At first glance
Paris - Musée des Art Décoratifs, Louvre compound
“Proof of Talk” took over the ground floor of the Paris’ Musée des Art Décoratifs with a program dedicated to featuring brilliant voices in the Web3.0 ecosystem and promoting significant exchange amongst them and the audience. The program included an exhibition, At first glance - À premièrevue, featuring the work of twelve of the most accomplished artists working with the digital medium.
Each artwork exhibited in the stunning venue in the heart of Paris was either deeply conceptual, tackling topics such as gender, equality, and speculation, or remarkably innovative tech-wise. The twelve artists featured in this show made a profound statements through their work and used the blockchain and the new technologies in such an inventive way that they are amongst the first ones in their medium to do so. Digital art encompasses a wide range of mediums and formats, including virtual and augmented reality, Artificial Intelligence, generative art, programmable art, recombinant art, and more. Most of the latter were showcased in At first glance - À première vue, thus challenging the attention span of the viewer, who is stimulated to understand the processes that concur in the creation of the artworks.
Artworks
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Monochrome Dream no. 4
Artist: Sasha Katz
This piece is part of the 'Monochrome Dreams' series. The story is told from the perspective of female octopus who is love with a pearl diver.
Sasha Katz explores female sensuality and the perfection of the imperfection of the female body. Questioning and redefining beauty standards by celebrating the diverse and the unconventional, she portrays a delicate tenderness alongside a physical fragility which become tools to express her endless love for women.
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Take Over - Dubai#7
Artist: Andrés Reisinger
Andrés Reisinger presents “Take Over”, a new thought-provoking digital art installation series that challenges the notion of “reality” converging the physical and digital realms. “Take Over” serves as an experiment to exemplify how technology can be engaged by art to bring people together and build a sense of community. The project, taking place simultaneously in several international capitals, transcends geographical boundaries and invites the world to participate in a shared digital experience.
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Pollen
Artist: Andrés Reisinger
Pollen is a very rare living work of art. Collectors may keep it or use it. Pollen will evolve Hortensia through a process called Pollination.
Andrés Reisinger’s interplay of light, form, and materiality invites contemplation and encourages a deeper connection with our surroundings. Drawing inspiration from nature, dreams, and the surreal, Reisinger creates ethereal interior and exterior environments that transport viewers to otherworldly realms.
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Tesla <3
Artist: Addie Wagenknecht
tesla lovin.
Addie Wagenknecht’s practice blends conceptual art with forms of hacking and gestural abstraction. Through her works, Wagenknecht sparks conversations about technology’s impact on identity, privacy, and power structures as well as the role and presence of women in this ecosystem.
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The Mystery v5-dv2 (chroma screen) - Loop 1
Artist: Auriea Harvey
THE MYSTERY is an excerpt from an interactive artwork that provides infinite views of the digital sculpture THE MYSTERY v5-dv2 (CHROMA SCREEN). The intense chromatic palette and endless rotation is unsettling, and amongst it all a face and skull can be seen as the work shifts between figuration and abstraction, depending on the view.
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Minoriea Bust v1-dv2 (SCAN HERE)
Artist: Auriea Harvey
“This is a Digital Sculpture of the character of a Minotauress made in 2021. This sculpture is visible and interactive on desktop and mobile. It can be accessed via web browser and on mobile devices it can be projected into your space with Augmented Reality. At first, The Minoriea was a fully animated character living in an abyss at the center of the labyrinth in a VR work titled “Minorinth”, which I made in 2017. From that time came the desire to take her out of the virtual world and make a bust of her. This became the physical sculpture titled “Minoriea”. This digital work is made from the same source files as that sculpture. And because of the materiality began with that piece, both digitally and physically, much of my work from the period of 2017-2021 looks the way it does.” – Harvey
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AB INFINITE 1
Artist: Andrea Bonaceto
AB Infinite 1 is Andrea Bonaceto’s magnum opus. Displayed in Times Square, New York and more recently at W1 Curates on London’s Oxford Street, this digital interactive tapestry represents a pioneering collaboration between artist and viewer. Bonaceto offers a snapshot of his life and the cycle of culture, giving form to the journey ‘ab infinite’ (‘from infinity’ in Latin, and a pun on his initials) to its origin—symbolised by the number 1. By way of a specially designed artificial intelligence mechanism, viewers of the work have been able to contribute to its appearance, using the hashtag #abinfinite1 on Instagram and Twitter. Images uploaded under the hashtag are translated with Bonaceto’s bespoke AI technology, thereafter incorporated within the work’s distinct visual vocabulary. Through the same process, any text posted under the hashtag becomes part of an evolving poem displayed within the work.
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The Architect: Satoshi Nakamoto
Artist: Trevor Jones
Trevor: <<'The Architect - Satoshi Nakamoto' is my most iconic crypto inspired artwork to date, created in the summer of 2018. It quite literally put me on the cryptocurrency map with an exclamation mark, so to speak.>>
Trevor Jones has been working at the intersection of art and technology and experimenting with QR code oil paintings and AR for over a decade. Investing in Bitcoin in 2017 inspired a new creative direction with the development of crypto themed AR paintings, which in turn soon led him to the fast paced and exciting world of NFTs. Over the last few years, the themes informing his art and practice have become more and more intertwined with his interest in tech and modern communication.
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There are no girls on the internet, Sunday
Artist: Addie Wagenknecht
Addie: <<In 2020, I explored the concept of this lack of prevalence of women on the internet. I spent 5 days online in video chat rooms (i.e. chatroulette etc). Using a scientific approach with a control and variables. The variable is the medium of video in which the fact is expressed, and the control is I am a women/girl. The result of this 5 days of being in chat rooms from 8-5pm was the same conclusion: I am a girl, but girls do not exist on the internet.>>
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Bitchoin #06.102
Artist: Sarah Meyohas
This Bitchcoin is backed by Petal #06.102
Sarah Meyohas is a conceptual artist whose practice considers the nature and capabilities of emerging technologies in contemporary society. Using the familiar emblems of biological life, Meyohas investigates the complex operations that increasingly govern our world. Her Bitchcoin, a cryptocurrency backed by physical artworks, questions the speculative value of cryptocurrency and the ineffable value of art.
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Biotic Master
Artist: Skygolpe
Skygolpe’s brilliantly merges vibrant colors, vivid textures, the physical and the digital. His signature portrait-like multilayered silhouettes have gained vast recognition in the digital ecosystem and, more recently, in in the physical realm too. His works defy our perception of reality, forging novel pathways for interpreting, utilizing, and contemplating art through the lens of blockchain technology.
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Diagram
Artist: Rafaël Rozendaal
Rafaël Rozendaal’s artworks redefine the boundaries of art in the digital age. His web-based pieces engage viewers in a dynamic exploration of color, movement, and interactivity. By challenging the traditional notions of art as a static object, Rozendaal invites audiences to actively participate in the variation and interpretation of his works.
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“Bitchcoin Manifesto”
Artist: Sarah Meyohas
Vanguard conceptual artist Sarah Meyohas has issued a feminist Manifesto on her historic Bitchcoin project, which can be minted as an NFT. Providing critical background detail, the Manifesto establishes Bitchcoin as one of the earliest forays into blockchain-based art and forecasts its future manifestations.
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Enter The Workcore
Artist: Benoit Challand
Enter The Workcore is a meeting between the raw and tangy. This series is a poetic and falsely asepticised universe. Architectures and furniture are showcased in endless loops where the furniture comes to life almost on a catwalk.
Benoit Benoit is a pioneer artist who creates parallel universes. Behind his works lies a clear and purposeful desire to break free from the physical constraints and rules of manufacturing, to follow a path leading towards architectural design befitting of a dreamworld. In parallel, he brings his expertise as creative director of Magnane 3D design studio, through worldwide collaborations with leading brands and luxury designers.
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“The Bitcoin Bull - Bronze #24/25”
Artist: Trevor Jones
Trevor Jones has been working at the intersection of art and technology and experimenting with QR code oil paintings and AR for over a decade. Investing in Bitcoin in 2017 inspired a new creative direction with the development of crypto themed AR paintings, which in turn soon led him to the fast paced and exciting world of NFTs. Over the last few years, the themes informing his art and practice have become more and more intertwined with his interest in tech and modern communication.
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Tempus Fugit
Artist: Andrea Bonaceto
Pushing the boundaries of the conventional, the artwork dissolves into a new form – a metaverse statue, compatible with Somnium Space. Envision a 3D VR avatar that morphs from a pattern-engraved greystone statue to a living work of art, embodying the original artwork's essence. The collector of this piece will experience the fusion of 2D artwork and 3D metaverse avatar. It's a testament to the belief that art makes sense only when we transcend it. We, in our authentic selves, are the truest form of art.
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Dancing Chairs
Artist: Benoit Challand
Dancing Chairs is part of the Welcome Home Collection composed of 5 films that express the artist’s feelings about color, simplicity, comfort and discipline.
Benoit Benoit is a pioneer artist who creates parallel universes. Behind his works lies a clear and purposeful desire to break free from the physical constraints and rules of manufacturing, to follow a path leading towards architectural design befitting of a dreamworld. In parallel, he brings his expertise as creative director of Magnane 3D design studio, through worldwide collaborations with leading brands and luxury designers.
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Source Edges
Artist: Skygolpe
Skygolpe’s brilliantly merges vibrant colors, vivid textures, the physical and the digital. His signature portrait-like multilayered silhouettes have gained vast recognition in the digital ecosystem and, more recently, in in the physical realm too. His works defy our perception of reality, forging novel pathways for interpreting, utilizing, and contemplating art through the lens of blockchain technology.
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To Do
Artist: Rafaël Rozendaal
Rafaël Rozendaal’s artworks redefine the boundaries of art in the digital age. His web-based pieces engage viewers in a dynamic exploration of color, movement, and interactivity. By challenging the traditional notions of art as a static object, Rozendaal invites audiences to actively participate in the variation and interpretation of his works.
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Sweet Delight
Artist: Sasha Katz
‘Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night’
Inspired by dreamlike, incantatory lines 123-124 from William Blake’s ‘Auguries of Innocence’, this work by Sasha Katz further explores the symbolism of the poem by putting its two heroines in the aforementioned state of ‘sweet delight’ — as opposed to the ‘endless night’ of misery and suffering.
Our world and our lives, Blake says, are defined by these two forever shifting states, and the process never ends — unless you find a way to break out of it. For Sasha, the way to get out of this circle of altering moods is that of loving another unconditionally.
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Polymorphism 14
Artist: Sofia Crespo
The artist explores how the seahorse and the butterfly, like all other life, are in constant mutation and transmutation. Sofia Crespo, in fact, is known for using AI techniques to probe the creative, recombinant potential of organic life.
Sofia Crespo works in biology-inspired technologies. One of her main focuses is the way organic life uses artificial mechanisms to simulate itself and evolve. Crespo looks at the similarities between techniques of AI image formation, and the way that humans express themselves creatively and cognitively recognize their world. Her work brings into question the potential of AI in artistic practice and its ability to reshape our understandings of creativity.
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Transmutation of species
Artist: Sofia Crespo
The artist explores how the seahorse and the butterfly, like all other life, are in constant mutation and transmutation. Sofia Crespo, in fact, is known for using AI techniques to probe the creative, recombinant potential of organic life.
Sofia Crespo works in biology-inspired technologies. One of her main focuses is the way organic life uses artificial mechanisms to simulate itself and evolve. Crespo looks at the similarities between techniques of AI image formation, and the way that humans express themselves creatively and cognitively recognize their world. Her work brings into question the potential of AI in artistic practice and its ability to reshape our understandings of creativity.
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In Scorching Sun
Artist: Hermine Bourdin
Serpentine lamp by Hermine Bourdin created with Krista Kim’s gradient blue in glass. Originally sculpted with sandstone in Hermine’s studio, this sculptural shape was given asecond digital life with soothing Krista Kim’s gradient. Founder of Techism Movement, Krista’s philosophy recognizes technological innovation as an artistic discipline, encouraging artists to promote digital humanism for our digital culture. Appearing again in a glitch as if « uploaded » in the scenery, this work is an allegory about climate change. The disappearing of the ocean blue lamp could be viewed as evaporating under the scorching sun reminding us not to take our water for granted. The digital piece comes together with its physical prototype, which was blown in Biot, South of France, city famous for its glass mastery. The collector of the digital work will receive the physical piece.
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HEAT WAVE
Artist: Hermine Bourdin
Hermine: <<Being an admirer of Salvator Dali, I’ve always been fascinated by his iconic melting clocks and how he rejected logic, reason and natural order in his dreamlike paintings, distorting space and time. With recent record-breaking temperatures warning us about climate change and its associated risks to human and environmental health, I tilted this piece «Heat Wave». This work is paying tribute to the master by reinterpreting his painting «Soft Self-Portrait with Grilled Bacon» 1941. Here I put an egg, symbol of new life, hope and fertility, represented melting.>>
At first glance - À première vue Exhibition
Curated by | Luisa Ausenda / Studio Leggero
Commissioned and hosted by | Proof of Talk
Courtesy | the artists, NFTmuseum.art, RFC Art Collection
Artists
Addie Wagenknecht, Andrea Bonaceto, Andrés Reisinger, Auriea Harvey, Benoit Challand, Hermine Bourdin, Rafaël Rozendaal, Sarah Meyohas, Skygolpe, Sofia Crespo, Trevor Jones & Sasha Katz.