Georg Nees

Georg Nees (born 1926 in Nürnberg, Germany) is a professor at the University of Erlangen, Germany

Nees studied mathematics, physics and philosophy at Erlangen and Stuttgart and in 1969 he received a Ph.D. in "Generative Computer Graphics" under Max Bense, the founder of Information Aesthetics. In 1977 he became honorary professor in "Angewandte Informatik" at the University of Erlangen and writer at SEMIOSIS, an international paper for semiotics and aesthetics.

Since 1964 Nees has been working with computer graphics, sculptures and film – both producing and theorizing about it. In 1965 Nees along with two other pioneers within the field of early computer art, Frieder Nake and A. Michael Noll, organised exhibitions of computer graphics calling it ”Computer Art”.

Nees has participated in various Biennales and art festivals. 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 1995

In 1995 Nees published the his book ”Formel, Farbe, Form. Computerästhetik für Medien und Design”.