Frieder Nake "Die präzisen Vergnügen"

Category

Exhibition

Year

2005

Institution

ZKM, Karlsruhe

Comment

The exhibition shows works by the computer scientist, Frieder Nake (now resident in Bremen), who was a member of the Stuttgart group led by Max Bense. He displayed his first algorithmically generated digital graphics in Stuttgart in 1965, as did Georg Nees and A. Michael Noll independently of him. The experiments conducted at that time heralded the advent of the modern world of digital media. While the forms were still traditional, the principles involved have retained their validity up to the present day and are only now being fully utilised. The exhibition is being taken over from the Kunsthalle Bremen, where it was held from 9 November 2004 to 16 January 2005. Slightly expanded and updated for Karlsruhe, it traces the development from paper images to video images and interactive images. (Content: zkm.de)