Tim Rodenbröker
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I've released my course "Vera Molnar Reconstructed" in occasion of the death of the artist
🕑 Added 2023-12-08 15:45:01 +0000 UTCDear Creative Coders,
I'm sending you a second post today. Unfortunately, Vera Molnar passed away on December 7 at the age of 99. She was a pioneer of computer art and I have often used her story to explain what I mean by creative coding.
At the beginning of this year, when she was still alive, I had already prepared a new online course on how to recreate Vera Molnar's artworks. In doing so, I adopted a method proposed by Stig Møller Hansen as a teaching method in his brilliant PHD thesis. I have now spontaneously published the course and you can access it from now on.
https://timrodenbroeker.de/courses/molnar/
Basically, this course rounds up a collection of assignments designed to help you practise creative coding and apply your knowledge. The Bauhaus Coding Workshop and Vera Molnar Reconstructed are complementary to each other. I'll briefly explain why:
Bauhaus Coding Workshop is a collection of tasks that involve developing your own creative solutions. In each case, a specific prompt is given and the task is to develop a creative solution.
In Vera Molnar Reconstructed, the prompt is a graphic and this should then be technically reconstructed. This is also known as reverse engineering. Basically, the Molnar course comes before the Bauhaus course.
By the way, I tested all the exercises together with Fred Egidi and what you can see in the individual lessons are screenshots of the reconstructions that Fred made in Processing. Thanks again, Fred!
I'm really looking forward to your feedback! Feel free to send me your results and questions to feedback@timrodenbroeker.de, post your visuals on Discord or comment here directly.
But now really: Have a nice weekend! ☀️
Tim
Comments
Joseph Jolton
Makes sense. Some degree of randomness, somewhere in the work.
Tim Rodenbröker
Dear Joseph, that's a very good question. I have to go through all lessons and optimize the text infos and prompts. Vera Molnar had a weakness for gentle disorder through randomness. Her compositions were often very geometric, but she followed a rule that she tries to add "1% randomness" to her artworks. as far as I remember it can be read here: https://www.holo.mg/dossiers/vera-molnar-weaving-variations/
Joseph Jolton
For the parallel lines sketch, what is meant by "1% of disorder?" Thanks!
