Angela Ferraiolo

Angela Ferraiolo is a systems artist ^[1] , writer, and filmmaker ^[2] working with adaptive systems, noise, randomness, & generative processes. ^{[3] [4]} Her artwork explores open-endedness, self-organization, morphogenesis, and adaptive processes. ^[1]

Early life and education

Ferraiolo's BLS is from SUNY-Purchase. ^[5] She has earned an MFA in Media Arts from Hunter College in New York, an MFA in Electronic Writing from Brown University. ^{[6] [5]}

Life and career

She has been a lecturer and a co-chair in visual and studio arts ^[6] at Sarah Lawrence College, where she founded the computational arts program in new genres. ^[1] She holds the Mary Griggs Burke Chair in Art and Art History at Saint Lawrence College. ^[7] Ferraiolo has also been a lecturer for School of X/xCoAx (Weimar). ^[1]

Ferraiolo was an Electronic Writing Fellow at Brown University from 2009 to 2011. ^[8] She has also been an artist in residence at the Intelligent Engineering Lab and Soka University (Hachioji Tokyo).

She has worked for RKO (New York), H20 Studios (Vancouver), Westwood Studios (Las Vegas), and Electronic Arts (Redwood City). ^{[1] [2]}

She has lived in New York. ^{[1] [4]}

Works and publications

Her work has been shown at New Museum, ^[1] in the Terrestrial exhibit for Revolve (North Carolina) in 2018. ^[9] as well as Nabi Art Center (Seoul), SIGGRAPH (Los Angeles), ISEA (Vancouver, Hong Kong), EVA (London), xCoAx (Madrid, Milan), Art Machines 2 (Hong Kong), New York Film Festival (New York), Courtisane Film Festival (Ghent), Australian Experimental Film Festival (Melbourne), the International Conference of Generative Art (Rome, Florence) ^[3] as well as Expanded Arts and La Mama Galleria in New York, and at the Brick Playhouse in Philadelphia. ^[6] Other exhibit places include Microscope Gallery (Bushwick), New York Film Festival (New York), Courtisane (Ghent), AWXFF (New York), Collectìf Jeune Cinema (Paris), and the Australian  Experimental Film Festival (Melbourne), as well as the International Conference of Generative Art (Rome), and the International Conference of Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization (Taiwan). ^[4]

Her generative videos have screened at the Australian International Experimental Film Festival, Melbourne, Views from the Avant-Garde at the New York Film Festival, and the Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris. ^[6]

Ferraiolo is the writer and narrative designer of video games:

• Aidyn Chronicles (2001) is an early fantasy game. ^[10]
• Earth and Beyond (2002) ^[11] is one of the first online massive multiplayers. ^[3]
• A Beautiful Room tells the stories of occult interior designers. ^[3]
• Follow This is a playable movie for mobile devices. ^[3]
• Subway (2011) produces generative video montages by using RiTa. ^[6]
• Mad Traffic! (2017) is an interactive artwork with patterns created from everyday noises and was shown at the City Arts Factory in Orlando Florida in 2017 as part of Art in Odd Places. ^[12]
• The Knife Cuts Two Ways (2017) is an art piece that uses bright colors and repeating patterns to engage readers in multiple distances and was included November artists for the University of Mary Washington in 2017. ^[13]
• The Regeneration of the Earth After Its Destruction by the Capitalist Powers (2019) is a systems artwork that simulates life after an extinction and was shown at the XXII Generative Art Conference ^[14] and 7th Conference on Computation Communication Aesthetics & X 2019. ^[15]
• Two Synthetic Gardens (2020) portrays digital landscapes tied to characters and was shown at the XXIII Generative Art Conference. ^[16]
• Zebra: Threat and Response in a Dynamical Artwork (2022) uses zebras as agents to move in a landscape where they encouter noise and threats and was shown at the XXV Generative Art Conference. ^[17]

References

1. www.newmuseum.org https://www.newmuseum.org/person/angela-ferraiolo/ . Retrieved 2025-04-15.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
2. "Angela Ferraiolo - The Film-Makers' Cooperative". film-makerscoop.com. 2011. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
3. "Celebrating Women in E-Lit". Electronic Literature Lab. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
4. "Angela Ferraiolo – ISEA Symposium Archives". isea-archives.siggraph.org. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
5. "Angela Ferraiolo, Mary Griggs Burke Chair in Art & Art History (Visual and Studio Arts) | Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College". www.sarahlawrence.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
6. "Angela Ferraiolo". dtc-wsuv.org. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
7. "Teaching Chairs". www.sarahlawrence.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
8. "2010 Archives". Film & Media - Hunter College. 2010-03-19. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
9. "Terrestrial: Victoria Bradbury, Angela Ferraiolo, Mark Hursty, Cristina Molina, Cyane Tornatzky". revolve. 2018-05-02. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
10. Bailey, Christopher; Dubord, David (2001-03-15), Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage (Action, Adventure, Fantasy), H2O Interactive, retrieved 2025-04-15
11. "Angela Ferraiolo | Writer, Director". IMDb. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
12. "Ferraiolo, Angela – AiOP" . Retrieved 2025-04-15.
13. admin (2017-11-02). "November Artists (Balam Soto, Ally Christmas, Angela Ferraiolo) | The UMW Media Wall" . Retrieved 2025-04-15.
14. Soddo, Celstino; Colabella, Enrica (December 2019). "GENERATIVE ART 2019" (PDF): 57.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
15. Verdicchio, Mario. "Regeneration of the Earth After Its Destruction by the Capitalist Powers". XCoAx 2019 Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X. Milan, Italy: 300–305.
16. "XXIIIGenerativeArt2020 Exhibition - Angela Ferraiolo". generativeart.com. Retrieved 2025-04-15.
17. generativeart.com https://generativeart.com/papersGA2022/2022/INDEX%20ebook2022-55.htm . Retrieved 2025-04-15.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• Biography portal

• Little Umbrellas