Vera Molnar

Born 1924 (5th January) in Vera Gacs, Budapest

Lives and works in Paris as well as in Normandy

1942-47 studied painting and for a diploma in art history and aesthetics at the Budapest College of Fine Arts 1947 artists′ fellowship in Rome at the Villa Julia moved to France 1948 marriage to François Molnar 1959-68 works with the machine imaginaire method 968 first computer graphics are designed: thereafter continuous work with the computer 1974-76 1976 development of the "Molnart" computer software programme jointly with her husband first single exhibition Transformations at the gallery of the London Polytechnic 1979 works at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, at the Atelier de Recherche des Techniques Avancées (ARTA) which espoused minimal, non-objective image-making, and which later gave rise to the Op-Art and Kinetic Art movements of the following decade.

The Art work, "LETTRES DE MA MERE",1988 Letters from My Mother, Molnar simulates the handwriting of her mother as it appeared in a series of weekly letters she received, using the computer to reconcile the off-balance and irregular orientation of the script.The drawings were done with the help of a computer and a plotter, and later a printer. The latter show the overlapping of plotter-tracing and actual handwriting, suggesting a dialogue between human and machine.