Melissa Wiederrecht

Melissa Wiederrecht (Iowa City, USA) lives and works in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. From 2006 to 2014, she studied Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Wyoming. Since graduating, she has pursued her career as an artist with code as her medium, exploring paradoxes of order and chaos, intention and accident, light and darkness, and control and randomness.  Simultaneously inspired by Western and Islamic art history as well as pioneers of Generative Art, she uses modern technology and tools like Javascript and GLSL fragment shaders and the blockchain to create artworks that explore ancient themes and cultural concepts.

Wiederrecht has released her digital artworks on the blockchain since May 2022 on the leading platforms, among others: “Sudfah”, Art Blocks Curated (2022); “Cosmic Rays”, Verse (2023); “Undercurrents”, Bright Moments (2023); “Take Wing”, fxhash (2022); and “Zbageti”, fxhash (2022).

Wiederrecht’s work has been shown worldwide in numerous exhibitions offline and online, among others: “N=12” (curated by Aaron Penne), Feral File (2023); “Tandem”, Galerie Data, Paris (2023); “Generative”, FakeWhale Cross (2023); “Liminal Space”, Unit London, London (2023); “Odysseys”, Verse (2023); “FEMGEN”, Right Click Save x VerticalCrypto Art (2022); “In Touch”, VerticalCrypto Art, Berlin (2022); “Arithmetic Phenomena”, Verse (2022); and “Coded Elegance”, 1stDibs (2022). 

Her work is part of renowned private and institutional collections such as Le Random, 6529 Museum of Art, Curated.xyz, and Unicorn DAO.

She has been featured in, among others, Forbes and Fortune.