front cover (thermographic pixel-cats; Kunsthalle Bremen / Deutscher Kunstverlag)

back cover -- plate grid: Vera Molnar, Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, Manfred Mohr, R.D.E. Oxenaar, A. Michael Noll ('Vertical-Horizontal Number Three', 1965), Csuri/Shaffer, Aaron Marcus; ISBN 978-3-422-06689-2

plates pp.274-275: Roger Vilder, 'Ohne Titel' (1976); Kammerer-Luka/Jean-Baptiste Kempf, 'Orphee' (1976)

plates pp.278-279: Roger Coqart, 'Negative Outward Cross Construction' (1977) & 'Negative Grid Structure' (1978)

BookPhysical copy in the collection

Ex Machina — Frühe Computergrafik bis 1979 / Early Computer Graphics up to 1979

Author: Wulf Herzogenrath, Barbara Nierhoff-Wielk
Year: 2007
ISBN: 978-3-422-06689-2
Subjects: A. Michael Noll, Aaron Marcus, Charles Csuri, Frieder Nake, Georg Nees, Herbert W Franke, Manfred Mohr, Roger Vilder, Vera Molnar
Tags: computer-art · generative · plotter · reference · exhibition-catalog · pioneers · physical · owned · german

Notes

The Kunsthalle Bremen survey of the Herbert W. Franke era — a core reference for this collection's pioneer holdings. Physical copy in the collection. Purchased 2026-07-11 on AbeBooks (order 770054021, hwv-aq), $116.17 landed ($88.20 + $27.97 ship). Catalogue of 'Die Sammlungen Franke und weitere Stiftungen in der Kunsthalle Bremen', published by Deutscher Kunstverlag for Herbert W. Franke's 80th birthday (2007). A ~400-plate survey of early computer graphics to 1979 -- Nake, Nees, Mohr, Molnar, Noll, Csuri/Shaffer, Oxenaar, Aaron Marcus, Roger Vilder, Roger Coqart, Kammerer-Luka and many more. Also held by the compArt daDA archive (Uni Bremen).