Cognition

Cognition is the media art installation by Radugadesign at Stockholm City Hall. Created and produced in collaboration with composer and pianist Nikola Melnikov, for Asko Appliances AB.

In 2017 Radugadesign presented the audiovisual performance "Cognition" (for Asko brand) in Stockholm City Hall developed in the collaboration with composer and pianist Nikola Melnikov.. The installation of "Cognition" is an expression of striving for the perfect shape. Everything can be perfect–whether it is a geometric figure or a person.

LA Philharmonic's Anniversary projection by Refik Anadol

From September 28 through October 6 vibrant three-dimensional projections on the facade of Walt Disney Concert Hall are launched by artist Refik Anadol and his team (baked by Google Arts&Culture) to celebrate the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 100th anniversary.

This public art installation projects transformed archival materials onto the exterior of Walt Disney Concert Hall in animated, data-driven patterns, seeming to give consciousness to the architectural landmark. The result is a radical visualization of the organization’s first century. The images are abstract representations of more than 45 terabytes of information from the L.A. Phil’s archives, including photos, videos, audio recordings, posters, and more.

The files were parsed into millions of data points that were then categorized by hundreds of attributes, by deep neural networks with the capacity to both remember the totality of the LA Phil’s “memories” and create new connections between them. The show is accompanied by the soundtrack that was created from the LA Phil’s archival recordings. Sound designers augmented these selections by using machine-learning algorithms to find similar performances recorded throughout the LA Phil’s history. 

Dazed Beauty Avatars

The leading radical fashion and youth culture platform Dazed & Confused released a new platform @dazedbeauty to define the beauty of our age. No doubts they started with a phygital representation of new generation of digital nomads, influencers and artists. By this Dazed means a collaboration between a dozen of CG artists and millennial idols.

Worth to mention one of the artist - Shane Griffin took a part in our Digital Decade: Cyberia exhibition last year. Here is his avatar of Mechatok

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Sucuk & Bratwurst reanimates Dazed Beauty’s Creative Director Isamaya Ffrench

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Jon Emmony reanimates Kate Moss 

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Carlos Saez reanimates Arca

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Blake Kathryn

LA based digital artist Blake Kathryn Thomas shares her latest artworks with us. Her work touches upon themes of nostalgia, states of consciousness and vices, iterated into dreamlike compositions.

Eugene Pylinksy

Talented Kyiv-based motion artist Eugene Pylinsky aka @pylik is definitely having a worth to see profile on Behance and Vimeo

Daily Digital Art by Beeple

Mike Winkelmann known as Beeple is doing a strong digital artwork a day. Literally every day for the last 11 years (sic!). We believe he has no time to collect them chronologically but sometimes it happens, like this time with November 2017 pack, available for appreciations on Behance. (We were happy to had Beeple involved in our Digital Decade exhibition last year where he recreated 3D worlds in VR Chat based on designs he selected from own competition ran with Kingdeluxe Label)

Digital Art of Mateusz Krol

When imagination meets right tools a new design star is born, please welcome Mateusz Krol - very promising digital artist and designer from Warsaw. His profile can be found on Ello as well as on Behance

Maxim Zhestkov - Optics

Talented Russian media artist Maxim Zhestkov released his long-waited film "Optics". It's an experimental art film exploring the behavior of artificial light and color in digital environments. Blending architectural gallery space with computer-generated digital glass sculptures, we encounter animated refractions, chromatic aberrations, colourful reflection and other conditions which are impossible in reality. A series of tests and explorations guides us through different optical conditions of the bright and colorful digital universe.

The film was initiated as an experimental series of tests in Zhestkov.Studio. After some research, the studio realized that the beauty and visual power of these explorations could be transformed into an art film rather than remain a series of tests. For a couple of months, programmers and artists at Zhestkov.Studio developed different approaches and played with the infinite visual possibilities opened up by refractions and reflections with sound design by Marcelo Baldin.

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“We developed over 1000 tools and principles of working with light and refractive/reflective surfaces. Coders wrote dozens of lines in Python to achieve some of the effects and behaviours of light. In the end, we produced some truly amazing results. Light and refraction, in reality, can behave only in one way in one condition, but in the digital world, where we don’t have real-world restrictions, we can animate every condition and step further into the understanding of light and colour”

— Zhestkov Studio

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Design and Direction - Maxim Zhestkov
Production - Zhestkov.Studio
Sound Design - Combustion.Studio

Refik Anadol for NVIDIA

Media artist Refik Anadol well-known for his immersive projection mappings has shared his latest "phygital" project made in collaboration with Nvidia during GameCon, Cologne. 

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“By using real-time ray tracing RTX we augmented 3-dimensional Cornell
Box and used real-time audience reflection as an input which has never been done in the computer graphics history in this level”

— Refik Anadol

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Cornell Box Legacy
3.6M x 3.6M x 1M
4K 30.000 Laser projection, Unreal Engine special built with RTX, quadraphonic sound @unrealengine

Plastic Rain by Andres Reisinger

Plastic Rain is a serie of non-standard retail spaces created by Andres Reisinger. Each zone presents vividly different stories and objects.Visitors can immerse themselves the installation aesthetic in dramatic totality. Spaces that offers time for meditation. A gentle inside/out travel

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Digital Paintings by Leo Jimenez

Colombian self-taught digital artist Leo Jimenez shows his best series of portraits that he shared on Instagram and Ello profiles

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Imaginary Soundscape

Nao Tokui is a Japanese media artist and DJ working on different projects researching soundscapes within visual systems. His latest "Imaginery Soundscape" web-based installation originally started as an exploration of how AI "imagines" a sound of any Google Street location using deep learning models. 

The research went further and currently runs as "Imaginary Soundscape" machine where you can upload any image or photo to get the generative sound map created by AI. You can find beautiful examples of how "deep mind" hears the art masterpieces on Qosmo website founded by Nao

Ocean Rift 裂痕海洋

"This series of works takes the ocean crisis as the topic, based on the Installation to present the ecosystem destruction by human activities.  The singular mutation and death of marine life caused by Radiation and genetic modification, also involved elements of natural, polluting and synthetic." - Kim Yeonhee

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The design combined with the destruction of raw materials, plastic, metal, and the dark heavy colors and the emotional impact of the destroyed scene, to interpret the "Ocean Rift".

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Dina Khalifa

Cairo-based art student Dina Khalifa approached digital painting with a classic background. Thus makes her portraits stands out and depict female beauty from the place where it is quite limited

Skin Patterns by Mattia Faloretti

Young Italian digital artist Mattia Faloretti shows off his skills in CG and Photography 

Worth Its Weight in Gold by Dillon Marsh

South African photographer Dillon Marsh has created ‘Gold’: his fourth project (previously) that utilizes CGI techniques as part of the photographic series titled ‘For What It’s Worth’.

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"The series explores a significant part of South Africa’s history; the mining of natural resources such as copper, gold, and diamonds, and the effect this has had on the land over time. In ‘Gold’, Marsh uses CGI to create a scale model of the total amount of gold extracted from each of the seven Witwatersrand Basin goldfields. For context, the Witwatersrand Basin is a geological formation responsible for almost half the world’s gold reserves. Marsh’s enormous gold spheres are juxtaposed against the land from which the gold is produced. The result is a poignant series of photographic images that speak loudly about our capitalistic demand for gold." via iGNANT

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Santuu Mustonen

Santuu Mustonen interested in visualizing the emotions of suspense, excitement, distortion and the surreal through painting, movement and new technologies. The outcome of Santuu's work is manifested in many different forms: installations, printed materials, and the moving image.

The Other Day in Colors

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New York City Ballet Art Series

John Orion Young aka JOY

Born with internet in his blood, millennial artist John Orion Young aka JOY quickly caught the new cryptocurrency wave and set up the trusty platform to distribute his digital art using Ethereum among collectors.

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The idea is not new but sits on the cutting edge, where platforms like our friends at Posh.Space creates a decentralised systems for future artists, that you can join right now

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Felix Rothschild

Young German multidisciplinary artist Felix Rothschild investigates uncanny and disoriented sides of visual digital technologies that interrupt traditional perception of self, order of things and places

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Digital Works of Randy Cano

We have been following Randy Cano since his appearance on internet art scene in 2016, featuring his experience in 3D. Since then Randy progressed with the motion video and became an Instagram sensation by creating morphing rubber portraits smashing one into another all around the mobile screens

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