Systems that act by following explicit rules, in software or in instructions for people. Rule-based art runs from Sol LeWitt's wall drawings to generative code.
The first is the Imaginary Machine. It's the historical section that looks at Vera Molnár alongside contemporaries like Sol LeWitt, Max Bill and Joseph and Anni Albers. It makes connections between her algorithmic process—both analog and digital—and some of the ways that artists of the 20th century were similarly using rule-based systems, mathematical principles and geometric abstraction.
Julia Kaganskiy, Julia Kaganskiy on Generativity’s Deeper Consideration