Immersive “Leap into the Void”
Internationally renowned fulldome artist Sergey Prokofyev will transform A Leap into the Void” – the English translation of Herbert W. Franke’s short story “Sprung ins Nichts” – into an immersive 8K experience.
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Herbert W. Franke’s Space Cyborg
Herbert W. Franke’s Cyborg: a thought experiment on the man-machine from 1970.
Fulldome Festival Jena
Fulldome Festival Jena 2025 – Felix Niemeyer wins the Janus Best New Talent category.
Dripstones in Science and Art
On the 98th birthday of the visionary Herbert W. Franke. The layer model of the stalagmites – research report with simulated caves from 1999.
Archive Digitization of Audio Tapes
Digitization of historic analog dictation recordings of Herbert W. Franke – mit science fiction stories (mid of1980er) and a talk mit Abraham Moles (end of 1960er)
NANOX – an Unfinished Novel
NANOX – a company wants to conquer the world with psychoforming. An unfinished late novel by Herbert W. Franke. Franke.
5800K – A Flight into the Light
5800K – 3D animation by Robin Rush and Tobias Laufer – short story “Fahrt ins Licht” by Herbert W. Franke
Who We are
Who we are: art meets science – Foundation Herbert W. Franke
Legacy of the Visionary Herbert W. Franke
Press release by the Foundation Herbert W. Franke on the Generative Art Summit, new book publications and an exhibition at the König Galerie
“The Orchid Cage” at Springer
Springer-Verlag Heidelberg just published “The Orchid Cage”, the English translation of Franke’s classic science fiction novel from 1961.