SMECCEA is a motion designer based in Vancouver. Her work often examines abstract ideas, spirituality, and self discovery. She grounds her work based on careful introspection, always drawn to working in many creative mediums.
An immersive sci-fi short by writer-director Stuart Langfield. “Loop” centres around a reclusive former tech CEO’s quest to teach AI how to experience and process true human emotions. However these ’emotion experiments’ involve a series of scripted scenarios that seem to do more to call basic humanity into question as the film blurs the lines between drama and sci-fi, human and machine, real and artificial.
“Loop is an artistic exploration of a simple hypothesis: emotion cannot be programmed, it must be felt and experienced to be real. I started exploring this concept while observing my young son discover and display new emotions through his own direct experience and contact with others. He was learning to process the feelings of anger, joy, disappointment, sadness, and I found this progression of maturity fascinating and insightful. I started to question whether replicating an emotive incident could result in a similar reaction every time and, if so, could we program a machine to feel?”
UK based passionate 3D artist, animator, and director with several years of commercial experience working under “Piano and the Fox”. Her style is mainly colourful bold compositions with playful animations.
Artist Marco Battaglini known for juxtaposing graffiti and classic art released a full-body sculpture of The New Contemporary Venus “VENUS VICTRIX HODIE” in collaboration with Kylie Jenner
“In coherence with the same artistic theme that I have been developing, I wanted to show the contrast of aesthetic ideals, how the concept of beauty has changed and shaped society.
As always I enjoy playing the game representing the contrast between the classical ideals of beauty and the contemporary ‘anti-aesthetic’ of the world of urban hip-hop and graffiti culture.”
Refik Anadol is a media artist and director born in Istanbul, Turkey and currently based in Los Angeles, California. He is working in the fields of site-specific public art with parametric data sculpture approach and live audio/visual performance with immersive installation approach, particularly his works explore the space among digital and physical entities by creating a hybrid relationship between architecture and media arts with machine intelligence.
“Artificial Landscapes” is his latest AI Data Sculpture series that his studio have generated for Samsung‘s next-gen MicroLED technology. It consists of 3 unique chapters, each offering a window to how visual memories of nature can be simulated through ML algorithms and by using data as pigment.
Illustrator and dotwork artist Sergey Svetov shares his dark skills perfectly suited for skin neither paper clashing to eternal instances: Beauty and Death
Paris-based CG artist Hugo Fournier loves using colours in his projects, combined matters with minimalistic look.
Meet illustrator Abigail Larson raised in Virginia, US and living in Italy and now having a full-time job as character designer at Netflix Animation
Mixed media artist Benjamin Everett started out as a graphic designer and landscape painter before taking up photography. He transforms real places into surreal landscapes that inspire us to dream.
In 2018, he won the renowned Hasselblad Masters Award in the landscape category.
Artists Elmgreen & Dragset’s share The Hive, a new and permanent installation affixed to the ceiling of Moynihan Train Hall in New York City’s Pennsylvania Station, the busiest transportation hub in North America. The work is based on “City In The Sky” installation on the view at Gallery Perrotin.
Both City In The Sky and The Hive — produced only one year apart — manifest an imaginary city in the form of a scaled model, installed upside-down. With technological precision, this cityscape captures the multiplicity and synergy of the world’s metropolises. It is a kaleidoscopic installation, consisting of a dense network of illuminated skyscrapers and modern tower buildings, both real and fictional.
Artist Manuel Benchico juxtaposes digital techniques with classic interpretation by using slit scan and glitched portraits recreated painstakingly with oil on canvas. We always believed the future of art is in adoption of the new tools for the sake of delivering new meanings.
“"Sculptor Tung Ming-Chin carves wood into figurative shapes that seem to press against the surface of the finished work. In “Inner Turmoil” a face and hands are trapped inside a hunk of wood that has the smooth, stretched appearance of fabric, and in “Breath”, the rounded spine and feet of a crouched figure expand outside the confines of a stiff white box. Tung was born in Changhua, Taiwan, and received both his BFA and MFA from Taipei National University of the Arts.”
Digital illustrator based in London Henry Wong creates very atmospheric works
The works of Cobi Moules reminds us the scenes from “Lord of Flies” book of William Golding but with a deeper self-exploration
This series of video artworks is a metaphysical trip to another reality between our vision and perception. In accordance with the postulates of postmodernism and legacy of Derrida, the artist plays with the language of color, providing the opportunity to rethink our links with the current world through kitsch and low fidelity. Macro video recording and experimental sounds in videos are 'entry points' to the new stage of postmodernism where a viewer can melt a metaphysical body and disappear to leave marks in the internal world.
The collection name is derived from the words "macro", "experiment" and "sound".
WARNING: These videos have been identified to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.
Azamat Akhmadbaev (b.1991, Karachayevsk) is a visual artist who lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He works across many disciplines including painting, photography, video and digital art. His artworks operates in the gap between glitch art, abstraction, minimalism and graphic art. Also he is a founder/editor-in-chief of dontpostme magazine - a magazine about contemporary art. Private collections in Russia, Spain, the USA, the UK and Poland.
DONTPOSTME (@dontpostme_magazine)
Since 2012, Azamat Akhmadbaev and Zulya Kumukova have published an online magazine, DONTPOSTME featuring interviews by outstanding contemporary artists. The latest interviews are featured on Instagram; interviewed artists include Anne Vieux, Michael Staniak, Matt Mignanelli, Gergo Szinyova, Lee Bul and Jenny Brosinski.
The Digital Decade SE 2020 collection is a selection of digital artworks curated by Designcollector Network. The collection and connected events, released in 2020, are the latest iteration of Digital Decade which has previously been presented as a series of Phygital Art events in London, Barcelona and Saint Petersburg, featuring more than 150 artists in total. Starting from 2013 artists have been invited to respond to the geopolitical, environmental, social changes taking place today in the digital age
Toronto based urban artist Ben Johnston is an artist focusing on custom typography for murals, installations and public art, helping bring to life numerous types of projects and consistently pushing the envelope in his field.
LA based motion graphic designer Jermaine Saunders shares his best digital artworks
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“Hendrik Kerstens did not train formally as an artist. however, he wished to devote himself to a more creative profession and in 1995, at the age of forty, he left the business world and took up photography. His wife Anna worked full time to support this change of direction. in a reversal of more traditional roles, Kerstens cared for their young daughter Paula, while also studying photography during the day. Having a child left a deep impression on Kerstens. Through photography, he explored the accompanying feelings of responsibility, vulnerability and love he felt towards his daughter, starting with documentary family snapshots.
As Paula physically and psychologically grew, Kerstens searched for an artistic manifestation of these changes, leading to his interpretations of the great dutch master painters of the 17th century with Paula as his muse”
