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Vera Molnar: Variations

Apr 02, 2022 - Aug 27, 2022

In the mid-late 1960s Vera Molnar and a small group of other artists started to write their own computer programs to make their art. In these computer-generated works, the code becomes the medium and is made visible through a print-out, sound and or video. Once the code is written, the artist gives up control within a proscribed set of procedures that moves the plotter pen to create a drawing.  And when the code is transformed to this analogue output, it reveals images and sounds that the artist and their audiences might never have imagined.  Molnar created variations in her drawings by randomly controlling aspects of a shape or a line. By taking a look at the specific works in this exhibition, one may see how random operations are at the core of her computational drawings and how this represents a major paradigm shift from deterministic, systemic approaches to making more indeterminate art.

This exhibition includes Molnar鈥檚 work from 1958-2014, both her pre-computational and early computational drawings. The computational drawings in the exhibition focus on three kinds of objects:  lines, squares, rectangle, scribbles each using a different algorithmic transformation.



In the mid-late 1960s Vera Molnar and a small group of other artists started to write their own computer programs to make their art. In these computer-generated works, the code becomes the medium and is made visible through a print-out, sound and or video. Once the code is written, the artist gives up control within a proscribed set of procedures that moves the plotter pen to create a drawing.  And when the code is transformed to this analogue output, it reveals images and sounds that the artist and their audiences might never have imagined.  Molnar created variations in her drawings by randomly controlling aspects of a shape or a line. By taking a look at the specific works in this exhibition, one may see how random operations are at the core of her computational drawings and how this represents a major paradigm shift from deterministic, systemic approaches to making more indeterminate art.

This exhibition includes Molnar鈥檚 work from 1958-2014, both her pre-computational and early computational drawings. The computational drawings in the exhibition focus on three kinds of objects:  lines, squares, rectangle, scribbles each using a different algorithmic transformation.



Artists on show

Contact details

Tuesday - Wednesday
12:00 - 5:00 PM
Thursday - Saturday
12:00 - 8:00 PM
Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Claire Trevor School of the Arts Irvine, CA, USA 92697

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