Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 6: Personal Computer Era (1980s)

1980

Vera Molnár Joins François at the Sorbonne

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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, fact-checked September 2026.

Sources

People

François Molnár, Vera Molnár

Movements

computer art, Technology and Art

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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

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