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These days you cannot be 100% sure what you see on the screen, things can be real, virtual or mixed as physical and digital what is called simply “Phygital”. Here is artist Ikeuchi Hiroto creating her cyborgs with elements of phygital armory
We are very proud to welcome new and prominent artist Schoony to the NFT scene on Superrare platform.
Schoony’s background is rooted in special effects and prosthetics for the film industry. His career spans over 30 years. Since the age of fifteen he has worked on over a hundred films. His work and reputation for high quality and pioneering techniques has reached far corners of the world thanks to the representation of Maddox Gallery. Schoony uses 3D technologies alongside the more traditional methods in his art pieces. He continually pushes boundaries within this discipline.
Designcollector: What inspired the work in your first NFT drop?
Schoony: For the first drop with SuperRare I thought I would go back to one of my early works. Where The War Things Are is a variation on my Boy Soldier that has been a motif that has stuck with my work over the years and been very symbolic. Where the War Things Are is a throwback to my time spent in Melbourne, Australia where I was working on the film Where the Wild Things Are. I thought I would celebrate my first drop on SuperRare by recreating the piece digitally.
Digital artist Auguste Lefou creates works that can be seen as a perfect illustrations for any of your favourite sci-fi book
Pak
The Fungible by Pak
The history is made at night. Mighty digital artist Pak has completed an auction organised by Sotheby’s and Nifty Gateway and paved a path to the history of NFT Art on April 14th 2021.
Pak is an omniscient designer/developer/wizard, one of the leads of the design scene as the founder of Undream and one of the prominent social media figures as the creator of Archillect, the synthetic curator. Pak is currently at uncharted space experimenting with new forms of creation and communication, discovering, learning and teaching along the journey.
“In the Sotheby’s sale, top prices were paid for Pak works that showcased a level of market savvy and gamelike complexity that would be impossible with a canvas or sculpture in real life. “The Switch,” which sold to California cryptocurrency investor Damian Medina for $1.4 million, is a digital image of a rotating, black-and-white geometric shape.” text via WSJ
“Another work, “The Pixel,” sold for $1.4 million to artist Eric Young and elicited bids from many top NFT art collectors in part because its medium-gray monochrome represents a single pixel, the building block of digital imagery.”
The auction for the open edition “Cube” was set up in a way of mathematical game explained neatly in this tweet and hardly understandable for us but at the end it went as 23151 sold editions of a single Cube. Obtaining a sequence of single Cubes made collectors to receive an NFT of 5, 10, 20, 100, 500 and 1000x1000 cubes based on how many cubes they own. This action burst a second sale in the form of pyramid. The top secondary market buyers will get other unique NFTs. This creates buying pressure in the secondary market, further adding value to single cubes.
Unlike the debut of Beeple’s The First 5000 days NFT on Christies', Pak created a brain puzzle for those who a seriously familiar with math and cryptocurrencies leaving others watching this Game agape.
Manuel Fernandez is a Spanish artist making internet art projects since 2011. His artistic practice begins at the intersection of art, popular culture and Internet. He explores the impact of technologies on society and their consequences in the way we perceive and experience reality.
Manuel investigates on new processes involved in the creation and production of the art object, in its distribution, presentation and in their consumption in the era of Internet of things.
Japanese artist Yuma Kishi trains GANs related DeepAI systems to work with art and recreate it meanings in a wake of Crypto Renaissance.
Tomorrow Bureau builds a series of satisfying and futuristic digital robots for a gallery campaign launch
Titled The Robots Are Coming for Amsterdam-based gallery There Tech Lab, the design studio has created a series of films each exploring the possibilities of robotics.
Young Italian self-proclaimed artist Alessandro Malossi creates manipulative images that stuck in your brain after you see them. Playing a lot with visual metaphors and meanings Alessandro quickly achieved the fame of Internet artist and provokes viewers by shifting the boundaries every week. We’ll defo see him raising on NFT scene very soon
{Guild of the Fallen} is the upcoming NFT project dedicated to the artistic view on myths and legends of a fallen angels.⠀The first angel is Gaderel and all other angels to be released later this year. Gaderel cast down from the heaven to earth by higher powers, and is frozen in the atmosphere in a dramatic moment of the triumph when some Gods win over others.
“We decided to move away from the existing religious overtones and create our own story, changing both the looks of the characters and their characters, but preserving the eternal concept of the struggle between Good and Evil, Light and Dark.”
Credits:
Project created in collaboration with @melnukoff
Sound design: @ivankomelskikh
“..in the end of this I want to be remembered for this as well.. I also want people to remember this collections for what I stood and for the art, not for crazy money or crazy mechanics. The essence of it and the raw base of it which is the Art - that’s what I want people to remember..”
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GRIF ╳ Superrare
The collection explores themes of escapism, re-birth, nature, and energy. Seen here in ‘Going Green’, we’re transported to a remote desert location, desolate and dry. A luxury car reflects the barren landscape from its manufactured shell.
March 20th! GRIF X @SuperRare - The "Equinox Collection".
— Grif (@Mr_Grif) March 13, 2021
5 Unique works coinciding with the spring equinox - bringing nature to your metaverse. https://t.co/U6SNa3sEQl#NFT #nftart #NFTCommunity #NFTartists #grif #shanegriffin #NFTcollection #NFTcollectibles #VisualArt pic.twitter.com/IZvCzAFNU2
Yes. But I humbly request a collab. https://t.co/6CZd81JzHQ
— Tony Hawk (@tonyhawk) March 17, 2021
Brooklyn Brownstone
In conjunction with the 2021 Spring equinox, ‘The Equinox Collection’ by GRIF will be exclusively available on SuperRare.
The collection presents surrealist depictions of the everyday as it is overtaken by nature. An invisible catalyst moves through each piece - a transfer of natural energy that pollinates each environment, reimagining it as an expansive floral tapestry.
The pieces are a juxtaposition between our manmade environments and nature. “This concept was born out of wanting to craft something optimistic and beautiful, but to create works thats can only exist within the medium of 3D” says GRIF. “What I love most is that these expressions of nature could never exist in the natural world, it’s a reinterpretation born only from the digital space.”
And now available exclusively in the digital space. The Equinox Collection will be released in weekly increments over the late March to April period on SuperRare.
See @GRIF’s page for official release dates as well as additional artworks.
Moreover, the introduction of floral growth finds itself in evolving on the more unexpected, non-organic surfaces in the scene. Populating the graphic and geometric lines of the basketball court markings, seen here in “Angels Gate”
3D as a medium
Here, in the re-imagining of ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ (Johannes Vermeer 1665), the flat oil painting becomes “dimensionalized”, as our camera investigates the finer details of the cracking paint and textural details. The form of the girl becomes appended with a blooming floral arrangement, representing the passing of time with something that is timeless, nature
The cinematography of ‘Great Basin Skate Heaven’ is a blend of fish-eye and long lens zooms, paying homage to that of classic skate videos style that’s remained prevalent in the culture since its inception.
We follow a skater as they perform tricks and stunts in a skaters paradise, located in the Utah Great Basin. The idyllic sunset scene bears witness to the transfer of energy between this floral figure and the contrasting concrete environment beneath, saturated in graffiti. The figure acting as a catalyst, pollinates the park causing nature to reclaim the concrete
Russian digital artist Kirill Maksimchuk known by collaboration with us on Digital Decade 5: Cyberia exhibition and DJ Carnage cover art shares his latest cyber works and jaw-dropping reel and step in to the NFT scene with his Cyberia citizen “Cybermancer”
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.
Lisa Odette, digital artist, illustrator and animator currently based in Madrid, Spain. Passionate about colours and composition, she tries to bring unique visual voice to all the imagery sit in her portfolio and available for bidding online
Voxel artist (3D pixel) Mari Mad Maraca shares her magic worlds available for collecting as Prints or Digital Tokens
Being a pioneer of digital art promotion - Designcollector is always looking for the breakaway artists whose intuition way ahead of the main peloton. Groundbreaking digital artist Mike Winkelmann known as Beeple is one of them. Since 2007 Mike has created 5,000+ digital artworks by following a simple rule: one image per day. The diligence paid off when the rise of NFT trading burst like a fresh wave onto the digital art scene just at the moment of another lockdown after another lockdown during 2020. Beeple played a huge role in reinforcing beliefs in quite an ephemeral way of selling unique artworks for cryptocurrency by imprinting them “forever” into Ethereum blockchain.
His January’s drop of a dozen phygital artworks (non-fungible token JPG + physical collectible including a certificate “signed” by artist’s hair in a capsule) rocketed the NFT scene by a one week auction on Nifty Gateways platform.
And here come Christie’s what means art institutions started to look (if not late) onto the opportunity to catch an NFT wave by putting Beeple’s EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS - a huge stitched image featuring all images he created over 13 years. Organised in loose chronological order, zooming in on individual pieces reveals abstract, fantastical, grotesque, and absurd pictures, alongside current events and deeply personal moments. The NFT is minted on another platform Makersplace and is available for bidding on Christie’s website
“The notable difference between the pictures from Day 1 (1 May, 2007) and Day 5,000 (7 January, 2021) reveals Beeple’s immense evolution as an artist. At the project’s inception, Everydays consisted of basic drawings. Once Beeple started working in 3D, they took on abstract themes, colour, form, and repetition. In the last five years, however, his digital pictures have became increasingly timely, often reacting to current events.” says Christie’s in its groundbreaking article
“Art should be everywhere and everyone should live like an artist and create their dreams. In a decentralized world, this is possible.”
Bristol based graphic designer Jack Harvatt beside creating bespoke packaging and identity systems is generating vibrant colourful CG scenes used in his latest artworks
Mark Constantine Inducil based in Melbourne creates surreal and abstract renders that won’t disappoint you
Darius Puia aka Baka Arts is a graphic designer and digital artist basing in Germany, and bringing cyberpunk with sci-fi art to the screens during the last 15 years
