Monica Rizzolli

Ficha

Year: 2022
Edition size: Edition of 100
Format: Custom software (black and white, silent)
File format: JavaScript (p5.js), HTML, CSS
Dimensions: Dimensions variable, 1:1
Type: Generative, non-interactive
Additional content: “Night Shots” interactive PDF
Assistant software developer: Rodjun
PDF text: Patricia Oakim
PDF graphic design: Tony de Marco
Released: 9 October 2022 at Simulation Sketchbook: Works in Process Exhibition at Feral File, curated by Jesse Damiani
Synopsis: Monica Rizzolli’s “Night Shoots” portrays generative landscapes and vegetation at night. It evokes the sense of someone checking an infrared camera, waiting for an animal that never appears, instead coming to appreciate the subtle changes of plants and moonlight. This revealing of hidden realities is mirrored in Rizzolli’s unveiling of process. Following the explosion of NFTs, generative art projects are too often perceived only in their final expressions as single, discrete images. Through the interactive PDF, “Night Shoots” shows the evolution of the paths taken in the creation of a work of this nature, inviting the viewer to observe the paths of Rizzolli’s generative creation. In so doing, she offers a rare view into the creative collaboration between artist and algorithm.