Post-WiFi Art by Mika 100o111

October 20, 2024 by Arseny Vesnin in 2024, Art, Germany, NFT Art, Portfolios

The works we have shared by the artist Mika fall into a category that we could describe as post-crypto and post-Wi-Fi art. She blends elements of digital culture, technology, and modern life into physical or conceptual pieces that question the relationships between technology, symbolism, and daily objects.

Post-crypto art is generally developed after or in response to the rise of blockchain technology and the NFT market. Most works reflect the hangover or disillusionment from the previous promises of decentralisation, democratisation of wealth, or even "crypto utopia" we all had in 2021.
Mika's works seem to record an irony or judgment toward this ultra-modern, technology-marinated world, in which crypto art was promising to change but then primarily problematic.

Therefore, these objects in the images have an implicit dialogue with the viewer, an invitation to consider some thought about tradition—for instance, swords, tea bags, crosses—and modernity; what better examples than laptops, Bluetooth, or iPhone chargers?

Mika works are reflections upon the omni-presence of internet connectivity and how it is affecting the physical world. In post-WiFi art, a common theme is a disconnect between virtual and real-world interactions, critiquing the reliance on constant online presence.

Mika invites deep reflection on the state of modernity through her work, critiquing or accepting the role technology plays in redefining our relationship to power, comfort, connectivity, and even spirituality. In the post-crypto, post-WiFi era, as we call it, these works toy with the absurdities of modern life and digital reliance, pushing back against the elevation of mundane or obsolete symbols to objects of reflection.

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Tree of Knowledge by Beeple x Avant Arte

October 03, 2024 by Arseny Vesnin in 2024, Digital Art, USA

Avant Arte’s collaboration with the trailblazing digital artist Beeple is thoughtfully based on the three distinct states of his first generative artwork: SIGNAL, NOISE, and VIOLENCE.

Tree of Knowledge. Building from the kinetic sculpture series introduced with HUMAN ONE, the work has now added an interactive element — a means for viewers to explore a more nuanced relationship between technology and nature. As viewers turn the dial between signal and noise, the serene future of technology and the coexistence of nature noisily crash into the chaotic present filled with real-time data, media, and information overload. Beeple is looking to create an experience where viewers cannot be told what to think but can decide how much information they let in.

“We all get to choose our own reality.”

— Beeple

Limited edition prints with Avant Arte

In collaboration with ultimate art platform Avant Arte, Beeple releasing a trio of limited edition prints: Signal, Noise and Choose Violence available for 48h starting October 9.

Pon Arsher

October 02, 2023 by Arseny Vesnin in 2023, Art, Portfolios, Moldova, USA

Pon Arsher, a self-taught artist, hails from Chisinau, the capital of Moldova. Since her early years, she found solace and a profound connection to her inner self through drawing, often opting for solitude over socializing with friends.

Her artistic focus has consistently revolved around humanity and the world of sensations. Her creations aim to acknowledge the trials of life, employing a harmonious blend of colour, texture, and motion to craft a captivating interpretation of these challenges. In essence, her showcased works mirror the universal concerns, inner struggles, and restrained emotions that touch us all.

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DRIFT's aerial sculptures and architecture

October 29, 2022 by Arseny Vesnin in 2022, Art, Digital Art, Design, Netherlands

@studio.drift

What would the Sagrada Familia look like if it was finished? Imagine a full circle Colosseum... Dutch artist duo DRIFT has been working to improve their drone software to create real-life, life-size renders to visualise the improbable.

DRIFT works together with a multi-disciplinary team of 64 on aerial sculptures, installations and performances. All individual artworks have the ability to transform spaces. The confined parameters of a museum or a gallery does not always do justice to a body of work, rather it often comes to its potential in the public sphere or through architecture.

In 2017 DRIFT made their first performative art installation named Franchise Freedom. This drone show premiered at Art Basel Miami 2017, followed by performances all over the world. Besides this performative art installation DRIFT produced many more, with which the world is well known.

In collaboration with the company Drone Stories and Nova Skystories, DRIFT has used their drone technology since 2020 to reimagine the future of architecture. It is the aim to assist architects to bring their future projects to reality in a mesmerising yet sustainable way, visualising what this life size would look like.

NOMAD by SENI x ARTISANT

October 22, 2022 by Arseny Vesnin in 2022, NFT Art

Unexpected combination of ethnicity and futurism is the key to balance past and future and be a true life surfer. This look is for brave adventurer who is hungry for new experience and preserves memories in the galaxy backpack.

Utility: ARTISANT will airdrop The Sandbox NFT fashion wearable to all holders. You will be able to use your fashion garment in The Sandbox Metaverse by connecting your wallet.

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Ada Crow Photography

October 29, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, NFT Art, Photography, Portfolios

@ada_crow

Welcome to the other side of the mirror - the world of Ada’s Crow mastermind. We are pretty sure you will be amazed by the conceptual photography she creates on the daily basis leaving no doubts she is next NFT OG star

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LucyLucy

October 28, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Australia, Portfolios, Street Art, Illustration

French Parisian born artist Lucy Lucy has immigrated to Australia in 2006. Currently residing in Melbourne, she has graciously carved her niche in the Australian urban art community. She has been painting murals and exhibiting in France, Australia, Canada, Thailand, UK and the US.

Lucy’s paintings capture the evolving folklore of the feminine, exploring the energy through archetypal portraits of muses, mothers and goddesses. Her symbolic imagery is an invitation to navigate the inner landscapes of the women psyche.

An important part of her creative career has focused on multiple collaborations, starting with the collective Awol crew as early as 2006. Along the years, this path has immersed Lucy’s practice in performance art, photography and fashion design anchoring her work in multiculturalism. Lucy’s public murals also often explore themes like social equality and Nature symbiosis.

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Private Party in Metaverse by Alexey Kondakov

October 21, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, NFT Art, Art, Portfolios, Ukraine

@alksko

We are happy to announce absolute talent Alexey Kondakov is joining NFT Art Scene on @Superrare.co. You may know Alex for his meticulously created collages featuring the clash of reality and a moment of art history. Every work is painstakingly created by artist by selecting scene from real life, adapting the lights and selecting a perfect situation from the history of arts

Video artwork will be available as NFT this Friday at 17.00 EEST / 10 EDT

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Art of Tiffany Cole

October 20, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, NFT Art, Portfolios

@tiffanycole

Tiffany Cole was born and raised in San Francisco California and is now based in London England. She is a self-taught artist and a muse to some of the world's leading artists. While her work revolves around the human form Tiffany also adds raw, colourful abstraction to her figure work. After the careful and technical creation of the figure she dives into pure emotion with instinctual, bold mark making.

“I am deeply interested and consumed with the beauty and sensuality of the figure. I feel like I get to tell stories with my hands and create the worlds that I felt I had to keep trapped in my mind for so many years. Through my art I am free to express my sensuality, and I’m finding with my work I’m able to give a voice to the inner thoughts of many women I’ve come to meet, who have become muses to me. My work represents the two dominant and sometimes harmful sides of my personality, obsession with perfection with bouts of exuberant spontaneity”

— Tiffany Cole

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MacBook Pro 2021 film dir. by Grif

October 19, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Advertising, Motioncollector

Shane Griffin better know as Grif has been commissioned by Apple to create a significant part of their latest October presentation. Shane was busy last month to deliver a blockbuster visual for Macbook 16” return. This was produced by the amazing @psyop, and shot by Dariusz Wolski.

A New Nature by Mark Dorf

October 18, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Germany, NFT Art, Portfolios, Switzerland

@mrkdrf

Generative artist Mark Dorf shares NFT excerpts from an upcoming video installation titled A New Nature at the Museum für Gestaltung that will run as a part of Digital Arts Zurich later this month

"A New Nature" contemplates the future of what is commonly referred to in Western culture as Nature through scenes that are both cautionary and celebratory. The works in A New Nature do not depict a future that is a return to the pastoral and bucolic landscape, but neither is it a future of doom and gloom. Instead, these works reveal environments that are augmented with technology, for better or worse, and that are full of mystery suggesting and normalizing images of a strange hybrid, and at times abject, planetary system of technology-organisms.

These new works are derived from a longer form video installation A New Nature are debuting at the end of the month at @museumgestaltung with @daz_digitalartzurich

01 A New Nature

⚭ Nature is just a word that is assigned to a place over there. Theres nothing over there that is not over here

02 Layer Two

✧ Tell me what you see. It slips just out of reach with the very act of grasping it.

03 Assemblage

☉ Breathe life into this world. There is nothing new here, we have all been here forever.

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Digital Art from Jana Stýblová

October 13, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Glitch, Czechia, Portfolios, NFT Art, USA

Analogue, abstract and grotesque artist Jana Stýblová shares her vision

“Each piece I create embodies the goal of merging the analogue/physical and digital. I begin a new piece by first making a painting on canvas with acrylic paint, spray paint and occasionally other chemicals. While the paint is still wet and malleable, I photograph the canvas both regularly and at a macro scale, revealing some of the more alien details the paint may create by interacting with itself. Once I have a set of sometimes hundreds of photos, I select the ones that strike me as most otherworldly or ones that would work well as a landscape foundation.”

”I bring these photographs into Photoshop and begin building, layering, cutting and seaming—slowly playing with density to reveal something that doesn't look paint-like at all. Often I will add gradients at this stage before running this preliminary collage through a pixel sorting bit of code in Processing. Pixel sorting is a technique invented by Kim Asendorf in 2010—I like to work with analogue methods, but have a deep respect and awe of code, combining the two in the NFT / Digital Art space is what, to me, solidifies the art as a digital work, rather than physical. “

”This process repeats and can go on for many hours until I feel a sense of completion, or indeed, perhaps a bit of transportation. You can read a bit more here: https://janastyblova.com/a-nebula “

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Monumentalis by Paul Green

October 11, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, NFT Art, Portfolios, Russia

@true_paulgreen

Paul Green, a digital artist based in Moscow, creates the "Monumentalis" collection - an NFT project with a unique playable model for collecting strange figurines. As he explains, each "Monumentalis" is a reflection of our everyday life in emotional or physical embodiment. Each piece in this collection is hand-crafted one by one and offered as a one-of-a-kind piece.

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Visual storytelling by Nikolina Petolas

October 04, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Croatia, Illustration, NFT Art, Portfolios

@nikolinapetolas

Nikolina is a Croatian visual artist, working in the realm of contemporary surrealism.

With elements of subtle allegory, she expresses her eerie visions through screenshots of the imaginary story, by guiding a viewer on a journey through visionary interpretations of her fictional worlds.From dreamlike landscapes and fantasy scenery, to animal characters, as well as strange creatures and environments, she uses the observation of inner conflicts and questions that arise from them, as a dreamy and vivid example of her personal experience of the world.

Her surreal worlds were noticed by Salvatore Ferragamo, for whom she worked as a sole concept and visual development artist, creating visuals for the latest campaign Storie di Seta. Visual interpretations of animal fables with profound detailed compositions in her signature 'Tale of the Blue Pear' series have been recognized by private collectors worldwide and luxury venues such as Seabourn and Marriot autograph collection.

Nikolina's work has gained multiple international awards and has been shown in numerous international exhibitions as well as several art projects. Her work was exhibited globally, in galleries and museums of Europe, USA and Asia, most recently being exhibited at an individual exhibition in Paris. Her art is also represented in various books, magazines and publications, including the prestige "Lexikon phantastischer Künstlerinnen" by Gerhard Habarta.

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Solitude - Quietude - Contemplation by Nadav Kander

October 30, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Israel, Photography, Portfolios, United Kingdom

@nadavkander

Renowned portraiture and landscape photographer Nadav Kandar famous for his long-term projects depicting the power of nature and humanity. In his recent series “Solitude - Quietude - Contemplation” Nadav explores the solitude in the times of lockdown

“I think of a quote by Rilke: “Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you.” So many feelings are at play and I was aware that in this quiet time there was a much bigger picture playing out, and it will continue to play out in our future.”

— Nadav Kander

Sasan Nasernia Calligraphy Art

October 29, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Iran, Lettering, Portfolios

@nasernia.art

Born in Tehran, Sasan Nasernia began his career primarily as a calligrapher and typography artist. Exploring different avenues in Persian classical and also modern calligraphy, he has since expanded his practice to include painting, print, digital work and installation. In his search to find a personal format of calligraphy, he has found a novel way of intertwining letters and words, which he refers to as “Crazy Kufic”.

Paco Pomet Art

October 28, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Portfolios, Spain

@pacopomet

Digging the art of Paco Pomet is like constantly finding a golden nugget after another nugget and each time its getting better and bigger.

Kine Andersen Illustrations

October 27, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Fashion, Illustration, Lifestyle, Norway, Portfolios

Oslo-based illustrator Kine Andersen retrospects the normality through the colourful pop-art lens . Her visual technique, beyond being consistent in narrative content, multiply the isolation and angst of small-town life in the north. Despite this fact she is not spending much time on self-reflection but creating a lot of commissioned work for leading editorials.

“I have a hard time understanding my own feelings, so it is easier to draw them. I felt like an alien most of my teenage years, therefore my illustrations are very lonely.””

— Kine Andersen

Gada Jermy Illustrations

October 26, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Illustration, Portfolios

@gadajermy

Gada Jermy is Jordan-based illustrator creating beautiful imaginary portraits in her own style

Masks by Anastasia Pilepchuk

October 26, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Craft, Portfolios, Russia, Fashion

@nastia_pilepchuk

Moscow-based artist and fashion designer Anastasia Pilepchuk recently got an invite from Instagram for Business to create a series of masks inspired by the topic of “harmony breaks silence”. In collaboration with another artist Moritz Simon Geist they created an interactive versions of them

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“In my work I am interested in the notions of sublime and elusion, entering into a meditative process akin to a dream-like state. The real and the fantasy weave together, hiding behind the masks, threads and layers. Expression is channeled through those shapes, finding its intention and force both in the normality and in the surreal.

The method I use in my work is based on constructing an image or an object starting from the small building blocks, which, when gradually put together, let the pattern of the whole emerge. I like to reconsider materials and shapes, finding new ways to inscribe them into the real through the imagination and moments of improvisation that occur in repetitive work.”

— Nastya Pilepchuk