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Generative Art Summit Berlin – Conference (1)

8:30 am – 9:30 am

Entrance

9:30 am – 9:45 am

Susanne Paech
art meets science –  Foundation Herbert W. Franke
Welcome Address

9:45 am – 10:05 am

Dr. Stefan Gronertpublished presentation (1)
art historian and Deputy Scientific Director at Sprengel Museum Hanover
Presentation “When Technology Created the Picture. On the Prehistory of Digitalization in German Photography of  the 50’s and 60’s”

10:05 am – 10:25 am

Margit Rosen no permission for publication (2)
pioneering art historian and Head of Collections and Archive at ZKM | Center for Media and Art Karlsruhe
presentation “In the Beginning, There Was the Analogue

10:25 am – 10:45 am

Prof. Dr. Frieder Nakepublished presentation (3)
computer scientist, Professor Emeritus at University Bremen, Germany, and Computer Art Pioneer
presentation “Getting away from Canvas – on Algorithmic Art”

10:45 am – 11:15 am

Coffee Break

11:15 am – 11:35 am

Prof. Dr. A. Michael Nollpublished presentation (4)
engineer and Professor Emeritus of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA) and Computer Art Pioneer
video presentation “The Beginnings of Digital Art at Bell Labs

11:35 am – 11:50 am

Prof. Dr. Grant Taylor – published presentation (5)
pioneering art historian and Professor at the Lebanon Valley College (Annville, Pennsylvania, USA), Director of Creative Arts
presentation “The Futurologists: Predicting an Expanding Medium”

11:50 am – 12:30 am

talk “The Futurologists: Predicting an Expanding Medium” published presentation (6)
Prof. Dr. Grant Taylor (Moderator) – art historian and Professor at the Lebanon Valley College (Annville, Pennsylvania, USA), Director of Creative Arts
Caroline Csuri – artist and daughter of computer art pioneer Charles Csuri
Benjamin Heidersberger – artist and son of generative photo pioneer Heinrich Heidersberger
Hans Dehlinger – former Professor at the Kassel University and pioneer of computer art
Reiner Schneeberger – computer scientist and computer art pioneer

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch Break

2:00 pm – 2:20 pm

Tom Mikulicpublished presentation (7)
engineer and pioneer of computer art
presentation “Animation in the Plotter Drawings – Morphing in 3D Space”

2:20 pm – 2:55 pm

talk and presentations “Women in a Man’s World”published presentation (8)
Catherine Mason (Moderator) – pioneering art historian and writer
Joan Truckenbrod – pioneer of computer art, former Professor at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Mechthild Schmidt Feist – pioneer of media art, Professor at New York University, USA

2:55 pm – 3:15 pm

Dr. Bill Kolomyjec published presentation (9)
engineer, former Associate Professor of design at Northern Illinois University, USA, and
pioneer of computer art
presentation “Plotter Art to Blockchain: My Unexpected Return to Computer Art”

3:15 pm – 3:35 pm

Prof. William Lathampublished presentation (10)
computer scientist, Professor of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London, GB, and pioneer
of computer art
presentation “How Life and Genetic Algorithms came into Digital Art”

3:35 pm – 4:00 pm

Coffee Break

4:00 pm – 4:20 pm

Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strausspublished presentation (11)
artists and former scientists of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft – pioneers of virtual and mixed reality
presentation “All You Need is Thinking Space – from Art+Com to Art+Science”

4:20 pm – 4:40 pm

Prof. Christa Sommerer / Prof. Laurant Mignonneau published presentation (12)
MA biology, Professor of media arts at University of Linz, Austria, and pioneer of media art
presentation “The Artwork as a Living System”

4:40 pm – 5:00 pm

Geoff Davispublished presentation (13)
Pioneer of micro computer art
presentation “Small but Beautiful: The 1980s Micro Computer as a Tool for Artists”

5:00 pm – 5:20 pm

talk “Digital Art: The Collector’s View” no permission for publication
Susanne Paech with Anne and Michael Spalter, “Spalter Digital Art Collection”

5:20 pm – 5:35 pm

Felix Mittelberger & Andreas Kohlbecker no permission for publication
ZKM | Center for Media and Art Karlsruhe
presentation of the Herbert W. Franke Archive and other archives for historic research

5:35 pm – 6:00 pm

talk „Museums – Under Performers in the Preservation of Generative Art?“ – published presentation (15)
Julia Staudach (Moderator) – co-founder CryptoWiener and curator Museum Francisco Carolinum, Upper Austria
Sabine Himmelsbach – art historian and director of HEK (House of Electronic Arts) Basel
Margit Rosen – art historian and Head of Collections and Archive at ZKM | Center for Media and Art Karlsruhe

8:00 – 10:00 pm