3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Marcel Giannoccaro, the Canadian digital artist, reimagines the architectural futurism that was initiated by his ancestors counterparts a century ago.
Giannoccaro's work embodies futuristic architecture and the dramatic visions of early sci-fi cinema. This exploration digs into his artistry, from inspiration to execution.
Enter the captivating world of artist Eric Pause, where abstract figure paintings seamlessly blend multiple timeless moments into one stunning visual experience.
While most paintings capture a single moment, Eric Pause, an Ontario-based artist, aims to seize multiple moments in his striking figurative artworks. Drawing inspiration from the Italian Futurists, who merged time, place, and form, his art conveys motion and the passage of time through abstract shapes that overlap and intertwine.
Drawing various geometric shapes, Pause skillfully portrays figures in simultaneous states of activity and repose. His deliberate use of a restrained colour palette of blues, oranges, and white accentuates the composition's fragmented nature while providing a unifying element across his diverse acrylic paintings.
Montreal-based illustrator Yun Ling creates a long visual story of a lone archer exploring the unknown world
If Viktor Vasnetsov ever joined pre-raphaelites, the art of Anthony Ventura can be their logic heritage. “A trip into the world of Anthony Ventura is a memorable one, bringing you through pop culture, horror and earth grounded fantasy turned Greek tragedy.”
Canada-raised Manchester-based artist Anastassia Zamaraeva has been into clay sculpture since her childhood and even changing the profession to architect does not make an effect as she got back to turntable
Contemporary artist Krista Kim, who was a part of our latest Digital Decade 2020 edition and had collaborations with brands such as Lamborghini and Lanvin, has ventured into the crypto-creative field, announcing her design of the first digital home available for purchase as an NFT file. Krista is not the only designer to do shift to digital work; just a few weeks ago, another friend of us, the Argentinian designer Andrés Reisinger sold 10 virtual pieces of furniture in an online auction.
David Belliveau is a self-taught digital artist and entrepreneur, specialised in advertising illustrations and realistic portraiture. When he’s not painting for clients, he spends most of his time teaching others. In 2015 he co-founded Paintable, an online art school built to empower budding artists around the world.
SMECCEA is a motion designer based in Vancouver. Her work often examines abstract ideas, spirituality, and self discovery. She grounds her work based on careful introspection, always drawn to working in many creative mediums.
An immersive sci-fi short by writer-director Stuart Langfield. “Loop” centres around a reclusive former tech CEO’s quest to teach AI how to experience and process true human emotions. However these ’emotion experiments’ involve a series of scripted scenarios that seem to do more to call basic humanity into question as the film blurs the lines between drama and sci-fi, human and machine, real and artificial.
“Loop is an artistic exploration of a simple hypothesis: emotion cannot be programmed, it must be felt and experienced to be real. I started exploring this concept while observing my young son discover and display new emotions through his own direct experience and contact with others. He was learning to process the feelings of anger, joy, disappointment, sadness, and I found this progression of maturity fascinating and insightful. I started to question whether replicating an emotive incident could result in a similar reaction every time and, if so, could we program a machine to feel?”
Toronto based urban artist Ben Johnston is an artist focusing on custom typography for murals, installations and public art, helping bring to life numerous types of projects and consistently pushing the envelope in his field.
Creative studio from Montreal shared a series of design created for the local cookie shop Le Biscuitery.
Continuum Remix v.2 is the second in a series of works by Krista Kim in collaboration with Efren Mur (@efrenmur) and Ligovskoï (@ligvsk) to be released on Sedition Art platform. Continuum Remix v.1 was launched in Summer 2020 as part of the @Digital.Decade SE 2020 collection, curated by us - @Designcollector Network.
“Meditation will save us from the machine; art will save us from ourselves. I believe in the healing and transformational power of visual art + sound + meditation on an individual and a social level.
Our future is unknown and unstable. There are difficult times ahead due to social and economic unrest due to pandemic risk, digital disruption, automation and climate change. Collective fear is undeniable, but we cannot allow ourselves to be dominated by fear — we must face the unknown with open hearts and mindfulness. In chaos, there is creative opportunity. We must create a better future with compassion and love.
My collaboration with Efren Mur (video artist) and Ligovskoï (electronic music band) was created during the COVID-19 crisis. Our purpose is to present a vision of meditativeness and digital beauty to collective consciousness. The world is forever changed, and we must adapt with mindfulness, self care and connection to creative energy that will help us navigate the unknown.”
“I Can C” directed by Thomas Bertrand aka Petitom is a visual narrative inspired by prominent professor in the field of the ocular movement of blind people eyes
All This For Brioche (Marie-Antoinette)
Pierre Chaumont is a conceptual artist living and working in Montreal, Canada. His interests surrounds systems of power and their resurgence in culture, technology and society.
Woman In Veil
“We provisionally give the name differance to this sameness which is not identical: by the silent writing of its a, it has the desired advantage to referring to differing; both as spacing / temporalizing and as the movement that structures every dissociation”
The Beginning (Winged Lion of Mosul)
Following artist’s statement, “Differance is the questioning of inherent power structures within cultural, linguistic, technological or societal systems. By making this non-identical sameness at the heart of my art-making, I mimic, imitate, copy, tweak and ultimately alter these structures. I then present something visually familiar to the viewer while keeping this spacing at the forefront of their experience.
This process has two aims; firstly I wish to make these systems apparent to you, viewers, so as to question your own relation to it. Secondly, by giving a new understanding to what we know, I reveal the fragility of these systems and the possibility for individuals and communities to interact, take part in it, and reshape it.
No structure is infallible, nothing is stable ; the world is an ever changing photograph.”
AVE CALIGULA (Madness Is Always Rewarded)
Breaking The Spell (Perseus Beheading Medusa)
Working on intersection of graphic design and applied arts and being a part of “Demande spéciale” team (@demandespeciale), Guillaume Lavallée creates visual dialogue with a viewer (in personal projects) and brand’s audience in commercial projects
Conceptual photography of Nik Mirus is characterised by a clean, graphic and colourful aesthetic. Whether collaboratively or working alone on personal projects, he enjoys the tactile and constructive aspects of studio based photography. Through the conceptualisation of images, building and lighting sets, he takes great pleasure in constructing images from the ground up.
From Canada, Ty (tydale.ca) was born in Vancouver, Canada. He's been a creative from a young age, constantly trying to stay afloat. He decided to study Digital Graphic Design at Vancouver Community College in 2012 where he experimented with different illustrative styles and aesthetics. From his chaotic workspace he draws in several different illustrative styles with bold colours and quirky-child like drawings. The majority of his work uses the four basic shapes and is often geometric. Ty specializes in illustrative design solutions for creative agencies and brands.
Toronto-based artist Alice Zilberberg shares her latest series “Meditations”. In this series, Alice creates animal montages as an expression of self-therapy. As an urbanite, functioning day-to-day in a fast-paced, built environment can be emotionally unsettling. The artist regrounds herself in the sense of calm issued by these animals. These creatures reinstate a presence, a tranquility, and a grander perspective. The works are an amalgam of many photographs from different locations around the world, put together seamlessly by the artist in post-production. Their minimal aesthetic is metaphorical of striving for simplicity. Rather than ruminating on the past, or hypothesizing the future, Zilberberg’s works invite a meditative state, encouraging the viewer to stay still and find happiness in the moment.
