Monica Rizzolli (Brazilian, b. 1981) is a self-taught coder who treats humans, art, and code as components of nature.She creates generative rules that mimic the growth and evolution of organisms and landscapes, an approach she calls digital morphogenesis.,Born in São Carlos, Brazil, she trained as a painter before discovering creative programming in 2012 while studying at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in Germany.,
She had studied fine art at the Instituto de Artes da UNESP in São Paulo and the Escola de Belas Artes da UFMG in Belo Horizonte, and pursued a traditional painting career before turning to code.,In 2015, funded by a MAK Schindler research grant, she presented her first generative artwork at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles.,In Brazil, she co-founded the creative-programming meetup Noite de Processing at Garoa Hacker Clube and helped organize Processing Community Day Brazil.,,As a designer, she has created generative magazine covers and fabric designs, and worked with Tony de Marco on typefaces including Tomorrow, released through Google Fonts.,
In 2021, she released Fragments of an Infinite Field on Art Blocks Curated, a series that established her within the generative art field.,The series became one of Art Blocks' best-performing collections by secondary trading volume.Her work entered the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.In 2022, her work was shown in “Ex-Machina: A History of Generative Art” at Phillips in London, alongside pieces by Harold Cohen, Matt DesLauriers, and others.In the group exhibition “Unbound: Ecology in the Age of Machines”, she presented From Grain to Blossom, part of a larger project titled Plant Script, pairing a video with 100 generative images that imagine a new species of flower grown from Johan Gielis's mathematical Superformula equation.She has also been featured as a former resident of Gazelli Art House's digital programme, presented at Art Dubai Digital.
