Mona Lisa to monogrid - Editorial - Le Random

The shift from paintings like Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa to works like Kim Asendorf's monogrid is framed as the mechanization of art, which began in earnest about two hundred years ago with the invention of the camera. Machines are described as systematic ways of thinking rather than any single device, drawing on Vera Molnár's and Sol LeWitt's views. The account traces this through Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion (1887), Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending the Staircase (1912), and Molnár's "machine imaginaire." It ends with Tyler Hobbs's algorithmic work and Asendorf's work celebrating the digital and its mechanical legacy.