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Vera Molnar is a pioneering figure of computer art whose work fundamentally shaped the application of algorithmic thinking
in visual art. She spent most of her life in France; in 1947, at the age of 23, she moved to Paris with her husband, François Molnar,
where she established her artistic practice. Although her oeuvre is widely known for works created with the use of computers,
from the outset her practice was centered on a systematic inquiry into order and disorder, repetition and variation, and the role
of chance in visual structures.
In order to make each phase of her investigations traceable and analyzable, she developed a method that initially relied
on an imaginary computer, and later on a real one. She referred to this imagined device using the term “machine imaginaire”,
borrowed from her friend, the French composer Michel Philippot. At first, she executed algorithms manually, step by step,
in the form of hand drawings.
Molnar was among the first artists to use a computer in the…
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Vera Molnar is a pioneering figure of computer art whose work fundamentally shaped the application of algorithmic thinking
in visual art. She spent most of her life in France; in 1947, at the age of 23, she moved to Paris with her husband, François Molnar,
where she established her artistic practice. Although her oeuvre is widely known for works created with the use of computers,
from the outset her practice was centered on a systematic inquiry into order and disorder, repetition and variation, and the role
of chance in visual structures.
In order to make each phase of her investigations traceable and analyzable, she developed a method that initially relied
on an imaginary computer, and later on a real one. She referred to this imagined device using the term “machine imaginaire”,
borrowed from her friend, the French composer Michel Philippot. At first, she executed algorithms manually, step by step,
in the form of hand drawings.
Molnar was among the first artists to use a computer in the…
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