Karl Theodor Vogel Prize for Journalism in Technology.Ĭo-founder of the Media Laboratory in Munich.ĭr.-Benno-Wolf Prize for his achievements in the field of speleology. Title of a professor from the Austrian Ministry of Education and Art.Ĭomputer Art Award of the Association of German Software Producers. President of the artistic council of the Gesellschaft für Computergrafik und Computerkunst e.V., founded in Munich in 1978.Ĭo-founder of Festival Ars Electronica in Linz (Austria). Participates in the experimental exhibition at the 35th Biennale di Venezia, alongside artists Frieder Nake and Georg Nees.īook Computergrafik – Computerkunst ( Computer Graphics – Computer Art), a first comprehensive history of computer art.Ī series of Einstein portraits are early examples of Picture Processing. His first digital graphics are KAES ( Kurven aesthetisch). Temporary teaching jobs, since 1968 primarily on cybernetic aesthetics and computer art: in 1965 at the International College in Alpbach/Tirol (Austria), 1968/69 at the University of Frankfurt am Main, 1973-97 at the University of Munich, 1979/80 at the Polytechnic in Bielefeld, 1984-98 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.įirst plotter drawings, in collaboration with Siemens research laboratory in Munich. Begins to practice experimental photography.Īnalog pendular oscillogrammes, a pioneering achievement.įreelance author of science fiction novels, and in other fields of writing German Science Fiction Award in 19.Ĭontinues work on analog electronic graphics: film production Tanz der Elektronen. in Physics from the University of Vienna.Ĭommissioned research in electrical engineering (?) at the Technical University of Vienna. Therefore, there was a jump in thinking from analogue to digital drawing.įranke studies physics, mathematics, chemistry, psychology and philosophy at the University of ViennaĭPhil. This kind of device had no chance display anything different. The interesting fact here is that Franke did his first images by photographing drawings of curves from the screen of an oscilloscope, i.e. In a way, he was, when we neglect the difference of analogue and digital computer equipment. He liked to call himself the “Dinosaur of computer art”. His two large collections of works of computer art found a new and permanent home at Kunsthalle Bremen. Some of his programs were written in collaboration with other authors.įranke’s oeuvre finds its place in the cross-over of scientific and artistic methods. Since the early 1970s, he has contributed a comprehensive work of digital art. He has organized numerous exhibitions, and lectured worldwide on the subject. Franke has written innumerable essays on computer art and related subjects. München: Bruckmann, later by Springer Verlag there is also an English translation). He published the first comprehensive history of computer art in 1971 (under the title ✼omputergrafik – Computerkunst«. Soon after first algorithmically generated graphics had been exhibited in galleries in Stuttgart and New York (in 1965), Franke became interested in digital technology. Laposky had in the USA done experiments of similar kind. He first exhibited these in 1956, only a few years after Ben F. As one of the very first, he started this stream of work in the mid-1950s when he used an oscilloscope and a camera to generate patterns of arrangements of continuous lines (“analog” graphics). Of particular interest in our current context of digital or algorithmic art, are his contributions to this field. Franke was a physicist, science fiction writer, artist, curator, author of theoretical books and essays, and speleologist (cave researcher).
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