Professor Herbert W. Franke has already started to generate works of art using computers in the Fifties. A physics PhD, he was fascinated by the possibilities of machine-supported graphical creation. At the same time he gave much attention, right from the start, to aspects of information and reception theory that are relevant in the borderland of art and science. This is how he made an important scientific contribution to the understanding of the aesthetic mechanisms. In addition, Mr. Franke ranges among the most renowned German-speaking authors of utopian literature and has acquired great merits in the field of cave and karst exploration.

For more information on Herbert W. Franke visit: http://www.art-meets-science.info/summary.php

Gerhard Höberth and Herbert W. Franke

Gerhard Höberth and Ingrid Kamerbeek

Herbert W. Franke, Gerhard Höberth - 2nd on rh side -, Ingrid, grand nephew of Herbert, Moritz

Gerhard and Ingrid chatting - Webism present parcel in background -

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Ilona Picha-Höberth, a creative woman and writer, and also nice wife of Gerhard

lh to rh: Ingrid Kamerbeek, Gerhard Höberth, Ilona Picha-Höberth

World Premiere

Another highlight will be the world premiere of a puppet play in the Marionettentheater (string puppet theatre) in Bad Toelz (Southern Bavaria) in early summer 2007.

The play script by Herbert W. Franke "The Crystal Planet" will be staged by Albert Maly-Motta and Karl-Heinz Bille, who are both renowned artists of puppet making and puppeteering.

This will probably be not only the first puppet play whose plot is set in the future, but it will also combine for the first time traditional stage effects with the most advanced puppeteering technology.

Together with established animation techniques very special micro-animation and computer animation techniques will be applied.

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Boy it was sooooo hot backstage but amazing to learn more from the puppet players about

the technique used for the stunning world premiere play written by Herbert W. Franke

"The Cristall Planet".

Masks made by students of the "Münchner Berufsfachschule für Holzbildhauer"

lh to rh: Gerhard Höberth, Ingrid Kamerbeek, Thomas Kamerbeek

Gerhard Höberth, Ingrid Kamerbeek