dynamic digital artwork traverses the bodily realm in venus over manhattan’s newest exhibition

Past Digital at Venus Over Manhattan

From February 10 to March 14, 2023, New York-based gallery Venus Over Manhattan presents ‘Past Digital,’ an interdisciplinary artwork assortment based by blockchain investor and founding father of NFT-focused cultural establishment Aorist, Pablo Rodríguez-Fraile, and architect and designer Desiree Casoni.

Rodríguez-Fraile and Casoni have spent over a decade constructing an in depth assortment of digital artworks that discover new applied sciences, whereas this ongoing help of digital artists has established them as pioneers and ambassadors within the area. Past Digital brings collectively pioneering artists whose work explores the chances of bridging the digital and bodily worlds. The exhibition options Refik Anadol, Daniel Arsham, Beeple, Dmitri Cherniak, Kjetil Golid, Pak, Trevor Jones, Quayola, Andrés Reisinger, Helena Sarin, Slime Sunday, Hideki Tsukamoto, Vini Naso, XCOPY.

Refik Anadol, Machine Hallucinations – Mars – Collector’s Version, 2021, Token (dynamic) | all pictures courtesy of Venus Over Manhattan (header: Video Nonetheless from Daniel Arsham, Eroding and Reforming Bust of Rome (One 12 months), 2021)

digital artwork that traverses the bodily realm 

Works in Past Digital embody static and dynamic NFTs displayed on screens, framed prints, and bodily objects. The exhibition at Venus Over Manhattan (discover extra right here) encourages guests to consider digital artwork much less as know-how and extra as a medium with the potential for dynamic expression that opens up new prospects for traversing the bodily realm.

Andrés Reisinger’s Hortensia chair, initially created as a digital rendering and later reworked right into a bodily object after the picture sparked a viral response on social media, is an instance of the usage of digital artwork in a number of dimensions. ​In the meantime, Refik Anadol’s skillful use of algorithms and exploration of machine intelligence create highly effective illusionary hallucinations that increase and alter our notion of the bodily world by data-driven aesthetics.

Beeple, Abundance, 2021, Token (dynamic) and display

Different featured artists illustrate how digital mediation can allow a brand new degree of depth and dynamism that analog manufacturing doesn’t, reminiscent of regulating the temporality of a piece. Daniel Arsham’s Eroding and Reforming Venus of Arles (72.6 Years), which evolves every year and consists of a complete of 73 states, has the identical period as the common human lifespan, pointing to the longevity of the artwork kind. As a part of his Everydays collection, Beeples creates a digital picture day-after-day to mark the passage of time and alter the normal time scales of inventive manufacturing.

‘Past Digital explores the resonances and dissonances obvious throughout the hybridization of artwork and know-how, embracing the brand new varieties that emerge by such slippages.’ the exhibition description at Venus Over Manhattan’s official web site explains. ‘Fairly than suggesting a transcendence or subsuming of the bodily by the digital, these artists make use of an interaction between the 2.’

Slimesunday x 3LAU, FRGS, 2018, Token

Video Nonetheless from Daniel Arsham, Eroding and Reforming Bust of Rome (One 12 months), 2021

XCOPY, Async (4 levels) – Rabble 4, 2020, Token