The Next Rembrandt

May 10, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Art, Netherlands, 2017

It’s been almost four centuries since the world lost the talent of one its most influential classical painters, Rembrandt van Rijn. That's clear world will never see another new piece from him even there were numerous hoax and fakes done during the last century. But what happens when tech minds step in the game? Having Microsoft and ING at their back, researchers, curators and developers from Museum Het Rembrandthuis, TU Delft and Mauritshuis created an AI that has generated a "new" Rembrandt painting by gathering and using data from all of his art legacy.

Visit the website to understand the project

nextrembrandt.com

Treehugger: Wawona - VR Vision of Ancient Sequoia

May 08, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, United Kingdom, Portfolios, Motioncollector, 2017

Tribeca 2017 Storyscapes awarded team of Marshmallow Laser Feast are behind "Treehugger: Wawona" - the VR Experience that is centred on nature's cathedral, the giant Sequoia from the famous Sequoia National Park (California, USA). Wawona is the (local Native American) Miwok’s word for ‘hoot of an owl’, imitating the sound of the Northern Spotted Owl - believed to be the tree’s spiritual guardian.

“The project we chose exemplifies the highest standards of artistry and inventiveness. It explores the potential for new visual forms and investigates unique modes of storytelling that allow us to tap into aspects the world and our lived experience that are intuitively known but seldom articulated. Through its use of poetic abstraction, embodiment, and the viewer’s own imagination and interpretation, we are able to unlock new ways of understanding and experiencing the world around us. We’ve selected this piece because we hope it will inspire others to start creating in ways that take risks and use the limitations of technology to revamp story and experience”

— Jury at Tribeca Film Awards 2017

Participants are invited to don a VR headset, place their heads into the tree’s knot and be transported into the Sequoia’s secret inner world. The longer you hug the tree, the deeper you drift into ‘treetime’: a hidden dimension that lies just beyond the limit of our senses. Audiences embark on a journey of abstract visualisation, following a single drop of water as it traverses from root to canopy in these enormous living structures.

Watch Video Report from Tribeca

@marshmallowlaserfeast

Luke Choice aka VelvetSpectrum

May 05, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Instagram, Portfolios, Illustration, 2017

Digital artist Luke Choice is obsessed with blocking colours and CG shapes he renders and mix to deliver awesome illustrations

@velvetspectrum

Orbis Integra by GMUNK

May 02, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, USA, Portfolios, 2017

"Technicolor nebula swirl like cyclones across a sub-atomic realm. An endless stream of geometries sequence through the stratification of an atmospheric order that signals life. This is the primordial inception of a new world, in a preternatural cosmos."

"GMUNK's Orbis Integra maps an evolutionary thrust through the surfacing momentum of a biological process. We’re in an ephemeral realm, where the material and non-material churn together like the clash of two infinite oceans."

@gmunk

Digital Sculptures from Picasso Paintings

April 28, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Pakistan, Portfolios, 2017

Digital artist Omar Ail interprets Picasso paintings as a sleek modern digital sculptures

@OMARAQILdesign

Conceptual Digital Art by Sergey Kolesov

April 27, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, France, Illustration, Portfolios, 2017

Senior concept artist at Lyon-based Arkane Studios - Sergey Kolesov shares his latest awesome works done for Dishonored2 computer game

Fantasaraxia by Boldtron

April 26, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Agencies, Digital Art, Fashion, Portfolios, 2017

Art director and virtual reality artist Boldtron runs a self initiated agency FANTASARAXIA (previously) in the middle of sunny Barcelona doing a lot of collaborations with famous Spanish agencies like the latest with Serial Cut we reviewed last year. His latest commission was created for local brand Miranda for Lydia in collaboration with Somos Usted agency, revealing a fashion line as like as it imagined on sale in totally virtual world.

@boldtron

Wang & Söderström Phygital Reality

April 24, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Denmark, Digital Art, Portfolios, Graphic Design, 2017

Phygital - a new word in describing real world materia crawling into the digital existence and vice versa. This is the best way to describe what Anny Wang and Tim Söderström do on a daily basis by creating an unexpected digital experiences through materiality and technology taken from the real world. "For example, one series, Treasures amalgamates objects which you know are created on screen, but each element uses an analogue perspective. Marble and stone materials, or even a giant wobbly creature-like ball, appear so realistically that initially you think the image is a highly stylised still life shoot."

@wangsoderstrom

The Heartbeats Experiment: GERMANOS

April 21, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Agencies, Digital Art, Motioncollector, 2017

Six People - Six different situations. One oscillograph records their reactions. What makes their heart beating faster?

Directed by Jean-Paul Frenay

Client : Germanos / OTE Group
Agency : Ogilvy & Mather
Production : Central Athens Film Productions
Director : Jean-Paul Frenay

Fake Brands by REILLY

April 20, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Digital Art, Fashion, Graphic Design, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2017

Working under REILLY name a London-based, Scottish-born graphic designer and art director who for several years now, has been toying cheerily with the logos which we see day in, day out – reworking them with fashion’s greatest mainstays. Given the current proliferation of fake news and high-low collaborations, Reilly saw the fascination with his playful subversion of fashion branding as an opportunity to take things even further, and continued sharing his tongue-in-cheek combinations with the world.

@hey_reilly

Beside "Fakenews" project REILLY has enormous graphic design portfolio worth to visit now

www.heyreilly.com

Cristina Burns

April 18, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Italy, 2017, Glitch

Cristina Burns is a photographer and a mixed media artist. Her work is characterised by juxtaposition, where opposing elements such as candies, toys, and flowers are fused to anatomical parts and insects, often blurring the extremely thin lines between fantasy and reality, purity and sin, life and death.

This multiplicity of elements are meticulously arranged to create her surrealistic compositions, then she photographs the assemblage, digitally enhance and prints in a limited number of copies, the resulting print is the only record of the artist's process.

@cristina.burns

Human After All by Jan Kriwol and Markos R. Kay

April 17, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Photography, 2017

Human After All, a collaboration between artists Jan Kriwol and Markos R. Kay, juxtaposes CGI recreations of the human circulatory system with images of urban landscapes

For the series, Kriwol collaborated with London-based digital artist Markos Kay. “I described my vision to few CGI artists and all of them gave up,” he says. “When I described my idea to Markos he said ‘okay’ straight away. He then developed the technique for creating our guy and proposed his form and texture.”

Andoni Beristain

April 10, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Graphic Design, Portfolios, Spain, Photography, 2017

"Andoni Beristain is a photographer and a Creative-Art Director. His shirts are famous, he thinks in the shower, he dislikes heat, he's thorough, symmetrical, colourful and even though he uses humour, he works very seriously. He also likes irony. He's Basque, lives in Barcelona and he knows how to do stuff properly".

@andoniberistain

Pierre Kiandjan Art

April 05, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, France, Portfolios, 2017

As Pierre Kiandjan is selecting color mixes, he aims to create illusion of motion, space, and temperature. The challenge consists in gathering simple shapes within complicated blendings. His pieces reveal a clear use of color shades and broken lines. His main influences include futuristic pieces of architecture invented by Mœbius, radiances of light diffracted by Barbara Kasten's mirrors, living compositions sculpted by Jean Arp, and rhythmic gracefulness drawn by Victor Vasarely.

His Parisian studio answers to design needs from clients belonging to a wide spectrum of sectors: Universal Music, Warner Music, Marie Claire magazine, Le Journal de la Maison magazine, Alex Gopher, Morgane Groupe, Album Surf manufacturing company...

@kiandjan

INORI Prayer - Real-time Face Projection Mapping

April 03, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Japan, Portfolios, Motioncollector, 2017

Nobumichi Asai (previously) released a new experiences with real-time face projection mapping

Watch more of his recent works below

Digital Art Loops by Adam Martinakis

March 28, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Greece, Portfolios, 2017

Truly born as CG Artis, Adam Martinakis creates stunning video digital artworks by looping the beauty inside absolute void

“Imagining art being a bridge, a connection between the spirit and the material,
the living and the absent, the personal and the universal”

— Adam Martinakis

@adammartinakis

United Visual Artists - Illuminating: Man and Machine

March 27, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, United Kingdom, 2017

"Alan Turing is the inspiration for a study of human and artificial intelligence by art and design group United Visual Artists"

"In the third and final episode of our Illuminating series, a trilogy of films showcasing a range of innovative installations by London-based art and design group UVA, co-founder Matt Clark explores the grey area between the natural and the technological."

"With a focus on UVA's permanent light installation, Message From the Unseen World—a memorial to pioneering British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turing, set under a bridge in London—this episode ultimately explores the deeper enigma of being human."

Nowness

AXIS by Leonardoworx

March 22, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Italy, Instagram, Graphic Design, Typography, Portfolios, 2017

Italian digital artist Leonardoworx (previously) shares his new venture in creating CG Alphabet "AXIS" inspired by product design from 1970-80s

Appreciate on Behance

@leonardoworx

Digital Collages by Hüseyin Sahin

March 21, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Turkey, 2017

"Turkish art director and visual artist Hüseyin Şahin has an uncanny eye for combining disparate photographs into cohesive scenes, where technology, nature, and humankind collide. Sahin works with a variety of digital photographs which he then edits into collages that he shares on Instagram and Behance"

@art.side

Elena Kulikova Photography

March 20, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Photography, USA, Portfolios, Fashion, 2017

Elena Kulikova immersed herself in a world of commercial photography as a model while simultaneously experimenting on her own in her 20s. Self-taught but mentored by well known photographers, Elena launched her photographic career in Amsterdam in 2006. Her feminine sensibility and creative processing push her photography to deepen the subjects she photographs.

Worth to mention that Elena is a resident of our Digital Decade art collaboration and took a part in London, 2016 exhibition "There is No Planet B" with the concept of "Imagine there is no contamination" briefly shown below.

Collectible art

@elenakulikovastudio

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