3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Founded in 2010 by creative directors Rémy Clémente and Morgan Maccari, Bonsoir Paris is a creative studio working at the intersection of art, science, design and technology. Their approach stands out due to experimentation and cutting-edge innovation, working across spatial and object design, photography and filmmaking.
An otherworldly odyssey that blew people's mind all around the world in media art festivals and art galleries. Morphogenesis is a VR experience inspired by the phenomenon of emergence in self-organized systems. Created by two independent artists Can Buyukberber, Yagmur Uyanik and Fulbright Scholars based in San Francisco, it is an audiovisual journey through different planes of the digital and physical universe.
Balancing between art and illustration a bold graphics of Thomas Hedger is a good reminder that only personal techniques makes every artist unique. Using print, and more over, silk print style with heavy lines and pure forms, rasterised shadows and pop art topics Thomas' works stand out and invite you to move forward by that colourful river of emotions and small stories.
"Splendor of Existence" is a video art that aims to engender wonder and inspiration by drifting you through a vast dreamlike sea of tranquility. Created and directed by Apostolos Stefanopoulos
Runner-up at our Digital Decade 2015, Sweden-based digital artist Pandagunda shares his recent surreal and glitchy artworks mainly distorted portraits.
Runner-up at The Digital Decade III "His Majesty The Glitch", Barcelona, OFFF15
People with surreal spikes and growths shooting out of their heads, glossy 3D shapes, and often an almost floral treatment creates works that require a second and third look. With a focus on 3D and cinema 4D, Pandagunda’s work celebrates the beauty in technology, mistakes, and nature simultaneously.
"Music Festival, teamLab Jungle is an experiential music festival in which a vivid 4D space is created by millions of dazzling moving light lines crossing each other. In the space filled with countless moving light lines that interactively change by sound, everyone can dance and intuitively make music."
French artist Soasig Chamaillard started to collect damaged statues of the Virgin Mary and restore them in a perfect own way adding superficial abilities one can only pray for. Our favourite is Notre Dame du Poulpe or simply Lady Octopus
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"In this intriguing sculptural series spanning 2005 to 2014, LA-based artist Walead Beshty packaged his artworks in FedEx boxes and shipped them across the country to exhibitions and galleries. But unlike most artists who utilize every bit of care to protect and pad their artwork from the inevitable rough handling of mail carriers, Beshty designed his pieces to break. For his famous FedEx works he constructed laminate glass objects that fit seamlessly within the dimensions of standard size shipping boxes. Through the “normal” handling the objects would inevitably crack and shatter and it was up to curators and gallerists to carefully remove each piece for display. The fragile volumes were then given titles that specifically mention the date, tracking number, and box size of shipment."
Russian digital artist Slava Thisset aka Local Preacher (previously) strikes back with a new eye-melting photography series "Palms on Acid"
Scottish painter Andrew McIntosh takes ubiquitous structures often abandoned on rural homesteads like travel campers or sheds and reveals hidden worlds within: radiant sunsets and expansive skies that appear like portals into another place. Drawing inspiration from a childhood spent in the Highlands of Scotland, the London-based painter gives unexpected life to derelict buildings set against the backdrop of mist-filled woods and frozen mountains.
Leading digital artist Antoni Tudisco comes back (after the first release of Portraits) with new Portraits 3.0 series
Russian motion artist Maxim Zhestkov just completed his new series of 360/VR environments ready to complete his upcoming short movie. Meanwhile experience the cold void of his digital art in VR below
Brainfeeder by zhestkov on Sketchfab
Leading Russian chemical motion designer Ruslan Khasanov shares his latest experiments called La La La
Since this installation felt out of our radars last year and was not included to the Top 2016 Experiences we it should be, we apologise and share it now
"Synaesthesia and abandonment form the basis of a new digital art installation called Collide, created by design studio onformative. To convey these sensations, the studio took recorded motion data and transformed it into surreal animations and audio. For the visuals, they searched through archival motion data from various dance genres and turned the movements into colors and forms, abstracting them from their usual spatial constraints." via TCP
Storming Instagram with his latest CGI Indoor Snowing illusion Slap Comp is an anonymous visual artist running a promising account and is really worth to follow
Peruvian young artist Ana Teresa Barboza use embroidery on photography to create beautiful and bizarre artwork
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Schoony is a leading urban artist whose unique aesthetic and technical brilliance has brought the art world by storm. His hyper realistic sculptures question war, mortality and contemporary society.
His most iconic life cast sculpture “Boy Soldier” first unveiled outside the houses of parliament as an anti-war protest, is now a household name, featured in Hollywood blockbusters and collected internationally. Since then Schoony has experimented with many different themes, examining capitalism and pop culture, with his keen eye and technical ability Schoony remains one of the few artists working within the life-cast discipline.
If I Stand On My Toes I Can Touch The Ceiling
Schoony and Ryca in collaboration with David Walker for his 2014 show at the Hoxton Gallery.
Created by Henning Marxen, "Crossvision" is an ongoing photography and video art project that used a DIY slitscan camera. He build an effect similar to what we have seen in Hiroshi Kondo's "The Others" landed in our Top 2016 recently
Central Station, Recording time 54 seconds
Roadside Plant, Recording time 47 seconds
Flower Market, Recording time 58 seconds
University Entrance, Recording time 169 seconds
Photo by @themearns
By tradition we share the video of London Fireworks on the first day of the New Year. This time BBC went way over possibilities and released immersive 360 degrees VR video, that went live during the show on the Embankment.
With no doubts "digital art" and everything around establishing a new era in our cultural history right here, right now. With our personal annual collaboration The Digital Decade we raise the bar for ourselves and artists involved, and next year we are going to hit the Digital Experience more than ever. Meanwhile we look at the magicians working in digital art industry, using spaces as canvases and light as a tool. Enjoy our selection of best installations went this year around the globe.
Immorphosis - 360 ° projection space, created by french Collectif Scale for the club space of La Gaîté Lyrique museum in Paris. The viewer can immerse himself in one of the four video tracks, controlling them through the interface in the central part of the installation.
A pole dancer appears to bend light in this mesmerizing projection mapped performance by U-Machine.
Our Time (2016) is the latest large-scale installation by United Visual Artists investigating our subjective experience of the passing of time. How long is a moment? At what rate does time actually pass? The work joins a series of kinetic sculptures that began with Momentum (2013); an installation designed as a 'spatial instrument' that was to reveal the relationship between expectation and perception when intersected with a physical space. Our Time defines a physical environment where pendulums swing at a pace apparently unhindered by the laws of nature and where no single time measurement applies. The installation combines movement, light and sound as a multi-sensory, multi-dimensional canvas the visitor can enter. Pendulums swing, each to their own rhythm, as time flows through the grid. With light tracing the path and sound its echo, the passing of time becomes almost palpable.
"When you stand among the handiwork of teamLab, a Japanese tech art studio, you’re seemingly transported to a sprawling foreign land that engulfs you in a vibrant, light-filled splendor. This immersive approach is now the focus of a massive exhibition that spans 3,000 square meters (over 32,000 square feet) and is called DMM.Planets Art by teamLab. It showcases a variety of the group’s digital work throughout the years, including new pieces just revealed to the public.
Reimagined and bigger scale version of interactive hexagonal installation “MyWhale” which was originally produced as a site-specific interactive installation by Tundra for “Brusov”, a renovated ship, laid up on Moscow river and turned into an art-cluster.
The inner revision of MyWhale was specially made for “9 Lights in 9 Rooms” exhibition at D MUSEUM (Seoul, Korea) and was visited by more than 200.000 visitors during the period of exhibition.
Using dome-shaped futuristic construction shelling Audi A4 inside of #a4space VR Installation, Moscow-based event production team DEPARTÁMENT level up the virtual reality experience stepping outside simple frames of plastic glasses. The whole Audi A4 car become a sort of "oculus" on wheels delivering the physical imitation of zero-gravity forces and "driving" people into the new worlds projected and synchronised with the driver gestures. Total thing was programmed and designed by SILA SVETA.
Hakanaï is a solo choreographic performance that unfolds through a series of images in motion. In Japanese Hakanaï denotes that which is temporary and fragile, evanescent and transient, and in this case something set between dreams and reality. This symbolic relationship is the foundation of the dance composition in which a dancer gives life to a space somewhere between the borders of imagination and reality, through her interactions with the images she encounters.
The 128 meter projection for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Rio 2016 Title: Beginning Of Life I Client: Olympic Games I Agency: Oito Zero Oito I Creative Director: Fabio Soares, Fernando Meirelles I Visual Artist: Susi Sie I Music and Sound Design: Antonio Pinto
"Liz West creates a multi-coloured rainbow space for Bristol Biennial. Known for her vibrant light installations, the artist filled an empty office block with gel-filtered, fluorescent shades, from radiant red to nostalgic violet. West wanted to build a sensory experience that will put human perception in focus. ‘Our Colour’ site-specific project let her find that the eye travelling through an entire palette will most likely return to the colour it finds most comfortable and pause to enjoy it."
Nike approached Amsterdam-based studio Random to create their new outdoor experience using cutting edge technologies
Sila Sveta produced one of the largest video projection made on the façade of the unique architectural landmark - the main tower of Moscow State University at the Vorobyovy Hills. The projected area covered over 50 000 square meters and was over 0.5 km long, 212 projectors were used for the show.
Produced by Russian arts collective TUNDRA, this gigantic grid of hundreds of red lasers was supposed to be featured in Moscow's OUTLINE FESTIVAL. However, after the festival was abruptly canceled due to undisclosed circumstances, the massive installation shown at Day for Night in Houston in December, 2016.
