Frieder Nake
(b. 1938)
Frieder Nake is a mathematician, computer scientist, and pioneer of computer art. He is best known internationally for his contributions to the earliest manifestations of computer art, a field of computing that made its first public appearances with three small exhibitions in 1965. Besides being represented in many private collections, his works are held by the Abteiberg Museum Mönchengladbach (Germany), Kunsthalle Bremen (Germany), Victoria and Albert Museum London (UK), Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (Croatia), Sprengel Museum Hannover (Germany), Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston (USA), Tama Art University Museum Tokyo (Japan).
Walk-Through Raster
(serigraph from the Ars ex Machina portfolio)
E.A., 1971
Computer generated, ink on paper
15”w x 18” h
Variation on this theme are found in several museums and collections