Generative Computergraphik
Georg Nees' 1969 doctoral dissertation at TH Stuttgart under Max Bense, described by ZKM's archival record as the first PhD thesis in the field of computer art.
What is in it
We don’t know, beyond the catalogue record — and that gap is worth stating plainly rather than papering over. What the bundle establishes: this is Georg Nees’ 1969 doctoral dissertation, titled Generative Computergraphik. Archive.org’s item page describes it as the “doctoral dissertation by Georg Nees” and says the scan includes “the original 1969 thesis, and the 2006 reprint with new foreword by Nees.” ZKM’s own biographical record for Nees calls it “the first Ph.D. thesis in the field of computer art.” Beyond title, authorship, and that one line of institutional framing, nothing from the dissertation’s own body — no chapter list, no program listing, no named algorithm — reached the evidence behind this page.
What you can do after reading it
Nothing specific can be said from this bundle — no algorithm, no worked example, no described technique made it into the evidence here. What the record does support: reading it (particularly the 2006 reprint, which carries a new foreword by Nees himself) puts you at a documented origin point for the field rather than at a later survey or retrospective account of one.
Which entities it covers
Concretely, one: its author, Georg Nees. Whether the dissertation discusses other named techniques, artists, or works is unknown from this bundle — nothing beyond the bibliographic record and the “first Ph.D. thesis” framing reached the evidence here.
How to get it
Archive.org hosts the scan at archive.org/details/generative_computergraphik, described there as including both “the original 1969 thesis, and the 2006 reprint with new foreword by Nees.” No explicit licence or public-domain statement was found on the item page — it sits in the archive’s “folkscanomy” scanned-book collection with no rights statement present in the fetched bytes, so treat reuse as unresolved rather than assume public domain.