. Springer, Vienna, New York, 1974, ISBN 3-211-81216-4.
- With Diethelm Stoller: Algorithm and art. The precise pleasure. Sautter & Lackmann, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-88920-022-2.
- The Bearable Lightness of characters. Aesthetics, semiotics, computer science. Agis, Baden -Baden 1994, ISBN 3-87007-038-2.