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ZKM acquires the archive of Japanese computer art pioneer Hiroshi Kawano
Lecture and panel discussion on computer art, 13 June, 4 p.m.
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Hiroshi Kawano (*1925) from Japan, is among the world’s most important computer art pioneers. He published the first computer-generated works in a Japanese professional journal in September 1964. ZKM has now succeeded in securing Hiroshi Kawano’s complete works and archive. The endowment encompasses approximately eighty artworks, all computer programs and pre-studies, documents and cassette recordings of Kawano’s literary and musical computer experiments, photos documenting exhibits, correspondence with the most important protagonists of the pioneer era of computer art, his complete writings, and an extensive collection of publications on computer art in Japan, Europe, and the US. Hiroshi Kawano’s wish to donate this unique collection to a German museum was based, no least, on the fact that it was a German philosopher of technology, Max Bense, who inspired him to continue his aesthetic research through practical work with the computer.
Hiroshi Kawano will come to ZKM on Sunday 13 June to symbolically hand over his archive, which is already at ZKM, and to deliver a lecture offering insight into his creation. In his lecture “Seeking for the Real Meaning of Computer Art,” the artist and philosopher will provide an introduction to his thoughts. The lecture will be followed by a panel talk with contemporary witnesses and art historians providing insight into Kawano’s key role in the early days of artistic experiments with digital computers. Participating in the panel discussion are Yoshiyuki Abe, Gilles Gheerbrant, Siegfried Maser, Frieder Nake, and Elisabeth Walther-Bense. Moderation: Margit Rosen
We cordially invite you to attend.
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Sunday, 13 June 2010, 4 p.m.
In search of the true meaning of computer art
Lecture and panel talk in German and English
In the ZKM Cube
Free admission
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Visual material, free of charge, may be downloaded here:
http://zkmserv3.zkm.de/Presse/Kawano.zip
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