Manfred mohr biography definition

Manfred Mohr is one of the great names of algorithmic art.

A pioneer of digital art, Manfred Mohr programmed his first computer drawings in , influenced by Max Bense's information aesthetics.

Manfred Mohr (born June 8, in Pforzheim/Germany) is.

Mohr is really dedicated to aesthetic exploration as another form of gaining knowledge, definitely orthogonal if not always complementary to science.

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Biography

Artists statement

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In my artistic development I did not have the typical constructivist background.

I was an action painter and jazz musician. Through a development of consciousness, I detached myself from spontaneous expressions and turned myself to a more constructivist and, a therefore, geometric expression (1964).

Beyond this, my art developed into an algorithmic art in which inventing rules (algorithms) is the starting point and basis of my research.

These "compositional rules" are not necessarily based on already imaginable forms, but on abstract and systematic processes. My rules are parametric rules, which means that at certain points in the process, conditions have to be set for which, in some cases, random choices can be employed.

In my work, similar to a journey, only the starting