Bård Ionson Studio
Exploring the Distortions Between Realities
This is an OG crypto artist after all, one who first minted on the Blockchain in 2018, and so in his oeuvre is an impressive catalogue of cultural touchstones. With a singular algorithmic style —one which favors cohesion of color over cohesion of form, in which edges blend. Objects meld together, but subjects always remain strangely recognizable— Ionson has crafted both political artwork and the crypto-specific. He’s explored color, shape, organics, and more hard-boiled abstractions, all while including a cavalcade of recognizable symbols and signifiers of the moment.
Max Cohen
California
REIMAGINE TOMORROW 17–24 NOVEMBER 2024 | AI BIENNALE, ESSEN
EXPANDED.ART presents the international group exhibition REIMAGINE TOMORROW, 1954–2024: AI IN CONTEXT #2 at Heilig Geist, a former church near the Zeche Zollverein, as part of the AI Biennale in Essen. The exhibition is curated by Anika Meier. She has invited more than 50 international artists, along with platforms and galleries from LA to Paris to Shanghai, to reflect on the near future, in which humans and machines will come closer together.
Summer 2022 – We travel from LA, Anaheim, Santa Monica, Bakersfield, Monterey Bay, Watsonville, Santa Cruz, Point Reyes, Guerneville, Mountain View and San Francisco taking pictures all along the way. A family trip gathering the vision and vibes of California. The roads, deserts, fields of artichokes, strawberries, chickpeas and vineyards of grapes, the ocean, wild life and the trees, o the trees. The great redwoods. Over 2,000 images feed the model. The abundance of open space and nature has eliminated human made objects and people from the model despite the abundance of vehicles photographed. Photography by Bard, Jennifer and Liza Grace. Model constructed with StyleGAN2. Output has been selected and manipulated by the artist. Read about the California collection.
Find it online at MakersPlace
NAKED FLAMES
The Path To The Present 1954 – 2024 Berlin
July 2 – August 10 2024
“The nude fire. Grasping at identity is like a flicker of fire. The flame goes out when held too tightly. The desire to know brings more uncertainty. In the age of artificial intelligence, we are learning to live with the anxiety of our naked uncertainty. Our nakedness meets the flame. We still seek to know the next event, whether by fire or the casting of bones, or now by algorithms and models trained on all of human knowledge. The textures evoke the color and form of paintings from a distance and merge the human form with fire. A closer inspection shows the fingerprint of the AI algorithms can be seen in the matrix-like patterns.”
Find it online at Expanded.art
Painting With Fire: A History in GANs
December 20 2023
Art Added to Oxford Library Alphabets Alive!
July 18 2023 – January 24 2024
Featured Artwork
Nudes At The Beach 2019
Bright Land 2018
Close Our Eyes 2021
SAGE Anomaly #76 – Series on Async Art with Sci-Fi backstory SageAnomaly.com
Molten Cryptocurrency 2019
Face Right 2023
Solitude Is Different From Loneliness 2019
Hieroglyphics Of The Future 2018
Apollyon 2021
NFT Art Prize 2023 Short List
Sponsored by Arab Bank Switzerland NFT Art Prize
Future Is Where East And West Touch
One of ten finalists. The exhibition of all ten will take place in Lisbon, during the Non Fungible Conference and prize ceremony, on the 7th and 8th of June 2023.
Time and technology changes the minds of humans. We can evolve and come together. There is a new reality that becomes possible that was once impossible if we let it. The space and time of the past are brought near to each other. When we touch we create the future.
This is artificial intelligence art composed from the ideas and words of the artist which an Ai model generated two images and then the artist edited it.
WE ARE ANARCHY ON CHAIN
New drop now. Blockchain art on Ethereum and Bitcoin. Generated from a smart contract and stored on chain forever
Read about it in We Are Anarchy On Chain(s)
- On Sansa
- Mint on Mint Dot Fun
- Mint the Bitcoin version
Proudly in the Collections of
Permanent Museum Collections
Collectors
| Benoit Couty | Anne Spalter | TokenAngels | BatSoupYum | Bryan Brinkman |. EZinCrypto | La Virgen del Crypto | Elsie Edicurial | Coldie | Colborn Bell | VK_Crypto | Momus Collection | The Art Whale | Jonathan Perkins | sebdcl | Roses | HEX0x6C – Massimo Franceschet | Fanny Lakoubay | Eleonora Brizi Breezy Art | EuroCollector | Gisel Florez | Luo Han | Hacktao – Sergio Scalet & Nadia Squarci | BoyPreviousDoor | Shortcut – Jörn Bielewski | YoungStax | Brett Shear | Stanford CS | Thoreau Centre for the Blockchain Arts | Brandi Kyle | Kinchasa | Ezincrypto | Stefan Stignei | Brandon “Fuzzy” Schwartz | Vasilis | JudithESSS | Mattia Cuttini | Matt Kane | Chris Nunes | Mr. Monk | Jason Bailey | Chris Nunes | Pindar Van Arman | Jake Johns | VincentVanDough | Billy Whistler. | Zaphodok
About the Artist
Creating art since 2012 Bård entered the NFT space in 2018 with SuperRare. Bård Ionson is an artist who is exposing the distortions between realities that exist between realities. By combining technique and forces of the world he captures the temporary spaces between the physical, electronic, digital and spiritual worlds. These strange visions come from an uncommon combination of tools and techniques such as artificial intelligence, GANs, VCRs, CRTs, oscilloscopes, lasers, scanners, photography, smart contracts, blockchains and sound. He has exhibited art in Valencia, Vienna, Brussels, Paris, Denver, Washington DC, Virgin Islands, Dubai, Riyad, San Francisco, London, Miami, Italy, Manchester and Mansassas. His collectors have been able to enjoy his art online at SuperRare, Art Blocks and AsyncArt.
Crypto Art Begins
NFT Book Drop September 19 2022
For the first time, a prestigious publishing project enters the world of WEB3, with ONE OF THE BIGGEST DROP EVER on NIFTY GATEWAY, featuring 50 among the best Crypto Artists
Bård Ionson
11151 Valley View Dr #525 Bristow, VA 20136