MELISSA WIEDERRECHT

Algorithmic Generative Fine Artist

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Melissa Wiederrecht

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Melissa Wiederrecht is an American algorithmic generative artist, born in 1988 in Iowa City and raised in Wyoming, who has lived and worked in Makkah, Saudi Arabia for the past decade. She has been making generative art for over twenty years, since long before it found the audience it has today, and now exhibits internationally.

She chose to make her life there as a Muslim woman, immersed in Saudi culture and surrounded by Sudanese people and heritage. That blend of American, Saudi, and Sudanese, of ancient and modern, shapes her work as much as her days.

She calls her work a “precise blur.” Precise, because it is built entirely from mathematical code systems she writes herself. Blur, because what those systems produce is paradox, ambiguity, and in-betweenness. She works in the oscillation, the both/and: art that is extremely intentional yet overflowing with randomness, cold and mathematical yet emotionally moving, obviously a painting and obviously not, a single frozen frame and an infinite algorithm at once. Running through all of it is a bringing-together of traditional values and ancient forms with the most modern of media, code. Trained in computer science, machine learning, and AI, she has exhibited at the United Nations Headquarters, the Museum of the Moving Image, Gucci Art Space, Gazelli Art House, Art Dubai Digital, Art Blocks, and Feral File, among many others.

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