Refractions - Chapter 1 by Murat Saygıner

Murat Saygıner is a self-taught digital artist who works as a motion designer, filmmaker, photographer and composer based in Ankara, Turkey.

Born in Prague in 1989, Murat Saygıner got involved with photography and digital art in 2007 and won numerous international awards. As early as 2008, his works were selected for “IPA Best of Show” exhibition in New York and in 2010, he was awarded Emerging Talent of the Year in “The Photography Gala Awards”.

He has written, directed and produced several animated short films since 2013 which were screened in over 200 film festivals including Academy Award Qualifying Festivals such as “Animest” and “AIFVF”. Six of his films were Staff Picked on Vimeo. In 2019, he assembled ten of his short films under the title of “The Flying Fish” which drew various reviews by acclaimed film critics and received the Vitriol Award as the Best Experimental Film in The First Hermetic International Film Festival in Venice.

The Drop

We’ve lost track of The Flying Fish. This is a new yet familiar territory. A dimension where physics are ruled by metaphors and fiction builds reality. Those CryptoFish seem to be leading the way, looks like we’re gonna be sailing for a while...

Morphing Dreamscapes from a Cosmic Exhibition
The migration is happening. Feeding from all sorts of creations, the metaverse has become a digital playground with an ever-expanding gravitational mass. The transition won’t be simple as we’re building a home made of light in the pivotal phase of our evolution. Not that any of this requires conscious effort.

Dive into the Fantasy

Jane

Boris

Fly Through The Clouds

Ayla

Bobby

Beatrice

Sale beyond the stars

Blaze

Hayato

Dailon

Travel The Underworld

Lucas

Maya

Daniel

Transformations - NFT Group Exhibition, INSTITUT

Unit London presents Transformations, a historic IRL and URL exhibition of NFTs, offered exclusively for sale via Institut.

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Tyler Hobbs

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Jason Seife

Transformations marks the close of a year in which the advent of creative new technologies and an ongoing global pandemic have disrupted the global artistic community as well as our entire lives. From the algorithmic harmony of Maxim Zhestkov to the brave new aesthetics of Marjan Moghaddam and Ellen Sheidlin, Transformations brings together a diverse group of artists who embody these seismic cultural and social shifts.

Maxim Zhestkov

In Passengers LHR, Brendan Dawes creates a poignant record of the impact of COVID-19, visualising the undulating ebb and flow of passenger traffic through the vast international hub of Heathrow Airport over a period of nineteen months across 2020-2021. Serwah Attafuah offers a triumphant and needed image of rebirth and healing with Asklepios, a gleaming realisation of herself as the ancient Greek god of medicine.

With the strikingly organic and yet deeply digital Return Zero [Blue] 0.7, Tyler Hobbs utilises code as a creative material in the same way that paint and marble have been wielded by past artists. A timely reminder that we stand at the beginning of a vital new chapter in the snaking and regenerative course of art history.

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Chad Knight

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Serwah Attafuah

Remaining true to Unit London’s meritocratic guiding principles, Transformations celebrates artists from diverse and unconventional backgrounds, from the pro-skateboarder Chad Knight to the self-taught Unskilled Worker. Transformations ultimately invites artists and creators to reflect on how the last tumultuous twelve months have impacted and reshaped their lives and careers, as well as our own.

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Marjan Moghaddam

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IX Shells

All the works showcased in Transformations are available for sale on the Institut platform, where collectors can freely bid using either regular FIAT or cryptocurrency.

SPEQTRUM by Ruslan Vyaltsev

Speqtrum is an interactive study of colour spectrum created by digital artist Ruslan Vyaltsev. Each combination of shapes and colour associates with certain emotions and individual expirience.

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Magic worlds by Li Boar

Talented digital painter Li Boar creates magic visual stories when he is not busy doing fairy-tale environments for online games

Goodbye Punks!

We all missed them. We all have FOMO. Goodbye Punks™ never turn face back to you. All you can is to wave them, shout love or hate into their back as they go away. That does not matter, they don't care ;)

This is a homage collection of 100 digitally “hand-painted" punks, created by us, featuring OG Crypto Punks back heads never seen before

The project launch had 3 stages of delivery:

1. “Airdrop” (free delivery in NFT) to friends (“frens” in NFT). We had 50 of them delivered to our mutual friends on Twitter (8 Oct 2021)

2. Giveaway between NFT Community on Twitter (9 Oct 2021)

3. Sales of leftovers (10 Oct 2021)

This project is not affiliated with Larva Labs

The Currency NFT by Damien Hirst

Leading contemporary artist Damien Hirst has already walked into Crypto waters by selling signed prints for Bitcoins and Ethereums few months ago. Now puts his face in the water by reimagining the way NFTs are used. Powered by PALM Ethereum ecosystem and distributed by @HENI,

Starting with the creation of the physical artworks in 2016, The Currency explores the boundaries of art and currency—when art changes and becomes a currency, and when currency becomes art. Successful applicants will all initially receive NFTs. Ultimately, you have to decide between the digital NFT or the physical artwork, both of which are artworks in their own right. Whichever you pick, the other gets burned.

Digital See by SuperWorld

SuperWorld announced the art exhibition Digital See raising funds for the community of Flint, Michigan, USA. The exhibition is an AR interactive event available inside the SuperWorld application @superworldapp

Digital See Mission

“The Flint Water Festival supports awareness and education about the importance of clean water protection: that we must protect clear water supply for the health and well being of our communities.  Many children and families were affected  in the Flint community and we want to support efforts to medical and clean water oversight.  
We are a group of artists who are coming together to support the community of Flint. With each sale, we dedicate proceeds to local initiatives for health, clean water and education.

​SuperWorld supports the Flint Water Festival as the first AR NFT art event to showcase both local and international artists with 3D NFT art installations.”

Featured Artists

UISCE - Brynn + Lisa (Londubh Studio) + Swalih Ibrahim

CleanWater should not be a Sisyphus - Marjan Moghaddam

Rhythm & Flow - Joëlle Charlotte

Never Let Go of the Fuze 2021 - José Manuel Cruz Igarza

C0R3 - Evan Pun

Project Lifeline

SMALLIE. THE SMALL FISH FROM FLINT - Seyhan Lee + Lara Binnet + Pinar

Prayer for Change - Nate McCrorey

Strange Fruit 2.0 - Erin Whitaker

Agua Azul - REO

The Description - Isiah Lattimoore

King of the Forest by Santi Zoraidez

Santi Zoraidez was born in Argentina and spent many years living and working in Copenhagen, Berlin and Buenos Aires before recently settle in Barcelona to continue his practice. Santi is a passionate art director and designer with a true desire to transform ideas into striking artwork. Santi’s work combines digital and reality with great sense of space, colour, light and inventiveness to create top-notch projects with a modern and fresh feel.

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The King

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The Dreamer

“Like many of us, I have always been drawn to the elegance and presence of the Tiger. For this project I wanted to make it part of my artwork. The collection shows the Tiger in situations of intimacy, calm and curiosity. New spaces to be explored.”

— Santi Zoraidez

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The Hunter

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The Explorer

Pending Futures

PENDING FUTURES presents a virtual exhibition of the new media art works by the students and alumni of the leading art institutions of Russia and the Netherlands. The project reflects on the notions of digital space as potentially a safe and comfortable space despite its “necessity” status merged the during covid-19 extreme isolation and immersion into online terrain. It seems important to look at the digital space through the eyes of the youngest generation of artists who are engaged with the various kinds of cutting-edge media and for whom the digital has become an essential tool for self-reflection and artistic expression and a regular part of their education curriculum.

The project is located in the virtual gallery built by our Technical partner – V-Art and available in application for iOS and on Art Catch and V-Art as webversion. PENDING FUTURES is accompanied by a public program, dedicated to various aspects of digital art, i.e. curating, marketing and education. A part of the public program will be included into cultural programming of CADAF Online | June 17-23, a Crypto and Digital Art Fair. All the recordings of the public program will be available on PENDING FUTURES exhibition page. The exhibition is curated by Daria Kravchuk, curator, art manager, museologist and art journalist.

OPENING:
June 15, 18:00 (GMT+2) / 19:00 (GMT+3, Moscow time)

The Lord of Light

Don't click if you're not the Chosen One

Two Ukrainian visual artists, Histibe & Solonskyi, created an artwork as a symbol of Light in the form of a blank white image.

With this NFT, you become the world's first exclusive owner of Light.

“The nature of Light is epic.
Light has no color or shape.
Light has no boundaries.”

They want only the worthy to inherit this great gift, which will be the crown of your collection.

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