Davy Evans

January 31, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Graphic Design, Portfolios, United Kingdom, Digital Decade, 2018

Davy Evans (@davyevans) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Brighton. With a background in graphic design, Evans fuses analogue and digital techniques to create ethereal abstract imagery. He uses experimental photographic methods, combined with light and liquid to replicate colour, form, and distortions, inspired by those found in the natural world.

Digital Decade 5: Cyberia, 2017

Davy was the winner of Ello x Designcollector contest that had selected 10 winners for "Digital Decade 5: Cyberia" exhibition in London last year.

Limited Edition Print

Available in London

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@davyevans

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”).

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Lucy Hardcastle Reel

January 04, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2018

One of the Phygital Art pioneer Lucy Hardcastle (previously) released her show reel of selected works she did in 2017

@luhardcastle

London Fireworks 2018

January 01, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, United Kingdom, 2018

Every beginning of a new year we share London Fireworks as a small tradition. The smooth start of 2018 is not an exception and we wish you the best in the New Year!

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

Digital Decade 5

iOS 11 Wallpapers

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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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Official Video from Event

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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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.

Ron Mueck "Mass" Large-scale Skull Installation

NGV Melbourne

December 15, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Australia, United Kingdom, Sculpture, 2017

As part of NGV Triennial, twenty large-scale new artworks have been commissioned by the NGV, including Ron Mueck’s Mass 2016–17, a monumental work of extraordinary presence comprising 100 individual skulls.

"Mass" is an installation of 100 individual human skull forms piled up on the gallery floor, each which engage with the architecture of the site.

"The installation brings to mind the massed remains in the catacombs of Paris, an imposing wall of human heads that resonates with a simultaneous and strange sense of impermanence and eternality. In ‘Mass’, Mueck celebrates the form that links all humanity and pays homage to a symbol that has stood within the art of essentially all cultures and religion. surrounded by skulls covering nearly every surface of the walls, visitors are reminded of the transience of life" via designboo

@ronmueckart

Digital Tattoos by Billelis

December 06, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Tattoo, United Kingdom, 2017

"A series of 3D illustrations inspired by traditional tattoo patterns. Tattoo culture has always been a fascinating environment to be part of. The skills and talents of the great traditional artists have always been a huge inspiration in my work." - Billelis

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@billelis

The Art of Ping Pong

Creative Debuts

November 30, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in United Kingdom, Illustration, Graphic Design, Art, 2017

DCN Partners at Creative Debuts presents

Exhibition: 30th November - 4th December 10am - 5.30pm

The Art of Ping Pong and @creativedebuts invite you to celebrate this year’s exhibition and auction in aid of @Trekstock

For the fifth year running, The Art of Ping Pong has asked 27 artists to customise a ping pong bat to be auctioned for charity. This year’s charity is Trekstock, which provides social and practical support for people with cancer in their 20s and 30s across the UK.

Nous Vous

Gemma Shiel

This year’s roster of artists in full is Yoni Alter, Mr Bingo, John Booth, Emma Brewin, Fred Butler, Alison Carmichael, Sebastian Cox, Mr Doodle, Marina Esmeraldo, Emily Forgot, George Hardie, Nigel Howlett, Kev Munday, Neasden Control Centre, Nous Vous, Zuza Mengham, Hattie Newman, Charlie Oscar Patterson, Stina Persson, Saskia Pomeroy, Pref, Benedict Radcliffe,Gemma Shiel, Adam Simpson, Sam Taylor, Louis Trew and Celia Washington.

John Booth

Mr Bingo

Sam Taylor

George Hardie

Hattie Newman

Kev Munday

@artof_pingpong

Sam Adefé

November 28, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2017, Art

After a quick view of Sam Adefé sanguine and charcoal drawings, we fell in love with his portraits, emotionally charged, "provoking conversation about certain subject matters that are being ignored, in hope of changing how we chose to look at certain things"

@adefe___

Highgate Hill by LLI Design

November 27, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Architecture, Interior Design, Photography, United Kingdom, Agencies, 2017

London-based LLI Design lead by Linda Levene recently completed a total redesign and refurbishment of a 7 storey townhouse in Highgate, a leafy and desirable part of the city.

Kitchen, Fireplace + Chaise + Joinery Unit

The owners wanted to create a new environment; they liked the idea of having a contemporary house and agreed that the house lent itself to this, however they were concerned that contemporary design could be cold and impersonal.

The brief was to create a contemporary family home, not in a stark clinical sense, but rather, colourful and practical. The key to the overall success of the design was to re-think the dynamics of all the spaces and change the existing layouts to provide a design and flow which responded to their brief. The family had a large collection of vintage travel posters that they wished to display prominently around the house.

4th Floor - Bespoke Red Lacquer Bed Detail

By changing the dynamics of the spaces involved we maximized the available space creating a contemporary, but colourful, warm and inviting home; with a harmonious feel as you move up the house, but with each floor having its own character. As with the majority of LLI Design’s projects, the construction, joinery, home automation and landscaping were carried out by our in-house vertically integrated teams - Pegasus Property & Pegasus Automation.

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Above Below Beyond: Janeanne Gilchrist

November 27, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Photography, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2017

"Above Below Beyond" is an ongoing solo exhibition at The Fergusson Gallery of Scottish photographer Janeanne Gilchrist (Staunch Industries). Her work explores the world under the waves and man's relationship with the sea. With strong themes of folklore, fantasy created from man-made waste, dive with Janeanne into my subconscious mind to find a deeper meaning of life. Freediving in various locations in the Scottish seas for the last 10 years, she has discovered a beautiful new world where gravity doesn’t apply and everything is in constant flux.

@janeannegilchrist

The Visionaries: dir. Kinvara Balfour

November 17, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, USA, United Kingdom, 2017

London-based, LA-heart'ed director, producer, writer and speaker Kinvara Balfour (we met her once at V&A) launches the ongoing film project:

THE VISIONARIES

Shot exclusively on iPhone and broadcast on YouTube, the videos are designed to represent the lives of visionary individuals in a format that suits the habits and expectations of viewers in our digital age.

"The visionaries featured in the series come from all walks of life: there are fashion and accessories designers such as Manolo Blahnik, Mary Katrantzou and Stephen Jones; beauty entrepreneurs such as Charlotte Tilbury; and creative talents such as the set designer Es Devlin, the screenwriter Peter Morgan and the photographer Charles March." text via Town&Country Magazine

The first six episodes of the series went live on Kinvara Balfour’s YouTube channel today, with further films released thereafter on a bi-monthly basis.

THE VISIONARIES: WATCH NOW

@kinvarabalfour

Advent Calendar 2017 by Mr Bingo

November 13, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Illustration, United Kingdom, Portfolios, 2017

Guy behind "Hate Mail" and "quintessentially English" artist Mr Bingo (he once called us the peniscollector) is back again with his new Advert Calendar for December 2017. Same as last year approach, Mr Bingo called for the internet to crowdfund his new calendar with a simple challenge “NUDES WANTED, would you like to feature in my 2017 advent calendar?"

“Sorting through the applicants was a big job, I spent about 4 days stalking the 260 people online, looking for images of them and made a big spreadsheet of every single person, where they were in the world and a brief description of what they looked like. Then I somehow whittled it down to 25 people, trying to get as many different types of people represented.”

— Mr Bingo

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Pippa Young Art

November 09, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Portfolios, United Kingdom, 2017

"Exuding a Renaissance aura and staring at the distance with haunted eyes, Pippa Young’s characters are born from a jumble of influences, the most notable of all being photographic imagery. The British artist’s characters, often young girls resembling art historical figures, seem displaced in time. Posing against unadorned backdrops and separated from imposed narratives, Young plays on the ambiguity of the figures, leaving us to construct our own stories and interpretations of each one."

@pippayoungart

M&S Christmas TV Ad 2017

November 07, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, Advertising, United Kingdom, 2017

"We can now reveal our Christmas advert - the tale of true Christmas spirit - with our favourite Paddington Bear", M&S, London 2017

Room divider by Nathalie Schwer, Bruno Mathsson daybed & chrome floor lamp from Jacksons, rug from Conran, coffee bean table by McCollin Bryan, chairs from Else Schneider, painting by Michael Wall, wall lamp by Frama

The Cereal Abode at Greenwich Peninsula

Greenwich Peninsula

November 06, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Interior Design, United Kingdom, 2017, Architecture

The Cereal Abode is as much an investigation of space, form and colour, as it is an opportunity to create a beautiful, functional living space. Created in partnership with Greenwich Peninsula (architect Santiago Calatrava) and Aucoot, Cereal Magazine has styled the interior of a new duplex penthouse, which is for sale on Greenwich Peninsula – an area of London undergoing a cultural transformation

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Plume by FutureDeluxe

October 30, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Motioncollector, Advertising, United Kingdom, Agencies, 2017

London-based FutureDeluxe were approached by Wacom & Iris London to create a self-initiated art film with an open brief. The result is a surreal and experimental art piece combining woman and bird to tell a beautiful visual story within an imaginary world of intricate colour and detail – Plume.

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Solid Light Films by Anthony Mccall

October 24, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Digital Art, United Kingdom, USA, Portfolios, 2017

New York-based, British artist Anthony McCall practices in the fields of film, installation, sculpture and drawing.

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Anthony McCall. "Long Film for Four Projectors" (1974). Installation view (2003). Photograph: Hank Graber.

Light Show at Hayward Gallery, London. Photo by Linda Nylind. 27/1/2013.

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Anthony McCall. “You and I Horizontal” (2006). Installation view at Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (2006). Solid light installation. 50-minute cycle in six parts. Computer, computer script, video projector, haze machine. Dimensions variable. Photograph: Blaise Adilon. Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.

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Anthony McCall. "Between You and I" (2006). Installation view at Peer/The Round Chapel, London, 2006. Vertical solid light installation. 30-minute cycle in two parts. Computer, QuickTime movie file, two video projectors, two haze machines. Dimensions variable. Photograph by Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York.

Anthony McCall. “Face to Face” (2013). Installation view at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, 2013. Photograph by Jason Wyche.

Maxim Zhestkov Launches on Sedition

October 20, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Russia, Motioncollector, United Kingdom, 2017

Our friend and talented motion artist Maxim Zhestkov launches on our partners Digital Auction Platform Sedition Art

Ahead of the launch of Maxim Zhestkov’s first digital edition on Sedition, Elements, this October 2017, they interviewed the visual and motion graphic artist from his studio in Russia to discuss his surreal animations, his approach to his own work and its subsequent reception.

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Elements is an experimental video work by Maxim Zhestkov, which explores nature, physics, art and love through digitally animated ‘particles’ or ‘elements’. More than two billion particles, governed by tensions and forces influenced by those occurring in nature were used to replicate the motion of collective behaviour. As well as patterns of motion, the particles tell stories and evince emotional responses.

@zhestkov

The film is a trial by the artist to explore the idea that everything around us and inside us is made from simple elements or blocks, which can be arranged in complex relationships and become compound structures. It demonstrates that there is a relationship between the tiny and individual, and the enormous and multiple. The ideas the work explores brings together emotions, behaviours, thought processes, relationships, life, planets and the universe.

Zhestkov on Sedition

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