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Art Ex Machina
Nees, Georg, born 1926 - died 2016 - Enlarge image
Art Ex Machina
- Object:
print
- Place of origin:
Germany (made)
Montreal (published) - Date:
1972 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Nees, Georg, born 1926 - died 2016 (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
printer's ink, paper, screenprint
- Museum number:
E.2779-2016
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case MB2E, shelf DR85
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. He subsequently worked for Siemens as a software engineer, and was instrumental in their purchasing a 'Zuse Graphomat', a drawing machine operated by computer-generated punched tape. The machine was capable of creating geometric patterns and, although the programming language that Nees used (ALGOL) was designed specifically for scientific computers, Nees used it to create aesthetic images such as this one.