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Frieder Nake

Featured in 1 editorial and mentioned in 12 more. A guest on 1 podcast episode and mentioned in 6 more. The subject of 8 Timeline moments and mentioned in 26 more (1948 to 2025). Appears alongside 325 other people.

Frieder Nake is a mathematician, computer scientist and one of the first artists to exhibit computer-generated art, in 1965.

Frieder Nake
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Biography and works in the Le Random Collection →
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Quotes

We need randomness, which I take as the machinic correspondence to human intuition. I mean this as a little provocation.

Frieder Nake, Frieder Nake on “Machinic” Miracles

Featured in

52
Frieder Nake on “Machinic” Miracles
July 10, 2024

Mentioned in

125
Gottfried Jäger on a New Kind of Being
March 2, 2026
97
Hans Ulrich Obrist on Exhibitions as Living Organisms
September 1, 2025
78
A. Michael Noll on When It All Started
March 25, 2025
75
Neural Unconscious
February 19, 2025
70
Demystifying Generative Autonomy
December 12, 2024
64
Mat Dryhurst on Becoming Infinite
October 24, 2024
49
Demystifying Generative Systems
June 20, 2024
35
Travess Smalley Profiles Mark Wilson
March 12, 2024
29
Christiane Paul on Curating Cohen’s AARON
January 29, 2024
19
Concrete to Generative: “Real Space” Explorations in South America
October 24, 2023
3
Casey Reas on the History of Generative Art - Part 2
July 5, 2023
0
Le Random: An Origin Story
June 22, 2023
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Podcast appearances

12
Interview with Frieder Nake
July 16, 2024

Podcast mentions

38
2025 Art in Review with thefunnyguys, Conrad House & Peter Bauman
December 22, 2025
27
Reviewing Digital Art in 3Q 2025
September 28, 2025
6
Timeline Ch 5—Artist-Programmer Era (1970s) with Joan Truckenbrod, Hans Dehlinger & Anika Meier
January 14, 2024
5
Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt II (1960s) with Michael Spalter
September 21, 2023
3
Timeline Ch 3—Analog Era (1950s) with Georg Bak
August 10, 2023
4
Timeline Ch 4—Digital Era Pt I (1960s) with Dr A Michael Noll
September 7, 2023

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