Algorithmic lineages
Vera Molnár
Systematic drawing and the productive disturbance of geometric order.
About
Digital Art Museum records that Vera Molnár began using a computer at the Sorbonne’s experimental psychology laboratory in 1968, making plotter drawings after earlier systematic work made without a machine. The archive identifies Interruptions (1968–69), (Des)Ordres (1974), and later series that use controlled departures within geometric structures. [1]
Why they matter here. For Algorithmics, her method makes a clear proposition: establish a rule, introduce a limited disturbance, inspect the result, and let judgement remain part of the system.
Selected works and methods
- Interruptions (1968–69)
- (Des)Ordres (1974)
- Hypertransformations (1975–76)
- Lettres à ma mère (1981–90)
Work record
V&A: Untitled (Imaginer, Construire) (1985)
The V&A identifies Untitled (Imaginer, Construire), 1985, as a lithograph of a computer-generated drawing. Rights remain with the relevant rightsholders; no reuse licence is implied.