Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)

1986

Bilder Images Digital, Computer Artists in Germany, Galerie Der Kuenstler, Munich

Exhibition · Europe

Black 1986 exhibition poster with blue digital landscape and green, blue and orange panels giving the exhibition and symposium dates.
The original poster for Bilder Images Digital, Galerie der Künstler, Munich, 23 October–23 November 1986, featuring Alex Kempkens’s Landscape 1. Photograph of the poster made by Kempkens in 2015. Alex Kempkens, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Image source.

This exhibition in Munich highlighted the contributions of Germans in computer art’s history, including the work of Georg Nees and Manfred Mohr. The exhibition catalogue had contributions from the luminaries of the past twenty years of computer art, including writings by Max Bense, Herbert W. Franke, Frieder Nake and Georg Nees.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

People

Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, Herbert W. Franke, Manfred Mohr, Max Bense

Movements

computer art

Filed under

Ideas
computer art history, exhibitions, information aesthetics
Technologies
computer art, cybernetics
People
Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, Herbert W. Franke, Manfred Mohr, Max Bense
Exhibitions
Bilder Images Digital
Organisations
Galerie der Künstler
Places
Germany, Munich

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