Manfred Mohr
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Manfred Mohr (* June 8, 1938 in Pforzheim/Germany) is a digital art pioneer. His early computer works are algorithmic and based on his former drawings with a strong attitude on rhythm and repetition. In 1990 he was awarded the Prix Ars Electronica (Golden Nica) at Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria. He started his career as action painter and jazz musician. He maintained an art studio in Paris from 1963 to 1983. Since 1981 he lives and works in New York.
[edit] Studies, Exhibitions, Prizes
1957 Kunst + Werkschule, Pforzheim (gold- and silversmith, painting) Jazz musician (tenor-sax, oboe)
1960 Action painting
1961 Receives school prize (art) of the City of Pforzheim
1962 Begins the exclusive use of black and white as means of visual and aesthetic expression
1965 Studies lithography at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris Geometric experiments lead to hard edge painting
1968 First one-man exhibition at the Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris Systematization of the picture content
1969 Publication of the visual book 'Artificiata I'. First drawings with a computer.
1971 First one-man show of computer generated art in a Museum, ARC, Museé d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris / France
1972 Sequential computer drawings are introduced Begins to work on fixed structures: the cube
1973 Receives awards at the World Print Competition-73, San Francisco, and the 10th Biennial in Ljubljana
1977 Begins to work with the 4-D hypercube and graph-theory
1980 Workphase: Divisibility, dissection of cube
1982 Quasi-organic growth programs on the cube
1987 First retrospective exhibition, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen. Renewed work on the 4-D hypercube. Four-dimensional rotation as generator of signs
1989 Extends work to the 5-D and 6-D hypercube. Rotation as well as projection as generators of signs
1990 Receives the 'Golden Nica' at Prix Ars Electronica in Linz and the 'Camille Graeser Prize' in Zürich
1991 Workphase: Laserglyphs, diagonal-paths through 6-D hypercube are cut from steel plates with a laser
1994 The first comprehensive monograph on Manfred Mohr was published by Waser-Verlag, Zürich
1997 Was elected a member of the American Abstract Artists Receives an Artists' Fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts
1998 Starts to use color (after using black and white for more than three decades) to show the complexity of the work through differentiation
2002 Designs and builds small PCs to run his program "space.color" and since 2004 also the program "subsets". The resulting images are visualized on LCD flat panels in a slow, non repetitive motion
2006 Receives the [ddaa] Digital Art Award (for digital pioneering- and original geometric research), Köln
