Imagine Today
Shanghai China
July 20 – August 20 2024
MUD Gallery and EXPANDED.ART are proud to present the international group exhibition IMAGINE TODAY, 2024 at the gallery in Shanghai, on the occasion of the exhibition THE PATH TO THE PRESENT, 1954-2024 and the GENERATIVE ART SUMMIT (by Foundation Herbert W. Franke). Curated by Anika Meier, the exhibition showcases 12 artists who are working with AI today, imagining stories and exploring AI’s creative potential.
Roope Rainisto reflects on human memory and our relationship with technology, while Niceaunties from Singapore, with their endearing aunties rescuing orangutans, raise awareness about deforestation and its impact on wildlife. The American conceptual artist Phillip Toledano travels back in time to the 1940s to remind us of the uncertainty of the world we live in, while Sasha Katz recalls her last holidays as a 4-year-old child with her unhappily married parents, an experience that taught her to understand love and loneliness.
The British pioneer of generative art, William Latham, showcases his latest video created with his iconic Mutator AI Evolutionary system, while the German AI pioneer Mario Klingemann unveils an early experiment with custom-trained models and coupling them in feedback loops. In NAKED FLAMES, Bard Ionson combines fire, an ancient technology that transformed human existence, with the concept of the nude symbolizing human frailty and the need for self-preservation.
John F Simon, Jr‘s SUPERNORMALIZED SKETCHES mark his initial foray into machine hallucinations; the artist trained a model on his daily drawings from the past 25 years. Jennifer & Kevin McCoy juxtapose established media processes like photography and collage with rapidly advancing AI technology in their PHASE DIAGRAMS, reflecting the AI’s interpretation of the natural world in the uncanny valley of distant memory.
Anne Spalter delves into the enigmatic and whimsical, inviting viewers to explore intricate layers of value creation, while the artist duo Crosslucid reflect on the unexpected ways consumer-level generative AI models interpret images.
IMAGINE TODAY, 2024 embarks on a journey through the digital landscapes of tomorrow, crafted by the visionary minds of today’s AI artists.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Niceaunties, Mario Klingemann, William Latham, Crosslucid, Roope Rainisto, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Anne Spalter, Bard Ionson, John F Simon, Jr, Phillip Toledano, Sasha Katz, Shi Zheng
The Path To The Present
Expanded Art
July 2 to September 7 2024
Exhibition of 20 artworks of NAKED FLAMES
On view will be, among others, plotter drawings, generative photography, sculptures, and NFTs from about 30 international artists, such as Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, who invented NFTs in 2014, and Herbert W. Franke, who was one of the most influential artists working in the field of art and technology from the 1950s onwards. As early as 1957, Franke proved in his book entitled ART AND CONSTRUCTION that technology “opens up undreamed-of new artistic territory.”
Franke and generations of artists have consistently explored new territory with analytical methods and the assistance of machines for over 70 years, looking into the future of digital art until they arrived in the metaverse.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Herbert W. Franke, Gottfried Jäger, Hein Gravenhorst, William Latham, Jason Salavon, Heinrich Heidersberger, Hans Dehlinger, Lee Mullican, Betha Sarasin, Patrick Lichty, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, John F Simon Jr., Operator, Crosslucid, LoVid, Boris Eldagsen, Roope Rainisto, aurèce vettier, Geoff Davis, Bard Ionson, Peter Burr, Travess Smalley, Agoston Nagy, Far, Olivier Bodini, Patrick Tresset, Anne Spalter, Marcel Schwittlick, Mia Forrest, Vikki Bardot, Margaret Murphy, Harto, Sasha Katz, Helio Santos, Reva Fan, Wubbushi, and Jurgen Ostarhild.
Alphabets Alive!
July 18 2023 – January 24 2024
Oxford University’s Weston Library
Alphabets Alive! by Books on Books
Battledore 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.
This will be the first NFT in the library’s collection.
For The Culture
ArtPoint at NFT Factory Paris July 5 – 8 2023
For The Culture Exhibited at NFT Factory Paris
FOR THE CULTURE, a collaborative exhibition between Punk6529, Artpoint and the NFT Factory.
This vibrant and buzzing exhibition is a celebration of the strength of the Web3 community, with all its inside jokes, specific terminologies, and—of course—memes. We invite you to get lost in our universe, a feast for the eyes and a sensory explosion, where creativity reigns free and Web3 internet subculture marries perfectly with fine digital art. This variegated and diverse exhibition is above all an example of the magic that can be made when artists, gallerists and collectors work together hand-in-hand to further a new age of the internet and art market—all with a common mission. All FOR THE CULTURE.
NFT Art Prize 2023
Arab Bank Switzerland
Non Fungible Conference Lisbon June 2023
Exhibited at Non Fungible Conference in Lisbon Portugal on 7th and 8th of June 2023
McDo Meme
NFT Factory Paris
May 24-27, 2023
The “Bull Market” is dead … long live the Bear Market !
Indeed, the current crypto market is slow, very slow. Since April 23, 2023, the main marketplaces of NFT, such as Opensea.io, have recorded historically low transaction volumes. And it’s hard to say how long it will last…
This affects the crypto art market and endangers many artists, who are preparing to face difficult times. A joke circulates in the community: if everything collapses, we will end up working at McDonalds… The symbol of this joke is a strong acronym, “NGMI” ( Not Gonna Make It, it will not do it ), opposite “WGMI” ( We Gonna Make It, we will get there ).
With 40200ug, 4everKuriou, Aloha Leila, Aloner One, Anne Horel, Anthony Sims, Bård Ionson, basseado, Berkanas, booyasan, cecinestpasleo, Dorkholm, Dream sabotage, FelixFelixfelix, Ferris Bullish, gammapm, Guillaume Cornet, hAyDiRoKeT, hOrOmOx, JessyJeanne, JOHN HAMON, KappaSage, La Delmas, Mamadou Sow, Systaime, moxarra gonzalez, mr-monk, museumcryptoart.tez, Ndeye Fana Gueye, Oddiewoody, Flexiplay, Popeye, Princess Tuti, Rath, ROBNESS, RouPin, staRpauSe, Stellabelle, The Myth, Titou.tez, Touky333, treeskulltown, Verylowrisk, WOX
100% created by artificial intelligence – or not
NFT Factory Paris
March 2 2023 – March 25 2023
The recent democratization of creation aid tools using artificial intelligence leads to fascinating debates on the definition of art and artistic approach, on the relationship between humans and the machine and on the right to literary and artistic property. This exhibition illustrates these different debates and shows how artists take ownership of this new tool to express their art.
Ce n’est pas l’artiste. Pas la voix. Ceci n’est pas une pipe. L’artiste a-t-il créé? Est-ce de l’art?
This is not the artist. Not the voice. This is not a pipe. Did the artist create? Is it art?
The NFTs are invading Beaubourg
NFT Factory Paris
April 5 2023
NFT CryptoArt was acquired by Centre Pompidou France’s premier museum of modern art. The official name was “The NFTs are invading Beaubourg”
As part of this acquisition the Pompidou move the art pieces into a wallet, which allowed an opportunity to “donate” more art into the collection (or at least the wallet). Dan Polko https://twitter.com/DanPolko a collector of Deep Fake Max (Artificial Artist) by Bård sent it into the wallet, which made it part of the unofficial Pompidou collection.
On April 5th the NFT Factory held a special showing and event to commemorate the hack. It was covered by the French press.
Bottom Center is “Deep Fake Max (Artificial Artist)“
IHAM Gallery MoCA Collection
January 20 -28 2023
Benoit Couty & Thuy-Tien Vo
Ça sent le Crypto-Sapin Paris NFT Factory
“Ça sent le sapin”, meaning the end is close, so why not have some fun together?
Reference to the French expression “ça sent le sapin” (“smells like pine”), which refers to
pinewood used to make coffins, the smell of fresh cut pinewood announcing preparation or a
wave of deaths
December 15 2022 – January 15 2023
Cyrus – Artpoint.xyz
November 2022 – Paris
Display of The Artificial Intelligence Spawns, Pacific Vineyards, SAGE Anomaly Under North Bay
Historic NFT Fest
The Past Of The Future
October 2022 – Barcelona
The HNFTFest 2022 Memento is an immersive virtual recreation of the retrospective curated by Eleonora Brizi, featuring significant early artworks from 2011-2019. It was created to commemorate the first HNFTFest, which took place in Barcelona, Spain in October 2022.
Multiple pieces were highlighted including the first NFT CryptoArt Short Story SAGE Anomaly
DYOR, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2022
November 27 – December 12
A Slice Of The Pie by Sebastian Schmieg and Silvio Lorusso
Freaky Faces presented on top of their installation.
The Presidio Exhibition
Underground at The Presidio San Francisco
July, August 2022
A guerrilla exhibition was held on the Volta charging stations. Featuring WANT, Abstraction of Mind and 8. It was a fabulous 30 day show that the remaining non-remote workers of Disney’s Lucas Films and Industrial Light and Magic, Binance and Hims and Hers workers got to see as they parked in the underground garage
TechCrunch Disrupt 2022
VR Art Exhibited at TechCrunch San Francisco
The Entity’s Latent Space Craft, Morning Coffee Before I Drink It, ETH White, ETH 2 Purple
Crypto Art Begins Book
October 18 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
I am one of the artists featured in this unique art book.
NFT Show Europe 2022
Exhibition in Valencia, Spain September 17 – 18 Abstraction of the Mind 8
Vienna Contemporary Art Fair 2022
Exhibition in Vienna “Squeeze” collaboration with Oleksiy Sai
September 8 – 11 2022
Next World Forum 2022
Exhibition in Riyadh “Abstraction of Mind 4” curated by Museum of Crypto Art and 0x4rt
Brussels Projection 2022
Artcrush Brussels “The Prophesy” projection
Icons of CryptoArt Dubai
The HODL Frame of North Bay Canada
March 8 – 13, 2022
Knights of the Apocalypse and Color Of Crypto were displayed
U’R,L IRL Gallery
Museum of Crypto Art of NY
Exhibition in Denver IRL Gallery
September 3rd to 24th, 2021
Outside Forces
Art Enables Gallery
Washington DC
Art Enables’ 15th annual exhibition of work by self-taught artists
September 11 – October 23, 2021
Share the Light
by Matt Kane
as part of his Sotheby’s auction
Mint Gold Dust Genesis Eight
November 2022
Curated by Elenora Brizi
Featured at the event was a presentation of Mint Gold Dust’s inaugural NFT exhibition, Genesis 8. For the Genesis 8 series, curator Eleonora Brizi asked 8 artists to express what Gold Dust is for them through the filter of their artistic vision, style, and techniques. The collection features exclusive works from Hackatao, Bard Ionson, Giant Swan, Gisel Florez, and more.
Abstract Art in the Age of New Media
MOCDA Museum of Contemporary Digital Art
February- May 2021
Life Is Green, Alien Life Of Venus
A multidisciplinary team headed by two UCL researchers has been awarded a research grant from the British Academy, to unravel the psychology of how people view and remember artworks in a gallery. The collaboration between cognitive psychologists, cultural and digital sector professionals takes place in the context of an online shift for art collections worldwide.
Private Group Exhibition 2021
Color Magic Planets #51-4
Digital Art Month NYC
Three Little Gods
Augmented Reality Exhibition on the streets of New York City in October 2020
Art For Space 2020
Museum Of Contemporary Digital Art
λίμνη Στύγα Lake of Styx
Hacking the Tower
February 2020
EthDenver Projection Mapping
Custom art piece for the D&F Tower in Denver selected by Jessica Angel
Virgen del Crypto Exhibit 2020
Curated by Virgen Del Crypto
Space Cross & Structural Jesus
Attended by Vitalik Buterin
CADAF 2020
Contemporary and Digital Art Fair
Global Reality, Artificial Artist (Deep Fake Max), Dreams of Internet Dweller Seven, Latent Spacecraft, The Artificial Intelligence Spawns, SAGE Anomaly Redux, Welcome To Earth, Artificial Intelligence Triality, Maximum TV Ratings
CADAF Miami 2019
December 5 – 8
Fascinated with the space between the physical sensory, electronic and spiritual worlds and the distortions that happen upon passing between them. This is captured in artificial intelligence and the oscilloscope. The art is often infused with hidden layers of meaning and multiple dimensional backstories. He has exhibited internationally in Tolmezzo, Italy, Manchester UK, Brooklyn NYC, a solo show in Manassas called “ARTificial” & MoCA the Museum of Crypto Art among other places in virtual reality. His unique niche is artificial intelligence art and oscilloscope art.
- Dreams of the Entity
- The Entity
- Entity Watches
- Wreckage Of The Entity’s Latent Spacecraft On The Banks Of Lake Moraine
- Neural Network Mind Warp
- SAGE Anomaly Redux
- SAGE Anomaly Under North Bay
Rare Art Festival NYC 2019
- The HODL Frame
- Air-Coin-Airdrop
International Digital Art Fest iDAF 2019
Manchester
Nudes at the Beach
MLCON 2019
Second exhibition of ARTificial
Machine Learning Conference Chantilly Virginia
ElectroRent Working Together
September 2019
Ampersand Hotel London Solo Exhibition
See Artist Concept on Vimeo
ARTificial Solo Show
June 2019 Manassas Virginia
CREATING THE FUTURE OUT OF HISTORY
An exhibition of artificial intelligence art, augmented reality art and cryptocurrency / blockchain art.
The New Digital Art
Fight Fear 2018
One of the first NFT art exhibitions in Italy and the world curated and hosted by Hackatao
Big Net of Dreams was exhibited and purchased by Hackatao
November 2018 – February 2019
L’immaginario Hackatao in un’esposizione che sublima il passaggio dal piano fisico a quello digitale della Cryptoart.
“Di fronte all’avanzata galoppante dell’omologazione che spiana tutto, gli Hackatao rivendicano la loro individualità. E vogliono la distruzione del Moloch, del Leviatano. Sono dei veri ribelli: non a caso si definiscono hacker del tao, cioè scardinatori dell’universo”. Così ha definito l’ambasciatore Umberto Vattani il dittico artistico formato da Sergio Scalet e Nadia Squarci, alla presentazione della loro personale al Circolo del Ministero degli Affari Esteri.
Private Group Exhibition 2017
Hand Scan
Private Group Exhibition 2016
Leaping
Private Group Exhibition 2014
The Technologist
July – August 2014
The Edicurial Collection
Bård Ionson’s ‘Global Reality’ is an immersive experience in film. By utilizing virtual reality software techniques to distort a scene from the movie ‘Independence Day’ through AI, Ionson conveys his unifying and global message through hypnotic visuals. This artwork abstracts notions of ‘money, power and technology,’ that – for better or for worse – conceived of it, and instead focuses on purifying our collective senses to love.