| last name: | Molnar |
| first name: | Vera |
| birthday: | January 5, 1924 |
| birth-place: | Budapest (Hungary) |
Vera Molnar belongs to the famous early computer artists. She started as a simple painter at the age of twelve. Her first subject matter were nymphs and trees. She soon progressed to more geometrical themes. In 1968 she started working with computers. Her work during this period focused on the breakup of repeating units, often expressed as a series of increasingly fractured images.
(cf. DAM: http://www.dam.org/dox/2456.6Pkud.H.1.De.php | consulted 08.12.09)
| 1942-47 | studied painting and for a diploma in art history and aesthetics at the Budapest College of Fine Arts. |
| 1946 | first non-representational images are created. Abstract, geometrically and systematically determined painting. |
| 1947 | artists’ fellowship in Rome at the Villa Julia moved to France |
| 1947-60 | occasional co-operation with François Molnar |
| 1948 | marriage to François Molnar |
| 1959-68 | works with the machine imaginaire method |
| 1960 | Co-founder of the artist group GRAV First participation in an exhibition organized by her friend Max Bill with the title Konkrete Kunst (Concrete Art) in Zürich, Helmhaus |
| 1967 | Co-founder of the artist group Art et Informatique at the Parisian Institut d’Esthétique et des Science de l’Art |
| 1968 | first computer graphics are designed: thereafter continuous work with the computer |
| 1974-76 | development of the Molnart computer software programme jointly with her husband |
| 1976 | 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) |
| 1980 | member of the CREIAV at the Université de Paris I, Sorbonne The first artist’s book ‘’Ein Prozent Unordnung’’ is published by Wedgepress & Cheese in Bjerred (Sweden) |
| 1985-90 | professor in fine arts and aestehtics and art history at the Université de Paris I, Sorbonne Since 1990 her works are on display at major European exhibitions on non-representational art and avantgarde The first installative work is created fort he Foundation of Concrete Art, Reutlingen |
| 1999 | large monographic exhibition ‘’Extrait de 100 000 milliards des lignes’’ at the Centre de Recherche, d’Échange et de Diffusion pur l’Art Contemporain (CRÉDAC) in Ivry-sur-Seine |
| 2005 | recipient of the first [ddaa] for her life’s work. |
