Ana Santos
Beautiful female portraits illustrated by Ana Santos is something to adore and enjoy on artist Instagram
Jean Jullien illustrates John Lennon’s Imagine lyrics for a book
Jean Jullien has illustrated Imagine, the first picture book set to John Lennon’s original lyrics. The book has a foreword by Yoko Ono Lennon and was created in collaboration with Amnesty International to “inspire a new generation to imagine a world at peace”. It will be published on 21 September to coincide with the UN’s International Day of Peace.
Andrea Torres Balaguer
Spanish artist Andrea Torres shares her beautiful fine art photography with us
Open Call Artists Selected for Digital Decade 2017 London Exhibition
Sedition and Designcollector are delighted to announce the winners of the Digital Decade open call for video artworks.
During July 2017, artists working with the moving image submitted their responses to the theme ‘Cyberia’ to an open call co-ordinated by Sedition and DesignCollector Network.
85 artworks were submitted by artists whose work responds to the geopolitical, environmental and social changes which are taking place, and will take place, as a result of the increasing influence of digital practices worldwide.
Five artworks were chosen for exhibition in Digital Decade 5 organised by DesignCollector Network, which takes place from 25-27 August. Digital Decade 5 will combine works from a range of media including print, video and VR to look to the digital future.
Quantum Fluctuations by Markos Kay
Markos R. Kay is a digital artist, director and lecturer with a focus on art and science. He is best known for his video art experiment aDiatomea (2008), exhibited at Ernst Haeckel's Phyletic Museum, and for the generative short The Flow (2011), which can be seen in an episode of the TV series, Breaking Bad. His art and design practice ranges from screen-based media to projection and print. Kay’s work can be described as a series of experiments using generative methods which explore and abstract the complex worlds of molecular biology and particle physics.
Created as a series of virtual experiments, Quantum Fluctuations shows the complexity and transient nature of the quantum world, which is impossible to observe directly.
Turmoil by Joëlle Snaith
Joëlle (b. 1982) is a South African designer and visual artist whose work is focused on exploring the connection between sound and form. Her creative process is led by experimentation and emotion and she considers her output a reflection of her environment and state of mind.
Her works range from music videos and generative graphics to live real-time visuals and are constructed of computer generated imagery and audio responsive elements that result in moving images largely sculpted by sound.
Turmoil explores themes of fragility and desolation. A longing for a world untouched and unbroken.
Of Soil by Yoshi Sodeoka
Yoshi Sodeoka is an artist from Yokohama, Japan, who’s lived in New York for more than two decades. Sodeoka’s neo-psychedelic work with video, GIFs and print simultaneously inhabits the world of fine art, music (he’s collaborated with bands like Psychic TV, Tame Impala, Yeasayer, Beck, The Presets), publications (creating art prints for New York Times, Wired Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, Entertainment Weekly), and advertising (developing projects with brands like Apple, Samsung and Nike). Sodeoka’s work has been shown all over the world, from Centre Pompidou, Tate Britain, Museum of Modern Art, Deitch Projects, La Gaîté lyrique, Channel 4 Random Acts UK, Baltimore Museum of Art, OneDotZero, Sonar Festival, Transmediale, Whitney Museum of America's Art Artport. His artworks are in the permanent collections of Museum of the Moving Image as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Sodeoka’s experimental video art collective, Undervolt & Co, was founded in 2013.
When Hell Freezes Over by Carla Gannis
When Hell Freezes Over is a time-based realization of the print triptych and consists of composited elements which capture the cycles of nature. The seasons are rendered as emojis as the work flits between Bosch’s famous painting and digital culture at its most recognizable and ubiquitous. When Hell Freezes Over is both a humorous mash-up and reflective comparison of Bosch’s iconography and Emojis, the virtual sign/symbols of the present century.
Nearfield by Overlap
Overlap's Nearfield appears as a moving piece of audiovisual abstraction rendered in a palette of mostly whites, occasionally interrupted by nuances of new colours which add a subtle warmth to an otherwise icy ambience. As the visuals unfold, Overlap’s polyphonic soundtrack produces a series of alien vibrations, evocative oscillating disruptions which carry the shifting shadows across the screen. As hypnotic as they are haunting, Nearfield creates a view into an isolated and entirely abstract world in which detail appears to have been replaced by impenetrability and ambiguity. As with other works from the Glide collection, Nearfield appears to delve into our psyche, relating experienced dreams to realised abstractions.
The five works will be presented in the Hub at Ugly Duck, Tanner Street, London during Digital Decade 5, where they will be displayed on the Sedition Frame. The winning works are also available as digital editions on the Sedition platform.
Cindy Sherman's Art of Selfie
"Before the age of social media and its painstakingly sculpted personae, Pictures Generation artist Cindy Sherman had already established herself as the art world’s reigning queen of self-reinvention, using the camera to morph into one character after another. Though her works are technically not self-portraits, Sherman’s method of turning the lens onto herself is uncannily appropriate to our times, in which the stage-managed selfie has become so ubiquitous that it’s now fodder for exhibitions and often cited as an art form in itself.."
"The (Instagram) account, which mysteriously switched from private to public in recent months, is a mix of personal photos alongside Sherman’s ever-famous manipulated images of herself.." via Artnet
Cynthia Morris "Cindy" Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
MARPI at Digital Decade 5
We a happy to announce that leading interactive artist MARPI is joining our own exhibition Digital Decade in London to showcase his latest installation "Mass Migration Builder". If you happen to be in London during 25 - 27 August don't hesitate to pop in to Ugly Duck venue and experience the "Cyberia"
Interactive installation based on Mass Migrations using HTC VIve controllers and no headset. Multiplayer digital mecha graffiti - originally presented at Next Art Night in Los Angeles.
Illustrations by Conrado Salinas
Totally epic and gorgeous illustrations by artist Conrado Salinas
Bonet
BONET is a tribute made by "The 21 Night" studio (Santiago Restrepo Arias) to the Catalan architect Antonio Bonet. Author of a vast work, which tweaks with his genius the geography of Spain and Latin America, which remains a great unknown. Six fragments that project the kaleidoscope of Catalan rationalism, gather and modernise the legacy of architect. It is also a recovery of the dialogue between architecture and light. Between stone and soul. A colourful tribute to the splendour of his work
Digital Decade x Sedition Art: Open Call for Video Artists
We're pleased to collaborate with Sedition Art Platform to present an Open Call for video artworks to be presented in an exhibition in London. Digital Decade 5: Cyberia is an exhibition of VR, video art, projection mapping and interactive installation taking place at London's Ugly Duck from 25-27 August 2017. Sedition is presenting one of three open calls currently on Digital Decade for print and VR artworks. Submit your video artworks here for the chance to have your works presented on the Sedition Frame in the show. Artists are asked to respond to the geopolitical, environmental, social changes taking place today in the digital age.
To submit:
Login or create an account at www.seditionart.com/submit
Upload a new artwork (you can also submit an existing work)
Enter your name, link to your Sedition profile, title, brief description and link to your artwork on Sedition in the form below.
Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2017, 11:59 GMT
Winners will be announced one week following the deadline.
Sedition Art
Sedition Art is the world’s leading online platform for artists to display and sell their art in digital format for connected screens and devices. Sedition offers everyone an easy, enjoyable and social way to experience art-collecting at affordable prices. The company was founded by Harry Blain, the owner of Blain|Southern. The mission of Sedition is to change the art world by introducing a marketplace for collecting and trading art in the digital age.
Neon Scribbles by Jung Lee
"Like the loop-de-loop scribbles of a child, artist Jung Lee (previously) constructed a series of neon light sculptures that were installed and photographed against cinematic landscapes as part of her series titled “No More“. "
Jung Lee was born in 1972 and currently lives and works in Seoul, Korea. She received her M.A. in Photography from the Royal College of Art, UK and her B.A. with honors in Photography from Kent Institute of Art & Design, UK. She received a B.A. with honors in Mass Communication & Journalism from Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. She most recently participated in 2012 Daegu Photo Biennale, the Incheon Women Artists Biennale, the 2010 Gwangju Biennale “10,000 Lives” under the direction of Massimiliano Gioni, the contemporary Korean photography exhibition “Chaotic Harmony” at the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). She has also shown at the Seoul Museum of Art and Gwangju Museum of Art. She will participate in the upcoming Esslingen Foto and Media Triennale. via ONE AND J. GALLERY
Bagged by Keville Joyce and Rathbone
Buenos Aires based art director and food stylist Anna Keville Joyce and fashion photographer Travis Rathbone exploring a fresh blend of food and fashion in their latest collaboration "Bagged"
Matthew Stone Art
Matthew Stone is an artist and shaman. These two interconnected roles are defined by his activities as painter, photographer, sculptor, performance artist, writer, Optimist and cultural provocateur.
“Optimistic thought without action will not fix broken systems. In fact pitching optimism as the primary means of self-actualisation for those facing genuine adversity can be a patronising tool of oppression. By-your-bootstraps philosophies tacitly reassert the toxic idea that inequality arises from the attitudes of those who are oppressed rather than the systemic violence enacted upon them.”
Stone’s most recent body of work demonstrates an innate enthusiasm for the development of painting within the framework of art history. The new works, use 3d modelling software and paint to break with the history of painting on a flat surface, lifting the strokes into a virtual and free space. The addition of shadows and foreshortening creates an illusionistic - trompe l’oeil sense of depth and perspective within the canvases. He organises and examines complex statements in regard to the relationship between painting, photography & computer generated imagery disrupting the holy status of painting as the ‘cosmic flesh’ of art history whilst simultaneously pushing the visceral experience of paint forward. The series offers a new technical approach to traditional painting, showing diverse bodies at play and in conflict.
Touchy World of Love by Illustrator Zipcy
"Light touches, dreamy gazes and longing sighs... That's what you'll find in these intimate illustrations by Zipcy.
Zipcy, whose real name is Yang Se Eun, is a 29-year-old artist from Seoul, South Korea, who is not afraid to add some sensual and lightly erotic elements to her creations.
The "Touch" series portray moments of closeness in a couple's life. The artist manages to capture the intense feelings of the first stages of love. They cannot stand being apart and enjoy every little moment together." via Bored Panda
Digital Surreal Art by Mikhail Batrak
Mikhail Batrak is a Ukrainian artist whose work examines the relationship between perception, Surrealism and empiricism. His creative process involves taking photographs with a digital camera and manipulating the results using computer software, combining disparate elements to create unexpected hybrid images. Drawing on techniques such as photomontage, digital drawing and collage, he updates the tropes of Surrealism for the digital age, utilising the visual language and style of the movement to pursue his own vision.
Lorem de Loop by Lukas Bruhn
With "Lorem de Loop”, Lukas Bruhn manages a project where he creates a poster every day for one whole year. 123 days in and he’s still going strong.
Lukas Bruhn is a 24 year old art director from Germany. His focus is in advertising, but he has created “Lorem de Loop” as a way to challenge himself with new design concepts by experimenting with different softwares, including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Cinema 4D.
As an art director in advertising, Bruhn’s job is focused on strategic concepting, which often leaves him with little time for developing the actual craft related to the industry. So in early spring 2017, Lukas decided to continue honing his skills with this artistic venture, where he would create a poster every day for one year.
“‘Lorem de Loop’ helps me to expand my horizon in design. It keeps my mind fresh at working with intricate programs, while giving me the opportunity to try out new software.”
The 24 year old art director uses Instagram to publish his work. “This gives me a lot of pressure to actually complete a poster each day!” says Lukas Bruhn.
Next week, he wants to give away posters to three lucky followers. So follow him, cross your fingers and stay tuned!
Camille Walala at Now Gallery
Camille Walala (previously) has transformed Greenwich Peninsula’s Now Gallery into a colour labyrinth of wonder. Walala X Play opened through 24 September and her zigzag paths, winding walls of different heights, hanging shapes, and mirrored panels are all decorated with Camille’s signature geometric patterns and brash colours.
The installation is also a puzzle, taking the form of a 3D “spot the difference” in which visitors are encouraged to seek out anomalies in the pattern, with new differences being introduced once a month during the installation’s run until September.
The print designer and artist was selected as Now Gallery’s 2017 Design Collaborator and the piece forms part of the gallery’s summer programme.
Words by Rebecca Fulleylove
Ello x Digital Decade: Winners
Digital Decade 5: Cyberia
To deliver the 5th Annual Digital Art Comepetition we teamed up with the leading Creative Platform ELLO and together with Curioos.com invited artists to create an art piece reflecting the Main Theme of Digital Decade 5 Exhibition "Cyberia - The Unknown Territories Shape by the Digital Ethnos"
Nearly 300 Artists have challenged their inner creativity at the Ello x Digital Decade open call last month. We have selected a Shortlist of 60+ artworks and together with 20 members of Jury announcing now the 10 best works that will join our exhibition in London next month
JURY PANEL
Winners of the Digital Decade 5
Alexy Préfontaine
"This submission is another representation of the way I see the future. We will probably be more and more focused on ourselves, living in our own bubble, thanks to the tremendously growing presence of the Internet and social medias. I feel like even though we might be more connected than ever, we might also be more and more isolated. The cloth on the person represents our future isolation and the way we might not face our forthcoming problems. The pixel sorting visual in the background represents the greater presence of technology in our future"
Marcel Lisboa
"We're living in a time where the information come and go fast and the digital tools are countless. A reflection I make is that the digital means come to improve us uniting the environmental, the way we're communicate and our health to this new era"
Cy Tone
THE DIGITAL SIN - /ðiː//ˈdɪdʒɪtəl//saɪn/
"My work represents the metaphor of the original sin...
...but inserted into our temporal context... the apple in the centre like new "digital sin"... We have made a lot of progress in the technology field, but these did not serve to create a world of peace and prosperity… We use technology to create wars and situations of social discomfort… Not for the wellbeing of the planet and living beings… We now do not deserve to live in the paradise of the future… I hope that in the next 20 years we will be good at using our capabilities for a better place to live..."
Davy Evans
The Otherside
"A collage piece created by photographing oil spills on a macro level and merging them together to create a scene. The image shows the continuous generation of new ideas / forms and technologies which eventually become a distant emergence. New ideas and worlds are continuously emerging and shifting from abstract ideas.
I'm interested in the idea that we are seduced by oil on many levels in todays society, represented by its beautiful but dark colour pallet"
Alice Conisbee
"Inspired by the way in which 3D printing can be used to create human organs, as well as the development of robotic prosthetics. I think it's interesting to consider how these techniques will have evolved even further in the future, and how they can benefit humanity"
Fill Ryabchikov
Prey to Digital Egregore. Baptised by data stream.
Emmanuel Achusim
The box is an image created for the digital decade movement, it emphasizes on the loneliness that the digital age has brought upon most of us, even if it does not feel that way at times we are often literally looking into one box or the other, be it our phones or our computers which limits most peoples actual physical social life opposed to what it could have been if they were not born in this digital decade.
Karen Rodrigue
Hungry Soul
"How is it that my love for you seems to grow and shrink in a matter of seconds. How fast time feels now the older we get, the more we are aware of our surroundings. How is it that your touch can turn so cold. Is it me projecting a growth or is it just the passing of time"
Elena Kulikova
Visiting the Fourth Dimension in the near #Future
Daina Hodgson
Surveillance, Subversion, Manipulation. What is real? The viewer inserts their story over the image.
Congratulations to the 10 Cyberians!
They will join 25+ Selected Artists (more info on Digital Decade Blog) at London Exhibition
25 - 27 August, Tanner st. 47/49
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This is not all, folks!
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Rebecca Yanovskaya
The glowing, amazing work of artist Rebecca Yanovskaya - a freelance illustrator working in the fantasy, sci-fi and horror genres. She frequently illustrates mythological stories, natural forces, and aesthetically strong characters. Most of her artworks are available as fine art prints in her INPRNT Shop
Perspective
“One day I woke up and I saw everything in perspective...”
Director Fernando Livschitz has a lot of fun creating this awesome hyper (sur)realistic video
I Left My Heart in Tokyo by Audun Grimstad
Phenomenally detailed illustration work from artist Audun Grimstad inspired by Manga classics in a piece called “I left my heart in Tokyo.”
