Bård Ionson Studio

Digital Art Prize 2025

Arab Bank Switzerland June 4-5 | Lisbon

Digital Art Prize

Ten art pieces were selected for the ABS Digital Art Prize and one of them was Vanishing Of The Genuine: Bone Flag. An exploration of reality and a culture moving into a simulated world. What is real, what is death and what is life?

Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe, Jean Baudrillard and Jasper Johns we see bones in the sky as Ai simulated fragments of film photography. The surreal world of living in a simulation has now arrived as envisioned by the photographer and art photographer Jeaan Baudrillard. Our world and national identity is changing and becoming part of a new reality.

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California

REIMAGINE TOMORROW 17–24 NOVEMBER 2024 | AI BIENNALE, ESSEN

Hosted by Expanded Art

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

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.