Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)
1980
Vera Molnár Joins François at the Sorbonne

Vera Molnár was heavily involved with Sorbonne University throughout the 1980s. In 1980, she and Franćois established the Centre de Recherche Expérimentale et Informatique des Arts Visuels (CREIAV). From 1985 to 1990, she taught fine art, aesthetics and art history at the Sorbonne’s Department of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences. This period was also fruitful for her practice, as it included some of her most well-known projects, such as Lettres à ma mère (1981-1990). Molnár stopped using plotters in 1991 and switched to prints. 1980 was a big year for Vera, as it also marked the publishing of her first artist’s book Un pourcent de désordre (One per cent disorder) by Wedgepress & Cheese in Bjärred (Sweden).
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
People
Movements
computer art, Technology and Art
Filed under
- Ideas
- aesthetics, pedagogy, print, randomness, Technology and Art
- Technologies
- computer art, plotter, Plotter Art
- People
- François Molnár, Vera Molnár
- Works
- Lettres à ma mère, Un pourcent de désordre
- Organisations
- Centre de Recherche Expérimentale et Informatique des Arts Visuels (CREIAV), Sorbonne Department of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences, Sorbonne University, Wedgepress & Cheese
- Places
- Bjärred, Sweden
Echoes across time
- 1968 · Vera Molnár Begins her Computer Art Phase with the Interruptions Series
- 2024 · Vera Molnár Survey at Pompidou
- 1964 · 23-Ecke by Georg Nees
Le Random editorials
- Living Aesthetics: A Grammar of Protocol Art and Worldbuilding, Primavera De Filippi & Peter Bauman, August 24, 2026
- Demystifying Generative Aesthetics, Peter Bauman, March 21, 2024
- Molnár's Paris, Peter Bauman, February 26, 2024
- Generations of Verse, Elisabeth Sweet, July 12, 2023
Le Random podcast
- Timeline Ch 1—Pre-Modern Era with Marius Watz — listen with transcript on Le Random (06 Jul 2023, 46 min). Transcript mentions Vera Molnár. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 2—Modern Era with Kate Vass — listen with transcript on Le Random (20 Jul 2023, 58 min). Transcript mentions Vera Molnár. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 3—Analog Era (1950s) with Georg Bak — listen with transcript on Le Random (10 Aug 2023, 65 min). Transcript mentions Vera Molnár. Apple Podcasts · Spotify
- Timeline Ch 6—Personal Computer Era (1980s) with Mark Wilson, Copper Giloth, Dan Sandin, David Em, William Latham, Stephen Todd, Darcy Gerbarg & Geoff Davis — listen with transcript on Le Random (08 Feb 2024, 85 min). Chapter 6’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify