Photographer Alex Stoddard
6 years ago we stumbled across Alex Stoddard self-portraits made in improvised natural environments. That was a relief to find his mature works today featured on Ello Creative Network
hash2ash at National Ethnographic Museum, Warsaw
hash2ash - everything saved will be lost
“We don’t want our digital lives to fade away. If we want to preserve them, we need to make sure that the digital objects we create today can still be rendered far into the future”
hash2ash
Interactive installation for National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw created by panGenerator as a part of TEEN AGE exhibition. Installation tuches on the themes of selfie-culture, and the fear of permanently losing the digital records of our lives due to technical failures, impermanence of data storage, or simply because of the obsolescence of the old digital file formats. Even with such compulsive overproduction of the images of ourselves we might end up with nothing but the blank memories of our past. Even the data on ourselves will eventually fade away…
The installation consist of the display that prompts you to take a selfie on your phone, which it renders in digital particles on its large 1x1 meter screen. Then a moment later, your face scatters and falls apart and the real black gravel starts to fall at the bottom of the screen in perfect synchrony with the digital simulation. Gradually a dark mound builds up at the foot of the construction
Photographs by Erin Baiano for NYCB
Geronimo fills Lincoln Center with a massive balloon Installation for the New York City Ballet
"Based in Los Angeles and working under the moniker Geronimo, Zencirli builds sprawling conglomerations of perfectly spherical balloons in carefully selected color palettes."
Words by Laura Staugaitis
"Zencirli’s latest creation has been produced in collaboration with the New York City Ballet, as part of their Art Series. The annual series invites a contemporary artist to install a site-specific artwork in the heart of Manhattan at Lincoln Center, where the ballet has been based since 1964. This is the series’ sixth year and Zencirli is the first female artist to be selected. In anticipation of the event, an appropriately-over-the-top video introduces audiences to Geronimo, directed by Andy Bruntel."
The artwork was unveiled on January 26, and remains up until February 24th, during which time the Ballet has two special performances. There are also public viewing hours every day of the week from February 17 – 25.
The Darkest Building on Earth: Hyundai Pavilion covered with Vantablack VBx2
"London-based architecture practice Asif Khan have unveiled their latest project, a super-black pavilion entirely coated in Vantablack VBx2 at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018 in South Korea. The building’s exterior is illuminated by a field of stars that appear to float in mid-air. Hyundai Motor has commissioned the pavilion as part of a global mobility initiative."
"The structure’s 10-metre-high parabolic facades are coated with a super black material: Vantablack VBx2, a derivative of the original Vantablack, making it the world’s largest continuous nanostructure. The matt black material is able to absorb 99% of the light that hits its surface, diminishing its three dimensionality and creating the illusion of a startling black void in broad daylight. The facades of the pavilion are punctuated by thousands of tiny white lights which, during the day, simulate the view into space from that point on earth."
"Inside the 35m x 35m structure, Khan has designed a vast ‘water room’ – a multi-sensory hydrophobic water installation which emits 25,000 singular water droplets every minute. Visitor interaction with a series of haptic sensors creates new rhythms as droplets continually collide, join, and split across the water landscape, which appears like a city viewed from space. These flows of individual droplets col-lect, grow and build into a ‘lake’ which drains and reappears in the space of minutes."
"Asif Khan has been working with the manufacturers of Vantablack since 2013 and proposed its use in his shortlisted proposal for the UK Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015. Asif Khan’s super-black building at the 2018 Winter Olympics follows his designs for Coca-Cola’s landmark pavilion at the 2012 London Olympic Games and the MegaFaces pavilion at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics."
Remy Martin x Matt W. Moore: Basketball Court at Art Basel 2017
Talented artist we follow for ages Matt W. Moore shared his latest project done later last year at Art Basel Miami 2017. It is a 1st Chapter of a special collaboration with Remi Martin that lead to basketball court design during the art fair at 'The W' South Beach Miami.
The Ashes of Snow by Carla Chan
Carla Chan obtained her Bachelor of Arts Degree from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She works with a variety of media including video, installation, photography and interactive media. Much like the never-ending development of new technology Chan considers media art as a medium with infinite possibilities for artistic expressions.
The Ashes of Snow
The Ashes of Snow is an immersive environment that mistreats and misplaces a natural phenomenon: snow. By applying thermochromic technology and a particle falling system, the artwork simulates snowing indoor, By manipulate the temperature inside the particle falling system, the snow’s colour change in greyscale during falling. And eventually the white snow changed to black on the air.
The process seems to be an ordinary snowy environment, but there is subtle drama within. The black tainted snow causes a sense of misplacement of the snowing experience, bringing the audience a twist in the supposedly dreamy imagination of pure white snow. By manipulating the colour of snow and the falling pattern, the flaws, contamination and pollution are exaggerated as the snow falls. Such a foreign but familiar environment gives the audience a space to think and reflect in the bittersweet beauty of destruction. In the process of snow falling in black and white, the artwork also creates a physical landscape of white snow tainted in black at times. With a hint of traditional Chinese ink painting, the minimal visual experience conveys an atmosphere that is dramatic, poetic, pessimistic and concerning for the future.
Ultimately, the impure snowy landscape aims to heighten the sense and awareness of climate change, global warming and pollution in the global scale. In reality, black snow is oftentimes related to heavy pollution and contaminated environment, by staging the audience in the simple, yet dramatic immersive environment. The gradient change of snow color is giving a space for audience to think deeply of a non- exit and twisted situation and yet creates a stage of destruction and invertible situation.
www.carlachan.com
George Washington
Hail to the Chief by Frank Synowicz
Frank Synowicz is a multidisciplinary new media/digital artist and designer working with Computer graphics, visual effects, video, virtual reality, and traditional painting and drawing. He presents the new art projects "Hail to the Chief" and "Composite of the Chiefs" where under anthropological decomposition he creates the demystification of the American idols
John Adams
Currently on view at The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art LACDA
This portrait series reflects the fun house nature of the American political process. The circus-like spectacle distorts details of the individuals seeking the prime office. Our relation to them is mainly from the many facets of historical representation and media coverage. Their exalted placement conjures a synthetic character, which becomes warped as it is consumed by the world. This feeds the base of American mythology and the drive of current campaigns.
The fight for control plays out on the public stage, triggering a national identity crisis. Attacks and propaganda distort reality, twisting these most famous of faces. Strings pulled for posturing position, propping up the most promised person at the helm. A side step song and dance, juggling talking points and agenda. A pageant of manufactured personality. Placing in the public eye a poster picture of power and promise.
Hail to the Chief
Composite of The Chiefs
Saint City Over the Winter Skies
The best city in the world (by my version) can never bring you down even it was brought down on different occasions through the 20 century turmoil. Talented guys from Timelab Pro lead by Andrey Efimov amazed us again (and before). The feather blow of a snow from St Isaac cupola makes my heart go fast even I write this post from only 10 km to the south from the location. I can't imagine myself watching this masterpiece outside St Petersburg just because it can brake my heart apart.
Made By We Are: 12 Artists created unique collection
Made by We Are is an experimental design project curated by Vicente García Morillo & Eugene Serebrennikov of Burn & Broad, a multi-disciplinary design studio. Together they share the simple belief that collaborative creativity can spawn innovation and limitless possibilities.
The first collective Made by We Are project brings together 12 multidisciplinary, multinational creatives to create a unique one of a kind artistic collection. Using scarves as the canvas, the merging of creative talent results in an exclusive artistic product that can be worn as a statement piece or framed as a piece of artwork
One night exhibition to run at ARLO HOTELS in NYC, Feb 22
EDIFICE by Ash Thorp
Edifice is an experimental short film inspired by personal beliefs of who we are, where we come from, and where we are heading; it’s a journey from stardust to singularity. This purely cinematic film is intended to stimulate your mind and senses, while provoking further thought about our passage and presence in this world. To optimize your experience of the film, Edifice is best viewed on a full screen, with no surrounding artificial light intrusion, and very ample sound.
Film by - Ash Thorp
Director of Photography - Anthony Scott Burns
Score by - Ben Lukas Boysen
Starring - Christine Adams
Producer - Monica Thorp
Houdini Artist - Serjan Burlak
Set Construction - Brett Harris
Additional Photography - The Joelsons
Turkina Faso Photography
Kati Turkina aka Turkina Faso is Russian born and London based journalist, tutor and independent photographer. Apart from editorial photography she does for numerous magazines she keeps a personal way to do visual research of the relations between nature, humanity and reality and its perception.
Alice Conisbee
Young British electronic artist Alice Conisbee already established her own style with the flashbacks to early-Anime graphics. Worth to mention Alice is a winner of Ello x Designcollector digital art competition and exhibited in London at our own Digital Decade 5: Cyberia last year
Limited Edition Print
Available in London
Camper Twins 30th by Filip Custic
Multidisciplinary artist Filip Custic was commissioned by Camper to provide the visuals for their "Twins" (shoes model) 30th anniversary edit. By playing with concepts like gravity and space it showcased a series of surreal images that brilliantly capture the dreamlike mood behind their collection
Represented by O
FILIP CUSTIC is a Spanish-Croatian multidisciplinary artist who uses objects as his means of communication. He’s creating his own “vocabulary of objects” through a movement he is developing that he has decided to call “objetismo”. In order to express himself he uses a camera to take photos and videos, but he also plays around with audios. Filip creates installations with models, clothing and different kinds of objects that inspire him, using them as sculptures to communicate an idea, concept or message. He likes to play with concepts such as no-gravity, fragmentation, patafísica, balance optic effect and technic art.
Researcher
"Researcher" reel is a teaser for upcoming CG short movie created by Russian motion designer Vladislav Solovjov
Direction / Design / CG / Compositing: Vladislav Solovjov
Modelling: Vladislav Solovjov, Evgeny Park
Soundtrack: Andrew Owlong
Erika Dufour Photography
Stunning fashion and editorial photography shot by Erika Dufour
Davy Evans
Davy Evans (@davyevans) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Brighton. With a background in graphic design, Evans fuses analogue and digital techniques to create ethereal abstract imagery. He uses experimental photographic methods, combined with light and liquid to replicate colour, form, and distortions, inspired by those found in the natural world.
Digital Decade 5: Cyberia, 2017
Davy was the winner of Ello x Designcollector contest that had selected 10 winners for "Digital Decade 5: Cyberia" exhibition in London last year.
Limited Edition Print
Available in London
Collaboration with Apple
Nike Statement House NYC Liquid Type by DIA Studio
Design studio now better known for their kinetic typography experiments recently did a motion identity for Nike Statement House in NYC
Phygital Art of Ada Sokol
"Ada Sokol sums up her work with two words: “innovation, sleekness”. A chance encounter with the Paris-based, Polish-born artist and 3D designer’s work quickly had us hooked and digging deep into her portfolio rich with commissioned and personal projects. With a flair for 3D rendering which is so photorealistic, it left us wondering where the constructed ended and the real began, Ada is a future talent destined for great things." from It's Nice That interview
Ada Sokol & Etiennne Garachon
Ada Sokol & Maxime Guyon
Ada Sokol & Maxime Guyon
Luna by Elizaveta Porodina
Prominent fashion photographer Elizaveta Porodina was commissioned by Numero magazine to shot the rising star of Kyiv electronic-pop music LUNA
