Order and Disorder

The exhibition Order and Disorder features three artists who work in computer generated art. Vera Molnar, Jody Reaburn and Emma use the computer as aesthetic material and metaphors to sniff out meaning each using the medium in a different manner. Their work proposes different methods of how images structure place as they articulate the importance of what we look at and how we look at it. The artists are exhibiting their computer-generated artwork in a computer-generated urban space. They have chosen a public space as it increases liveability and artistic richness of our urban space, making art part of the environment.

Vera Molnar

Vera Molnar is an artist living in France. Molnar is widely considered to be a pioneer in computer art and generative art and is one of the first women to use the computer in her art practice. Molnar invented algorithms that created images of colorful, abstract work which were then outputter on a plotter.

This piece is titled Molndrian, 1974, 26cm x 26 cm, computer drawing on paper. Molnar created this work using algorithms which she fed into the computer and then using a plotter printed then out.

Jody Reaburn

Jody Reaburn is a School of Art student at the University of Manitoba where she is exploring different forms of creating generative art. Currently, she is using code to create colorful, abstract images using a brush tool

Reaburn's painting Order, 2022, acrylic on canvas, was crated using s brush tool in P5 using code. She then copied the order of the image onto a canvas which she then paint with acrylics.

Emma

Emma is a self taught artist living in Winnipeg, who tears up computer aided drafting drawings and then collages them onto a canvas where she adds her own markings. Emma is considered one of the early mutt artists to use generative art forms.

Emma's artwork, Disorder, 2022, collage and acrylic on canvas. Emma tore up some CAD drawings she found on the floor and then arranged them on a prepared canvas with a medium. Once dried she walked through paint and using her digits made distinctive marks on the canvas in a disorderly fashion.