From left to right: Manfred Mohr, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, and Francesca Franco
SIGGRAPH 2025 Art Gallery Chair Francesca Franco sits down with Manfred Mohr, Christa Sommerer, and Laurent Mignonneau for an in-depth conversation about their journeys at the intersection of art, science, and technology. From algorithmic and generative art to interactive systems and AI, they discuss pivotal moments, groundbreaking exhibitions, and the evolving role of technology in artistic expression. Get ready to experience the Art Gallery at SIGGRAPH 2025 in Vancouver, BC, 10-14 August.
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About Our Guests
Manfred Mohr is considered a pioneer of digital art. After discovering Prof. Max Bense’s information aesthetics in the early 1960’s, Mohr’s artistic thinking was radically changed. Within a few years, his art transformed from abstract expressionism to computer generated algorithmic geometry. Encouraged by the computer music composer Pierre Barbaud whom he met in 1967, Mohr programmed his first computer drawings in 1969.
Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau are internationally renowned media artists, researchers and pioneers of interactive art. They worked 10 years in Japan as Associate Professors at the IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences in Gifu, Japan and as Researchers and Artistic Directors at the ATR Advanced Telecommunications Research Lab in Kyoto Japan. Previously they were artists-in-residence at the MIT CAVS in Cambridge, USA, artists-in-residence at the NCSA National Center for Supercomputing Applications Beckmann Institute in Champaign Urbana, IL, USA, and artists-in-residence at the NTT-InterCommunication Center in Tokyo. In 2004 they founded the Department of Interface Cultures at the University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria, where they are both professors.
