3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
If you are not following how digital art becoming a thing nowadays by landing on the NFT crypto-platforms, you better follow our friends and participants of Digital Decade Alycia Rainaud and Dorian Legret. For now just check their awesome collaboration on music covers for GRiZ
Fabian Oefner`s work explores the boundaries between time, space and reality. He creates fictional moments and spaces, that look and feel absolutely real, yet aren't. Through this, Oefner dissects the different components of reality and gives us a clearer understanding of how we perceive and define it.
Inspired by science, Oefner`s approach to art is highly methodical and at the same time playful for unexpected moments to happen. He creates carefully orchestrated works, that are planned down to the last detail as well as pieces, that use a loose framework for art to happen.
In his highly acclaimed "Disintegrating" series, the artist portrays performance cars, that seem to blow apart. He creates these artificial moments in time by photographing every piece of the dismantled car individually and arranges them digitally into one photograph. Spending hundreds of hours on each piece, the photographs become a hyperrealistic rendition of a moment, that never existed.
Vasilisa Romanenko is a New England-based illustrator, designer, and fine artist. Her artwork depicts the mystery, beauty, and fragility of nature through the use of botanical elements, intricate patterns, and animals. She sees her paintings as windows into a magical world, much like the one she enjoyed getting lost in as a child while reading fairy tales. The lush blooming gardens, birds, and insects in her work are all used to explore the human spirit and its connection to nature. Vasilisa's primary medium is acrylic on canvas, although she works with watercolour, ink, and digital mediums as well.
Started in 2013 the ongoing research on glass screen as metaphor of a digital being is a central focus in Tilman Hornig career as an artist.
From an ontological point of view, computers – similar to Heidegger’s notion on Being – “are” not at all. Today, they are required to deter- mine any kind of being. They, therefore, precede any kind of being. Computers “are” not, they exist as an invisible given, which penetrates everything. Foremost, computers are nothing specific. As a universal medium, they are similar to that which Aristotle called the diaphanes, the “transparent” – an undetermined “in-between,” metaxu, which has to be formless in exactitude to take on any form and to transport all possible impressions. The significance of the computer also correlates to an image of the Stoics, the apeiron, ”the in-finite,” which, being primal matter par excellence, includes the possibility of any other matter, and which, exactly because of that, has no proper qualities itself. It is therefore no accident that transparency is the ethos of our time.
The phenomenon of virtual illusion denies reality by depicting it. The transparency is an exaggeration of emptiness and abundance of information and content at the same time. It creates infinite possibilities and makes the world a backdrop.
By throwing back the symbol of digital space, limitless communication, infinite information to its purely material form, Hornig makes the paradoxical cultural elevation visible. For the device as such is free of any content, it is a neutral surface and at no time permanent. Only at the moment of use does it transfer the surrounding reality into a virtual illusion of the same, thus becoming a mirror of countless, varying realities. The transparency of the "GlassPhone" refers to the actual function of the smartphone as a transmitter of information and translator between the worlds.
The complex and ever-increasing overlap of analog and digital realities is touched in the current exhibition "Silent Night" on a formal as well as on a content-related level. It shows 24 variations of a motif from the "GlassPhone" series. In the darkness of an airplane cabin - as the characteristic oval window hatch in the center lets us know - the human body disappears almost completely. Only the hand holding the sculpture is illuminated by the mystical light in the center of the picture, while the "GlassPhone" itself crosses the additional picture surface enclosed by the window frame in an almost perfect diagonal.The precise, harmonious composition differs in its execution only in this second picture surface, the landscape to be imagined and especially the atmosphere of light that radiates inwards and frames the sculpture like an aureole. Golden sunrises or sunsets, rosy pastel evening moods, deep blue night skies or greenish shimmering auroras create stylized hyper-realities. They reveal that this motif was digitally mounted.
Colombian La Salvación Studio created this calendar for a local bank in 2019, but all I want is to be 2021 like this! Credits: @david_.rivera @seb.zul @leyther_orozco @margarita_bernall
Talented rising CG art star Adam Rosol shares his latest creatures under “Dispersion” project
Andrey Remnev — modern Russian painter. The greatest popularity in the art world Remnev has gained for the paintings with visual motifs of Russian provincial life performed with a mix of late renaissance composition, ancient icons portraiture and Russian art of the 18th century.
“During the pandemic we were all experimenting those weird emotion. We wanted to be productive and at the same time our fear and emotion from the virus were exhausting us this is a representation of a conflict with out emotion. And we should accept how we feel and take some time for us.” - says animation director Kimathi Flavien
Timişoara, Romania-based artist Alina-Ondine Slimovschi always filtered the reality in a specific manner emphasizing the notions of solitude, melancholy, escapism, abandon, fears and expectations, love, lust, memory and recollection.
There is no doubt 2020 is a rocket year for digital becoming an integral part of human-being. Everything went online, work, galleries, art, exhibitions (worth to mention our own @Digital.Decade SE 2020), cryptocurrency art auctions like SuperRare, Nifty Gateway and etc. Fashion is no exception, and you have already seen David Koma’s online catwalk. Now, Demna Gvasalia, art director of Balenciaga, went further and released an online game “Afterworld: The Age of Tomorrow”. After the start you go straight to 2031 and… try yourself:
Virtual Exhibitions on Nifty Gateways
“Gavin Shapiro’s ultimate goal is to produce work that makes you smile, and these days he aims to do that by making vibrant, surrealist 3D animation that doesn’t take itself too seriously but still retains a high level of quality. He's lived and worked in New York, Osaka and Paris, working on a large variety of projects including tv shows, commercials, outdoor displays, large-format stage visuals, and animations for casino games.”
His personal work, released under the name “shapiro500”, has been used as visuals at music festivals and shows all over the world, and has been shown on digital billboards as part of art exhibitions in New York City and Tokyo. His animations have accumulated hundreds of millions of views across Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Giphy.
III. Cohesion
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by @shapiro500
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His works are available today on the Nifty Gateway - the exclusive digital art platform featuring digital artists from all over the world that enabling collection of “non-fungible tokens” - a special type of cryptographic token which represents something unique, like Gavin’s artworks
American Expressionist in a second generation Jeff Erickson creates landscapes that are inviting a lonely soul to take a deep fresh breathe and seize the moment⠀
Long time no exceptional tattoo post.. Here we go with Seoul based master SOL creating multi-layered colourful pieces on a human skin
Artist and illustrator Nicholas Moegly creates haunted paintings of an abandoned rural suburbia occupied by natural inhabitants
When there is not so much left to unite there is a good case to start again from uniting some common things. And the visual identity for The United Sodas of America is a minimalist yet ultimately democratic design approach to do so. Conceived by a Brooklyn-based studio Center, it was inspired by America’s diversity and complexity.
“Following the belief that variety sparks unity, the designers imagined a palette of 12 bold, solid colors complemented with a versatile sans-serif font. Each taste is strongly reflected with the right shade – from Young Mango to Blackberry Jam. This approach to branding reflects on how political can drive aesthetics in the quest for a better world.”
Georgian photographer basing and working in Saint-Petersburgm Giga Topuria has an eye on the beautiful moments, renaissance light and sfumato shadows, while catching classic compositions in an urban life of a top cultural city of the world we all love and live in.
Talented London-based classic-taught artist Ben Ashton granted a knighthood to his majesty the Glitch by creating awesome distorted portraits (mainly self-portraits) with oil on canvas. Ashton's work combines precision in execution with humour and character, balancing emotive response with a strong contextual foundation. Worth to mention his commission for Rag’n’Bone Man platinum single and then epic album “Human”. Ben did an a portrait of a singer that appeared on the cover art.
Utopia
by Camille Walala
Camile Walala, who recently painted a parade of shops in east London, got the idea to design a new Oxford Circus at the beginning of lockdown – when she says she was “struck by the silence of the streets” and “the sense of peace that had descended on London in the absence of the traffic”.
Pedestrianised, exploding with colour and full of imaginative street furniture designed to be interacted with in multiple ways, Camille’s Oxford Street is a place of joy, surprise and asymmetry – an antidote to the flatness and homogeneity that often characterise the standard high street.
In a letter accompanying the series, Camille reflects on her 23 years living in London, and credits the capital with sparking and shaping her career as an artist. This project, she explains, is in essence an expression of her love and gratitude for the city, as well as a serious proposal for a new, more enriching urban landscape. Full of colourful, bold architectural structures and 3D surfaces, the images present a vision of an urban thoroughfare that exists for more than practical purposes, inviting numerous forms of interaction. It’s a place for gathering and meeting, resting and rambling – evoking the multiple community functions of the agora, or public square, in ancient Greece. Walala imagines the space as somewhere the natural and the human-made can coexist and complement each other, weaving water and verdant plant life into her speculative streetscape.
“Adopting a remote lifestyle seems more realistic than ever, and this week, MINI proved yet another way to do it. On Tuesday, the BMW-owned automotive marque unveiled an experimental ‘Vision Urbanaut’ car that imagines the living room to be on the go.”
“The concept, modeled like a small camper van, bears a metallic green exterior, light-up wheels, and gradient windows.
The Urbanaut extends upon MINI’s core of the “Clever Use of Space” with a dashboard that can be lowered into a daybed and front seats that swivel around, so the driver can relax or interact with other passengers when not steering the wheel.”
