Frieder Nake

Frieder Nake
Nake in 2012
Born (1938-12-16) December 16, 1938
Stuttgart, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Stuttgart
Occupation(s)Mathematician, computer artist

Frieder Nake (born December 16, 1938) is a mathematician, computer scientist, and pioneer of computer art. He is best known internationally for his contributions to the earliest manifestations of computer art, a field of computing that made its first public appearances with three small exhibitions in 1965.