PROF. DR. HERBERT W. FRANKE, SCIENTIST AND SCIENCE-FICTION-AUTHOR

Prof. Dr. Herbert W. Franke (born 1927) studied physics, mathematics, chemistry, psychology, and philosophy in Vienna. He is internationally considered to be a pioneer in the field of digital art and has made contributions to aesthetics with regard to perception and information theory. He has also addressed futurology and is one of the most distinguished German-language science fiction authors. He has written more than 40 reference and specialised books as well as award-winning utopian novels and short stories. H. W. Franke has held lectureships at the University and Academy of Arts in Munich and is co-founder of Ars Electronica in Linz on the Danube. Along with other awards, he received the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class, in 2007 from the Austrian Ministry for Education, Arts, and Culture.

(This keynote speech will be given in German.)