SPRING/SUMMER 2024
Paper Sacrament, Nuwan Shilpa, 2023
Signals Curation
By Sophia Layton
Curator and G3N3RATION founder, Sophia Layton, delves into artworks with visible waves and signs. Interpreting digital art through our material and immaterial realities, this selection of works is meant to enhance your view of everyday moments.
Explore works from actual ocean installations to digital tide pools in this random yet harmonious selection. View Curation.
Cesare Morisco, Contempt, 2024
G3n exchanged some words with Morisco to learn about the artist’s relationship with his recent work and the world around him. Morisco’s luminous and metallic renderings of the human form create a metaphysical reminder of our elemental fantasma. Morisco says his works often depict “what [he is] personally experiencing or feeling at that time.”
“Picturing the soul” is how G3n would put it.
Written by Amnesia Studios. January 10, 2024
We have a theory that social platforms operate like a parasite. In the same way a parasite can send signals to our brains to crave specific things like pork, sugar, and fat, the daily pulses of social platforms send signals to our brains to buy this, eat that, like this, and hate that, etc… Keep Reading
Guillaume Sauzey, Internet 3, 2024
Lisa Odette, Before Dawn, 2023
The lone traveler is a powerful trope. For artists, writers, and directors alike, the lone traveler reveals the mind as a canvas.
Increasingly, our digital world is isolating us more and more. Despite the seemingly infinite connections available on the internet, we are always traveling alone. Increasingly, our identities merge with our digital twin.
Are our personalities being hijacked?
How might we react as a lone traveler, in the desert, with no phone? Take it all away, what matters?
The following series of artworks offer a gateway to realms where we can be alone with ourselves and a sense of hope.
December 2023
Watch the trailer for Amnesia Studios’ BRAINWASHED #2: A Luddite’s Tale. Amnesia Studios produced a short story about a girl who chooses to leave the digital world behind and destroy the mind virus. Televisions were the first black boxes that enslaved us to daily addiction to screen-based entertainment. Watch as an act of catharsis.
November 7, 2023 by Rutger van der Tas
Netherlands-based artist, Rutger van der Tas is releasing a new collection of NFTs this week on Tuesday, November 7. Known for timeless and boundless depictions, van der Tas is always changing things up.
This latest release, Absolution, will include 333 editions.
“Absolution” is a commentary on the current state of the (crypto)art and the influence of meme coins on the market. It explores themes of speculation, greed, the search for beauty, and personal growth within the context of a rapidly changing world.
It’s built up from two scenarios:
In scenario A, “Absolution” delves into the impact of meme coins siphoning liquidity away from the art market. It questions whether the pursuit of quick profits and speculative investments is overshadowing the true essence of art and its role in human growth and expression. This scenario reflects the tension between financial interests and artistic integrity and value.
The rise in the price of $PEPE will determine if a layer stays or gets eaten. The contract is set up in such a way that every time $PEPE reaches a certain price, a
layer will be removed from the output until there are only two layers left active in the output. This narrows the variety drastically and makes the animations more similar-looking. Where we start with 333 editions, all rendering 1/1 animation, we slowly die down into a calmer state with less variety. $PEPE will eat layers until it hits 0.01 cent.
In scenario B, We see the inevitable return of art. It suggests that despite the current focus on financial gains and market trends, art has a timeless and enduring quality that will ultimately prevail. This concept emphasizes the importance of art as a means of reflection, expression, and societal change.
There are two pivotal moments where scenario B comes into play:
1: when a data source breaks down and the smart contract is unable to pull the requested data.
2: at Pizza Day, 22 May 2026
The artwork’s names for the layers and states symbolize the multifaceted nature of the issues at hand. They represent different aspects of my identity and experiences, such as my role as a man, a parent, and an active participant in the crypto (art) world. These layers offer a rich tapestry of perspectives and narratives, inviting viewers to interpret the artwork in their own unique ways.
Mint the Collection HERE.
October 4, 2023
Written By Sophia Layton | October 4, 2023
Paris-based designer, Nik Gundersen signals the reality that AI and New Media producers will dominate the creative industry by 2030. With digital goods and ‘crypto’ currencies having increasing consequence in our lives and the revolutionary AI shift that’s sweeping Hollywood, many are disgruntled. Everyday, it seems we are getting closer to an Orwellian nightmare, but there’s hope in these technology and art shifts.
Gundersen’s singular creations are a symbol for designers and artists to peacefully conquer the commercial mind-space. Long-dominated by propaganda for contaminated products and wicked companies, ad space takes up 30% of our feeds. Does it take up 30% of our brains? How can New Media producers take better care of this mind-space? Build a beautiful and sustainable world from the inside out…. Keep Reading
Award-winning sci-fi animator and artist, OrenCloud, presents us “secret bioluminescent goth” visions. The human form, otherworldy aesthetics, and maximalist tech vs maximalist nature scenes are common place in the 3D art world. However, OrenCloud’s approach stands out with a discernible aura.
Beginning with charcoal sketches and moving into meticulous craftsmanship in Blender, you can almost feel the tactility of the rock smudging the paper. Intricacies reveal themselves the longer you look at the exquisite render in its final form.
The nodes connecting out of the subject’s cranium below recalls current advances in technology & medicine. Imagery such as this is a playground for us to consider our fate.
If you have a few minutes, visit OrenCloud’s website and enjoy their award-winning short films: orencloud.art
NOCELLCOVERAGE immortalizes the natural world with digitization techniques. Resulting in astral animations of various insects and creatures—nostalgic curiosities!
The latest series featuring a swarm of Luna Moths born from AI prompts and hand stitched into a lyrical stop-motion animation somehow achieves a liveliness despite its digital origins.
NOCELLCOVERAGE is achieving consistent NFT sales on Foundation. There is still hope for the NFT community. Browse NOCELLCOVERAGE’s minted work and consider buying some digital art today.
Telling the origin story of main character Steve The Ghost aka Steve Jobs aka the world’s first iGhost, The Churn inadvertently ALSO documented the shift between Twitter and X. When Ax meets Steve in the 2010s Mac he bought on craigslist, he tries to introduce him to Sopht Drink but she doesn’t see him. Revealing only Ax can see him. Now the real question is, was it really the aliens who invented the iPhone? And how did Steve get resurrected? More on the next edition of The Churn… Miami’s only tech comic.
JULY 4, 2023
Written By Sophia Layton | July 4, 2023
Alek Naim, founder of I LOVE UKNY is taking globalism literally. In a time when global politics are becoming increasingly volatile, Naim aims to bridge cultures on the basis of artistic practices and creative expression. Abandoning typical political narratives of our hollow democracy, Naim is direct about his multi-national and multi-industry vision as an artist, designer, and entrepreneur, plainly stating, “True globalization is the future of art.” Read More
Hilke Muslim’s AI Creations
This pro stylist, Hilke Muslim has launched a series of exquisite editorial pieces on Instagram.
The current crisis in the creators’ economy is laid bare in the comments of Hilke’s page.
Many dismiss the artworks as ‘not real’ and a threat to the creators’ economy. Some ask Hilke to credit the artists that were ‘used in the AI.’
Others fawn over the imagination and intricacy, some asking for the links to where they can buy the clothes or who the designer is.
We ask you, what do you make of this? Can we look and enjoy for enjoyment’s sake? What are the parameters of art?
Artwork by Hilke Muslim
Mexico City based artist, Fixultra just released a new series reflecting on the current AI craze. He warns ‘If a sentient machine blended into a human body as a means to colonize it, this would be referred to as assimilation.” Fixultra often presciently comments on the twisted relationship between humans and technology, the potential for commonplace bioengineering, and the socio-genetic future.
Bio-technology-focused artwork and the discussion of sentience may compel us to consider what truly makes us human or why we create art and technology in the first place.
Giuseppe Lo Schiavo just released the largest CGI artwork to-date. Clocking in at a whopping 126 computer nodes to produce, the masterpiece Nike catipults us through history. Personifying victory in any field, art, music, war, and now technology, the goddess Nike is a triumphant symbol for the digital art community.
In this artwork, Lo Schiavo recasts a virtual Winged Victory of Samothrace endorned in lichens, moulds, and fungi. Lo Schiavo has a total resolution of 19 billion pixels. Lo Schiavo is a multi-disciplinary artist from Italy. A master digital artist, incredible thought leader, and cinematic spirit, Lo Schiavo is driven to harmonize avant-garde technologies and ancient art.
Thais Varela
