This series of computer graphics was created in 1986 at the request of Alex Kempkens for the exhibition Bilder Images Digital (Galerie der Künstler, Munich, 1986).

Within Georg Nees’ oeuvre, these works occupy a special position. Based on simple, but also philosophical and mythical instructions, the computer generates different images in response to the given prompts. Nees wrote the programs in Lisp; the graphics were calculated on a Siemens System 7000.

The series reflects Nees’ engagement with the long-standing vision, found in literature and film, of a machine capable of producing art. He developed studies of scenes that might one day be synthetically created by responsive automatons, exploring the potential of algorithmic processes as creative agents.

Nees himself approached the idea of “artificial art” with both curiosity and caution. He questioned how works generated by an information-based system, a computer, should be assessed, while acknowledging the powerful attraction of such technology, especially when its underlying principles remain only partially understood. At the same time, he saw in it the possibility that simple instructions could give rise to increasingly complex and imaginative structures.

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Works from 1988
Works from February 9-10, 1988
Works from 1987