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Manfred Mohr „Vom Rhythmus zum Algorithmus“ (From Rhythm to Algorithm), German/English edition, Modo 2017

Exhibition catalogue – the book was published on the occasion of the self-titled retrospective exhibition (spanning roughly 5 decades) in Mohr’s city of birth, Pforzheim (South-West Germany)

The title gives a hint on Mohr’s artistic background as well as his artistic development from a Tachysm/Hard-Edge painter to an early artist working with the computer and algorithms. But also from being a sought-after jazz musician to becoming a full-time visual artist and a pioneer of digital art.

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Manfred Mohr — 4/4

Having worked in a binary color palette, black and white, for almost 30 years and being fixated to exploring the cube and hypercube since the 70s, Mohr switched to using color at the turn of the millennium. He never made any explicit color choices for shapes, but let the computer pick from a palette, much as how most artists do it today in long-form generative art.

L: space.color, pigment on canvas, 2000–2007
R: space.color.motion, program P-777, on-screen work, 2002–2016

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