Intersections: The Computer Graphics, Music, and Writings of Herbert Brün

This multi-faceted book provides a sorely needed critical reevaluation of the pioneering computer graphics, music, and thought of the composer Herbert Brün and should serve as a riposte to the more superficial fads of ersatz intelligence.

This multi-faceted book is both timely and long overdue. Building upon the Kentler International Drawing Space’s groundbreaking 2004 exhibition of Herbert Brün’s computer graphics, it explores an important body of work that had only rarely been shown outside of the United States Midwest. Brün’s inimitable integration of graphical and musical composition, performance, and computer expertise—plus his passion for the politics of language, form the critical focus of the book. The matrix of visual, musical, performative, linguistic, and political connections suggested by Brün’s œuvre is analyzed here by a panel of experts. The resulting mosaic of opinions captures the creative fervor of an artist who risked the charge of obscurantism in a quest to bend awkward machines to humane purposes.