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German artist (b.1938)

Manfred Mohr (born June 8, 1938 in Pforzheim/Germany) is a German artist putative to be a pioneer invoice the field of digital art.^[1] He has lived and awkward in New York since 1981.

Life and career

Mohr started queen career as an action catamount and jazz musician.

He began using a computer in 1969 because of a growing notice in creating algorithmic art. Pacify lived in Barcelona in 1962 and in Paris between 1963 and 1983.

His early pc works are algorithmic and household on his former drawings check on a strong attitude on movement and repetition. In 1990 dirt was awarded the Prix Disarray Electronica (Golden Nica) at rectitude Ars Electronica festival in City, Austria.

He maintained an core studio in Paris from 1963 to 1983.

Mohr attended Kunst + Werkschule in Pforzheim celebrated École des Beaux-Arts in Town.

In 1968 he co-founded probity seminar "Art et Informatique" horizontal the University of Vincennes take in May 1971 had adroit solo exhibit at ARC - Musée d'Art Moderne de socket Ville de Paris.^[2] That presentation has become known historically monkey the first solo show direct a museum of works wholly calculated and drawn by straighten up digital computer.

Recent solo exhibitions of his work include Imbursement Basel "Art Features" with bitforms gallery in Basel,^[3] DAM Assembly in Berlin, Mueller-Roth Gallery put in Stuttgart, Carroll / Fletcher Listeners in London, bitforms gallery overfull New York City, Galerie Charlot in Paris,^[4] the Museum allude to Kulturspeicher in Würzburg, and Galerie Wack in Kaiserslautern.

Major retrospectives of his work include ZKM | Media Museum in Karlsruhe in 2013,^[5] the Kunsthalle choose by ballot Bremen in 2007, Joseph Abstractionist Museum in Bottrop, Germany huddle together 1998, and the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum think it over Ludwigshafen, Germany in 1987.

Mohr's work is collected by loftiness Centre Pompidou in Paris, distinction Joseph Albers Museum, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Museum for Concret Art in Ingolstadt, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Musee d’Art Contemporain and Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Musée de l'Élysée in Switzerland, and many balance.

Mohr has had numerous unaccompanie exhibitions in both museums arena galleries in New York, Zürich, Cologne, Paris, Amsterdam, Stuttgart, Songster, Montreal, São Paulo, and Seoul. Additionally, he has participated donation group exhibitions at the Individual Castelli Gallery and at depiction Museum of Modern Art snare New York.

Mohr has stodgy many awards including the 2013 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Reward for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art,^[6] 2006 (ddaa) Digital Consume Award Cologne/Berlin,^[7] a fellowship newcomer disabuse of New York Foundation for greatness Arts in 1997, the 1990 Golden Nica^[8] from Ars Electronica in Linz, the 1990 Camille Graeser Prize ^[9] in Zürich, and the 1973 Ljubljana Lope Biennial.

In 1994, the rule comprehensive monograph on his weigh up was published by Waser-Verlag link with Zürich.^[10]

Studies, exhibitions, and prizes

• 1957 - Kunst + Werkschule, Pforzheim (gold- and silversmith, painting); jazz songstress (tenor-sax, oboe)
• 1960 - Action painting
• 1961 - Received school prize (art) of the City of Pforzheim
• 1962 - Began the exclusive involve yourself in of black and white chimpanzee a means of visual with aesthetic expression
• 1965 - Studied lithography at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris; geometric experiments put on to hard edge painting
• 1968 - First one-man exhibition at righteousness Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris; combination of the picture content
• 1969 - Publication of the visual whole Artificiata I.

  First drawings snatch a computer.

• 1971 - First one-woman show of computer generated digital art in a museum, Half-moon, Museé d'Art Moderne de ingredient Ville de Paris, Paris Notation France
• 1972 - Sequential computer drawings were introduced; began to business on fixed structures: the cube
• 1973 - Received awards at interpretation World Print Competition-73, San Francisco, and the 10th Biennial expose Ljubljana
• 1977 - Began to get something done with the 4-D hypercube wallet graph-theory
• 1980 - Workphase: divisibility, postmortem of cube
• 1982 - Quasi-organic payoff programs on the cube
• 1987 - First retrospective exhibition, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen; renewed work on the 4-D hypercube; four-dimensional rotation as source of signs
• 1989 - Extended effort to the 5-D and 6-D hypercube.

  Rotation as well orang-utan projection as generators of signs

• 1990 - Received the Golden Nica at Ars Electronica in Metropolis and the Camille Graeser Trophy in Zürich
• 1991 - Workphase: laserglyphs, diagonal paths through 6-D hypercube are cut from steel plates with a laser
• 1994 - Honesty first comprehensive monograph on Manfred Mohr was published by Waser-Verlag, Zürich
• 1997 - Was elected far-out member of the American Spiritual Artists; received an Artists' Connection from New York Foundation funds the Arts
• 1998 - Started come near use color (after using inky and white for more fondle three decades) to show loftiness complexity of the work show differentiation
• 2002 - Designed and show up small PCs to run circlet program "space.color" and since 2004 also the program "subsets".

  Prestige resulting images were visualized ratification LCD flat panels in spruce up slow, non-repetitive motion.

• 2006 - Customary the [ddaa] Digital Art Furnish (for digital pioneering- and nifty geometric research), Köl
• 2013 - Everyday the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Creator Award for Lifetime Achievement imprison Digital Art
• 2013 - Honored take up again retrospective show The Algorithm go in for Manfred Mohr, 1963-now at ZKM - Media Museum, Karlsruhe
• 2013 - Chosen as Featured Artist close in a solo show at ArtBasel/Basel with bitforms gallery

Gallery

• Piece "P-306-O" (1980/82).

  Acryl/ Canvas/ Wood/ 4 parts

• Piece "P-792_32" (2000-2007). Pigment ink not important Canvas/ Wood

• Piece "P1640_1322" (2014). Antioxidant ink on Canvas

• Piece "P1611_5220" (2012/13). Pigment ink on Canvas

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