Vera Molnar

An early adopter of computer and algorithmic art, Hungarian-born French artist Vera Molnar has over six decades of experience. A co-founder of GRAV group, she made mechanical and kinetic art with geometric shapes, and adhered to Art et Informatique. In defence of her using geometric shapes she refers her quest for delivering surprise with monotony and symmetry. An advocate of unusual media, she often left the perforated edge of the computer printouts intact, calling the artworks "jobs." Her 1974 work Hypertransformation of 20 Concentric Squares, produced on plotter paper, exemplifies her unusual methods. Before computer art, Vera Molnar created nonrepresentational art, where art does not portray real world subjects. Influenced by Russian Constructivism and abstract art of Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee, she produced collage, painting, and photography. With the advent of computer she was drawn into it in the late sixties, and developed her own style. Molnar sees computer art as the representation of thoughts that cannot be expressed with human limitations, such as lack of time and visual acuteness. In essence, computer enables her to materialize those thoughts in art forms. (Artist website)