Recreating the digital art of Georg Nees’ “23 ecke” #ArtTuesday

Zellyn Hunter has been looking to recreate the digital art of Georg Nees in the 1960s. Thee current effort focuses on Nees’ 1964 work “23 ecke” (literally 23 corners or 23 vertice polygons).

From the 5^th to the 19^th of February, 1965, the world’s first exhibition of digital art was staged in the Studiengalerie of the University of Stuttgart. Georg Nees displayed a dozen or so drawings on the walls, and in the accompanying nineteenth edition of Max Bense’s booklet series rot (“red”), Nees provided short descriptions in his usual clear style. 23 ecke was one of the works displayed.

Through careful research in rot and other references, along with programmatic trials of algorithms that may have been used,  Hunter finally finds the algorithm and random seed used to generate the work (source on GitHub).

Read the whole article here. Via BlueSky and blog.

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