Aron Warszawski

Aron Warszawski was born in 1935 in Israel. He studied mechanical engineering at Technische Universität München in Germany. In the early 1970s, he worked at Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB), a German aerospace and engineering company known for cutting-edge research. There, he focused on computer graphics, creating algorithmic art using early plotter machines and programming languages like FORTRAN IV.

Warszawski’s work combined technical precision with artistic experimentation. Notable pieces include Families of Circles and collaborative works like Circle Sequences with Frank Böttger. These graphics were created using FORTRAN IV programs running on an IBM 360 Model 50 mainframe and were output on a Kongsberg Kingmatic plotter. They were part of a computer graphics project directed by Johann Willsberger, featured in the cultural program of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. This project stands as an early and significant example of computer technology being applied to artistic creation on an international stage.

His work has been shown in key exhibitions documenting early computer art. He participated in the 1973 Tendencies 5 exhibition in Zagreb, which presented over 300 works by 58 international artists and helped establish computer graphics as a serious art form in Europe during the Cold War. Warszawski’s art was also included in Ex Machina at Kunsthalle Bremen alongside pioneers like Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnár, and Frieder Nake. More recently, his work appeared in bit international at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe from 2008 to 2009, reinforcing his role in the early history of computer-generated art.