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Frieder Nake

Frieder Nake (born December 16, 1938) is a mathematician, computer scientist, and pioneer of computer art. He is best known internationally for his contributions to the earliest manifestations of computer art, a field of computing that made its first public appearances with three small exhibitions in 1965.

Frieder Nake

(1938-12-16) December 16, 1938

Stuttgart, Germany

German

University of Stuttgart

Mathematician, computer artist

Academic career[edit]

Frieder Nake has been a professor of interactive computer graphics at the Department of Computer Science at Bremen, Germany, since 1972. Since 2005, he has also been teaching digital media design there. After studying mathematics at the University of Stuttgart, where he earned his diploma and doctoral degrees (in probability theory), he has taught in Stuttgart, Toronto and Vancouver, before coming to Bremen. His courses and seminars, besides computer graphics, interactivity, and digital media, are in the areas of computer art, aesthetics, semiotics, computers and society, and theory of computing. He has been a visiting professor to Universitetet Oslo, Aarhus Universitet, Universität Wien, Danube University Krems, University of Colorado, University of Lübeck, University of Basel, University of Costa Rica, Xi'an University of Science and Technology and Tongji University.

Awards[edit]

He won the First Prize of the Computer Art Contest of Computers & Automation in 1966. In 1997, his teaching work was honored by the Berninghausen Award for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching (University of Bremen).

Mönchengladbach, Germany [11]

Abteiberg Museum

Germany[12]

Kunsthalle Bremen

Evanston Illinois

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art

Croatia

Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb

[13]

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec

Hannover, Germany

Sprengel Museum

Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, Japan

London[14]

Tate Gallery

London[15][16][17][18]

Victoria and Albert Museum

(in English and German)

Nake Biography at MediaArtNet