Recently, I gave a talk at FlutterCon Berlin 2023 about creating animations in Flutter with low level APIs, as I was preparing the talk, the content progressed to be a lot about art, more specifically, generative art and its technological history.
I was hugely inspired by Vera Molnar, a great Hungarian artist based in France who is now in her 90’s and still produces work. She is considered one of the pioneers of computer generated generative art.
From a young age, Molnar was fascinated by randomness and was one of the early adapters of using algorithms to render artwork, and in a time when computer generated art was claimed to be dehumanized and its authenticity highly doubted, she argued that working with the randomness in machines and their ability to efficiently produce a high number of outputs was in fact proof of the opposite of those arguments.