Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 5: Artist-Programmer Era (1970s)

1975

Hypertransformations by Vera Molnár

Artwork · Women Artists

One sheet from Vera Molnar's Hypertransformations (1975/76): a set of concentric squares plotted on fan-fold paper, each square displaced slightly from true so the nest appears to drift off-axis.
One sheet from Vera Molnar's Hypertransformations (1975/76): a set of concentric squares plotted on fan-fold paper, each square displaced slightly from true so the nest appears to drift off-axis. Vera Molnar, Hypertransformations, 1975/76, computer graphic print, c. 20 x 20 cm. Courtesy Digital Art Museum (digitalartmuseum.org).

One of Molnár’s most recognizable phases (1975-76), Hypertransformations “examines the effects of minor changes in parameters of the x- and y-axis to regular squares.” The works are similar to (Dés)Ordres except features only series of concentric squares instead of many on a grid. Some variations would be plotted and then painted over by Molnár, part of her attempt to add the human hand back into the work and explore the relationship between hand and machine.

Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random, fact-checked September 2026.

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People

Vera Molnár

Movements

computer art, generative art

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Ideas
generative art, geometry, human machine collaboration, painting
Technologies
computer art, plotter, Plotter Art
People
Vera Molnár
Works
(Dés)Ordres, Hypertransformations

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