Program Session: “Hall of Fame”
July 3rd – Morning Session
Generative Art: The Beginnings
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 Gronert – published 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 (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 Nake – published 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 Noll – published 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” (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
July 3rd – Afternoon Session
From Algorithms to Virtual Reality
2:00 pm – 2:20 pm
Tom Mikulic (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 “Woman in a Man’s World” (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 (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 Latham (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 Strauss (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 (12)
MA biology, Professor of media arts at University of Linz, Austria, and pioneer of media art
presentation “Interactivity in Art”
4:40 pm – 5:00 pm
Geoff Davis (13)
Pioneer of micro computer art
presentation “Small but Beautiful: The PC as a Tool for Artists”
5:00 pm – 5:20 pm
talk “Digital Art: The Collector’s View” (14)
Susanne Paech with Anne and Michael Spalter, “Spalter Digital Art Collection”
5:20 pm – 5:35 pm
Felix Mittelberger & Andreas Kohlbecker (15)
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?“ (16)
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
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