Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 10: On-Chain Era (2020s)

2026

“Degrees of Disruption” Brings Vera Molnár to the V&A

Exhibition · Europe

Vera Molnár, *(Des)Ordres*, 1974, a plotter drawing in the V&A’s collection.
Vera Molnár, *(Des)Ordres*, 1974, a plotter drawing in the V&A’s collection. Vera Molnár, (Des)Ordres, 1974. Plotter drawing. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, E.271-2011. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Image source.

On October 16, 2026, the V&A opened “Degrees of Disruption: Vera Molnar and Generative Art” in Rooms 88A and 90 at South Kensington. The free display runs to May 30, 2027.

Curated by Melanie Lenz, the V&A’s curator of digital art, it brings together more than 50 works to show how Vera Molnár used algorithms, carried out by hand or by machine, from her Interruptions plotter drawings to (Des)Ordres. Eight contemporary generative artists show alongside her, among them Casey Reas, Zach Lieberman, Harm van den Dorpel, William Mapan, Licia He, Matt DesLauriers and Entangled Others.

It opened two years after the Pompidou survey.

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Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.

Sources

People

Casey Reas, Harm van den Dorpel, Licia He, Matt DesLauriers, Melanie Lenz, Vera Molnár, William Mapan, Zach Lieberman

Movements

generative art, computer art, Plotter Art

Filed under

Ideas
digital art, generative art, institutional recognition, legacy
Technologies
Plotter Art
People
Casey Reas, Harm van den Dorpel, Licia He, Matt DesLauriers, Melanie Lenz, Vera Molnár, William Mapan, Zach Lieberman
Works
(Dés)Ordres, Interruptions
Exhibitions
Degrees of Disruption
Organisations
Entangled Others, Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)
Places
London

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