When the artist Vera Molnar (1924-2023) decided to try her hand at computer graphics in the late 1960s, she did so decades before the wide availability of software like Paint, with its welcoming and accessible graphical user interface. She had to give the computer instructions in a language the machine would understand: alphanumeric code.
In her twenty-five years of experimenting with computers in Paris, Molnar learned two programming languages, FORTRAN and BASIC. Neither was designed for programming images (despite its name, BASIC is hardly user-friendly), but both had the capacity to produce vector graphics-shapes built from lines plotted along a Cartesian plane.
Their aims, aligning with broader tendencies in postwar European art, dovetailed with those of painters such as François Morellet, a close friend of Molnar's, who, in an effort to 'dem'
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