(Online) Lecture Series: „Digitale Kunstgeschichte“

Sie soll in loser Folge über aktuelle Entwicklungen in diesem Gebiet informieren, dem interdisziplinären und überregionalen Austausch dienen und vor allem auch den kunsthistorischen Nachwuchs am Institut inspirieren, neue Konzepte und Werkzeuge in der eigenen Arbeit auszuprobieren.

Termine im Wintersemester 2024/2025

• 26.11.2024 18 Uhr c.t., Zentnerstr. 31 (Raum 007 und online)
  

  Frieder Nake, When the Computer was Forced to Draw: Memories of Exciting Times in the "Galley"
  
  In 1965, the three first exhibitions of something called "computer art"took place, two of them in Stuttgart, one in New York. Georg Nees, A. Michael Noll, and Frieder Nake showed what they had forced computers to do: To draw instead of calculate. Of course, this meant to reduce drawings to calculations. Or, in other terms, aesthetics to mathematics.
  The talk will recall events of the time, and connect the innocently simple to present incredible imagery.
  
  Frieder Nake, born in Stuttgart in 1938, is one of the pioneers of computer art. As a mathematician and computer scientist, he recognised the creative potential of digital technology early on and began creating computer-based artworks in the 1960s. His works, often characterised by precise algorithms and random elements, question the relationship between humans, machines and creativity. Today, Nake is a professor at the University of Bremen, where he combines his research and art and inspires students to think about the intersection of art and computer science.

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