Georg Nees

Basic Info

Name: Georg Nees
Date of Birth: June 26, 1926
Date of Death: January 3, 2016
Country of Origin: DE

Description

Georg Nees (23 June 1926 – 3 January 2016) was a German academic who was a pioneer of computer art and generative graphics. He studied mathematics, physics and philosophy in Erlangen and Stuttgart and was scientific advisor at the SEMIOSIS, International Journal of semiotics and aesthetics.[1] In 1977, he was appointed Honorary Professor of Applied computer science at the University of Erlangen[2] Nees is one of the “3N” computer pioneers, an abbreviation that has become acknowledged for Frieder Nake, Georg Nees and A. Michael Noll, whose computer graphics were created with digital computers.[3][4]

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Explore Artworks By Georg Nees

Schotter (Gravel Stones)

Created in 1968 by Georg Nees

signed lower right and upper left in ink titled 1. Bild lower left in graphite this work is also sometimes known as Wurfel-Unordung (Cubic Disarray) this work can also be found in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK


Computergrafik Computerplastik (Computer Graphics Computer Sculpture) Portfolio

Created in 1970 by Georg Nees

a portfolio of offset lithographs created after original unique plotter drawings and computer generated sculptures plotter drawings were programed and drawn between 1965-1970 using: hardware: Siemens-System 4004 software: ALGOL output device: ZUSE-Graphomat Z64 plotter sculptures were programed and created between 1965-1968 using: hardware: Siemens-System 4004 software: EXAP-1 output device: Sinumerik milling machine lithograph titles: 1(a). […]


Computergrafik – Strukturdesign (Computer Graphics – Structural Design) Portfolio

Created in 1970 by Georg Nees, Ludwig Rase, Anton Zöttl

a portfolio of various media created after original unique plotter drawings each work is numbered in print lower left on the reverse plotter drawings were programed and drawn between 1968-1970 using: hardware: Siemens-System 4004 software: ALGOL output machine: ZUSE-Graphomat Z64 plotter print information: 1(a). Neese/Rase Kubo-Oktaeder (Cuboctahedron) serigraph on paper 2(b). Zottl Schwarm (Swarm) computer-generated […]


Werkstatt Edition Kroll

Created in 1970 by Georg Nees

serigraph after a computer-generated original unique plotter drawing signed and dated lower right in graphite numbered 50/350 lower left in graphite title, dated, and copyrighted in print lower left corner hardware: Siemens System 4004 output machine: ZUSE-Graphomat Z64 plotter


Plastik 1 (Sculpture 1)

Created in 1970 by Georg Nees

Computergrafik MIT (image created with) Siemens-System 4004 printed lower right gezeichnet mit (draw with) ZUSE-Graphomat printed lower right This serigraph was created from the design for a sculpture that Nees produced using a machine that could mill, or cut, a 3D shape. The machine followed the computer calculated image as a guide. The artist used […]


Kubo-Oktaeder (Cuboctahedron)

Created in 1972 by Georg Nees, Ludwig Rase

a serigraph after an original unique computer-generated plotter drawing from 1972 made for the exhibition “Computer Art” at Kunsthalle, Hamburg 1972/73 signed by Ludwig Rase lower right in graphite original plotter drawing: conceived by: Georg Nees and Ludwig Rase programmed by: Georg Nees hardware: Siemens 4004 software: ALGOL output machine: ZUSE-Graphomat Z64 “The motif was […]


Art Ex Machina Portfolio

Created in 1972 by Manfred Mohr, Manuel Barbadillo, Hiroshi Kawano, Kenneth C. Knowlton, Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, Abraham A. Moles

a portfolio of six serigraphs created after original unique computer-generated images in a custom made box with the title printed on the front along the left side the portfolio contains: a serigraph printed colophon page that is numbered in graphite a lithographic introductory text by page Abraham A. Moles that is printed in English and […]


Untitled (From the Art Ex Machina Portfolio)

Created in 1972 by Georg Nees

serigraph after an original unique computer-generated image signed lower right in graphite numbered lower left in graphite image: 12.25 x 17.5″ hardware: Siemens System 2002 and 2004 software: ALGOL output machine: ZUSE Graphomat Z64 https://adq.nir.mybluehost.me/website_15eefb10/artworks/art-ex-machina-portfolio/