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compArt is a project of digital art.
It creates works: images, programs, interactive installations, video, text.
It registers and documents works, events, persons, publications, institutions.
Works of art need space: actual to grasp with the hand, virtual to grasp with the mind.
compArt is running an aesthetic laboratory and an algorithmic space of data.
compArt currently concentrates on the early phase of ditigal art (until 1979).

Since 1963, the pioneer Frieder Nake has been contributing to computer art.
Instead of "computer art" we prefer to say: Digital Art – algorithmic and interactive.
In 1999, computer art was re-cultivated in Nake's research group.
From 2007–2011 the project has been financed by Rudolf Augstein Stiftung.
Since this time compArt was institutionalised as a center of excellence.
In this centre we bundle our long year practice and theory.

In the latest project »the algorithmic dimension in visual arts« compArt get a special focus and generalisation.
This project (September 2013 – Dezember 2016) is in cooperation with Kunsthalle Bremen and it is sponsered by
VW-Stiftung (research in museums)

talk about compArt (18.07.2007)(pdf) (german)
complementary text (pdf) (german)

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	the secret of sience and art is the ability to notice a possibility nobody else sees - and realise it (Nathaniel Branden)
	compArt
	compArt is a project of digital art. It creates works: images, programs, interactive installations, video, text. It registers and documents works, events, persons, publications, institutions. Works of art need space: actual to grasp with the hand, virtual to grasp with the mind. compArt is running an aesthetic laboratory and an algorithmic space of data. compArt currently concentrates on the early phase of ditigal art (until 1979). Since 1963, the pioneer Frieder Nake has been contributing to computer art. Instead of "computer art" we prefer to say: Digital Art – algorithmic and interactive. In 1999, computer art was re-cultivated in Nake's research group. From 2007–2011 the project has been financed by Rudolf Augstein Stiftung. Since this time compArt was institutionalised as a center of excellence. In this centre we bundle our long year practice and theory. In the latest project »the algorithmic dimension in visual arts« compArt get a special focus and generalisation. This project (September 2013 – Dezember 2016) is in cooperation with Kunsthalle Bremen and it is sponsered by VW-Stiftung (research in museums) talk about compArt (18.07.2007)(pdf) (german) complementary text (pdf) (german)
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	Digital media are where algorithmics and aesthetics meet. The tension between algorithmics and aesthetics is the driving force for digital art in general, and for compArt's production and interpretation in particular. The direction of my research aims at understanding this tension and putting it to good use in the Aesthetic Laboratory. For this purpose we re-engineer algorithmus of pioneering digital art; embed them into interactive installations; generate new ideas and works (on paper, canvas, static, dynamic or interactive) inspired by the aesthtics of older ones. The Aesthetic Laboratory ist the space where this happens. It is wherever we are. It is more than the usual work space: its didatics, subject matter, and social setting. A space to grown.
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	My specific topics in compArt are teaching & research in the Aesthetic Laboratory: Computer art as a subject matter of education (also generative design); Media- and Interface-Design (interactive installations, experimental aesthetics); Media education as personality development; Cooperating on the compArt database talk about the aesthetic laboratory with examples from teaching as pdf (24.06.2010) (german)