Social Weapon by Tom Galle
NYC-based artist Tom Galle has reworked the idea of corporate logos in a way that makes them not only daring, but kinda deadly.
After Hours in Hamburg by Mark Broyer
Captured from 2016 – 2017, Mark's series "After Hours in Hamburg" shows different locations such as bars, hotels, and some shabby places at a very late hour when everything is closed and even the last night owls have disappeared.
Water Portraits By Reisha Perlmutter
Artist Reisha Perlmutter lives and works in New York, creating oil paintings informed by the way we “relate to our bodies on an uninhibited, biological level.” Her subjects are depicted in both close-up and full body compositions, their bodies caught amongst light flares and reflections of the sun shining through the surface. The Florida-born artist presents quiet, solitary moments in the pool, her subjects appearing at peace with their surroundings and themselves..
This post was shamefully censored few times by Facebook and Instagram leaving our accounts compromised and blocked for weeks then a month and completely destroying any logic and a will to support that channels.
Art censorship in action from Facebook Nipple Army of cheap labour moderators based in Manila, Philippines and India. Watch related movies “The Cleaners” and “The Moderators” about actions against Art and Photography undertaken by freaking policies of the largest online platforms.
Jan Erik Waider Photography
"Drawn to arctic scenery, photographer Jan Erik Waider skillfully captures the “rugged charm and pristine beauty” of Nordic nature. In his striking series, Arctic Silence, the Hamburg-based creative offers an intimate glimpse into the haunting stillness and ghostly tranquility found in Greenland's glacial landscapes.."
The Digital Decade 5, London - Official Video
During UK bank holidays on 25th of August Designcollector Network ran a successful exhibition that explored intersections digital and physical forms - "Phygital" in art, featuring 50 Artists working in the field of near-future terms. This year's theme was "Cyberia - the Unknown Territories shaped by the Digital Ethnos" encourages artists to reflect on the concept of the newborn digital-native that is changing our common value systems.
Digital Decade 5 went on 25 - 27 August at Ugly Duck, London
Official Video directed by So!Fraiche
For the 5th Edition we were lucky to collaborate with 3 huge online platforms working in the fields of Digital Art and representing the majority of online artists. If you are looking to promote your body of work, please consider this platform as a kick starter of your career
Ello Network
Ello is The Creators Network, a socially-powered publishing and collaboration platform supporting a global community of artists. Founded in 2013 by a small group of art & design professionals, Ello provides a creative oasis for artists and their fans while empowering artist x brand collaboration via our Artist Invites program.
Curioos Marketplace
Designcollector is proud to have Curioos as a retail partner. They are printing all artworks for Digital Decade 5. Curioos is a curated marketplace of lifestyle products designed by independent artists. It’s the one-destination for graphic artists to profit from their creativity by selling their artworks on high-quality, everyday products such as wall art, apparel and accessories.
Sedition Art Platform
Delivering Video Art challenge and showcasing selected artists on “Sedition digital Frames” at Digital Decade 5. 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.
Photography from the event
Photos are taken by Antony Kitson
Mayume - Undergrowth
Talented black ink illustrator from Sydney just reached out us to share her news about upcoming "Undergrowth Exhibition" (28-29.09) showcasing her body of works
The Gift Hotel by Six N Five Studio
"The Gift Hotel" is a series of short animations made by Six N Five Studio for Massimo Dutti latest campaign
Elements by Maxim Zhestkov
Elements, an experimental art film by Maxim Zhestkov, follows more than two billion black and white spheres through a series of experiments within several enclosed spaces. Throughout the film the particles swarm through different white rooms, each labeled with subtle wall text that broadly defines the physics of each animation such as flow, diffusion, and pressure. Set to a score of hauntingly hollow tones, Elements is intended to express laws of nature and mathematics, visually representing the composition of particles found in each of us.
“The film is a trial 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. We could project this idea into emotions, behaviours, thought processes, relationships, life, planets and the universe.”
Digital Decade 5: Cyberian Mixtape
If you follow us for a while you cannot ignore the fact we just held a massive event in London - The Digital Decade 5 or simply "Cyberia". Like last year we had a huge opening party involving the DJ playing music
But to be sure next days went awesome we asked our local friend and DJ Stepan Zakharov to compile a 3-hrs mixtape for background atmosphere at the event!
Enjoy the Cyberian Mixtape
More details on Digital Decade 2017
Reza Bassiri's Fashion Faces
For this Faces series, French Reza Bassiri wanted to illustrate the variety of beauty through these portraits, mixing genders, styles and fashion, with one common trait: beautiful women.
Very Still Life by Roni Landa
"Very Still Life" is a series of clay sculpture created by Tel-Aviv artist Roni Landa depicting veggies in a totally "carnivorean" way
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.