20 Facts About Georg Nees

Georg Nees was a German academic who was a pioneer of computer art and generative graphics.

Georg Nees studied mathematics, physics and philosophy in Erlangen and Stuttgart and was scientific advisor at the SEMIOSIS, International Journal of semiotics and aesthetics.

Georg Nees was born in 1926 in Nuremberg, where he spent his childhood.

Georg Nees showed scientific curiosity and interest in art from a young age and among his favorite pastimes were viewing art postcards and looking through a microscope.

Georg Nees attended a school in Schwabach near Nuremberg, graduating in 1945.

Georg Nees received his doctorate with his thesis on Generative Computergraphik under Max Bense in 1969.

Georg Nees's work is considered one of the first theses on Generative Computer Graphics.

In February 1965, Georg Nees showed - as works of art - the world's first computer graphics created with a digital computer, the newly introduced Zuse Graphomat Z64 plotter.

In 1963, Georg Nees was instrumental in the purchase of a flatbed plotter, the Zuse Graphomat Z64 designed by Konrad Zuse, for the data center at the Schuckertwerke in Erlangen.

Georg Nees wrote the new graphics libraries G1, G2 and G3 with ALGOL, for controlling the Z64 and random number generation.

In 1965 Georg Nees experimented with random numbers and circle arcs.

When writing the program Georg Nees introduced commands for random numbers, which produced from a designated point on the resulting chaos.

The first computer graphic produced in architecture by Georg Nees was the motive corridor in 1968.

In 1968 Georg Nees started his collaboration with the architect Ludwig Rase for the Siemens Pavilion at the Hannover Industrial Fair in 1970.

Ludwig Rase experimented based on the cuboctahedron for residential dwellings and urban design with Georg Nees creating the computer aided design plans for the project.

Georg Nees retired in 1985 and started his research and experiments again.

Georg Nees devoted his time solely to semiotics and aesthetics for media and design.

Georg Nees published the results from 1995 onwards in several books and articles.

Georg Nees said yes and created a new series of computer graphics.

Georg Nees wrote the programs in the Lisp language and a System 7000 calculated the graphics.