Bård Ionson Studio

NAKED FLAMES

The Path To The Present 1954 – 2024 Berlin

July 2 – August 10 2024

Hosted by Expanded Art

“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

Curated On Sovrn Art

An odyssey of the GAN. Bård explores the nature of AI and GAN in the metaphor of fire. Read more on the site.

Art Added to Oxford Library Alphabets Alive!

July 18 2023 – January 24 2024

Oxford University’s Weston Library

Alphabets Alive! by Books on Books

Battledore (2019) will be displayed and donated into the library’s collection at the end of the exhibition. Read a full synopsis of the work by curator Robert Bolick. Use Artivive to view the augmented reality layer.

This will be the first NFT in the library’s collection. The NFT can be found on Codex Protocol

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.