Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 3: Analog Era (1950s)
1956
Herbert W. Franke Begins Creating Art with an Oscillograph
Franke’s Pendular Oscillogram, made with a cathode ray oscillograph built by his friend Dr Franz Raimann, is considered, along with Laposky’s Electronic Abstraction, to be one of the first pieces of (analog) computer art.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Ben Laposky, Franz Raimann, Herbert W. Franke
Movements
computer art, generative art, Oscillographic Art
Filed under
- Ideas
- Analog Computer Art, generative art
- Technologies
- analog computing, computer art, CRT, oscillographs
- People
- Ben Laposky, Franz Raimann, Herbert W. Franke
- Works
- Electronic Abstractions, Pendular Oscillogram
- Other subjects
- Laposky
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Echoes across time
- 2013 · Jerobeam Fenderson and Hansi3D Begin Oscilloscope Music
- 1970 · Generación Automática de Formas Plásticas Exhibition at the Centro de Cálculo of the University of Madrid
- 1987 · Computers and Art, Syracuse: Everson Museum of Art.
Le Random editorials
- Le Random: An Origin Story, thefunnyguys, June 22, 2023
- THEN AND NOW, Jasia Reichardt, June 25, 2024
- Jason Bailey, Georg Bak & Kate Vass on the Art Form of Our Generation, Peter Bauman, May 29, 2024
- Gottfried Jäger on a New Kind of Being, Anika Meier, March 2, 2026
Le Random podcast
- Elevating the Generative Art Space (Launch Episode) with Casey Reas, ciphrd, Anne Spalter, Anika Meier & Georg Bak — listen with transcript on Le Random (28 Jun 2023, 52 min). Transcript mentions Herbert W. Franke. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 1—Pre-Modern Era with Marius Watz — listen with transcript on Le Random (06 Jul 2023, 46 min). Transcript mentions Herbert W. Franke. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 5—Artist-Programmer Era (1970s) with Joan Truckenbrod, Hans Dehlinger & Anika Meier — listen with transcript on Le Random (14 Jan 2024, 65 min). Transcript mentions Herbert W. Franke. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 3—Analog Era (1950s) with Georg Bak — listen with transcript on Le Random (10 Aug 2023, 65 min). Chapter 3’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify