#brummbaer

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SIGGRAPH 95 Opening ↯95AUG | Brummbaer’s history of computer animation, first screened at the opening of the Electronic Theatre at SIGGRAPH 95.

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A perfect, minute-long survey of 1980s/90s computer animation created by Brummbaer for SIGGRAPH '95.

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The groundbreaking computer animator and artist Brummbaer has left us today (1945–2016). His diverse practice started in the 1960s with pavement painting, psychedelic poster design, and light shows for Amon Düül II, Frank Zappa, Tangerine Dream, etc. By the 1970s, he was running an underground comix company and had translated/edited Robert Crumb’s first book into German.

With the 1980s, he discovered his most expressive medium—the computer. He was a prolific computer artist with innumerable animations as well as digital paintings (a master of Deluxe Paint). He also created SFX for Johnny Mnemonic and a CG history retrospective for SIGGRAPH '95. Several health battles came with the 2000s but he continued to create and publish two autobiographical books. In describing Brummbaer during a 1992 interview: 

Ever modest with regard to the magic that he spins, Brummbaer says that his philosophy of creativity stems from his notion that an artist is but a humble window washer. His computer screen, he claims, is simply a window that allows him to see through into other worlds, and all he does is polish the screen so that we can see through to the other side.

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David Byrne is Inside Your Amiga ▰ From unrealized “Neuromancer” videogame with Timothy Leary ☯88 | artwork by Brummbaer in Deluxe Paint / read more → nyti.ms/1fvYIHh