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Last Seen Profiles
With the heaviest of heart I am profoundly and deeply heart stricken to share that Vera Molnar passed away last night peacefully in her sleep.
Please retweet and share with the world that this legend lived and lived in a way that we can all
aspire to live with grace.
😢
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Today’s print edition of the New York Times
@nytimes
#veramolnar
January 5, 1924-December 7, 2023
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#veramolnar
sharing her artistic process and the profound evolution and revolution of
#generativeart
in the 1980s unknowingly creating a historic artist statement for time immortal…
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With endless joy and boundless awe we are thrilled to share this announcement on behalf of
@CentrePompidou
which will honor the iconic legend and grande dame
#veramolnar
on the occasion of her 100th birthday with a major exhibition opening on December 15, 2023!
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Another excellent overview of the beginning of generative and digital art.
👇🏼
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Edward Zajec
Generative Art Pioneer and Maestro
1970
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#veramolnar
99 years young!
Grande dame of
#generativeart
art receiving a copy of
@lacma
exhibition book and beaming.
Coded:Art Enters the Computer Age
Her work is in the backcover of the book…
Photo: Lawrence Shopmaker 3/11/2023
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A collector is a temporary steward of art as we don’t own art in a permanent or absolute sense, but rather hold it in trust for future generations. We have the responsibility to preserve, protect, and display art acquired, and to share and add to the cultural heritage of humanity
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Art movements are often recognized long after they have ended. This is because art movements are not just about the art itself but also about the social, cultural, and historical contexts of the time.
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The original generative art was a small black and white plotter drawing. Franke later produced coloured prints. In 1970
@HerbertWFranke
created a larger red, orange and black silkscreen print for the Venice biennale.
Rest In Peace.
14 May 1927 -16 July 2022
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#veramolnar
97 years young creating
#generativeart
in 1968! 54 years ago when she was 43 years old…
Generative art has a long and glorious history that all of you are now bringing to the world…💥💫❤️🔥
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As a collector I have a different perspective than many who post.
Our first acquisition was in 1993- thirty years ago.
The decision to acquire an art work versus a sofa was a big one.
We opted for an art work and let a futon suffice.
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30 years ago when
@annespalter
was introducing the 1st digital art courses at
@risd
and
@BrownUniversity
had you said i would see this in
@MuseumModernArt
- i would have thought you were taking crack!
Digital art …❤️🔥
@refikanadol
👏🏼
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1959
Ben Laposky considered by many to be the first computer artist in history.
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Mark Wilson is a digital art pioneer who began writing computer code in 1980 to create his own work. He is the author of “Drawing with Computers” (Putnam 1985), of which Scientific American wrote “…he provides the path no one quite knows toward the new art we hope for one day.”
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in a moment of inexplicable joie i found myself
@metmuseum
alone in front of 5 Vermeers as the holiday weekend begins…
only 34 vermeers still exist and yet here i am in awe…
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As early as 1962 Desmond Paul Henry was convinced that his computer derived drawing machine represented “a foretaste of a new era in the history of the visual arts,” heralding a veritable “revolution in art.”
👇🏽1962
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Computer Technique Group: Return to Square, 1968. ©
Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection
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Generative art is becoming increasingly important and celebrated because it takes full advantage of everything that computing has to offer, producing elegant and compelling artworks that extend the same principles and goals artists have pursued from the inception of modern art.
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@mattdesl
@quasimondo
@punk6529
@sofiagarcia_io
@sableRaph
@ix_shells
@verticalcrypto
@ArtOnBlockchain
@annespalter
@iamDCinvestor
@_zackhatfield
👇🏽46 years ago…
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Georg Nees was the first to exhibit
#generativeart
, in February 1965 in Germany. Influenced by Max Bense’s information aesthetics, Nees completed his PhD thesis in 1968 (in German). Its title, “Generative Computergraphik” is a criticamilestone of the movement of generative art.
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Zdenek Sýkora’s
#generativeart
consisted of black-and-white geometric grid-like compositions, and included his celebrated Structure series.
In 1964, he collaborated with mathematician Jaroslav Blazek to create his first computer-assisted works, which began to attract global fame.
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Masao Kohmura is a Japanese artist and cofounder of the Computer Technique Group, a group of artists and engineers active in the 1960s which produced seminal works of computer art. A chance meeting with Haruki Tsuchiya led to CTG, a group dedicated to computer art, in 1966.
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Thrilled to have recently acquired the original “Random War” 1967 artwork by generative art pioneer & legend Chuck Csuri!
The acquisition of this work is one of the more significant additions to the collection as it is a seminal work and part of the canon of art history.
#genart
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Edward Zajec was a
#generativeart
pioneer who started working with computers in 1968. He saw the importance of the computer in his work, in the effect it had in shifting his attention from the art objects themselves to the mental procedures involved in art making.
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#romanverostko
was pioneering generative art when few could care less.
As with other pioneers who laid the groundwork for today it was more often than not about two dueling emotions: passion and survival.
Any aspiring and/or newly successful genartist would be wise to study.
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#GeorgNees
describes watching the Graphomat's drawing his 2nd artwork in 1964, "It ran cold along my spine and I thought 'Here is something that will not vanish again. Look artists, one can make abstract art in mass! Why should an artist not be helped by the computer?”
👇🏽 1970
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It is with profound sadness we just learned of the passing of the legend
@HerbertWFranke
A renaissance gentleman and gentle man his impact on the birth of generative art can not be overstated.
Happy he knew his legacy & impact over the year.
Deepest condolences to Susanne
😢
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Monique Nahas Ph.d of theoretical physics and digital artist. Born in Paris in 1940, she earned her Ph.d in 1969.Her fellow academic, Hervé Huitric, is her collaborator: the two met in 1971, when Nahas and began to experiment with algorithms as art.
1970/1971
👇🏽
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When we began collecting digital art almost no-ONE cared, indeed, many thought we we were silly and wasting our time.
The other day one of the great curators called and asked how we created the preeminent collection of early digital /generative art?
THINK INDEPENDENTLY
Now…
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Spalter Digital created in 1993 was met with derision.
Almost universally others in the artworld thought it was a big joke and derided us.
In February two of the artists have major retrospectives
@CentrePompidou
and
@whitneymuseum
and a third will give a talk
@MuseumModernArt
.
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❤️🔥👇🏼❤️🔥👇🏼❤️🔥👇🏼❤️🔥👇🏼❤️🔥👇🏼❤️🔥👇🏼❤️🔥👇🏼❤️🔥👇🏼❤️🔥👇🏼❤️🔥❤️🔥👇🏼❤️🔥👇🏼❤️🔥👇🏼
@CentrePompidou
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“I had available a computer, and a drawing automaton, and I knew how to write algorithms.., what else should I do but take up Klee’s maxim about the invisible that should be made visible! So Klee during those months of August and September, 1965, became my source of inspiration.”
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Where it began👇🏼
Ben Laposky (1914 – 2000) credited with making the first electronic art, utilizing an oscilloscope for abstract art. In 1952 he released what he called "Oscillons" (or oscillogram designs) along with a corresponding thesis entitled "Electronic Abstractions".
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Why do we collect? Is it the thrill of acquisition, the prestige of possession? Perhaps. But deeper still, it’s the alchemy of connection. We yearn to hold a piece of infinity, to cradle it against our ribs and whisper, “You are mine.”
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Deeply humbled to preserve the pioneering work, history and cultural-heritage of
#generativeart
#LloydSumner
👇🏽1970
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So much endless puffery and bravado…
And then there is this understated, humble powerhouse who as much as anyone or platform has made this moment a global and important one in the history of art…
Happy birthday
@sofiagarcia_io
We are enriched by your grace.
MS
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#EdwardZajec
’s
#generativeart
dating to 1969 put him on the margins of the art world. By using the computer and his code, however, he enabled contemporary art to perform its basic historical role: contributing to the peoples endeavors in understanding themselves.
👇🏽1969
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As we witness a joyous golden era in the history of digital art good to remember it took 55+ years to arrive at this moment. Championed by fearless women & men who against all odds pursued their art whose giant shoulders we stand on today.
@jeanpierreheber
@TsukamotoHideki
❤️/❤️
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January 5 2024 in Paris right now…
The grande dame
#veramolnar
would have turned 100 today.
I feel blessed to have known her and am forever grateful to Florent Paumelle
@Galerie_Oniris
for his family’s care of Vera and an introduction that changed my life.
I knew greatness ❤️🔥
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Likely the earliest 'digital' artwork in existence, Oscillon 4 (1952), was created by American mathematician Ben Laposky, using an oscilloscope to manipulate electronic signals and photograph them in the shape of waves.
A responsibility and deep privilege to steward this artwork
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts.” 👇🏼
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#veramolnar
legendary artist who helped usher in
#generativearts
turns 98 in ten days.
In honor of her birthday I will post works over the next 10 days and invite others to join me.
This homage to
#picasso
created in 1946 was done one year after the end of
#WWII
Vera was 22…
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Nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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As we witness a triumphal, joyous golden era in the history of digital art it is wise to remember it took 60 years to arrive at this moment. A moment forged by fearless women and men who against all odds pursued their art whose giant shoulders we stand on today.
👇🏽
@manfredemohr
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One of the reasons Generative Art is a profound art movement is because it challenges the notions of authorship, creativity and aesthetics. It explores the possibilities of algorithms, randomness and interactivity to create unique and dynamic artistic expression.
#generativeart
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Happy Birthday to the founding mother of computational art and grande dame of generative art Vera Gaç Molnár!
98 years young!
❤️
#veramolnar
#generativeart
#contemporaryart
#arthistory
#durer
#claudemonet
#cezanne
#paulklee
#mondrian
2nd photo credit: Bernard Chaveau
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Two women.
Two artists.
Two generations.
One passion.
#digitalart
#legends
@annespalter
#veramolnar
👇🏽
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#veramolnar
homage to
#Monet
who was born November 14, 1840-
182 years ago!!
Molnár and Monet were alive at the *same time* from 1924 to 1926!
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#veramolnar
tomorrow will light up the art world thanks to
@michaelbouhanna
and
@jaclynlavy
of
@Sothebys
@brookemlampley
its CEO I trust is deeply proud of
@Sothebysverse
and their championing the 99.5 year old Vera who will live to see this unique moment in art history happen!
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A generative artwork produced using an algorithm, coded by
#FriederNake
By writing random variables, he allowed the computer to make certain choices within a given number of options.
At this time, computers would have had NO SCREEN on which the art could be seen.
👇🏽1967
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…is one of the world’s largest private collections of early generative art, comprising over 900 works which focuses on plotter drawings but includes other 2D media sculpture and 16mm film, is home to major and iconic examples from key artists.
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Aldo Giorgini a pioneer in
#generativeart
was a
childhood POW during WW II, he often imbued his works with anti-war themes, often combining these with critiques of the use of technology for mass destruction. His works are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian.
👇🏽1972
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Monique Nahas born in Paris (1940), earned a Ph.d in theoretical physics in 1969.
Her fellow academic, Hervé Huitric, is her collaborator: the two met in 1971. It was shortly after she began to experiment with computer generated processes that transform algorithms to art.
👇🏽1970
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There is not a week that goes by that I am not invited to speak about digital art. 99% of the time I decline.
When it involves celebrating
#veramolnar
how can I say no?
My connection to her runs decades deep and it has been an enduring love affair with this astonishing mind.
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As a dad of an extraordinary, dynamic young woman no words can express how monumental it is for me to see this photo. Anne has worked tirelessly for 3 decades creating:and advancing digital art. And now our daughter finally gets to see at long last her perseverance recognized! 💥
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The Art of Vera Molnar 1947-1974
Superb overview of the grande dame of generative art.
I also love that Amelia Spalter founder of
@BrownInterviews
interview was quoted extensively…
Amelia did this interview when she was 19 with Vera who was 94!
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Generative Art History
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I hope the “mega collectors” and “platforms” of the NFT metaverse read this carefully and mindfully:and then reread.
If your collection/platform aren’t inclusive and respectful of the extraordinary talent in traditionally marginalized communities you are part of the problem.👇🏽
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Roman Verostko a first generation pioneer of
#generativeart
who creates original algorithms for his art was born today in 1929. Educated at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh his interests turned to monastic life. In 1968, Verostko left the monastery and joined faculty at MCAD.
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#WaldemarCordeiro
was among the 1st artists to use computation as a means for art-making.
Part of a larger series of prints depicting popular gatherings, Gente dates from Brazil’s so-called Years of Lead (1968–74), the most severely repressive period of the military dictatorship.
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#veramolnar
it took over 2 years a few decades ago to figure out how to acquire a work by Vera. When i finally did in Paris i was moved to tears to be face to face with her work.
the collection continues to grow now over 200+works spanning her oeuvre. a work by
@rottytooth
too!
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#generativeart
how it began: 1963
#georgnees
acquired a plotter, a Zuse Graphomat Z64. “Nees – The Great Temptation”
@zkmkarlsruhe
he said: ″There it was, the great temptation for me, for once not to represent something technical…but rather something useless geometrical patterns
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Aaron Marcus was the first graphic designer to work with computers (1967). A Fellow of the AIGA and a member of the CHI Academy, he has published 37 books and 350+ articles.
1972👇🏼
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The work resonated and brought endless joy. We also understood that we would be temporary stewards of the work. That if properly preserved and cared for the work could outlive us. As lovers of art we also understood that the work might or might not have material value.
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Heartwarming and deeply gratifying to watch an entire new group and generation of passionate collectors/admirers celebrate our dear friend and the grand dame of
#generativeart
for over 60 years.
Delighted to have connected Vera to
@michaelbouhanna
Bernard and
@sofiagarcia_io
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I am humbled I dubbed her “the grande dame” over a decade ago and it has stuck…
#veramolnar
@ELLEmagazine
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#veramolnar
”My mother had a wonderful handwriting. Every week she wrote me a letter. They were more and more difficult to decipher, but it was so nice to look at them… then, there were no more letters…So I went on to write letters of hers to myself, on the computer of course”
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Software was curated by Jack Burnham at the Jewish Museum and the Smithsonian in 1970. It put together computers and conceptual artists, linking them through software as a program to be carried out by a machine or by the audience based on "instruction lines" made by the artist.
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Perer Beyls'
#generativeart
over 40 years has centered on generative systems, including extensive series of machine drawings, human-machine interactive music systems using machine-learning and interactive audiovisual installations, many of them using computer-vision.
👇🏽1980
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On loan
@LACMA
#friedernake
Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982
February 12 - July 2 2023
1967
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As we witness a joyous golden era in the history of digital/genart good to remember it took 55+ years to arrive at this moment: forged by fearless women and men who against all odds pursued their art whose giant shoulders we stand on today.
Proud to have work by both artists!
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And so it begins…
As the grand dame
#veramolnar
will turn 100 years young on January 5, 2024 we see the first of what will be many celebrations in her honor.
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2023, imho, is the year computer art is celebrated as an historically and culturally critical art movement thanks to these two.
(L)Leslie Jones is Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
(R)Tina Rivers Ryan is a Curator at Buffalo AKG Art Museum.
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IMHO
There increasingly seems to be two groups acquiring/creating in the nft space.
Speculators focused on ROI (return on investments).
Artists/Collectors focused on ROL (return on life).
The former group is bound for deep disappointment.
The latter group always triumphs.
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The first genart exhibition in USA.
“This exhibition demonstrates…the potentialities of the computer as a tool in the service of the artist…Noll/Julesz see the day when a computer can draw - or paint - almost any kind of picture in any one or combination of colors.”
1965👇🏼
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What a visionary
@HerbertWFranke
! He was a renaissance gentleman and gentle man.
Here over 50 years ago he captures so much of the birth of
#generativeart
If anyone's interested, here's a PDF of the out-of-print Computer Graphics-Computer Art by Herbert Franke.
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Just a little bit of humbling perspective…
When Vera Molnar was born in 1924 Vladimir Lenin and Claude Monet were still alive.
Reread.
When Vera was born in 1924 Lenin and Monet were alive!
When one speaks of “OGs” I invite you to contemplate Vera who is still going strong❤️🔥
Delve into the extraordinary life of Generative Art pioneer, Vera Molnár, and uncover how she transformed the conversation around generative art. Watch here:
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Cybernetic Serendipity curated by Jasia Reichardt at the
@ICALondon
in 1968. She credits philosopher Max Bense, who encouraged her to study the embryonic field of computer art. She challenged the stereotype of art and technology and proposed that the two were inextricably linked.
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Born
#today
Anne Morgan Spalter is a painter, author, inventor, sculptor, scientist, engineer, writer, collector, educator, black belt, sensei, mentor, mother and mathematician.
She epitomizes the Renaissance humanist ideal of the digital arts in all its beauty and luminosity.
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Mark Wilson
#generativeart
pioneer over the past 41 years.
Student of legendary abstract expressionist
#alheld
while at
@Yale
👇🏽
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Another groundbreaking generative art pioneer ed zajec…
1938-2022
👇🏼1969
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Whether a seasoned collector or beginner, there is something mystical about discovering a new piece of art that speaks to you. It can be an nft, painting, a sculpture, a photograph, or any other form of art. What matters is that it resonates with one on a deep and personal level.
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#veramolnar
(1924)is a legendary pioneer of
#generativeartwork
. Reflecting on her life she commented:
“This may sound paradoxical, but the machine, which is thought to be cold and inhuman, can help to realise what is most subjective, unattainable, and profound in a human being”.
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IMHO, one of the most overlooked, under-followed upcoming events in the art world.
@CharlesCsuri
devoted daughter will not rest until the larger art world grasps that her father was a modern day renaissance artist whose vision would influence the trajectory of art history.
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Zach Lieberman is an artist, researcher, and educator exploring generative and interactive design. He creates artwork through writing software helped co-found the School for Poetic Computation, and is a professor at MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Future Sketches group.
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Paul Klee b otd 1879:
"Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see."
"One eye sees, the other feels."
"One has found his style, when one cannot do otherwise."
#veramolnar
homage to
#PaulKlee
1971
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The profound difference between an art collector and an art speculator is that an art collector buys art for love, while an art speculator buys art for money.
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#InternationalWomensDay
Born 3 years and a few months after women received the right to vote in the USA
#veramolnar
today at 99 years young has changed the canon of art history…
Once in obscurity she persevered using the computer in her art forging a global movement…
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Color theory is the collection of rules and guidelines which artist might use to communicate with viewers through appealing color schemes in visual interfaces.
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As we witness a golden era in digital art good to remember it took 55+ years to arrive at this moment. Championed by fearless women/men who against all odds pursued their art whose giant shoulders we stand on today.
#veramolnar
and a work I pine for by the gifted
@keisans
👇🏽❤️💥
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Anton Zöttl studied at the Technische Universität München, Munich. Beginning in 1957 conducted theoretical work of information processing in complex radar systems. From 1970 on created
#generativeart
using a Siemens computer and CalComp plotter. He lives in Munich, DE.
👇🏽1970
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I had the privilege of meeting Helen Frankenthaler and other abstract expressionists as a child.
The collection grows when we are viscerally moved by art. In this spirit I am delighted to share
@Anna___Beller
art ascensioned into Spalter Digital. Anna and Helen are kindred.
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Vera Molnár (Budapest 1924 - lives in Paris). "DE LA SÉRIE (DES) ORDRES". 1971-74
plotter drawing: Indian ink on paper. 67 × 67 cm (77.5 × 93 cm) (26 ⅜ × 26 ⅜ in. (30 ½ × 36 ⅝ in.)). Titled, dated and signed in pencil.
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