2022/05/25

Herbert W. Franke’s Early Critics: “This Can’t Be Art!”

● 25/05/2022
“Responses to his early art were not encouraging: ‘Your electrons are only virtually existing, you cannot touch them. This can’t be art.’”
– Writer and researcher Steve Taylor, recounting the rejection Austrian computer art pioneer Herbert W. Franke experienced (here, by the Ulm School of Design co-founder Otl Aicher) in the early 1950s. At the time, Franke experimented with oscilloscope forms generated via a DIY analog computer.
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