Helmar Frank, who studied under Max Bense and Abraham Moles, is a german mathematician and cyberneticist. He wrote a dissertation on Informationsästhetik – Grundlagenprobleme und erste Anwendung auf die mime pure [Information Aesthetics – Fundamental problems and initial application of the mime pure]. He founded the Institute of Cybernetics in Berlin and promotes the approach that computer can not produce art. He therefore attached great importance on calling the results of his working group aesthetical information and objects.
Helmar Frank
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| last name: | Frank |
| first name: | Helmar |
| birthday: | February 19, 1933 |
| birth-place: | Waiblingen (Germany) |
Summary
Biography
| 1959 | Receives a PhD under Max Bense for his dissertation Informationsästhetik – Grundlagenprobleme und erste Anwendung auf die mime pure [Information Aesthetics – Fundamental problems and initial application of the mime pure]. |
| 1960 | Co-Founder of the journal Grundlagenstudien aus Kybernetik und Geisteswissenschaft – Internationale Zeitschrift für Modellierung und Mathematisierung in den Humanwissenschaften [Fundamental studies of Cybernetics and Humanities – International Review for Modelling and Application of Mathematics in Humanities] together with Max Bense and Gerhard Eichhorn. |
| 1961-1963 | Scientific assistant at the Cybernetic Research Group called “Lernende Automaten” at the Technical University Karlsruhe. |
| 1963 | Becomes professor of Information Sciences (later Cybernetics) at the College of Education Berlin, where he also builds up the Institute of Cybernetics. |
| 1972 | Call as professor at the University – Comprehensive University Paderborn. |
Member of institutions
Exhibitions
References
- Nake, Frieder 1974. Ästhetik als Informationsverarbeitung. Grundlagen und Anwendungen der Informatik im Bereich ästhetischer Produktion und Kritik. Wien, New York:Springer
- Nees, Georg (1968) 2006. Generative Computergraphik. In: Kaleidoskopien Schriftenreihe. Berlin:Vice Versa
- Oberquelle, Horst & Beckmann, Oskar 2008. Beckmann's Studio Computers Specified for Early Computer Art. In: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Los Alamitos, CA, USA:IEEE Computer Society
- Piehler, Heike M. 2002. Die Anfänge der Computerkunst. Frankfurt/Main:dot-Verlag
- Schrage, Dieter 1969. Der Computer als künstlicher Künstler. In: Summa. Vienna (Austria):Zentralsparkasse der Gemeinde Wien
Publications
- Frank, Helmar 1964. Kybernetische Analysen subjektiver Sachverhalte. Quickborn:Verlag Schnelle
- Frank, Helmar 1968. Informationsästhetik - Grundlagenprobleme und erste Anwendung auf die mime pure. Quickborn:Verlag Schnelle
- Gunzenhäuser, Rul, et al. [unknown year]. Grundlagenstudien aus Kybernetik und Geisteswissenschaft. Paderborn:Akademia Libroservo
Illustrations
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