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Walk-Through-Raster

Plotter Drawing
16/01/1967 (made)
Artist/Maker
Frieder Nake (computer artist)
Place of origin
Germany (made)

Colour plotter drawing consisting of purple and black squares. The horizontal lines that form the black squares are wider than the vertical lines, the reverse occurs in the purple squares.

Object details

Category
Drawings
Object type
Plotter drawing
TitleWalk-Through-Raster (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
colour ink on paper
Plotter Drawing
Brief description
Walk-Through-Raster, colour ink on paper, 1967 by Frieder Nake
Physical description
Colour plotter drawing consisting of purple and black squares. The horizontal lines that form the black squares are wider than the vertical lines, the reverse occurs in the purple squares.
Dimensions
  • Height: 28cm
  • Length: 21.8cm
Copy number
No. 1
Marks and inscriptions
Written in pencil on reverse: 16/1/67 No 1 Serie 7.3.3 - 1, Nake
Gallery label
(07/07/2018-18/11/2018)
Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers (2018)

FRIEDER NAKE (born 1938)
Walk-Through-Raster
Germany, 1967

As a student, Frieder Nake was asked to write a computer program to control the newly-invented Zuse Graphomat drawing machine. Nake went on to produce a series of drawings, all of which are based upon an underlying grid, or ‘raster’. His computer-generated artworks featured in Cybernetic Serendipity, a major exhibition held in London in 1968.

Plotter drawing
Museum no. E.120-2013
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.426 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
7.3.3 - series number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.120-2013

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Record createdDecember 18, 2012
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1258795/walk-through-raster-plotter-drawing-frieder-nake/
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