- Guest of Honor at the "HEICON 70" World Science Fiction Convention (Heidelberg, West Germany, 21-24 August 1970)
- In 2018, the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Karlsruhe awarded Herbert W. Franke an honorary doctorate.
- In 1979, he co-founded Ars Electronica in Linz/Austria.
- He has also written as Sergius Both and Peter Parsival.
- A collection of short stories titled "The Green Comet" was his first publication.
- He received his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1950 by writing a dissertation about electron optics.
- Franke has also published several novels beginning with Das Gedankennetz (1961; trans Christine Priest as The Mind Net 1974). Der Orchideenkäfig (1961; trans Christine Priest as The Orchid Cage 1973), which complexly depicts, in Franke's typically speculative, somewhat dry manner, the profound transformative effects of a mysterious planet on its human explorers.
- In 1980 he became a selected member of the German PEN club.
- Herbert W. Franke was the prototype of a universal genius.
- Since 1957, he has worked as a freelance author.
- Franke also made it to the Venice Biennale in 1970 with a screen print. The work, created with a digital computer, was his first in which he allowed chance to work together with an algorithm.
- In 1979 and 1980, he lectured in "introduction to perception psychology" at the Art & Design division of the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences.
- From 1973 to 1997 he held a lectureship in "Cybernetical Aesthetic" at Munich University (later computer graphics - computer art).
- The Francisco Carolinum Museum for Photography and Media Art, located in the Upper Austrian city of Linz, called Franke a universal genius and the forefather of media art.
- He was an Austrian-born author and scientist who, after receiving a doctorate in Vienna in 1950, moved to Munich, where he taught cybernetic aesthetics at the University of Munich.
- Franke studied physics, mathematics, chemistry, psychology and philosophy in Vienna.
- He liked to call himself the dinosaur of computer art.
- After leaving university he worked on a research project for the Technische Hochschule Wien and in the advertising and press department at Siemens in Erlangen (1952-1957).
- In 1998, Franke attended a SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in Orlando and was a juror at the "VideoMath Festival" Berlin.
- He published over 40 monographs on scientific and experimental photography, visual perception, cybernetics, the relations of arts and sciences, and speleology.
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