THIS PAST DECEMBER, pioneering computer artist Vera Molnardied at the age of ninety-nine. To celebrate her achievements—and to mark the opening of a major exhibition of her work at Centre Pompidou, Paris, now on view through August 26—Artforum invited artist and art historian Zsofi Valyi-Nagy to provide an overview of Molnar’s oeuvre. Here, Valyi-Nagy examines the artist’s work through a novel lens: that of media archaeology, resurrecting a vintage Tektronix microcomputer to “reenact” the process behind one of Molnar’s groundbreaking plotter drawings.
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February 1, 2024
