Zsofi Valyi-Nagy on the art of Vera Molnar
HOW DO YOU DRAW a line with a computer? This task has not always been as simple as clicking a mouse or swiping your finger across a screen. When the artist Vera Molnar1 (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 (GUI). She had to give the computer instructions in a language the machine would understand: alphanumeric code.
Source: artforum.com
