Monica Rizzolli Gomes / Group XL, Apr 2015 - Sep 2015

GROUP XL

9/5/15 to 9/5/15

Mackey Apartments and Garages 1137 S. Cochran Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90019

Stuttgart-based artist Monica Rizzolli Gomes took to the rigorous mapping of one's most banal, well-trodden path in any city: her trip to the grocery store. Over several months, Gomes used the path from the Mackey Apartments to the Ralph's supermarket on Wilshire Blvd. to produce and test formulas of 'walkability,' both her own and those of well-known scholars. Each step in her 1.2km walk is subject to multiple sets of variables that use algorithms to attempt to understand the streetscape of L.A. with a depth approximating human perception.
For Final Projects, Gomes's walking was presented as a self-generating computer simulation projected in the Garage Top, titled (1) FROM Home - TO Supermarket... The path to Ralph's was dissected as a character encounters every foreseeable scenario moving through space, articulating Gomes's survey techniques for visitors to carry with them afterwards, during their own such short walks.