Matrix multiplication
Plotter Drawing
1968 (made)
1968 (made)
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The sheet of paper contains four squares made up of orange, red, blue, green and purple ink. Darker areas of colour appear where the ink has bleed. The colours have been assigned by mathematical process. In the top right square orange is the predominant colour interspersed with blue, purple, red and green. The other three squares are formed of vertical coloured lines.
Object details
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| Title | Matrix multiplication (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | colour ink on paper |
| Brief description | Matrix multiplication, colour ink on paper, 1968 by Frieder Nake |
| Physical description | The sheet of paper contains four squares made up of orange, red, blue, green and purple ink. Darker areas of colour appear where the ink has bleed. The colours have been assigned by mathematical process. In the top right square orange is the predominant colour interspersed with blue, purple, red and green. The other three squares are formed of vertical coloured lines. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Typed on the bottom of paper:
NAKE/TR4/Z64 1968 MATRIZENMULTIPLIKATION SERIE 36
written in pencil on the reverse:
aus dem Programm "Matrizen multiplikation" serie 36/1968, Frieder Nake
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| Object history | The plotter drawing was sold in the 1960s by Galerie Daedalus in Berlin. The gallery was run by Hanspeter Heidrich. |
| Bibliographic reference | p.427
Ex Machina, frühe Computergrafik bis 1979 : die Sammlungen Franke und weitere Stiftungen in der Kunsthalle Bremen : Herbert W. Franke zum 80. Geburtstag : Kunsthalle Bremen, 17. Juni bis 26. Juli 2007 / herausgegeben von Wulf Herzogenrath und Barbara Nierhoff-Wielk = Ex Machina, early computer graphics up to 1979 : the Franke collections and other foundations at the Kunsthalle Bremen : for the 80th birthday of Herbert W. Franke / edited by Wulf Herzogenrath and Barbara Nierhoff-Wielk. |
| Other number | 36 - series number |
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| Accession number | E.119-2013 |
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| Record created | December 18, 2012 |
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