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.
This presents a sleek collage of images from the history of cinema and architecture, visual art, and a number of arresting illustrations that allow it to read less like an academic monograph and more like a creative and speculative toolkit for grasping how art, politics, and technology collide.
Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.