The cube measures 5.50 meters long, 2.55 meters wide and 3.10 meters height

Stronger Than Time: G-class 1979 inside "Amber" Cube

January 17, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Art, Cars, Events, Motioncollector, Germany, USA, Sculpture, 2018

Mercedes-Benz encases its 1979’s G-class inside a gigantic “amber” (44 tons of coloured resin, 90 days in production) cube at NAIAS 2018 Detroit show. Created by Antoni agency with video production from Markenfilm-Crossing

The 1979 model of the G-class is enclosed in 44.4 tones of synthetic resin

"The piece symbolizes the timelessness of the off-road legend and makes a conscious reference to the natural phenomenon of insects preserved in amber. With it, the german auto manufacturer wants to portray through an art piece that these characteristics have been handed down from generation to generation, making it the perfect symbol for the premier of the classic’s newest version."

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I Wish You Were Here - dir. by Vladimir Faraday

January 16, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, Portfolios, 2018

A short movie directed by Vladimir Faraday is an attempt to look at familiar places in a new way. "How may The Red Square or Gorky Park look when nobody is around? When a motion of the city is stopped and everything seems so unreal and strange. Time is no longer measured in minutes. The stars are now visible even in daylight."

Vladimir Faraday (alias real name is Vladimir Petrushin) is Moscow based Director and Director of Photography. Highly creative and dedicated Cinematographer with an excellent record of film production service. Vladimir has extensive experience on TV. Since 14 he is working on TV as journalist, cameraman and editor. During this time he also made several successful doc movies as Director and DP. Currently he works as Director and DP.

Director, DP, Editor: Vladimir Faraday
Cast: Nikita Ryumshin, Anastasia Kochetkova
Music: Analog Heart - Heartbeats

vFx breakdown

@faraday13

Laura Zalenga Photography

January 15, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Germany, Photography, Portfolios, 2018

Laura is a 1990 born [self-] portrait-artist from Southern Germany. Besides photographing projects she teaches workshops, gives inspirational talks and travels to all over the world – always searching for magical places and special light. It’s her clear visual language, the power of telling stories and showing raw, honest emotions in her photographs that makes her work stand out. She is convinced that photography is a type of therapy that gives you the ability to heal yourself and others.

@laurazalenga

The rebranding of Russia’s tourism board

January 15, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Advertising, Branding, Graphic Design, Russia, 2018

It is merely the first time we see adequate attempt of applying some identification to the most unpredictable and trending country in the world - mother Russia. "A team of five designers has created a new brand identity for Russia’s tourism board, using a logo that references the country’s cultural history and geography. Employing the aesthetics of Suprematism, an art movement coined by Russian artist Kasimir Malevich that featured abstract compositions of bold geometric shapes, the logo uses such shapes in the form of a map of Russia. An important, avant-garde era of Russian culture, not least thanks to its ties to the revolution, the design team says it used Suprematist techniques because – in its time – it “personified advanced thinking” in the country, and is still associated with Russia around the world." says It's Nice That

The idea behind main "centres" of Russia

The design team comprises Vladimir Lifanov, creative director of branding agency Suprematika; Ilya Lazuchenkov and Yegor Myznik from branding agency Plenum; Denis Schlesberg, ECD at agency Artonika; and Erken Kagarov, art director at design firm Art Lebedev Studio.

The new brand identity was selected via competition within Russia, to which anyone could apply. From 480 logos and 600 slogans, 30 were developed and ten presented for public vote before a jury selected the winner. You can see these shortlisted designs here

@russia__brand

http://russia-brand.com/en/

An app that promises to boost your creativity through art practices

January 14, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Mobile Applications, 2018

A creative duo of Aleksei Ivanovsky and Andrei Keske are launching a new app – w1d1, that has a very specific and at the same time very abstract promise – to make you more creative.

Based somewhere in between London, Moscow and Tbilisi, the team is trying to create an environment, that would help you make creative acts – the main currency of the app. The creators of the app have worked extensively together, and, as they say, saw how transformative the creative activities can be with their own eyes.

The central idea is very simple – you get one task a day, the task challenges your creative skills, rather then actual skills of drawing or photography, and you do it in a group so as to see how other people react the the same challenge.

In a faraway Estonian camp for teenagers, they did exactly what they are trying to replicate in the mobile environment – give a person a daily creative task, and a team of like minded people to do it with. «I saw how a shy teenager, that was mumbling something about how she’s not cut of for this and how uncreative and uninteresting she is, was transformed in a matter of weeks into a self confident artistic being, who has shot a dozen short films, put up a theatre play and made a contemporary art installation» – says Andrei – «That is exactly the process we tried to replicate in our app – to make you feel empowered by creating»

Both coming from Russia, and having had an extensive career together, they treat the very act of creating an app as an art project. «The whole process is very poetic – says Aleksei, – we come up with new ideas daily and go around in circles building upon each others’ concept, the shared history allows us to do it almost without saying a word. This weird blend of technical and design skill that we both possess and multiply in each other is probably the main driving force behind the app, without that we would be just making another boring social network, but it feels that we can achieve something much more artistic with this one.»

Actually the two have pulled off just that some time ago – they shook up the russian media landscape with the revolutionary w-o-s.ru project, that became the most experimental media platform ever to exist in russian internet. Having closed in 2015, it still has a surprising influence how the field of russian new media looks.

Already a year into the process of building the app, Aleksei found the very same concept behind it in the works of Russian literary scholar Viktor Shklovsky – an important underground figure of early XX century.

Shkovsky writes in his early book “Art as technique” : ”Habitualization devours work, clothes, furniture, one's wife, and the fear of war. "If the whole complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been." And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony. The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and no tas they are known.

The technique of art is to make objects "unfamiliar," to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged. Art is a way of experiencing the artfulness of an object: the object is not important…”

“When I read that, I was astonished it felt like there’s this powerful connection between centuries, that the idea at the base of the app, that we need art to help us defamiliarize our lives for us, to make the colors more vivid and emotions more noticeable is not my random quirk of mind, but a very grounded centuries old idea, we are just trying to mold it into a new form, this time – an app.”

— Aleksei Ivanovsky

The test version is already available at w1d1.com and the international public launched is to be announced in mid 2019.

TheRadya on ELLO

January 12, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Russia, 2018

It all began as a side project when artist Radik Sitdikov started drawing posters everyday. Following the vaporwave CGA-early-monitors aesthetics The Radya quickly becomes a merch store but still finding a time to do an experimental graphics you can follow on Ello and Instagram

@TheRadya

Neon Puddles by Thisset

January 11, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Photography, Portfolios, Russia, 2018

Russian digital artist and resident of our own London's Digital Decade collab, Slava Semeniuta best known as @Thisset shared his latest neon street findings

@thisset

Arthur Brouthers Art

January 10, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, Portfolios, 2018

Arthur Brouthers is well known in the world of social media as a pioneer of an abstract fluid painting technique that achieves cellular like separations, with the use of acrylic paints and other chemical agents. In his figurative works, these unconventional methods are used as bottom layers or the “skins” of his subjects. Arthur uses anywhere from 4 to 15 layers of clear resin between layers of acrylic paint, pigmented inks, and spray paint to show depth, giving a 3D effect.

@arthurbros

UPDATE by Antoni Tudisco

January 09, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Germany, Portfolios, 2018

Antoni Tudisco (the one of Digital Decade 5 artists) released a new pack of mind-blowing CGI art he created last year for commercial and personal projects

Full Set

@antonitudisco

Casa Vicens by Antoni Gaudí

Casa Vicens

January 09, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Architecture, Photography, Spain, 2018

Last time I visited OFFF festival I took an hour to find the earlier gem in Gaudi's architectural masterpieces - a summer home for real-estate broker Manel Vicens i Montaner. Heavily influenced by "Mudejar" style. Hence it was still under renovation, and I am happy to find out now that it is opened to public in 2018.

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Casa Vicens marks the first time Gaudí utilized an orientalist style, mixing together Hispano-Arabic inspiration. This was a style of architecture that completely breaks with the norm of the period. Not only does this house mark Gaudí's coming of age, being his first major work of architecture, but it also represents the flowering of Catalan modern architecture.

all images © casa vicens photos by pol viladoms

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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Explore: A Visual Essay by Andres Rossi

January 08, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Motioncollector, Portfolios, Spain, 2018

Exploration seems to be a human compulsion, so I wanted to tell a little story in the form of a visual essay, with a few images that can each convey an emotion related to Explore, showing a progression, going from Footsteps on a trail, climbing, looking at the skies, travellling through the void of space and in the end turning to meditation, completing a full circle.

Concept Design and animation: Andres Rossi
Music & SFX: Duomoro - duomoro.com

@andresrossistudio

Sculpture by Toru Kurokawa

January 05, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, Japan, Portfolios, 2018

Japanese artist Toru Kurokawa sculpts improbable liquid and biological shapes from a variety of ceramic materials. What begins life as a mere lump of clay, the artist molds and carves into artworks that appear like arrays of honeycomb, undulating coral, or dripping stalactites. Last year Kurokawa had a solo show with Sokyo Gallery titled The Savage Math, and you can see more of his work on Artsy

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

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Art of Light by Adela Andea

January 03, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, USA, Portfolios, 2018

"Romanian-born artist Adela Andea creates futuristic light installations that range from wall-based works to immersive environments. The pieces appears as lit explosions, with LED lights, magnifying lenses, and flex neon springing outwards in a blend of chaos and control. Despite their composition of electrified material, each work is inspired by a natural phenomena. Andea looks to bioluminescent sea life, melting icebergs, and cosmological events to shape the composition and meaning of her large-scale installations." via Colossal

Andea is currently represented by Anya Tish Gallery in Houston and Cris Worley Fine Arts in Dallas. You can see more of her neon-based installations on her website

Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement

January 02, 2018 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Portfolios, Japan, Motioncollector, 2018

"For their latest dizzying interactive installation, Japanese collective teamLab (previously) brought the ocean indoors, creating a projected environment that reacts to the movements of visitors, all encased within the infinite space of a mirror room. Titled “Moving Creates Vortices and Vortices Create Movement” the work is inspired in part by the life cycle of the ocean, particularly the movement of plankton as represented by the reactive particle effects that spin like whirlpools as you pass through the exhibition space. The speed and direction of people’s movements are all factored into the projections and in the absence of motion the room gradually reverts to darkness." via Colossal

The Vortices installation just opened at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia where it will remain on view through April 15, 2018

@teamlab_news

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

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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

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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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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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Xhxix Art

December 26, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Digital Art, Japan, Portfolios, 2017

Xhxix is a Tokyo-based artist whose digital paintings depict mostly gaunt young men in surreal states of mental anguish or physical injury. His subjects are inspired by niche models, such as Jacob Morton, whose pictures he gathers off the internet.

@xhxixart

Kirsten Beets Art

December 25, 2017 by Arseny Vesnin in Art, South African Republic, Portfolios, 2017

Cape-Town-rooted artist Kirsten Beets works predominantly with oil paint on paper. Her main subject is the interaction between humans and nature.

"The artist infuses observations of people and places, fleeting moments, into physical objects. She lifts their significance to touchstones of remembrance. Beets’ artworks represent the fragmentary illustrations of a shifting memory. They oscillate between the feeling of dry, heat shimmering Cape Town, geometric-shaped swimming pools and the preserved green nature of the suburban and gardens. In her paintings the artist expresses the illusionary spaces that remind of nature but are in fact fully constructed by humans. This play with illusion is substantial for Beet’s works where she comments on the interaction between humans and their environment in a bigger picture. Beets has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Scuola Internationale di Grafi in Venice, Italy. She also took part in the Cape Town and the Johannesburg Art Fairs."

@kirst_b_kind