Frieder Nake

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Frieder Nake (born December 16, 1938 in Stuttgart ) is a German mathematician , computer scientist and pioneer of computer art .

biography

Nake graduated from high school in 1958 at what is now the Leibniz Gymnasium in Stuttgart-Feuerbach. He studied mathematics at the University of Stuttgart and received his doctorate in 1967 on probability theory . In 1968/1969 he conducted research on computer art at the University of Toronto at the invitation of Leslie Mezei . From 1970 to 1972 he was Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver , Canada.

Nake is considered to be one of the pioneers of computer art. Influenced by Max Bense , he began his first artistic attempts at the Graphomat ( Zuse Z64) in the computing institute of the Technical University of Stuttgart in 1963 . After the exhibition of Georg Nees in the study gallery of the TH Stuttgart (February 1965) and that of A. Michael Noll in the Howard Wise Gallery in New York (April 1965), his exhibition was in November 1965 at Wendelin Niedlich in Stuttgart, together with Georg Nees, the third of computer art worldwide. The term “computer art” or “computer art” was generally introduced immediately. His next exhibition in January / February 1966 at the German Computer Center in Darmstadt generated broad interest in the press, radio and television for the first time. She played computer music by Lejaren Hiller and Ben Deutschmann (USA) and computer poems by Gerd Stickel. In 1968 he took part in the Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition in London and in the Computers and Visual Research Symposium in Zagreb. In 1970 he was represented in the special exhibition Proposal for an experimental exhibition at the Venice Biennale .

In the 1970s Nake was a member of the Communist Federation of West Germany (KBW), for which he ran unsuccessfully in the 1979 election for Bremen citizenship .

Since 1972 Nake has been professor for graphic data processing and interactive systems at the University of Bremen , where he is a. a. also dealt with political, economic and epistemological criticism of computer science and published numerous writings - his book Aesthetics as Information Processing (1974), which comprehensively presents the information aesthetics founded by Max Bense and Abraham Moles , but at the same time also criticizes and one for the former Time produces extensive synthesis with technical questions. In addition, 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 visiting professor and lecturer for digital media at the University of the Arts in Bremen . In 1997 he was awarded the Berninghausen Prize for excellent teaching and innovation .

In 2004 and 2005 his exhibition The Precise Pleasures , which showed a retrospective of his own work as well as interactive installations that had been created together with employees and students of the University of Bremen, was on view at the Kunsthalle Bremen and the ZKM Karlsruhe . Since then he has taken part in numerous other exhibitions, including the Mary and Leigh Block Museum in Evanston, IL, the Paul Klee Center in Bern, the Museum for Concrete Art in Ingolstadt and the Tama Art Museum, an institution of the Tama Art University in Tokyo .

Award

In 2018, Nake was awarded the Klaus Tschira Medal , which was awarded for the first time, by the Klaus Tschira Foundation together with the Society for Computer Science .

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  1. ^ Frieder Nake was awarded the Klaus Tschira Medal. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .