Electra Revisited #1

Electra Revisited is a generative art series created by Tamás Antal and Dániel Groma as NANDPIX. The project is conceived as both an homage to Vera Molnar and a contemporary dialogue with her Electra works from 1983. Molnar’s Electra series was rooted in an experimental investigation of colour, repetition, chance, and algorithmic variation. Taking Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise—the seminal painting that gave Impressionism its name—as a starting point, Molnar translated the logic of colour distribution into a computational process in which the frequency of colours was determined through chance. Electra Revisited takes this historical point of departure and extends its questions into the language of contemporary digital image-making. Rather than reconstructing Molnar’s compositions, the project develops its own visual system. Its images are built from translucent digital brushstrokes whose individual layers interact through overlap and accumulation. Colours are therefore not applied as fixed fields, but emerge through their encounters with one another. Transparency allows hues to become intensified, muted, contaminated, or transformed, creating relationships that cannot be entirely predetermined. At the centre of the series is the relationship between repetition and displacement. A recurring form moves through the composition, repeatedly returning while never remaining quite the same. Small changes in position, layering, transparency, and colour generate new visual situations with every iteration. Repetition therefore does not produce identical copies; it produces difference. The project also explores the tension between order and uncertainty. The underlying system establishes a defined set of conditions, while chance and variation determine the particular outcome of each execution. Randomness is not used as an absence of structure, but as a mechanism operating within it. The artist defines the field of possibilities; the system determines which possibility becomes visible. This approach also raises questions about colour perception in the digital realm. What happens to colour when it is no longer material pigment, but light, transparency, layering, and computation? How does a colour change when it exists simultaneously as a digital value and as a perceptual event? Each generated image offers a different response while remaining connected to the same underlying system. The work was presented in summer 2026 at MOMŰ – Modern Műtár in Balatonfüred as part of the Night of Museums programme. Electra Revisited was projected during an educational workshop exploring geometric forms, structures, and visual systems. Presented within MOMŰ’s broader context of geometric and algorithmic approaches to art, including its engagement with the legacy of Vera Molnar, the projection brought the generative process into a physical and participatory museum environment. The collaboration between Tamás Antal and Dániel Groma, working as NANDPIX, extends the project beyond individual authorship into a shared generative practice. The work exists between painting, computation, and digital image culture, where the final image is neither entirely predetermined by the artist nor simply produced by the machine. Every execution of the system generates a unique image. Although all works originate from the same conceptual and algorithmic framework, no two outputs are identical. Each work is therefore understood as a singular trace of the system—a specific realization within an otherwise open field of possibilities. Electra Revisited was originally developed approximately two years ago for fx(hash), but the project was never minted or publicly released. After remaining dormant, it is now being brought into the public sphere for the first time as a completed generative art series on Bootloader.