GEORG NEES
Georg Nees (1926 - 2016) is considered one of the founders of computer art and graphics. He was also one of the first people to exhibit his computer graphics, at the studio gallery of the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart in February 1965.
Nees studied mathematics and physics at the universities of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Stuttgart. Then he worked as an industry mathematician at Siemens Schuckertwerk in Erlangen, which later became part of Siemens AG, until 1985, where he began programming in 1959. He furthered his education in philosophy at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart, earning his doctorate in 1969 under Max Bense with a thesis on Generative Computer Graphics, a pioneering work in the field. His thesis was published as a book, incorporating program code and the graphics it produced.
In 1965, Nees, along with two other pioneers within the field of early computer art, Frieder Nake and A. Michael Noll, organized exhibitions of computer graphics calling it Computer Art at the studio gallery of the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart. Nees's innovative use of the Zuse Graphomat Z64, a drawing machine operated by computer-generated punched tape, and the ALGOL programming language facilitated the creation of drawings and graphics that spanned from production to art, including the notable graphic "gravel," which played with concepts of order and disorder.
Nees participated in various biennials and art festivals, including the Biennale film/art festival in Venice in 1969 and 1970; the Biennale in Nürnberg in 1969 and 1971; Prinzip Zufall in Ludwigshafen in 1992; and Digital Konkret 1 in Bonn in 1995.
Support, 1987
Digital print
Size: 24,5 x 18 cm