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May 14th, 2007: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR HERBERT!!!!!!!!
Pygoya, Ingrid & the worldwide Webists wish you happiness and health and stay as creative as ever!!!
Daniel Abela, Perth/Western Australia - Habib Aghamohammadi, Tabriz/Iran - Jamie Antoniasym, Chicago/USA - Mike Butler, Toronto/Canada - David Camp, Madison/Wisconsin/USA - Meli (Melania Cioni), Firenze/Italy - Dr. Rodney Chang (Pygoya), Honolulu/USA - Jim Charette, Fall River, Ma./USA - Björn Dämpfling, Berlin/Germany - Annette Suzette Du Plessis, New Brighton/South Africa - Dirk Eisner, Bretten/Germany - Prof. Dr. Herbert W. Franke, Munich/Germany - Ursula Freer, Santa Fe/New Mexico/USA - Mark Gebhardt, Jacksonville/Florida/USA - Rainer Grassmuck, Wuppertal/Germany - Susan Graves, Nottingham/England/Great Britain - Franz Graw, Düsseldorf/Germany - André Hein, Schwerin/Hamburg/Germany - Regina Hobein, Bad Wildungen/Germany - Gerhard Höberth, Wasserburg am Inn/Germany - Horkay Istvan, ParadiseValley/Arizona/USA, Budapest/Hungary - Josef Huber, Kufstein/Austria - Georg Hübner, Vienna/Austria - Vildan Isik, Sivas/Turkey - Sergej Jakovlev, Gotheburg/Sweden - Henry Janok, Calgary/Canada - Nita Jawary, Victoria/Australia - Federico Junca Acebedo, Miami/Florida/USA - Ingrid Kamerbeek, Sonthofen/Germany - Vijaybhai Kochar, Hyderabad/India - Brigitta Krause, Eckernförde/Germany - Kytom Leakh'im, Freiburg/Germany - Mike Lovric, Zagreb/Croatia - André Maître, Moutier/Switzerland - Chris (Christine) Marshall, Perth/Western Australia - Linda Martin, Sydney/Australia - Parys St. Martin, Durango/Colorado/USA - Kristina Maskarin, Island Rab/Croatia - Satoshi Matsuyama, Sapporo/Japan - Dan McCormack, Accord, New York/USA - Andrea Mora, Duisburg/Germany/Italy - Janusz Mulak, Warsaw/Poland - Mariano Petit de Murat, Mexico City/Mexico - Thomas W. Nordmeier, Henstedt-Ulzburg/Germany - Olga Pavlova, Chisinau, Moldova/Russia - Vittorio Pavoncello, Rome/Italy - Tatiana E. Pouzanova-Galatch, St. Petersburg/Russia, Budapest/Hungary - John Powell, Mandeville/Jamaica - Afanassy Pud, St. Petersburg/Russia - Heikki Rinnemaa, Tampere/Finland - Sylvie Robert, Miami Beach/Florida/USA - Ben Rotman, Tel Aviv/Israel - Inga Schnekenburger, Rinteln/Germany - Arno Signarowski, Gladbeck/Germany - Alexander Silyanov, Odessa/Ukraine - Heinz Sterzenbach, Berlin/Germany - Norbert Strippel, Loehlbach/Germany - Kalina Svetlinski, Regen/Germany - Kenneth-Edward Swinscoe, Plaidt/Germany - Erato Tsouvala, Piraeus/Greece - Todd Volkmer, Cleveland/Ohio/USA - Kurt van Wagner, Las Cruces, New Mexico/USA - Jon White, New York/USA - Nancy Wood, San Antonio, Texas/USA
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The birthday present parcel handdesigned by Ingrid containing presents by Webists: Habib Aghamohammadi, Iran, Björn Dämpfling, Germany, Andre Maitre, Switzerland, Tatiana Pouzanova-Galatch, Hungary/Russia, Pygoya, USA, Ingrid Dohle Kamerbeek, Germany. Gerhard also handed over a present. |
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Herbert, Gerhard and Ingrid at the bday festival |
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Herbert introducing his world premiere puppet theater play!!!!! "Der Kristallplanet" (The Cristall Planet) |
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World Premiere "Der Kristallplanet" by Professor Dr. Herbert W. Franke at "Marionetten-Theater" (puppet theater) Bad Tölz:
http://www.marionetten-toelz.de/News/news.html
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Gerhard and Ingrid chatting in Bad Tölz at Franke's bday festival |
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We from the "Webism Group of Worldwide Artists" are proud to have Herbert W. Franke as a member of our worldwide group of artists.
To honour Herbert W. Franke we set up this special Tabblo. Every Webist will contribute with artworks, thoughts, poems, animated artworks, videos, etc. Everything creative is welcome and should arrive before May 14th, 2007 - the bday of Herbert W. Franke. Guest artists are welcome!
For more information on Herbert W. Franke visit the following link: http://www.art-meets-science.info/summary.php
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Read this very interesting text from 1987!!! Herbert Franke: The Expanding Medium: The Future of Computer Art. 1987
http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/fuchs/theory/authors/herbert_franke.htm
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Herbert W. Franke and Ingrid Dohle Kamerbeek at their 1st meeting in Vienna/Austria in 2001. It was at a seminar about digital printmaking organized by Vienna printmaking expert Stefan Fiedler. |
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Professor Dr. Herbert W. Franke and Dr. Rodney Pygoya Chang (Webism co-founder) at opening of Webism exhibition in Vienna/Austria in November 2003. |
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Back in 1991 I bought this very interesting book by Herbert W. Franke in a Duesseldorf (North-Rhine-Westfalia), Germany book shop. At that time I neither didn't work with a computer nor did I know I would ever meet the wonderful author of this book! Life can be exciting!
Right now I read his latest book "Flucht zum Mars" (Escape to Mars)!!! |
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Björn Dämpfling, Berlin/Germany |
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Heinz Sterzenbach, Berlin/Germany |
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Meeting in Berlin on November 5th, 2006
Herbert W. Franke came to Berlin to give a speech at the technical museum in the framework of a symposium under the heading "Is the Universe a Computer?" . He moreover was interviewed by German radio station "Deutschlandfunk". Listen to his exciting interview!!! MP3 and flash too (rh side): http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/kulturinterview/560875/.
He was glad to meet two Webists living in Berlin: Heinz Sterzenbach (rh) and Björn Dämpfling. All 3 Webists visited the "Hype Gallery", Berlin - a temporary gallery set up bei HP. |
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Beginning June Webist Gerhard Höberth, Wasserburg a. I./Germany, visited Herbert W. Franke's exhibition "Art as Binary Code: inbetween the Logic of Mathematics and Aesthetical Emotion" at "Künstlerhaus Wien", Vienna/Austria, on show from May 25th to June 24th, 2007 in the gallery of "Künstlerhaus Wien". |
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The "Webism Group of Worldwide Artists" at Tabblo: http://www.tabblo.com/studio/group/webism-group-of-worldwide-artists/
The official home of the Webists: http://www.artingrid.de/1sthourwebists1.htm
All Webists at a glance: |
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Press information
Advance Notice on "Art Meets Science" Events in Honor of the 80th Birthday of Herbert W. Franke
Herbert W. Franke, expert in media theory, pioneer of computer art, and co-founder of the "ars electronica" festival, will celebrate his 80th birthday in May 2007. On this occasion, a cycle of several events, themed "art meets science" and dedicated to Herbert W. Franke’s life’s work, will take place at various locations in Germany and Austria from May through July 2007.
Within the scope of the "art meets science" events on the occasion of his anniversary, Herbert W. Franke will conduct "Science Talks" with scientists of very different backgrounds – physicists, computer scientists, Artificial Intelligence experts, psychologists and philosophers – on topics such as the future of man or the origin of art, and discuss questions like "what does it mean to be a human being" or subjects as artificial intelligence, reality and cyberspace. The events will also feature Mr. Franke reading and interpreting some of his utopian short stories with plots in line with the mentioned issues. A collection of his stories will be republished in a best-of-edition by "Phantastische Bibliothek", Wetzlar, too, on the occasion of his anniversary.
Subsequent to the "Science Talks", an exhibition of his works of computer art or a multimedia arts event are planned, as Kunsthalle Bremen (arts exhibition hall) for instance, has acquired Mr. Franke’s collection of computer art. It has been gathered over fifty years and contains his own works as well as some of the works of nearly every recognized pioneer in computer art worldwide. A selection from this internationally unique collection will be on display to the public for the first time, in a special exhibition at Kunsthalle Bremen in June 2007. Also, Karlsruhe’s ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (center for art and media technology) will show again his "Hommage à E.M.", a multimedia performance for a dancer and an interactive picture designer, first enacted in 1989.
Venues and topics:
Berlin, Archenhold-Sternwarte: "Mankind – accident, coincidence or purpose of nature?"
Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen: "The human being – an automaton: the self, the emotion and the art."
Karlsruhe, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie: "The universal roller coaster – within the net of illusion."
Dresden, T-Systems Multimedia Solutions: "Man playing God – learning automata are advancing fast."
Vienna, Künstlerhaus Wien: "Leonardo digital – art between logic and emotion.
" Munich, Akademie der Bildenden Künste: "God does play dice! Coincidence and necessity in universe."
Another highlight will be the world premiere of a puppet play in the Marionettentheater (string puppet theatre) in Bad Toelz (Southern Bavaria) in early summer 2007. The play script by Herbert W. Franke "The Crystal Planet" will be staged by Albert Maly-Motta and Karl-Heinz Bille, who are both renowned artists of puppet making and puppeteering. This will probably be not only the first puppet play whose plot is set in the future, but it will also combine for the first time traditional stage effects with the most advanced puppeteering technology. Together with established animation techniques very special micro-animation and computer animation techniques will be applied.
Professor Herbert W. Franke, honorary editor of "Leonardo" for quite some years, has already started to generate works of art using computers in the Fifties. A physics PhD, he was fascinated by the possibilities of machine-supported graphical creation. At the same time he gave much attention, right from the start, to aspects of information and reception theory that are relevant in the borderland of art and science. This is how he made an important scientific contribution to the understanding of the aesthetic mechanisms. In addition, Mr. Franke ranges among the most renowned German-speaking authors of utopian literature and has acquired great merits in the field of cave and karst exploration.
For more information on Herbert W. Franke please see: www.zi-biologie.uni-muenchen.de/~franke Events and venues can be found under the web address: For pictures or additional information please turn to: Susanne Päch mce GmbH Bavarialfilmplatz 3 82031 Grünwald Germany Phone: +49 (171) 600 44 22 sp@mce-gmbh.de |
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Kunsthalle Bremen, Ausstellung HWF Kunsthalle Bremen – Alan Sutcliffe überreicht HWF die Urkunde für die Ehrenmitgliedschaft bei der Computer Art Society Kunsthalle Bremen – HWF am Zuse-Graphomat
2. Zeile Kunsthalle Bremen – HWF bei Skulptur ‚Bremer Stadtmusikanten’ ZKM Karlsruhe – HWF bei Lesung ZKM Karlsruhe – Podiumsdiskussion, Prof. Dr. Peter Mettler, Prof. Dr. Peter Deuflhard, HWF, Dr. Susanne Päch
3. Zeile Marionettentheater Bad Tölz – Mitte Prof Edgar Knoop mit Frau und Herbert W. Franke, links daneben Ingrid Kamerbek Marionettentheater Bad Tölz – HWF mit Geschenken Marionettentheater Bad Tölz – Marionettenspiel: Raumschiff und Erde
4. Zeile Marionettentheater Bad Tölz – Marionettenspiel: Szene im Raumschiff Wiener Künstlerhaus – HWF vor dem Plakat am Eingang Wiener Künstlerhaus – Mag. Peter Bogner, Prof. Dr. Frieder Nake, Dr. Susanne Päch, HWF, Ministerialrat Mag. Norbert Riedl nach der Verleihung des Verdienstkreuzes erster Klasse an HWF |
