Basic Information
Artist(s):
Title:
Plastik 1 (Sculpture 1)
Medium:
Surface Size:
29.75 x 27 in.
Framed Size:
32 x 29 in.
Date Created:
1970
Inventory #:
Nees-1970-01
Description
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 a random number generator to determine the height, width and depth of the rectangular forms. The data for each of these three dimensions would be stored on magnetic tape and used to drive an automatic milling machine.
print created in 1970:
hardware: Siemens System 4004
software: ALGOL
output machine: ZUSE Graphomat Z64
sculpture generated between 1965 and 1968:
hardware: Siemens System 2002 and 4004
software: EXAP-1
milling machine to create sculpture: Sinumerik
Detail images of the work
“Computer Graphik von G Nees gezeichnet auf GRAPHOTMAT ZUSE Z 90 (computer graphic by G Nees drawn on Graphomat Zuse Z 90)” printed in plotter ink below the image the drawing was produced at Siemens in Erlangen, Germany description of the artwork is courtesy of Heike Werner Gallery: “The typographical inscription indicates the model name […]
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
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). […]
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 […]
