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

1977

L’ordinateur et les arts visuels by François Molnar

Publication · Europe

Three sparse arrangements of short black horizontal and vertical lines on white, with a denser central composition.
Vera Molnár, examples from the Molndrian series reproduced in François Molnár’s 1977 essay “L’ordinateur dans l’art et dans la science de l’art.” Figure reproduced in Aline Guillermet’s Vera Molnar’s Computer Paintings (2020), fig. 4. Courtesy of Vera Molnar / Galerie Oniris, as credited in Aline Guillermet, Vera Molnar’s Computer Paintings, Representations 149 (2020), fig. 4.

This book on computers and the visual arts published by Centre Pompidou and the University of Paris brings together academic texts from the field. One of the major texts is by Vera Molnár’s husband, François. He attempts to bridge science and art in his published paper researching computational aesthetics.

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

Sources

People

François Molnár, Vera Molnár

Movements

computer art

Filed under

Ideas
aesthetics, art and science, computational aesthetics
Technologies
computer art
People
François Molnár, Vera Molnár
Works
Computers and the Visual Arts, L'ordinateur et les arts visuels
Organisations
Centre Pompidou, University of Paris
Places
France, Paris

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