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Fig. 3.1
Georg Nees:
23-Ecke
, 1965 (with permission of the artist)
and was continuing them. Pop art was, of course, popular. Serial, permutational, ran-
dom elements and methods were being explored by artists. Kinetic art and light art
were another two orientations of strong technological dependence. Max Bense had
chosen the title
Programming the beautiful
(
Programmierung des Schönen
)forthe
third volume of his
Aesthetica
(Bense
1965
), and Karl Gerstner had presented his
topic
Designing Programs
(
Programme entwerfen
, Gerstner
1963
), whose second
edition already contained a short section on randomness by computers.
But back to polygons! They appear in the works of the three above mentioned
scientists-turned-artists among their very first experiments (Figs.
3.1
,
3.2
and
3.3
).
We will now look at some of their commonalities and differences.
