Anna Ridler
Mosaic Virus - Le Pavillon
Hours and dates
- From 5 Nov 2020 to 8 Nov 2020 / from 10:00 to 18:00
The place
Le Pavillon
About
Anna Ridler
Anna Ridler is an artist and researcher who lives and works in London. She has degrees from the Royal College of Art, Oxford University, University of Arts London and have shown at a variety of cultural institutions and galleries including Barbican, HeK Basel, Ars Electronica, Sheffield Documentary Festival, Leverhulme Centre for Future Intelligence, Tate Modern and the V&A. She is a recipient of the 2018 European Media Art Program (partnering with Impakt) and the winner of the 2018-2019 Dare Art Prize.
Medias
Mosaic Virus
Drawing historical parallels from “tulip-mania” that swept across Netherlands/Europe in the 1630s to the speculation currently ongoing around crypto-currencies, this video work is generated by an artificial intelligence (AI). It shows a tulip blooming, an updated version of a Dutch still life for the 21st century. The appearance of the tulip is controlled by bitcoin price. “Mosaic” is the name of the virus that causes the stripes in a petal which increased their desirability and helped cause the speculative prices during the time. In this piece, the stripes depend on the value of bitcoin, changing over time to show how the market fluctuates. Honorary Mention in Ars Electronica 2019 prix category “AI & Life Art”
