Iceland by Tom Kondrat
“For me, taking photographs is like meditation”
“This is Paper” did a great coverage of Tom Kondrat’s photography made in Iceland
Henrik Udalen art
Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen is a self-taught artist whose creative production revolves around classic figurative painting, presented in a contemporary manner. Henrik explores the dark sides of life, nihilism, existentialism, longing and loneliness, juxtaposed with fragile beauty. Though a figurative painter, his focus has always been the emotional content rather than narratives. The atmospheres in his work is often presented in a dream or limbo-like state, with elements of surrealism. He’s recently went active on NFT Scene with his highly requested artworks available on Hic et Nunc platform
Plant Yourself by Claire Luxton
MTArt Agency partnered with The Crown Estate and resident artist Claire Luxton, and launched their longest current public art project, entitled “Plant Yourself”.
“After our artist’s public art projects in Central London that started in January 2021, our artist Claire Luxton is continuing to inspire Londoners with her art. For this special project, Londoners are invited to look at their feet level as they wander on Regent Street to spot the beautiful and colourful artworks of our artist on brand new planters. The Crown Estate and Westminster City Council helped Regent Street to create a greener, safer and more accessible West End and we are proud to be stepping in and highlighting it with these super cool photographs. Our partners have worked closely with experts to carefully consider the types of plants and trees they are introducing, to ensure that they continue to improve biodiversity and enhance the experience for Londoners. It’s so important to us to have a positive impact on the development of one of London’s busiest areas and in continuing to improve the future of our high streets with our partners and our artists. To spot our planters with the photographs of our artist, passers-by can start their trail at Oxford Circus and head down towards Regent Street.”
Airo Car by Heatherwick Studio
London-based Heatherwick Studio has unveiled its concept for the Airo electric car for IM Motors that will "vacuum up pollutants from other cars".
Named Airo, the electric car will be fitted with a HEPA – high-efficiency particulate air – filtering system that will actively clean pollution. It will have both autonomous and driver-controlled modes.
“Airo isn’t simply another electric car that doesn’t pollute the air. Instead, using the latest HEPA-filter technology, it goes further by also vacuuming up pollutants from other cars as it drives along.”
The car has been designed with a flexible interior with rotating seats so that it can be reconfigured into a "multi-functional room".
With the seats facing each other a four-leaf table can be unfolded to create a dining space or a screen extended to watch films or play games.
The car's interior can also be turned into a bedroom as the contoured seats fully recline to create a double bed
The car, which is set to go into production in 2023, was designed for IM Motors – a car brand created by Chinese car company SAIC Motor, online retailer Alibaba Group and the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Group.
Where The War Things Are by Schoony
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.
Where The War Things
Read our interview on Superrare Editorial
Tomasz Mro illustrative portraits
Young UK-based illustrator Tomasz Mro specialises in creating ethereal portraits with a haunting mood and atmosphere, often exploring different emotions and expressions within his pieces.
Lee Madgwick Art
Lee Madgwick’s mysterious and emotive paintings depict scenes of abandonment, seclusion and dereliction. Both his urban and rural pictures portray parts of the modern British landscape that are often overlooked by many (with occasional sprinklings of the surreal). With an undercurrent of mischievous menace throughout, the subject matter is at once thrown into question. Who inhabits these places? What lives do they lead? What is happening or about to happen? “I hope to achieve a sense of drama in my work. Presenting a familiar image yet placing it in an intimate and moody setting. A narrative is very important – but intentionally never fully explained. I like to leave it for the viewer to come up with their own interpretation.”
Lee paints on canvas in oils and acrylics. A play of light is used to generate an abundance of seemingly inexplicable moods to contrast with a brooding sky. Lee has exhibited throughout the UK including London and Edinburgh as well as Dublin, Amsterdam, Rome, Milan, Stockholm, Madrid, Singapore and New York.
Anastassia Zamaraeva ceramics
Canada-raised Manchester-based artist Anastassia Zamaraeva has been into clay sculpture since her childhood and even changing the profession to architect does not make an effect as she got back to turntable
Charlie Gray Photography
Charlie Gray is a British international fashion and portrait photographer based in London. His playful vision and dedication to the art of narrative grew out his love of theatre and early documentary photographic projects.
Charlie has captured some of the most iconic faces of our time, Robert de Niro, Mike Tyson, Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton, Keira Knightley, Bill Murray and sir Anthony Hopkins amongst others. equally, Gray frequently shoots poetic fashion stories with film and theatre’s faces of tomorrow.
Recently Charlie entered NFT art market from a position of a photographer, what make the whole buzz around cryptoart shaping more sense by delivering quality works ahead of CG experiments. Follow or bid on his works by the link below:
Jack Harvatt
Bristol based graphic designer Jack Harvatt beside creating bespoke packaging and identity systems is generating vibrant colourful CG scenes used in his latest artworks
Loop by Stuart Langfield
An immersive sci-fi short by writer-director Stuart Langfield. “Loop” centres around a reclusive former tech CEO’s quest to teach AI how to experience and process true human emotions. However these ’emotion experiments’ involve a series of scripted scenarios that seem to do more to call basic humanity into question as the film blurs the lines between drama and sci-fi, human and machine, real and artificial.
“Loop is an artistic exploration of a simple hypothesis: emotion cannot be programmed, it must be felt and experienced to be real. I started exploring this concept while observing my young son discover and display new emotions through his own direct experience and contact with others. He was learning to process the feelings of anger, joy, disappointment, sadness, and I found this progression of maturity fascinating and insightful. I started to question whether replicating an emotive incident could result in a similar reaction every time and, if so, could we program a machine to feel?”
Piano and the Fox
UK based passionate 3D artist, animator, and director with several years of commercial experience working under “Piano and the Fox”. Her style is mainly colourful bold compositions with playful animations.
Henry Wong Illustrations
Digital illustrator based in London Henry Wong creates very atmospheric works
MCR_XPRMNT+SND by Azamat Akhmadbaev
Digital Decade resident, artist Azamat Akhmadbaev dropped a personal release on Sedition Art Platform, London.
MCR_XPRMNT+SND
This series of video artworks is a metaphysical trip to another reality between our vision and perception. In accordance with the postulates of postmodernism and legacy of Derrida, the artist plays with the language of color, providing the opportunity to rethink our links with the current world through kitsch and low fidelity. Macro video recording and experimental sounds in videos are 'entry points' to the new stage of postmodernism where a viewer can melt a metaphysical body and disappear to leave marks in the internal world.
The collection name is derived from the words "macro", "experiment" and "sound".
WARNING: These videos have been identified to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.
Azamat Akhmadbaev (b.1991, Karachayevsk) is a visual artist who lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He works across many disciplines including painting, photography, video and digital art. His artworks operates in the gap between glitch art, abstraction, minimalism and graphic art. Also he is a founder/editor-in-chief of dontpostme magazine - a magazine about contemporary art. Private collections in Russia, Spain, the USA, the UK and Poland.
DONTPOSTME (@dontpostme_magazine)
Since 2012, Azamat Akhmadbaev and Zulya Kumukova have published an online magazine, DONTPOSTME featuring interviews by outstanding contemporary artists. The latest interviews are featured on Instagram; interviewed artists include Anne Vieux, Michael Staniak, Matt Mignanelli, Gergo Szinyova, Lee Bul and Jenny Brosinski.
Related Collection on Sedition
Digital Decade Special Edition 2020 by Designcollector Network
The Digital Decade SE 2020 collection is a selection of digital artworks curated by Designcollector Network. The collection and connected events, released in 2020, are the latest iteration of Digital Decade which has previously been presented as a series of Phygital Art events in London, Barcelona and Saint Petersburg, featuring more than 150 artists in total. Starting from 2013 artists have been invited to respond to the geopolitical, environmental, social changes taking place today in the digital age
London's 2021 Fireworks
“You are on mute!” — could ever this phrase become a motto of 2020. Everything you could not imagine happened during the year we will never forget. What stays with us is a tradition to post London’s Fireworks on January 1st. This year is not an exception, but it is an exceptional year. Enjoy crowd-less celebration:
Ben Ashton Glitch Paintings
Talented London-based classic-taught artist Ben Ashton granted a knighthood to his majesty the Glitch by creating awesome distorted portraits (mainly self-portraits) with oil on canvas. Ashton's work combines precision in execution with humour and character, balancing emotive response with a strong contextual foundation. Worth to mention his commission for Rag’n’Bone Man platinum single and then epic album “Human”. Ben did an a portrait of a singer that appeared on the cover art.
MINI Vision Urbanaut #NextGen
“Adopting a remote lifestyle seems more realistic than ever, and this week, MINI proved yet another way to do it. On Tuesday, the BMW-owned automotive marque unveiled an experimental ‘Vision Urbanaut’ car that imagines the living room to be on the go.”
“The concept, modeled like a small camper van, bears a metallic green exterior, light-up wheels, and gradient windows.
The Urbanaut extends upon MINI’s core of the “Clever Use of Space” with a dashboard that can be lowered into a daybed and front seats that swivel around, so the driver can relax or interact with other passengers when not steering the wheel.”
David Koma Resort 2021 Digital Campaign by Sila Sveta
Renowned interactive media production company Sila Sveta was commissioned by fashion designer David Koma to create a totally digital catwalk in a futuristic environment
Concept and Artistic Direction: David Koma
Creative Direction: Polina Zakh
Creative Direction, Art Direction and CG: Komron Komron, Evgeny Mezhibovskiy
Cloth Simulation: Danya Qebab
Character Animation and Modelling: Efim Strand
Sound: Rob Taliesin Owen
Styling: Marc Goehring
Talent: Tamar M.
Powered by: Sila Sveta
Ant Hamlyn Art
Hamlyn's work delves into our relationship with modern technology to explore our shifting enthusiasms towards contemporary life. Working with a considered merging of carpentry, metalworking, digital design manufacture, electronics and coding. Hamlyn produce's sculpture, installations, paintings and performing spaces.
