Computergrafik – Strukturdesign (Computer Graphics – Structural Design) Portfolio | The Anne + Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection

Basic Information

Title: Computergrafik – Strukturdesign (Computer Graphics – Structural Design) Portfolio
Artist(s): Georg Nees Ludwig Rase Anton Zöttl
Date Created: 1970
Unframed Dimensions: 12 x 12 in.
Medium: offset lithograph on paper
Inventory ID: Nees/Rase/Zottl-1970-01, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i , j

Description

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 textile print on polyester
26.5 x 26.5″

3(c). Zottl
Untitled
offset lithograph on paper

4(d). Nees
Untitled
offset lithograph on paper

5(e). Nees
Untitled Kristallines (Crystallines)
offset lithograph on paper

6(f). Nees/Rase
Untitled
offset lithograph on paper

7(g). Nees/Rase
Messestand Siemens (Siemens Booth)
offset lithograph on paper

8(h). Nees/Rase
Pavillon von Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo Pavilion)
offset lithograph on paper

9(i). Nees/Rase
Konstruktionsbild (Construction Picture)
offset lithograph on paper

10(j). Nees
Untitled (Orange)
offset lithograph on paper

artist’s statement in German by Nees & Rase printed on inside right flap of the portfolio
Strukturdesign ist mit computergrafic verwandt, bildet jedoch auch einen gegenstaz zu ihr. Von der reinen computergrafik kann man sagen dab sie, duch zufallsgeneratoren gesteuert, unbegrenzt viele Formen hervorbringt. Strukturdesign begrenzt diese Formen durch die Forderungen der Praxis. Computergrafisch Varianten wuchern wie Pflanzen, Strukturdesigns ordnen sich einem strengen System innerer un auberer Bedingungen unter. Strukturdesign steht deshalb der Kristallwelt naher als der Pflanzenwelt, es vollzieht sich im dynamischen Ordnen und Verbinden von elemntaren Bausteinen regularen Aufbaus. Auberst komplexe Gefuge konnen auf diese Weise definiert und danach computer-gesteuert gepruft, durchgerechnet und gezeichnet werden. Selbst so verwickelte Gebilde wie die Stadte der Gegenwart und Zukunft erschileben sich durch die modernen Gliedergungs-Berechungs-und Darstellungsverfahren dem entwerfenden und verwirklichenden Verstand.

artist’s statement English translation:
Structural design is related to computer graphics, but also forms a contrast to it. It can be said of pure computer graphics that, controlled by random number generators, they produce an unlimited number of forms. Structural design limits these forms by the demands of practice. Computer graphic variants proliferate like plants, structural designs are subordinate to a strict system of internal, external conditions. Structural design is therefore closer to the world of crystals than to the world of plants, it takes place in the dynamic ordering and connection of elementary building blocks of regular structure. Extremely complex structures can be defined in this way and then checked, calculated and drawn under computer control. Even structures as complex as the cities of the present and future appear to the designing and realizing mind through modern methods of structuring, calculating and representing.