»13/9/65 Nr. 2 ("Hommage à Paul Klee")« by Frieder Nake | i |
 
creators: Frieder Nake
title: 13/9/65 Nr. 2 ("Hommage à Paul Klee")
also known as: Hommage à Paul Klee / Homage to Paul Klee
year: 13.09.1965
material:

drawing, b/w, computer-generated

Ink on paper (original computer-generated drawing, 1965)
Silkscreen print (serigraphy of an edition of 40, 1966)

Program: Package COMPART ER56 (written in machine language).
Computed on Standard Elektrik Lorenz ER56.
Drawn with Zuse-Graphomat Z64.

algorithm: Ad hoc program, part of the COMPART ER56 package
artwork type: drawing
collections: Sammlungen Herbert W. Franke / Sammlung Clarissa / Sammlung Etzold / Anne and Michael Spalter Collection
Description

This drawing is one of the most often cited in books and articles about the earliest phase of computer art (mid-1960s). It may be called an icon of the pioneering times of the digital art movement.

It is not known precisely how many exemplars may exist of this drawing in the form of orginally produced by the automatic drawing machine. Nake estimates that he generated about 30 or 40 copies during

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