”I May Not Find, But I Seek.” – Hommage à Vera Molnár
(experimental animation, 1’30”, 2025, full HD) Technique: AI-generated portraits using LoRA model; live-coding visuals in Hydra (JavaScript-based environment); post-production in After Effects and Photoshop
Vera Molnár spoke the language of computer art long before the tools to do so actually existed—at first, she programmed in her imagination. The triptych composition features, on the left, a well-known portrait of Molnár herself; in the center, a floating fragment of code reminiscent of JavaScript—an abstract language echoing her early algorithmic methods, now running in a digital environment. On the right, a sequence of AI-generated female portraits appears, evoking women from different eras. These are not depictions of real individuals, but hybrid identities—archival and imagined figures, archetypes and next generations dreamt up by artificial intelligence.
The voiceover in the film draws on interviews with Molnár. In a witty and sincere moment of self-definition, she says: "I’m just a computer gone wrong—who turned out to be a woman.” This poetic line reflects her embrace of error, exploration, and female identity as intimately intertwined gestures.