Agenda:
- Responses to Exit Ticket of 1-24 (in Discord)
- Review of Some Exercises
- Splat: A Detail, Lovely, Instructive
- Fuse/Timer: Funny,
- Eyes: Nice, Strong
- Ripples: Good experiment
- 1D Noise: Mission accomplished, Nice
- Review of (Some) Looking Outwards 01
- Spingbing
- Koke_Cacao
- Crispy Salmon
- Kong, see also Obliteration Room
- Roots of Computer Art
- Deep Dive: Vera Molnar (below)
- Exit Ticket (Office Hours Questionnaire)
Vera Molnár
Vera Molnar, born 1924, is a living (!) Hungarian-French artist who was one of the first ten people to make art with a computer. In 1968, Vera Molnar started working with a computer at the experimental psychology lab in Sorbonne, where she created her first plotter drawings, applying what she had been exploring in earlier years without using a machine.
She wrote: “Thanks to its many possibilities of combination the computer helps to systematically research the visual realm, helps the painter to free herself from cultural ′readymades′ and find combinations in forms never seen before, neither in nature nor at a museum: It helps to create inconceivable images. The computer helps, but it does not ′do′, does not ′design′ or ′invent′ anything. To avoid another misunderstanding I wish to underline something else: The fact that something is new and has not been seen before is no guarantee in any manner for its aesthetic quality. Was the portrayal of a young man with curly hair − Dürer′s self-portrait from around 1500 − new?”
(Watch from 15:10)
Here’s Vera Molnar in the mid-1960s, and [below] last year:
