EXPANDED.ART CRYPTO ART SALON BERLIN: SUSANNE PÄCH, THEFUNNYGUYS, ANIKA MEIER

On the occasion of Herbert W. Franke’s solo exhibition CODED BEAUTY, Anika Meier will be in conversation with Susanne Päch, Estate of Herbert W. Franke and wife of the artist, and thefunnyguys, generative art collector, co-founder of Le Random, a recently launched digital generative art institution. They will discuss early computer art, the history of generative art and the intersection of art, technology and science. Herbert W. Franke was a pivotal figure in the development of digital art, which he helped to shape over the next few decades as an artist, writer and curator. As early as 1957, Franke proved in a book entitled ART AND CONSTRUCTION (Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich) that technology "opens up undreamed-of new artistic territory". He has consistently explored new territory with analytical methods and the assistance of machines for over 70 years, looking into the future of digital art until he arrived in the metaverse as an artist and curator in the early 2000s.