HANS DEHLINGER

ARTIST 

The exhibition PLOTTED LINES by Hans Dehlinger is comprised of 26 of the artist's plotter drawings of the past three decades and shows the artist’s exploration of the medium and the line. With a focus on algorithmically generated line drawings, Dehlinger bases his generative artworks on computer code executed on pen plotters, forming delicate structures, dense textures, or even evoking an unsharp impression from sharp lines.

HANS DEHLINGER | PLOTTED LINES

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<meta charset="utf-8">EXPANDED.ART PIONEER GRAILS: 72-HOUR OPEN NFT EDITION HANS DEHLINGER: YELLOW TREE (2001) 15-18 AUGUST 2023 | 6-6 PM CEST 
<meta charset="utf-8"> ABOUT YELLOW TREE “I studied architecture in Stuttgart. Max Bense lectured in what was then known as the Studium Generale. I don't believe something like that exists anymore. People from all kinds of faculties gathered there. It was really exciting. There were no exams like in statics, building law, design, and so on. It was about questions concerning the art form of concrete poetry, which was fashionable at the time, about the types of language that might be used there, and about the more general question of when something is art. When does something stop being art?
Bense's answer, very briefly: Avoid the term art altogether. The term art is far too loaded, Bense said. Therefore, introduce the term 'aesthetic event.'
The design of YELLOW TREE comes down to just three decisions: the design of a piece of code that makes use of randomly generated, but somehow predefined, polygonal lines; a color for the object generated; and a color for the background. In my opinion, it is the strictness and simplicity of this setup that are of interest for its qualification as an ‘aesthetic event.’”
– Hans Dehlinger
YELLOW TREE (2001) by Hans Dehlinger is a print of a coded vector file that was originally written for and executed on a pen plotter. A great number of polygonal lines consisting of straight line segments originate in a very small square area at the bottom of the page, a symbol for the "root area" of the tree.
The blue background color is a reference to a wide blue sky in summer. The yellow reminds us of the time of harvest from the soil of the earth.
The first instance of each line is always generated vertically and upwards—the "stem of the tree". The lines further unfold and spread upward into the entire drawing area and are clipped at its borders. The clipping technique has been described by the artist in a paper from 2004: "Generative Art: Fuzzy Polygon Clipping in Program Generated Line-Oriented Drawings". YELLOW TREE IN PAST EXHIBITIONS RETROSPEKTIVE HANS DEHLINGER: ALGORITHMISCH GENERATIVE EXPERIMENTE, solo exhibition, Hallenbad Ost, Kassel, 2 September – 15 October 2021. 
ABOUT THE PIONEER GRAILS  EXPANDED.ART'S PIONEER GRAILS is a series of 72-HOUR OPEN NFT EDITIONS presenting paradigmatic artworks from key figures in the history of digital art. ABOUT THE 72-HOUR OPEN NFT EDITION Each open edition is available for 72 hours. The final edition size is determined by the number of primary sales during the 72 hour minting window. After the end of the 72 hours, the NFTs may be collected on the secondary market. <meta charset="utf-8"> ABOUT THE NFT Contract: <a href="https://etherscan.io/address/0xa8f97058f9b863e4d54ee86ae374d31ebab5e70d" target="_blank">0xA8f97058F9b863e4d54ee86ae374d31eBAb5E70D</a> Blockchain: Ethereum Token Standard: ERC-721 Metadata: Frozen and decentralized

YELLOW TREE

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ABOUT THE WORK For Hans Dehlinger, the age of the metaverse is one of bright colors and bold shapes. In TREE_16_ON_PINK, the gnarled, graceful appearance of an ancient tree is combined with an expansive, rectangular-shaped crown that is visibly and deliberately designed for a 16:9 screen. By "growing" into the screen format, TREE_16_ON_PINK symbolically bridges nature and technology. Also, the "techno tree" appears to be glowing from within, but it could just be heat haze. The natural and the artificial blend here as well.
"The pinkish sky and the tree’s shape invoke an image of a dry and dusty landscape. They exude the surreal beauty of what one would hope is just a spectacular sunrise and not impending doom. That sky is too evenly colored, though. Nature is still the basis. If it goes up in flames, technology will burn with it." 
– Hans Dehlinger Trees have been a subject of Hans Dehlinger’s generative artwork for over 20 years. TREE_16_ON_PINK is one of two new works created for the show TECHNO TERRAIN. NATURE IN THE AGE OF THE METAVERSE. It references earlier artworks of his with trees. Two of them, tree11 and baum_V14, were exhibited at SIGGRAPH in 2002.

TREE_16_ON_PINK

83-year-old Hans Dehlinger has lived a life with many chapters. Early on, there was the chapter when Dehlinger studied under German philosopher and logician Max Bense and alongside Frieder Nake, today one of the most well-known pioneers of computer art. Then, Dehlinger entered the Berkeley chapter, where he studied and later worked as an environmental planner and architect, before entering a chapter experimenting with plotter drawings and generative art. With a broad approach to art and an ever-curious mind, Dehlinger combined the previous chapters and knowledge and has become a pioneer of generative art.

With a focus on algorithmically generated line drawings, Dehlinger bases his generative artworks on computer code executed on pen plotters, forming delicate structures, dense textures, or even evoking an unsharp impression from sharp lines.

In conversation with Anika Meier, Hans Dehlinger discusses his career and early computer art, the past and present of generative art and the connection between science and art.

Plotter Drawings and Generative Art

HANS DEHLINGER: HOW CAN ONE DEFINE ART?

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TECHNO TERRAIN: NATURE IN THE AGE OF THE METAVERSE explores the dynamic relationship between nature and the digital realm. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through a mesmerizing fusion of AI-driven digital art, nostalgia-infused landscapes, and the limitless possibilities of the metaverse.



NATURE IN THE AGE OF THE METAVERSE 

TECHNO TERRAIN | SHOWROOM

The exhibition presents pioneers from different generations, early 1950s until today, working in the field of generative art. On view will be, among others, plotter drawings, generative photography, sculptures, and NFTs from 30 international artists. In collaboration with ELEMENTUM.ART.

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THE THINKING MACHINE. PRESENTING PIONEERS, 1953-2023 | GALLERY & SHOWROOM

In the early 1980s, Hans Dehlinger began to explore computers artistically, with a focus on algorithmically generated line drawings. The majority of his generative artwork is based on procedures and computer code executed on pen plotters. 




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