Engineer in the German automobile industry, worked on the Numerical-Control-System in the Opel Design-Department in Rüsselsheim, Germany, i.e. for the design of the Opel model Manta, one of the most popular cars in Germany in the 1970s.
biography is courtesy of the artist’s website: “Erhard Karkoschka, born 6.3.1923 in Moravská Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, after the war violinist in the Bareuth Symphony Orchestra. Then studied Composition, Conducting and Musicology. His doctoral Thesis deals with the development of the compositional techniques in the early works of Anton Webern. From 1948 to 1968 directed the Choir […]
biography and image are courtesy of Galerie Geiger: “Born in 1928 in Kornwestheim, Germany. Kirchberger studied at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart from 1950–1954, where he also made prints for Willi Baumeister. In 1956 he went to London and became friends with Lawrence Alloway. He and Georg Karl Pfahler founded gruppe […]
biography and image are courtesy of the artist’s website: “Herbert W. Kapitzki was a German graphic designer, born in Danzig in 1925. He studied painting and graphics in Hamburg and Stuttgart, and worked independently in visual communication. In 1956, on behalf of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economics, he began working in environmental design and founded […]
Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his telepresence and bio art. A pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-Web ’80s, Eduardo Kac (pronounced “Katz”) emerged in the early ’90s with his radical works combining telerobotics and living organisms. His visionary integration of robotics, biology and networking explores the fluidity of subject positions in the post-digital […]
Sten Kallin was an engineer and computing expert who worked at IBM and collaborated with Sture Johannesson, Astrid Sampe and other graphic artists. Born in 1928 in Sweden, he studied at Uppsala University, and in 1963 joined IBM, where he worked with graphic output devices and collaborated with a number of artists and scientists interested […]
“In 1971, the artist Gerhard F Kammerer, who works under the name Kammerer-Luka, met the computer scientist Jean-Baptiste Kempf. The former, born in Germany but living in Belfort, France, had been pushing the limits of his programmatic art, born from the principles of the Bauhaus, but felt that he could explore new territory if given […]
Hiroshi Kawano may correctly claim to have been among the very first in the world who experimented with a computer to generate visual works that could enter the domain of art. His pioneering position is exceptional insofar as he came to digital art from philosophy, i.e. neither from mathematics/engineering (like Nees, Noll, Nake) nor from […]
“I am Professor of Language Evolution at the University of Edinburgh and elected Fellow of the British Academy, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Cognitive Science Society, and a member of the Academy of Europe. I work in parallel on scientific and artistic investigations of cultural evolution and the origins of human uniqueness, particularly the evolution of […]
Kenneth C. Knowlton (born 1931 in Springville, New York), is a computer graphics pioneer, artist, mosaicist and portraitist, who worked at Bell Labs. In 1963, Knowlton developed the BEFLIX (Bell Flicks) programming language for bitmap computer-produced movies, created using an IBM 7094computer and a Stromberg-Carlson 4020 microfilm recorder. Each frame contained eight shades of grey […]
Born 1942, Innsbruck AT. Assistant at the Technical University Vienna (laser group) in the late 1960s. Gerd Koepf is a member of ars intermedia.
The art by Hans Köhler has always balanced between liberal and graphic arts. He studied painting and graphic design at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. After he graduated, he did an apprenticeship in colour lithography. The experience and knowledge he gained during that time is clearly reflected in this series. Köhler worked […]
Masao Kohmura is a Japanese video artist and c0-founder of the Computer Technique Group (CTG), a group of student artists and engineers active in the 1960s which produced seminal works of computer art. Kohmura was born in 1943 in Tokyo, and studied at Tama Art University. While there, a chance meeting with Haruki Tsuchiya led […]
William J. Kolomyjec was born in Detroit in 1947 and emerged as a pioneering figure in computer art and digital design. He earned his BFA in industrial design from Michigan State University in 1969, followed by an MFA in graphic design in 1975 and a PhD in education in 1980. His academic career took him […]
Heinz Ohff, who wrote the first comprehensive monograph about Fritz Köthe, describes the artist’s biography as exemplary of a realistic painter, whose work was neither accepted during the Third Reich nor in post-war Germany. This resulted in a sort of extended “inner emigration” for Köthe until long after 1945. His breakthrough finally came with his […]
