TGAM's Issue #07: She Codes
written by TGAM
The exhibition aims to highlight the immense contributions made by women in the realm of creative coding, through their visionary approaches and inventive use of algorithms. While three featured artists will be hosted in our virtual gallery, during the exhibition we will cover the current status of women, inclusive and non-binary collectives working in generative art.
The Artists
Monica Rizzolli
She started as a painter, after graduating from IA/UNESP (Brazil). In 2012, while studying at Kunsthochschule Kassel (Germany), she stumbled upon creative programming and started studying it on her own. In 2015, at MAK Center for Art and Architecture (USA) she presented her first generative artwork, as a result of the MAK-Schindler research grant.
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Back in Brazil, she co-created the creative programming meeting, Noite de Processing, at Garoa Hacker Clube and was involved in organizing the Processing Community Day Brazil. As a designer she developed generative magazine covers, fabric designs and type faces with Tony de Marco, including Tomorrow for Google Fonts. In 2021 she launched the Fragments of an Infinite Field series on the Art Blocks platform, which solidified her position in the generative art field.
Since 2022, her body has grown into a tree. Old branches remain here, like Tony de Marco, but these days she works with other amazing members, like the computer scientist Rodjun and the biologist Vicente Gomes.
Nadieh Bremer
Nadieh graduated as an astronomer and started working as a data scientist before finding her passion in the visualization of data and being creative with code.
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She's been gradually moving more towards data and generative art over the years. Letting her get even more creative when the constraints of clearly explaining the data can be let go. Focusing instead on the visual appeal, the feeling the works evokes, and how it might still allude subtly to the trends in the underlying data (if present). Her works can often be recognized through the use of vibrant color palettes and a playful feel.
As 2017's "Best Individual" in the Information is Beautiful Awards, she focuses on visuals that are uniquely crafted for each specific dataset that both engages and enlightens the audience. She co-wrote the best-selling book "Data Sketches" which was released in 2021 that celebrates the creative and artistic side of data visualization and data art.
She's made visualizations and art for companies such as Google News Lab, Sony Music, the New York Times, and UNESCO and has released data and generative art NFT collections on various platforms and in collaboration with companies such as UNICEF and Axiom Space.
Alida Sun
Alida Sun is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice integrates presence, resistance, and the nature of adaptation in the age of algorithms.
Every day for over 1,500 days and counting she has coded and built new generative artwork encompassing installation, sound, architecture, choreography, drawing and light.
Sun is the creator of Art Blocks Curated project glitch crystal monsters. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale Decentralized Pavilion, Ars Electronica, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle NFT Museum, and audiovisual festivals around the world.
About the TGAM
Welcome to The Generative Art Museum. TGAM is a project dedicated to celebrate and promulgate art made by autonomous systems (non-human) that can independently create artwork.
TGAM is an evolving idea that will challenge our preconception of experiencing, collecting and sharing art. Our goal is to participate in this new era by supporting generative artists in every sense. We will schedule four exhibitions a year: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter
Our goal is simple: to spread the word about generative art in all shapes and forms. We embrace any piece where humans interact with automated tools to create unique pieces.
Blockchain has created the perfect playground for a digital renaissance: affordable computers and easy-to-use scripting tools are the icing on the cake for a revolution in the generative art like the world has never seen before. And we are here to talk about it and share this exciting journey.
Past Exhibitions
Issue #01: for the love of art featuring Marcelo Soria-Rodriguez, Ismahelio and Synesthesia
Issue #02: Computergrafik featuring Lisa Orth, Quentin Hocde and Aurora
Issue #03: Red Pill featuring Ryan Bell, Landlines Art and Thomas Lin Pedersen
Issue #04: Intersection featuring Andreas Rau, rudxane and riiis
Issue #05: World Wide Art featuring Zancan, Lars Wander and Zach Liebermann
Issue #06: Input Output featuring Anna Carreras, Nadieh Bremer and Alida Sun
