Effets de Soir

2022

Series of videos depicting nocturnal floral formations in the gardens of Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire.

The faceted colors of the botanical compositions, saturated via artificial lighting, serve as a dataset to generate new computational paintings. Speculating on the traditions of landscape painting, the work explores a hybrid substance between the pictorial and the algorithmic.

Artwork and Music by Quayola

Commissioned by Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire

Produced by Quayola Studio

Giulia Olivieri (algorithmic paintings and recordings, editing, data-management)

Andrea Santicchia (photography assistant, tech research)

Maria Elena Brugora (production and logistics)

External Collaborators

Producer: Valentina Peri

Software Development: Nikolai Matviev, Kyle McLean, Natan Sinigaglia, Sebastiano Barbieri

Sound Tools: Alessandro Petrone

Orchestrator: Tecla Zorzi