Lucas Gutierrez is an Argentinean industrial designer and digital artist who has experimented in a variety of mediums, such as audiovisual performances, and video art projects that explore the new paradigms in digital culture. He is deeply immersed in the remix culture, mixing influences from various contexts, such as post-work anthropology and abstract quotes from …
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Italian artist Davide Quayola, based in London, creates animated hybrid spaces using painting, sculpture, and architecture. His on-location work includes Vatican, Notre Dame in Paris and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille, Europe’s most renowned art institutions and churches. For his collaboration with the artist Memo Akten on the piece Forms, he received the …
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Pierre Huyghe was born in Paris in 1962 and currently resides and works in New York, USA. He earned his degree from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1985 and is recognized in the 1990s for developing the “post-production” approach, which entails recreating artistic forms from previously made movies and images from the media. Over the …
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American painter and digital art pioneer Lee Mullican (1919 – 1998) was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma. He joined the army after earning his degree from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1942 and worked as a topographical draughtsman for four years before relocating to San Francisco in 1946. After being awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship …
Zoë Mc Pherson is a Berlin based multimedia artist, performer, researcher and a curator. Mc Pherson incorporates elements of performance, sound design, installation art and DJing. They curate Founder of SFX hybrid label, they curate it together with longtime partner Alessandra Leone. SFX organizes and curates online and AFK projects and events, as well as …
Olaf Bender, a 1968-born artist, found some 16mm film equipment by accident while in school, which led to the start of his artistic output. He then began experimenting with both the medium of “film” and the component “film” as of that point. Due to technical restrictions, he had to use unconventional techniques. He immediately scratched …
Kachi Chan is an interdisciplinary artist and creative technologist that is interested in using computational animation, digital reality technology, and robotics as lenses to broaden the idea of moving images and analyze the relationships between physical and virtual realities. His pieces have been displayed internationally at venues like Ars Electronica (in Austria and London), Art …
Urvakan is back. It will take place on September 23–25 in Dilijan, Armenia. The festival is a music and art event that draws its inspiration from Armenia’s countless abandoned structures and locations. The inaugural Urvakan Festival in 2019 marked the birth of a new cultural hub on the world map. Through a range of open …
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Jodi is >>> Joan Heemskerk (born 1968 in Kaatsheuvel, the Netherlands) and Dirk Paesmans (born 1965 in Brussels, Belgium). The artist duo of internet art (netart) pioneers was created in 1994. They were some of the first net artists to create Web art and later started to create software art and artistic computer game modifications …
Introduction Synthetic media is an interconnected field of AI-generative media. This rapidly growing field is directly connected to generative adversarial networks. It is a modification of data by automated means. And even though it is mostly associated with the latest more popular implementations such as deepfakes it has a much wider spectrum including text to …