Looking Outwards 09: A Focus on Women and Non-binary Practitioners in Computational Art

https://www.adriensegal.com/

Work: Molalla River Meander

Artist: Adrien Segal

Adrien Segal is an artist and writer based in Oakland, California.

She mainly focuses on transforming statistical information and data into artworks (sculpture) that reflect aspects like “history, narrative, emotion, landscape, and perception”, through artistic explorations and experiments.

“Molalla River Meander” is my favorite work of the artist.

This work transforms alluvial flow data of the Molalla River in Oregon into a sculpture art piece. Data were obtained from the USGS Oregon Water Science Center, LIDAR maps of the Molalla River in Clackamas County, Oregon, which recorded river path changes from 1995 to 2009.

What I admire a lot about the project is that the years recorded are reflected through the thickness of the art piece and the general variations of the flow are reflected through the vertical variations of the wooden curved “wall”. I think Adrien Segal combined and reflected the two aspects (years and path changes) perfectly through her artistic expression.