hash2ash at National Ethnographic Museum, Warsaw

hash2ash - everything saved will be lost

February 13, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Digital Art, Motioncollector, Poland, Portfolios, 2018

“We don’t want our digital lives to fade away. If we want to preserve them, we need to make sure that the digital objects we create today can still be rendered far into the future”

— Vint Cerf

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Interactive installation for National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw created by panGenerator as a part of TEEN AGE exhibition. Installation tuches on the themes of selfie-culture, and the fear of permanently losing the digital records of our lives due to technical failures, impermanence of data storage, or simply because of the obsolescence of the old digital file formats. Even with such compulsive overproduction of the images of ourselves we might end up with nothing but the blank memories of our past. Even the data on ourselves will eventually fade away…

The installation consist of the display that prompts you to take a selfie on your phone, which it renders in digital particles on its large 1x1 meter screen. Then a moment later, your face scatters and falls apart and the real black gravel starts to fall at the bottom of the screen in perfect synchrony with the digital simulation. Gradually a dark mound builds up at the foot of the construction

@pangenerator

Geronimo fills Lincoln Center with a massive balloon Installation for the New York City Ballet

February 12, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, 2018

"Based in Los Angeles and working under the moniker Geronimo, Zencirli builds sprawling conglomerations of perfectly spherical balloons in carefully selected color palettes."

Words by Laura Staugaitis

"Zencirli’s latest creation has been produced in collaboration with the New York City Ballet, as part of their Art Series. The annual series invites a contemporary artist to install a site-specific artwork in the heart of Manhattan at Lincoln Center, where the ballet has been based since 1964. This is the series’ sixth year and Zencirli is the first female artist to be selected. In anticipation of the event, an appropriately-over-the-top video introduces audiences to Geronimo, directed by Andy Bruntel."

The artwork was unveiled on January 26, and remains up until February 24th, during which time the Ballet has two special performances. There are also public viewing hours every day of the week from February 17 – 25.

@geronimo

The Darkest Building on Earth: Hyundai Pavilion covered with Vantablack VBx2

February 10, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Architecture, South Korea, United Kingdom, Art, 2018

"London-based architecture practice Asif Khan have unveiled their latest project, a super-black pavilion entirely coated in Vantablack VBx2 at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018 in South Korea. The building’s exterior is illuminated by a field of stars that appear to float in mid-air. Hyundai Motor has commissioned the pavilion as part of a global mobility initiative."

"The structure’s 10-metre-high parabolic facades are coated with a super black material: Vantablack VBx2, a derivative of the original Vantablack, making it the world’s largest continuous nanostructure. The matt black material is able to absorb 99% of the light that hits its surface, diminishing its three dimensionality and creating the illusion of a startling black void in broad daylight. The facades of the pavilion are punctuated by thousands of tiny white lights which, during the day, simulate the view into space from that point on earth."

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"Inside the 35m x 35m structure, Khan has designed a vast ‘water room’ – a multi-sensory hydrophobic water installation which emits 25,000 singular water droplets every minute. Visitor interaction with a series of haptic sensors creates new rhythms as droplets continually collide, join, and split across the water landscape, which appears like a city viewed from space. These flows of individual droplets col-lect, grow and build into a ‘lake’ which drains and reappears in the space of minutes."

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#Hyundaipavilion 💫

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"Asif Khan has been working with the manufacturers of Vantablack since 2013 and proposed its use in his shortlisted proposal for the UK Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015. Asif Khan’s super-black building at the 2018 Winter Olympics follows his designs for Coca-Cola’s landmark pavilion at the 2012 London Olympic Games and the MegaFaces pavilion at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics."

Remy Martin x Matt W. Moore: Basketball Court at Art Basel 2017

February 07, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Street Art, USA, Portfolios, 2018

Talented artist we follow for ages Matt W. Moore shared his latest project done later last year at Art Basel Miami 2017. It is a 1st Chapter of a special collaboration with Remi Martin that lead to basketball court design during the art fair at 'The W' South Beach Miami.

@mwm_graphics

It's not the first time artists design basketball court, and you may remember Paris based Nike court redesigned twice (one, two) by Stephane Ashpool

The Ashes of Snow by Carla Chan

February 07, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Hong-Kong, Digital Art, 2018

Carla Chan obtained her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She works with a variety of media including video, installation, photography and interactive media. Much like the never-ending development of new technology Chan considers media art as a medium with infinite possibilities for artistic expressions.

The Ashes of Snow

The Ashes of Snow is an immersive environment that mistreats and misplaces a natural phenomenon: snow. By applying thermochromic technology and a particle falling system, the artwork simulates snowing indoor, By manipulate the temperature inside the particle falling system, the snow’s colour change in greyscale during falling. And eventually the white snow changed to black on the air.

The process seems to be an ordinary snowy environment, but there is subtle drama within. The black tainted snow causes a sense of misplacement of the snowing experience, bringing the audience a twist in the supposedly dreamy imagination of pure white snow. By manipulating the colour of snow and the falling pattern, the flaws, contamination and pollution are exaggerated as the snow falls. Such a foreign but familiar environment gives the audience a space to think and reflect in the bittersweet beauty of destruction. In the process of snow falling in black and white, the artwork also creates a physical landscape of white snow tainted in black at times. With a hint of traditional Chinese ink painting, the minimal visual experience conveys an atmosphere that is dramatic, poetic, pessimistic and concerning for the future.

Ultimately, the impure snowy landscape aims to heighten the sense and awareness of climate change, global warming and pollution in the global scale. In reality, black snow is oftentimes related to heavy pollution and contaminated environment, by staging the audience in the simple, yet dramatic immersive environment. The gradient change of snow color is giving a space for audience to think deeply of a non- exit and twisted situation and yet creates a stage of destruction and invertible situation.

www.carlachan.com

Hail to the Chief by Frank Synowicz

LACDA

February 06, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Digital Art, Portfolios, USA, 2018

Frank Synowicz is a multidisciplinary new media/digital artist and designer working with Computer graphics, visual effects, video, virtual reality, and traditional painting and drawing. He presents the new art projects "Hail to the Chief" and "Composite of the Chiefs" where under anthropological decomposition he creates the demystification of the American idols

Currently on view at The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art LACDA

This portrait series reflects the fun house nature of the American political process. The circus-like spectacle distorts details of the individuals seeking the prime office. Our relation to them is mainly from the many facets of historical representation and media coverage. Their exalted placement conjures a synthetic character, which becomes warped as it is consumed by the world. This feeds the base of American mythology and the drive of current campaigns.

The fight for control plays out on the public stage, triggering a national identity crisis. Attacks and propaganda distort reality, twisting these most famous of faces. Strings pulled for posturing position, propping up the most promised person at the helm. A side step song and dance, juggling talking points and agenda. A pageant of manufactured personality. Placing in the public eye a poster picture of power and promise.

Hail to the Chief

Composite of The Chiefs

@franksynowicz

Hyper Realism by Evgeny Lushpin

January 25, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Russia, Portfolios, 2018

Acclaimed "Master of Light" talented artist Evgeny Lushpin creates jaw-dropping realistic artworks with a drop of magic twist, in that way that you not allow you to mess it up with a photography.

Born outside Moscow in 1966, and then educated in Russia's finest schools, Lushpin crafts lush masterpieces that transport viewers to the time and place of his choosing. From golden, unforeseen moments along hidden canals, to the warmth of a stately centuries-old European mansion, to some of the world's most famous cities.

One can find his works too figurative but the truth is in the eyes of beholder and who said Art has no genres like Music. Evgeny plays a main violin in hyper realism orchestra. Art is not about what you see, it is about what you feel.

lushpin.com

CarbonSpace

January 24, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in South Korea, Motioncollector, Art, Digital Art, Portfolios, 2018

CarbonScape is the latest kinetic data soundscape installation created by h0nh1m aka Chris Cheung It consists of 18 tracks of granular synthesized sound samples, collected from the sound sources where carbon footprints left; from the jet engine sound, steam noises of the factory to the horn of the ships etc…one minute long for each track, giving chances to stand in silent tribute to the mother earth. The finale is composed of all tracks blending into the soundscape.

The work is a visualisation of carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere according to the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) since 1958. In 2017, the concentration of CO2 soared to its highest of the past three million years, with industrialization and the use of fossil fuels being one of the major factors. The installation arranged in a bamboo forest like landscape, with the changing ambience drone noises, imitates chimneys frequently found in power plants and factories, with black spheres indicating CO2 levels around the globe. Immersing the viewer in an environment taken over with chimneys, CarbonScape thinks about what our position as humans can be, while the earth’s capacity for life reaches its limits.

@honhim

Law of Past Experience by Studio Nucleo

January 23, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Italy, Sculpture, Portfolios, 2018

Torino-based Studio Nucleo houses some of italy’s most prestigious artists, designers and architects. Their recent project "Law of Past Experience" curated by Atto Belloli Ardessi and Ginevra Bria, uses computer-aided boolean data to create the unique sculptures.

Boolean as in computer-aided design are called operations of subtraction, intersection, and union

@studionucleo

SAD FACE Ice Graffiti by Aleksey Ilkaev

January 22, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Street Art, Russia, Portfolios, Art, 2018

Perm-based Russian street artist Aleksey Ilkaev better known as ilkaif and was quite famous locally for his significant "sad face" graffiti he placed around the town since 2011. The story of his "sad faces" based on Ural's poetics and romanticised harshness of life in the region.

@ilkaif

Puddle Sculptures by Jeffrey Michael Austin

January 19, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Sculpture, Portfolios, USA, 2018

The Puddles came from my desire to make work that at first glance feels mundane and unassuming, a candid situation you wouldn’t immediately regard as or associate with an art experience,” said Austin. “I’d hoped that in this way they would gently present themselves as yet another detail of your natural environment, before then unfurling with a kind of subtle and surprising magic — an extraordinary quality that you have to grapple with for a moment before facing it with any criticality."

jeffreymichaelaustin.com

Wang & Söderström Phygital Art

Volvo Studio Stockholm

January 18, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Sculpture, Sweden, Art, 2018

When digital meets physical anything can happen and Stokholm based duo Anny Wang & Tim Söderström managed to push their screen art into the real world

"Transitional Speculation is Wang & Söderström’s first major exhibition in Stockholm and “is the first time where we have a platform where we can showcase a broader perspective of our works,” says Tim. “With additional works, both digital and physical, the foundation of our practice which originates in the physical world, is more comprehensible.” In its combination of the unexpected and twisted familiar, the exhibition aims to create an “experience of something ostensibly well-known, something one recognises from the real world that suddenly feels warped,” adds Anny. “Where a small detail makes you question what you are seeing and by extension, how you are perceiving the world.”

@wangsoderstrom

The cube measures 5.50 meters long, 2.55 meters wide and 3.10 meters height

Stronger Than Time: G-class 1979 inside "Amber" Cube

January 17, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Art, Cars, Events, Motioncollector, Germany, USA, Sculpture, 2018

Mercedes-Benz encases its 1979’s G-class inside a gigantic “amber” (44 tons of coloured resin, 90 days in production) cube at NAIAS 2018 Detroit show. Created by Antoni agency with video production from Markenfilm-Crossing

The 1979 model of the G-class is enclosed in 44.4 tones of synthetic resin

"The piece symbolizes the timelessness of the off-road legend and makes a conscious reference to the natural phenomenon of insects preserved in amber. With it, the german auto manufacturer wants to portray through an art piece that these characteristics have been handed down from generation to generation, making it the perfect symbol for the premier of the classic’s newest version."

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Arthur Brouthers Art

January 10, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, Portfolios, 2018

Arthur Brouthers is well known in the world of social media as a pioneer of an abstract fluid painting technique that achieves cellular like separations, with the use of acrylic paints and other chemical agents. In his figurative works, these unconventional methods are used as bottom layers or the “skins” of his subjects. Arthur uses anywhere from 4 to 15 layers of clear resin between layers of acrylic paint, pigmented inks, and spray paint to show depth, giving a 3D effect.

@arthurbros

Damien Hirst mockumentary "The Treasures from The Wreck of the Unbelievable" hits Netflix

January 08, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Motioncollector, United Kingdom, 2018

The film, financed by the artist himself, seeks to re-enact the fictional backstory behind the divisive show went in Venice last year (see full coverage)

According to the 90-minute mockumentary, the vast Venice spectacle was not the 52-year-old artist’s highly anticipated comeback exhibition, which took 10 years and cost a reported $65 million to produce.

Instead, the film suggests the show was the debut presentation of long-lost treasure discovered by a team of archaeologists and divers off the coast of east Africa. The trove—so the story goes—had been assembled during the 1st or 2nd centuries by a former slave turned voracious collector, Cif Amotan II (an anagram, it turns out, for “I am fiction”).

Read more on Artnet

Watch on Netflix

Sculpture by Toru Kurokawa

January 05, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Japan, Portfolios, 2018

Japanese artist Toru Kurokawa sculpts improbable liquid and biological shapes from a variety of ceramic materials. What begins life as a mere lump of clay, the artist molds and carves into artworks that appear like arrays of honeycomb, undulating coral, or dripping stalactites. Last year Kurokawa had a solo show with Sokyo Gallery titled The Savage Math, and you can see more of his work on Artsy

Art of Light by Adela Andea

January 03, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, Portfolios, 2018

"Romanian-born artist Adela Andea creates futuristic light installations that range from wall-based works to immersive environments. The pieces appears as lit explosions, with LED lights, magnifying lenses, and flex neon springing outwards in a blend of chaos and control. Despite their composition of electrified material, each work is inspired by a natural phenomena. Andea looks to bioluminescent sea life, melting icebergs, and cosmological events to shape the composition and meaning of her large-scale installations." via Colossal

Andea is currently represented by Anya Tish Gallery in Houston and Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas. You can see more of her neon-based installations on her website

The 50 Digital Artists we curated offline in 2017

December 27, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Decade, Digital Art, Events, United Kingdom, Art, 2017

Instead of doing our classic Cream of the Top we decided to look back and underline the best thing we did this year. Definitely it was the 5th instalment of Digital Decade collaboration with 50 artists (let's say top artists of 2017 by our version) that ended in August as a group show of Phygital Art in London. And it wouldn't happen without a great support of the partners listed below:

Curated by Arseny Vesnin

The concept of Digital Decade5: Cyberia was “the Unknown Territories Shaped by the Digital Ethnos”. This, “Ethnos” refers to the generation of digital people that are changing our world, and continuing to influence our culture. As our world becomes increasingly digital, it ultimately transforms to become a ‘Cyberia’.

Identity of Cyberia

The whole identity of Digital Decade 5 was created by famous artist Ruslan Khasanov who has recently won ADC Young Gun 15 Award and Behance selected him to decorate their own Behance Decade :)

@ruskhasanov

First us then Apple

The curator of Digital Decade and Designcollector founder Arseny Vesnin was happy enough to cross path with leading artist Shane Griffin whose works you can see on iPhone X and 8 now. But long before this, he created a special artwork for Cyberia collaboration

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The idea to get on board one of the pioneer of digital art - Aristarkh Chernyshev came to me after I revisited "Electronic Superhighway" exhibition in Whitechapel in 2016. That's how we got his famous electric marquee artwork to the walls of Cyberia exhibition

@aristarkh_chernyshev

Video Art went high

This year Digital Decade was expanded not only with VR installations but with a whole new world of Video Art. Together with our new partners - Sedition Art we came up with a Collaboration Call for Arms and selected 5 Artist to join our exhibition.

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Exhibition Artists

The idea of a phygital (digital with physical) art was fully evolved during the exhibition by inviting talented VR artists. Together with the help of Virtually Mine Ltd we installed immersive installations of

Desislava Desseva

Daniel Armegnol Altayo

Salomé Chatriot

The Kissinger Twins

Jose Montemayor

Melanie Courtinat

MARPI

Anna Neklesa

ELLO x DCN

The whole event wouldn't happen without a massive support from Ello Creative Network and we are really happy to roll into 2018 affair with them. During the first month of summer together with 20 Jury Members we shortlisted 60 artists and selected 10 winners whose artworks joined our exhitibition

Alexy Préfontaine

Alice Conisbee

Cy Tone

Daina Hodgson

Davy Evans

Elena Kulikova

Emmanuel Achusim

Fill Ryabchikov

Karen Rodriguez

Marcel Lisboa

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Stay Hungry, Stay Curioos

The whole event featured 15 installation artists and 35 print artists including the winners above. Together with our best partners at Curioos we selected 25 artists to join the search of Cyberia on the "Unknown territories shaped by the Digital Ethnos"

Antoni Tudisco

Antony Kitson

Archan Nair

Ben Paul

Blake Kathryn

Carolina Fuenmayor

Cityabyss

Daniel Taylor

Daria Popovskaia

Desislava Desseva

Dorian Legret

Whitecalx

Kirill Maksimchuk

Kota Yamaji

Louise Mertens

Matthew Custar

Max Sobkowski

Oksana Zmorovych

Rik Oostenbroek

Santi Zoraidez

Shane Griffin

Sasha Katz

Slava Semenuta

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Digital Decade 5 was hosted by Ugly Duck space as a part of their Creative Seasons program. Ugly Duck is a London Based social enterprise that revitalises empty and underused buildings, and open them up for creative uses. Ugly Duck has also been used as unusual locations for films, photoshoots, and events.

Exhibition Catalogue

There is no good exhibition without collectible catalogue of featured artists. Digital Decade 2017 is no exception and you can still support us by ordering the catalogue to your doors.

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Follow the Leading Digital Art Event

Now you have no other reasons but to follow our initiative entering the Sixth Instalment in 2018

with partners like Creative Debuts, POSH.SPACE, ELLO and Curioos

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Kirsten Beets Art

December 25, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, South African Republic, Portfolios, 2017

Cape-Town-rooted artist Kirsten Beets works predominantly with oil paint on paper. Her main subject is the interaction between humans and nature.

"The artist infuses observations of people and places, fleeting moments, into physical objects. She lifts their significance to touchstones of remembrance. Beets’ artworks represent the fragmentary illustrations of a shifting memory. They oscillate between the feeling of dry, heat shimmering Cape Town, geometric-shaped swimming pools and the preserved green nature of the suburban and gardens. In her paintings the artist expresses the illusionary spaces that remind of nature but are in fact fully constructed by humans. This play with illusion is substantial for Beet’s works where she comments on the interaction between humans and their environment in a bigger picture. Beets has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Scuola Internationale di Grafi in Venice, Italy. She also took part in the Cape Town and the Johannesburg Art Fairs."

@kirst_b_kind

Banksy x Danny Boyle "The Alternativity"

December 20, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Street Art, United Kingdom, 2017, Art

The story of how Britain’s favourite artist Banksy teamed up with Britain’s favourite film director Danny Boyle to put on a moving nativity play at The Walled Off Hotel in December 2017.