Looking Outwards 06

Randomness in generative art

Vera Molnar’s work was amongst the first to be using computation to create art. She would use algorithms that delicately balanced randomness and purpose. This is especially true for her piece titled ‘Dialog Between Emotion and Method’ from 1986 where the idea of computational control is linked to method but the randomness of emotion makes the cube-square-like forms chaotic and unorderly. I suppose a majority of her algorithm revolved around creating the random colorful lines but she used constraints to trap the randomness in squares throughout the canvas– a bit like organized chaos. I think the way she breaks the idea of perfection and order that computationally creating art can quite easily provide and instead leans into disrupting it to create more visually intriguing forms.

https://muda.co/veramolnar/http://dada.compart-bremen.de/item/artwork/127