Jürgen Lit Fischer

Jürgen Lit Fischer. Photo via compArt database Digital Art, University of Bremen.

German

1941 —2005

Jürgen Lit Fischer was a light artist based in Düsseldorf who also made computer graphics in the 1980s, plotting the results of his own FORTRAN programs. Big Dice (1984) was in the SIGGRAPH 1985 art show and Intervalle won a distinction at the 1987 Prix Ars Electronica. He was among the first three prize winners of Computerwoche's 1984 computer graphics competition.

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Jürgen Lit Fischer (born Hans-Jürgen Fischer) was a light artist based in Düsseldorf who also made computer graphics in the 1980s. Trained as a merchant and industrial designer, he was self-taught as an artist and made his first light objects in 1968. His Fraktal (1995) is the light sculpture on the Tetraeder in Bottrop.

In the 1980s Fischer wrote FORTRAN programs on a Prime computer and plotted the results, which became prints and Plexiglas pieces. Big Dice (1984) was in the SIGGRAPH 1985 art show, and Intervalle won a distinction at the 1987 Prix Ars Electronica. The folder of Computerwoche's 1984 computer graphics competition holds two of his sheets and names him among its first three prize winners. At the Hannover Messe prize-giving in April 1984, he explained the difference between aesthetic chance products and carefully generated plotter drawings.