Frieder Nake

Frieder Nake (born December 16, 1938) is a professor of computer science at the University of Bremen and at the University of the Arts Bremen. He lives and works in Bremen.

He has taught in Stuttgart, Toronto and Vancouver, and has been in Bremen since 1972. He specializes in interactive computer graphics, digital media, computer art, and semiotics. He has been a visiting professor at Universitetet Oslo, Aarhus Universitet, Universität Wien, University of Colorado at Boulder.

He was one of the first to exhibit digital computer art in 1965 (Galerie Wendelin Niedlich, Stuttgart). In the same year, other exhibitions were staged by Georg Nees in Stuttgart and A. Michael Noll in New York. Nake, Nees and Noll are generally recognized as pioneers of computer art, and in this context are sometimes called the "three big 'N's".Fact|date=May 2008

He also was one of the first to analyze links between aesthetics and information theory. His book "Ästhetik als Informationsverarbeitung" (1974) is one of the first in this field, and greatly helped to promote research on the borderline between science and art.

References

F Nake (1974). Ästhetik als Informationsverarbeitung. (Aesthetics as information processing). Grundlagen und Anwendungen der Informatik im Bereich ästhetischer Produktion und Kritik. Springer, 1974, ISBN 3211812164, ISBN 9783211812167

External links

* [http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/nake/biography/ Biography] at MediaArtNet en icon de icon