TIL about Frieder Nake

“I am not a supporter of the claim that machines are creative. Anyone who should be, however, must describe where the machines’ intuition for creation comes from. I suspect that random number generators must play an important role in this.”

(A machine-translated the original german text)

• A mathematician and computer scientist, he is best known for being one of the founding fathers of computer art
• The images of his art contain a lot of white backgrounds. lines, basic shapes, solid colors, and a lot of repetition,…
  • Remind me of John Maeda, or Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings.
• Speaks of the intersection between analog, digital, philosophy, computation, algorithm, aesthetics, and art
• Unfortunately very few of Frieder Nake’s essays are available in english.

Talks and interviews from Mr. Nake:

• Art That Makes Itself (2015)
• Do calculating machines like drawing? And if so, why? (2018)
• The Art of Being Precise | Frieder Nake in Conversation (2021)