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Deli Bayramı
Dates: Sunday, February 09, 2025 8:30 PM
Location:
Some things never fade away, no matter how much time pass-
es. Especially the things we loved as children never leave us.
Just like how one can’t stop watching “Devekuşu Kabare”
over and over.
If Turgut Özakman’s 1987 play “Deliler” were performed to-
day... What would happen if all the characters took over Das-
Das? What if these “mad ones” glanced back at the 1980s
every now and then?
In DasDas’s new play “Deli Bayramı” (Madmen’s Festival), But we are mad, we dream.”
you will find answers to all these questions and relive the Written by : Turgut Özakman
power of comedy after all these years. Supervised by: Metin Akpınar
After all, what did the Madmen say? Directed by: Mert Fırat
“Some make pickles, some run factories

A Tribute to a Master: ‘In the Footsteps of Vera Molnár’
Dates: Thursday, September 19, 2024 ~ Sunday, February 23, 2025
Place: Pera Museum

Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum is bringing art
lovers together with another exhibition in the new season. The
exhibition titled “In the Footsteps of Vera Molnár”, which is a
tribute to one of the greatest names in algorithm and computer
art, Vera Molnár, brings together works of 15 artists inspired
by the artist and her groundbreaking works. Organized in col-
laboration with Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V. and Broich
Digital Art Foundation, the “In the Footsteps of Vera Molnár”
exhibition will be open to visitors from September 19, 2024, to
January 26, 2025.

Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum, which is prepar-
ing to open the exhibition “Accounts and Coincidences: Algorith-
mic Art from the Collection of the National Bank of Hungary” featuring the works of three pioneers of algorithmic art—Dóra
Maurer, Vera Molnár, and Gizella Rákóczy—in September, has also announced another upcoming exhibition for the new season.
The museum is getting ready to host a new exhibition focusing on the artistic practice of one of the pioneers of computer art, Vera
Molnár. The exhibition “In the Footsteps of Vera Molnár”, opening on September 19, brings together the works of 15 contem-
porary artists inspired by Vera Molnár and her groundbreaking works.

The artists, including Antoine Schmitt, Refik Anadol, Erwin Steller, Mark Wilson, and Casey Reas, will present pieces created
using modern media tools such as video and augmented reality, either employing Molnár’s working methods or referencing her
visual world. These works will be displayed alongside Molnár’s own pieces, offering art lovers a unique experience. Other partic-
ipating artists include Arno Beck, Aurèce Vettier, Iskra Velitchkova, Mario Klingemann, Frieder Nake, Patrick Lichty, Samuel
Yan, Snow Yunxue Fu, Tamiko Thiel, and U2P050.

The iconic pioneer of digital art: Vera Molnár
In the 1960s, Vera Molnár created experimental works using simple algorithms and made drawings of systematic visual series.
Through her work at the computer center of the Sorbonne University, she became one of the first artists to produce digital art.
Starting in the 1970s, she made plotter drawings on perforated paper, and together with her artist husband, she developed a
unique system written in the Fortran programming language, known as the “Molnár system,” which allowed for a “1% irregu-
larity” in the algorithm.