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Manfred Mohr (born June 8, 1938 in Pforzheim/Germany) is a digital art pioneer. Events 68 - The Roman Senate accepts emperor Galba. 536 - St Silverius becomes Pope (probable Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Pforzheim is a town of nearly 119000 inhabitants in the state of Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany at the gate to the Black Forest. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Digital art most commonly refers to Art created on a Computer in Digital form

Mohr started his career as an action painter and jazz musician. He began using the computer (1969) because of his growing interest in creating an algorithmic art. Algorithmic art, also known as algorithm art, is art mostly Visual art, of which the design is generated by an Algorithm. He lived in Barcelona in 1962 and in Paris between 1963 and 1983. Since 1981 he lives and works in New York.

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. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important yearly prizes in the field of electronic and Interactive art, Computer animation, digital culture Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art technology and society that was part of the International Linz is the third largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria (Oberösterreich Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich He maintained an art studio in Paris from 1963 to 1983. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Mohr attended Kunst + Werkschule in Pforzheim and École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. École des Beaux-Arts ("School of Fine Arts" refers to a number of influential Art schools in France. He has lived and worked in New York since 1981. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous

In 1968 he co-founded the seminar "Art et Informatique" at Vincenne University and in 1971 had a solo exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Centre Georges Pompidou (constructed 1971–1977 and known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement Since then, that exhibition has become known historically as the first solo show in a museum of works entirely calculated and drawn by a computer.

Recent solo exhibitions of his work include the Digital Art Museum and The Museum of Concret Art in Berlin, the Museum of Kulturspeicher in Würzburg, and Galerie Wack in Kaiserslautern. Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Würzburg (ˈvʏɐ̯ʦbʊɐ̯k is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany (kaɪzɐsˈlaʊtɐn is a City in southwest Germany, located in the Bundesland State of Rhineland-Palatinate ( Rheinland-Pfalz) at Major retrospectives of his work include the Kunsthalle in Bremen in 2007, Joseph Albers Museum in 1998, and the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, Germany in 1987. Ludwigshafen am Rhein is a City in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Mohr's work is collected by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Joseph Albers Museum in Bottrop, Germany, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Museum for Concret Art in Ingolstadt, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Musee d’Art Contemporain and Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Musee de L’Elysee in Switzerland, and many others worldwide. Centre Georges Pompidou (constructed 1971–1977 and known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement (ˈbɔtʁɔp is a city in west central Germany, on the Rhine-Herne Canal in North Rhine-Westphalia. Museum Ludwig, located in Cologne, Germany, houses a collection of Modern art. The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is a recently opened (March 2005 art museum in Stuttgart, Germany. The Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal is a Contemporary art museum in the Place des Arts complex Montreal, Québec, Canada. The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (lit City Museum Amsterdam) is a Museum for Modern art in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Mohr has had numerous solo exhibitions with both museums and galleries in New York, Zürich, Cologne, Paris, Amsterdam, Stuttgart, Berlin, Montreal, São Paulo, Seoul. Additionally, he has participated in group exhibitions at the Leo Castelli Gallery and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street between Fifth

Mohr has received many awards including the 2006 [ddaa] Digital Art Award Cologne/Berlin, a Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts in 1997, the 1990 Golden Nica from Ars Electronica in Linz, the 1990 Camille Graesser-Preis in Zürich, and the 1973 Ljubljana Print Biennial. The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important yearly prizes in the field of electronic and Interactive art, Computer animation, digital culture Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art technology and society that was part of the International In 1994, the first comprehensive monograph on his work was published by Waser-Verlag in Zürich, Switzerland.

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'. Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of Painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled splashed or smeared onto the canvas Lithography is a method for Printing using a plate or stone with a completely smooth surface École des Beaux-Arts ("School of Fine Arts" refers to a number of influential Art schools in France. 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. Ljubljana ( is the largest and Capital city of Slovenia. It is located in the center of the country and is a mid-sized city of some 270000 inhabitants In Geometry, a hypercube is an n -dimensional analogue of a square ( n = 2 and a Cube ( n = 3 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 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. American Abstract Artists ( AAA) was formed in 1936 in New York City, to promote and foster public understanding of Abstract art. 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

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