"In healthy doses, nostalgia can be a warm security blanket that allows us to heal, giving us the strength to take another step forward when dealing with anxieties about the future." – Skye Nicolas

Ranging from large format paintings, filmmaking, photography, public space interventions, sculpture, and digital artworks, post-conceptual artist Skye Nicolas blends elegantly composed amalgamations of vivid imagery with familiarity and the skewing of timelines through various means of precisely executed appropriation. His thoughtful method of reassigning of pop culture references reveals a complex interweaving of key components in his work, highlighting concept and composition as core fundamentals.

He investigates the role of memory in the post-internet age through intimate conversation and hidden dialogue wherein nostalgia plays a vital ingredient in defining a recognizable visual language and signature style. The complex interweaving of a conceptually layered armature and a visually poetic distillation process inspires the creation of works that feature a recurring theme that he refers to as Induced Nostalgia. This cerebral phenomenon elucidates the full bandwidth of an induced visceral experience manifested in the transmission and exploration of personal narratives and private myths—inviting us to reflect and reconcile with the powerful forces and events that have shaped our present selves.

Skye Nicolas has shown in New York City, London, Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Calgary, and at the Dallas Contemporary art museum. His work has been featured in Kunstforum International, Whitewall magazine, Vogue España, and Self Service. As co-founder of the art collective Organic Material, he has created work for the collective’s collaborative project, Event Horizon, which debuted during the first Art NFT Linz festival at the Francisco Carolinum Linz Museum, UNESCO City of Media Arts Linz, Austria. The work, entitled Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Skies Are Blue, has since been added to the museum’s permanent collection.

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SKYE NICOLAS

"I became obsessed with the idea that if we didn't accumulate enough likes on any given day, we would be slaughtered and fed to the next generation of influencers." – Die With the Most Likes 

Mark Wilson, aka diewiththemostlikes, is an Indiana-based artist and writer fueled by humanity's excruciating but willing descent into characterless orbs engineered for aimless consumption and expulsion. His art is birthed from the same blue light that is destroying us all. His undying digital presence has infected the first ever digital art exhibition at DART Milano. 

His work has been exhibited at the Decentral Art Pavillion at the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Crypto Art, the Art Innovation Gallery Times Square Armory Event, and at the ValuArt Gallery in Lugano.

He has four published books, with a fifth coming out in January.

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DIE WITH THE MOST LIKES 

Skygolpe combines various digital and analog elements to create a hybrid result that exists somewhere between the virtual and real worlds. His paintings are obtained by superimposing different layers of physical and digital painting. The acrylic paint deposited on the canvas is confronted with underlying materials and patterns, generating a dialogue that breaks a precise pattern of monothematic definition of painting to embrace new formal and heterogeneous solutions.

Skygolpe has been featured in the Museum of Contemporary Digital Art and the Museum of Crypto Art and continues to be at the forefront of the fine art movement within the NFT space.

SKYGOLPE

Heinrich Heidersberger (1906-2006) was a photographer. Just like his medium of choice, which gradually changed from a medium of documentation into an independent medium of art during the course of the 20th century and was marked by introspection well into the 1970s, he, as an artist, continually called his work into question, transcended the technical restrictions with inventiveness and skill and openly examined the conflict of free and artistic work in his body of work.


He devoted himself to the claim of embracing a new, contemporary way of looking at things early on in his work. Some very early impulses undoubtedly date back to the time he spent in Paris. From 1928 to 1931, he studied painting there and experienced what he termed as a "sign of fate" when he purchased a used wooden camera at the Marché aux Puces, which later led him to discover the world of photography.

Heidersberger's efforts to convey contemporary expression are also testimony to the vision of the modern arts to unite function and aesthetics, economic, technical and social aspects. Heidersberger never withdrew to an elitist, artistic position that is ultimately without consequences. He decided in favor of a picture language and practice that utilized the new technical opportunities available and actively shaped them as well. Consequently, he has earned the title of master of the modern age par excellence.


HEINRICH HEIDERSBERGER

Clare Kenny is a British / Swiss artist and has exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions, including: Kunsthaus Zürich, CH; Kunsthalle Basel, CH; KunsthausBaselland, Muttenz, CH; Kunstmuseum Luzern, CH; Contemporary Forward, Rochdale, UK; AargauerKunsthaus, CH; KunsthausLangenthal, CH; AKKU Emmenbrücke, CH; DOLL espace d’art contemporain, Lausanne, CH; Contemporary Arts Society UK; La Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, FR; commercial galleries such as Von Bartha Gallery, Basel; Wilde Gallery, Basel; VITRINE Gallery, London and Giséle Linder Galerie, Basel, with whom she shows regularly at ART BASEL. She has also been presented at Artissima, Turin, IT; Artgenève, Geneve, CH; Artforum Berlin, DE; The Manchester Contemporary, UK; and Marfa Invitational, Texas, US.

She is listed in SIKART, Lexikon zur Kunst, CH, is a member of the Royal Society of British Sculpturs (MRSS); has twice been shortlisted for the Swiss Art Awards; and was awarded the Kunstkredit Prize from the city of Basel in Switzerland in 2013 and 2017. She was artist in residence at Residency Unlimited in New York, USA (2018), at the Institute for Provocation in Beijing, ProHelvetia, (2015) and the IAAB cite des Artes, Paris (2013). 

Kenny’s large permanent public commission 'Site Unseen' launched in July 2016 and is on view in Basel Switzerland. Her work has a place in many public collections such as ArtUK and internationally renowned private art collections.

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Margaret Murphy is a visual artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her work focuses on topics like femininity, sexuality, and identity in a post-social media culture. Murphy’s art uses bright colors, lighting, props, and aesthetic accents to create visceral responses within the viewer. Be it a negative or positive reaction to her work, Murphy hopes her art prompts dialogues around gender, the male gaze, and beauty standards. Photography is Murphy’s main artistic medium; however, she also creates image and text collages and digital art made with artificial intelligence tools.

Murphy earned her MFA from the University of Hartford’s Limited Photography Residency in 2021. 

Her work has been shown in exhibitions in the United States, such as in Los Angeles, New York City, and the Washington, DC, area.

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MARGARET MURPHY

The conceptual artist Andy Kassier (*1989) lives and works in Berlin. His work includes installations, performances, photography, videos, sculptures and painting. In 2018, he graduated with distinction in Media Arts from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, where he studied with Mischa Kuball and Johannes Wohnseifer, among others.

In 2013, he created his alter ego Andy Kassier, who ironically breaks the narrative of wealth and happiness in late capitalist society. On Instagram and in international solo and group exhibitions, he continuously develops the long-term performance according to the current zeitgeist. How does photography change in the digital age, when images become the medium of communication and at the same time the medium of photography is expanded through performances and livestreams? In exhibition spaces, Kassier sets up installations and performs and streams live on social media.

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Kassier observes phenomena in social media and the development of digital image cultures. Based on his findings, he searches in his artistic work for answers to currently socially relevant questions: What is happiness? (the science of happiness, Pop; 68, Cologne, 2016) How do I become successful? (On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Performance Artist. Andy Kassier and Signe Pierce, NRW- Forum Düsseldorf, 2018) How is masculinity portrayed? (How To Take A Selfie, Goethe-Zentrum Baku, Azerbaijan, 2019) How do I accept myself? (Link in Bio. Art After Social Media, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, 2019/2020) What is the role of the artist in the digital age? (palm down, HANZ.studio, Gallery Weekend Berlin, 2020).

ANDY KASSIER

Richard Nadler (b. 1987 in Penzberg, Germany) is a generative artist who explores identity through potent colors and provocative textures. His work spans latent diffusion, GAN, and code-based techniques. He is most known for his Japanese GenArt Collection on Tezos, which explores his life-long fascination with the culture of Japan, a place he would frequently travel with his late father. Based in Munich, Germany, Nadler splits his time between the digital world, a growing family, and his journey towards unofficial sommelier status.

RICHARD NADLER

Ziyang Wu is a New York-based artist whose recent practices examine how the invisible forces of the virtual world, data, and algorithms ubiquitously micro-alienate and reconstruct humans in the highly globalized post-Internet society. His artistic tools include Artificial Intelligence, user-based internet algorithms, and episodic video. 

Ziyang Wu currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is a member of the Experiment on Art and Technology Track at NEW INC, New Museum.

ZIYANG WU

Brooklyn-based British artist Jon Burgerman has been feverishly creating for over 20 years. His instantly recognisable art has been exhibited all over the world from DIY exhibition spaces to museums to even the White House.

Expressing creativity and having fun are key to Burgerman’s practice. It's his belief that simple creative acts can allow people to change not only their world but the world around them.

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Burgerman creates work in a wide variety of media from paint, aerosols, digital, and moving image. Online his gifs have been viewed over 8.5 bn times and he has a dedicated following across social media. 

His work has been exhibited internationally at exhibitions and fairs including the Tate Modern, SG art fair, Art Taipei, WOAW gallery, and the CAC Museum. 

Burgerman has collaborated with brands including Apple, Samsung, Pepsi, Lotte, Snapchat, Instagram, and Nike. He has made vinyl collectible toys, picture books, apparel, fabric collections, inflatables, homeware, sportswear, underwear, and many other things, including NFTs. Burgerman has had six sell-out collections on Nifty Gateway since April 2020 and continues to be a rising star in the burgeoning scene.

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JON BURGERMAN

"It’s very difficult, probably impossible, to quantify value in any meaningful way beyond market value, which is also what makes art truly magical." – Jonas Lund

The Swedish artist Jonas Lund creates paintings, sculpture, photography, websites, and performances that reflect critically on contemporary networked systems and power structures. He earned an MA at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and a BFA at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.

Lund has been concerned with the emergence of values and the distribution of power in the art market since 2012. He creates his works with the help of algorithms and the viewers, who, for example as owners of the Jonas Lund Token (2018), have voting rights like shareholders in decisions affecting his art and career.

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Lund has exhibited globally, with solo exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin; Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles; Växjö Konsthall, Sweden; Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam; Francisco Carolinum, Linz; and at the New Museum, New York. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Schinkel Pavillon and KINDL Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Vienna Biennale 2019, Witte De With, Rotterdam; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

JONAS LUND 

Olga Fradina is an aspiring generative and digital artist from Ukraine. Olga was educated as a graphic designer, has been successfully engaged in interior design for 20 years, but has always dreamed of realizing herself as an artist. At the beginning of 2022, experiments began with various software in search of their individual handwriting. She loves the element of chance and discovery in generative and procedural work, like the co-authorship of human and machine.

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OLGA F

Martina Menegon (b. 1988) is an artist working predominantly with interactive and extended reality art. In her works, Menegon creates intimate and complex assemblages of physical and virtual elements that explore the contemporary self and its “phygital” corporeality. She experiments with the uncanny and the grotesque, the self and the body, and the dialogue between physical and virtual realities to create disorienting experiences that become perceivable despite their virtual nature.

Menegon’s work has been exhibited internationally, online and offline, at festivals, in galleries, and in institutions such as the MAK Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Roehrs & Boetsch, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Spark Art Fair, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, FILE Festival, WRO Biennale, Parallel Vienna, the Virginia Bianchi Gallery, and the House of Electronic Arts Basel.

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MARTINA MENEGON

"While brick and mortar buildings are meant to last for centuries, a digital space is refreshed 60 times every second on each visitor's device. It could change 60 times in a second." – Manuel Rossner

Manuel Rossner (b. 1989) is a German artist who has been creating digital spaces and virtual worlds since 2012. In his work, he explores how society and art are impacted by technological advancements. He is best known for his site-specific digital work. Rossner’s virtual reality drawings crash with physical buildings. His intervention focuses on the context of their location and the materiality of the digital. His digital exhibition space New Float is located on the construction site of the Museum of the 20th Century next to the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

Rossner’s work has been exhibited throughout the world, including the Grand Palais Éphémère (Paris), NTT InterCommunication Center (Tokyo), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Kunsthalle Zürich.

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Unsurprisingly This is Rather Hard Work, KÖNIG GALERIE Berlin, 2021
Surprisingly This Rather Works, KÖNIG GALERIE Berlin, 2020
There’s No Feeling Where There’s No Pain, MdbK Leipzig, 2019
Ultralight Beam, 1822 Forum / Float Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, 2017

DYOR, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2022
Nature and State, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2022
Do You Miss the Future?, Hyundai Motorstudio Busan, South Korea, 2021
Open Space: New Flatland, ICC Tokyo, 2021
Out of Space, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2021
Un Palais Augmenté, Grand Palais, Paris, 2021
The Artist Is Online, KÖNIG GALERIE, 2021
Berlin, Augmented Berlin together with Highsnobiety, 2021
Safiental Land-Art Biennale, Schweiz, 2020
Digital Natives – Sculpture, CUBE / Roehrs & Boetsch, Zurich, 2019
Artificial Paradise? KM – Künstlerhaus Graz, 2018
Perception is Reality, Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2017
Unreal & NRW-Forum Extension Building, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, 2017

MANUEL ROSSNER

Inspired by everyday life struggles, Esra Gülmen's artworks always feel relatable and raise questions about emotions, habits, and ways to love and be loved. Through blending typography and illustration and embracing the visual power of words, she creates her very own world with a less-is-more mindset. A contemporary commentary characterised by simple language, witty humour, and the desire to understand and touch people.

As a member of ADC Germany, Gülmen has been selected four times in a row as one of the ‘200 Best Illustrators Worldwide’ by Lürzer’s Archive Magazine and was invited as a speaker to various festivals such as OFFF Festival, Forward Festival and Pictoplasma Festival. Moreover, she has been sitting on the jury of various design awards including Cannes Lions, One Show and Eurobest. Besides numerous group shows, she has opened solo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin and Istanbul. Gülmen is represented by gallery Pilevneli in Istanbul.

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Having studied interior design and having had a career as a designer and creative director in international companies, Esra Gülmen as an artist, seeks to expand the definition of drawing, and redefines the medium while recalling caligrammes of the beginning of the twentieth century.

ESRA GÜLMEN

With an eclectic background combining studio arts and computer science, Ira Greenberg has been a painter, 2D and 3D animator, print designer, web and interactive designer/developer, programmer, art director, creative director, managing director, art and computer science professor, and author. He wrote the first major language reference on the Processing programming language, 

Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art

, (Berkeley, CA: friends of ED, 2007) and two subsequent creative coding texts. Greenberg holds a B.F.A. from Cornell University and a M.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Currently, Greenberg is Director of the Center of Creative Computation and Professor at SMU, with a joint appointment in the Meadows School of the Arts and the Lyle School of Engineering. Previously, he was Associate Professor at Miami University (Ohio), where he held a joint appointment within the School of Fine Arts and Interactive Media Studies program and was an affiliate member of the Department of Computer Science and Systems Analysis.

Greenberg has steadily exhibited his work, consulted within industry and lectured widely throughout his career. He was affiliated with the Bowery Gallery in New York City, Flywheel Gallery in Piermont, NY, and is currently a member of Strata Gallery in Santa Fe, NM.

IRA GREENBERG

Friedemann Banz & Giulia Bowinkel generate scenarios juxtaposing nature, texture, body and space, mass, form, and substance. The artist duo creates reflective moments that shift between moving images, virtual sculptures, and snapshots. Technological tools that have become an integral part of contemporary society serve as sources and material – the computer and interactions with it are the subjects of their work.

Banz & Bowinkel have been internationally exhibited at the likes of Kunsthalle Zürich, the Centre Pompidou, SPARK Art Fair, and the Museum of Contemporary Digital Art.

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Kim Asendorf is a visual artist working with conceptual strategies and generative systems to create abstract animations, images, and sculptures. He lives and works in Bremen, Germany.

His abstract visual systems are conceptually set and realized in algorithms, that are open to a wide range of interpretations. He is working on a per-pixel level to create worlds that mix simplicity with complexity, that never sleep, and that can put the viewer in a mesmerizing state. He loves to experiment, is driven by curiosity, and finds satisfaction when the results of his work surprise himself. With roots in Net Art, he likes to keep his work easily accessible, and the Internet is his favorite canvas.

Asendorf's works has been shown at festivals and institutions like Transmediale, ZKM Karlsruhe, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, NCCA Yekaterinburg, Eyebeam, NIMK, LEAP or the Overlapping Biennial Bucharest and at galleries and fairs like Unpainted (Munich), Moving Image Contemporary Art Fair (London), Creation Gallery G8 (Tokyo), Carroll / Fletcher (London), Office Impart (Berlin), XPO Gallery (Paris) or The Photographers' Gallery (London) and received honorary mentions and created controversial discussions on major blogs, media and art magazines, and television.

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Pixel Matter, Kim Asendorf & Olia Lialina, Roehrs & Boetsch, Curuna Ardez, 2022
Black Scree, Kim Asendorf & Ole Fach, panke.gallery, Berlin (Curated by Robert Sakrowski), 2018
Kim Asendorf & Ole Fach: Computer's World, Carroll / Fletcher, London, 2015
init(Internet); DAM Gallery, Berlin (Curated by Wolf Lieser), 2014


Selected Group Exhibitions:

DYOR (do your own research), Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (Curated by Nina Roehrs), 2022
Art and the Blockchain, Ethereum DevConnect, Rozenstraat Art Gallery, Amsterdam (Curated by Jan Robert Leegte & Stina Gustafsson), 2022
IN TOUCH: ART IN THE AGE OF POST-NFTism, Vertical Crypto, Despace, Berlin (Curated by Micol Ap & Anika Meier), 2022
NFT Show Europe, City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia (Curated by Pablo Alpe), 2022
Refraction Festival @ NFT NYC, ZeroSpace, New York City (Curated by Dina Chang), 2022
Dreamlands, Whitney Museum, New York (Curated by Chrissie Illes), 2016
Ways of Something, HeK, Basel (Curated by Tina Sauerländer), 2016
PUNTO y RAYA Festival, ZKM, Karlsruhe (Curated by Robert Seidel), 2016
EGO UPDATE, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf (Curated by Alain Bieber), 2015
Transmediale Capture All, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Curated by Robert Sakrowski & Kristoffer Gansing), 2015
Ways of Something, The Photographers' Gallery, London (Curated by Lorna Mills), 2015
net.art Painters and Poets, City Art Gallery, Ljubljana (Curated by Vuk Ćosić), 2014

Kim Asendorf is widely known for the creation of a Pixel Sorting algorithm he made Open Source and that has been used by thousands of artists and designers since 2012. The pixel is the main building block in his work, seemingly alive in his abstractions, or rearranged in his iconic Pixel Sorting aesthetics.

He created image file formats as works of art or the first animated GIF sent into Deep Space.

KIM ASENDORF

Addie Wagenknecht's work blends conceptual art with forms of hacking and gestural abstraction. Previous exhibitions include, among others, Centre Pompidou, The Istanbul Modern, Whitechapel Gallery and The New Museum NYC. She has collaborated with CERN, Chanel, Whitney Museum of American Art and Google’s Art Machine Intelligence (AMI) Group.

Her work has been featured in numerous books and magazines such as TIME, Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Art in America, and The New York Times. 

Wagenknecht holds a Master's degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University, and has previously held fellowships at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York City, Culture Lab UK, Institute HyperWerk for Postindustrial Design Basel (CH), and The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.

ADDIE WAGENKNECHT

Anna Lucia is an engineer and self-taught artist from The Netherlands living in Cairo. She writes algorithms to generate artworks, often combining mathematics and computer science concepts with feminine crafts such as textile work. She explores new ways of presenting artworks to audiences through endless animations, interaction, VR, and the screen as the medium.

Her work has been included in exhibitions at Art Basel Miami (2021), Vellum LA (2022), Art Basel (2022), and the Decentral Art Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2022), among others.

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ANNA LUCIA

Justin Aversano is a Co-Founder and CEO of Quantum Art, a platform focused on curating digital culture through NFTs. Before Quantum, Aversano launched Twin Flames, a photographic collection of 100 sets of twins. He is also the co-founder and creative director of SaveArtSpace, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing community art to public spaces.

A humanist and a social entrepreneur, Aversano connects his art with the world around him through capturing moments, faces, and communities that surround him, bringing them together through the lens of his camera. He is currently based in Los Angeles.

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In a first for a major auction house, Bahareh & Farzaneh from TWIN FLAMES by Justin Aversano was the first non-fungible token (NFT) lot to be offered in a Photographs auction in October 2021–

TWIN FLAMES is a visual elegy to the twin that the artist never knew. The images that comprise TWIN FLAMES were originally shot in three film formats–Polaroid, 120mm, and 4x5–and over the course of fourteen months beginning in May of 2017.

JUSTIN AVERSANO

Iskra Velitchkova is a computational artist who explores technology through generative systems. She is inspired by every kind of interaction between humans and machines in both digital and physical expressions. She has a background in data visualization and has held strategy positions in various scientific teams. At some point, Velitchkova decided to push forward her own exploration, focusing on understanding how machines are shaping our lives today, using art as her driver. 

She has exhibited globally, including at Art Basel, Galerie Kate Vass, Unit London, Feral File, and Bright Moments, among others. Her work has also been auctioned at Sotheby’s.

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ISKRA VELITCHKOVA

David Henry Nobody Jr (aka David Henry Brown, Jr) is a performance artist and sculptor who works in diverse mediums, often placing his physical body into the work. Frequently riffing off of the dark side of American popular culture, he has been showing his work since the early 1990s both in the New York art world and as a renegade underground figure and as a collaborator.

Nobody Jr's various projects have been shown internationally in cities such as Berlin and New York, most notably at Andrew Edlin Gallery and WhiteBox. In 2018, he had a solo exhibition and live performance at MOCA Tuscon. He has been featured on the BBC, in VICE, The Huffington Post and Hi-Fructose among others. Nobody Jr's NFTs have been included in exhibitions at Unit London Gallery and SXSW.  

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During his many different artistic periods, his work often involves the creation of characters that perform and make objects. Nobody Jr’s characters stem from his concept of the Fantastic Nobody, the ‘loser’ that acts like they are famous but who is not, driving the artist’s work deeper inside the images and social masks of an image-obsessed culture.



DAVID HENRY NOBODY JR

Arvida Byström (b. 1991 Sweden, Stockholm) is a digital native with an intrinsic relationship to pink. Exploring femininities and its complexities, often tied to online culture, she travels in an aesthetic universe of disobedient bodies, selfie sticks and fruits in lingerie. Her photography and endless Instagram scroll have been in art shows all over the world as she starred both behind and in front of the camera of numerous influential brands and magazines.

Brand and magazines Byström has worked for include Adidas, Gucci, Dazed Media, i-D, Vice, Numéro Berlin, Polaroid, and many more.

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ARVIDA BYSTRÖM

Anna Beller is an emerging experimental painter and digital artist from Berlin, working in Hannover. She experiments with color relationships and transparencies using the soak stain technique, which was developed by Morris Louis (1912-1962) and established in the 1950s by American abstract artist Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011): highly thinned colors soak into unprimed canvas, generating organic shapes, movement, and color overlaps.

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ANNA BELLER

Florine Imo (b. 1995) lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Her work explores different aspects of femininity while highlighting the concept of the contrast between soft and sharp aspects in her female figures. Florine's paintings explore overwhelming patterns, luminous colors and metaphorical visual language. Recently the artist created a powerful alter ego figure, which can be found in various group shows during this year.

Imo's work was recently displayed with JPS Gallery in Tokyo, Shin Haus, NY; MISA Mallorca, Weserhalle Berlin, and Gallery Zberro, Paris.

FLORINE IMO

In his digital paintings, DotPigeon (b. 1987) renders a balaclava-clad burglar, or "balaclava/riot guy," in opulent mansions hung with blue-chip works by artists such as Damien Hirst, Kaws, Yoshitomo Nara, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The cinematic scenes are both darkly funny and deeply unsettling and his work powerfully explores the inner conflict between what we show to others versus what we really feel.

DotPigeon started making art in 2017 while he was working as an advertising executive. He has exhibited in Italy, Germany, and the USA and had several NFT drops on NiftyGateway. He participated at Art Basel and his work has been auctioned by Christie’s.

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DOTPIGEON

Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist and AI researcher probing the intersection of text and technology. 

A pioneer of generative literature and blockchain poetics, she is the recipient of a Future Art Award and a nominee for the Forward Prize, Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and has spoken and exhibited at venues around the world and in the metaverse. 

She is also co-founder of theVERSEverse, an NFT poetry gallery, and a graduate of Harvard and Oxford. Stiles' first book, Technelegy (Black Spring Press Group, 2021/2022) has been hailed as an §instant techno-classic." Her work is available in bookstores and as NFTs on SuperRare, Quantum, Objkt, Foundation, Versum and elsewhere.

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SASHA STILES

Ruohan Wang’s work comes from the ingenious interweaving of contrasting and pure colors. The artist’s multicultural background, from China to Germany, has established the individuality of the surreal world in her works, where abstract figures meet real-life characters. She focuses on the theme of "movement and coexistence" and brings her approach to life in the form of illustrations and paintings, as well as installations and improvisational aesthetics.

Born in Beijing, Ruohan Wang moved to Berlin to study at the University of the Arts (UdK). After her studies, she founded her studio, where she works on painting, visual art, print, public art, installation, and fashion design.

Wang has participated in group exhibitions in Berlin, New York, and Shanghai, among other cities, as well as collaborated with brands like Nike, Apple, and The New York Times.

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RUOHAN WANG

Lee Mullican was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, in 1919 and died in Los Angeles in 1998. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute after transferring from the University of Oklahoma in 1941. Upon his graduation from the Institute in 1942, Mullican was drafted into the army, serving for four years as a topographical draughtsman. Mullican traveled to Hawaii, Guam, and Japan before ending his tenure in the army in 1946, when he moved to San Francisco. After winning a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959, he spent a year painting in Rome before returning to Los Angeles, where he joined the teaching staff of the UCLA Art Department in 1961, keeping his position for nearly 30 years. 

He divided the later part of his life between his homes in Los Angeles and Taos, traveling internationally and co-organizing exhibitions at UCLA. Mullican’s works are included in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hammer Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as numerous other institutions.

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LEE MULLICAN

Lisa Orth is an American artist based on the West Coast, known for her work in the fields of generative art, graphic design, and tattooing. While leveraging her traditional art and design background into the new digital art space, her abstract generative work explores the intersection of art and technology, utilizing themes of colliding textures, movement and color.

Her work has been included in exhibitions at Art Basel Paris +, NFT Show Europe, Seattle NFT Museum, Seattle Art Fair, and Tannhäuser Generative Art Museum, among others.

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A creative polymath, Orth began her artistic path in Seattle as a graphic designer and art director. In the late 80s, she was working for such luminary cultural institutions as Sub Pop Records, COCA (the Center on Contemporary Art), and the much revered local music magazine The Rocket. 

It was as the first official Art Director for Sub Pop that she designed Nirvana’s first records and their now iconic logo.

LISA ORTH

Travess Smalley is an artist working with computation to make generative image systems. He is interested in painting software, computer graphics, digital image-making, and drawing.

Selected exhibitions include Travess Smalley, Foxy Production (forthcoming 2023); Des champs de fraises pour l’éternité, La Galerie, centre d’art contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec, Noisy-le-Sec, France (2022); Minecraft Language Edition, Ender Gallery in collaboration with MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada (solo); Pixel Rugs, Arcade On Stadium, Provo, UT (solo)(both 2021); Downtown Painting, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, NY (2019); and Standing Still, Lying Down, As If, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI (2018-2019); What is a Photograph?, International Center of Photography, New York; and Public Interfacial Gesture Salon, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2011).

In 2014, he was included in Forbes 30 Under 30 for his work as a digital artist.

Travess Smalley (b. 1986) lives and works in Providence, RI. He holds a BFA from The Cooper Union, New York, NY, and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.

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Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti are an award-winning experiential artist duo who founded their collaborative art practice, known as Operator, in 2016. Referred to as "the two critical contemporary voices on digital art’s international stages" (Clot Magazine) and "LGBT power couple" (Flaunt), their expertises collide in large scale conceptual works recognizable for their poetic approach to technology. Rooted in the understanding that immersion is not only a physical state but also an emotional one, their approach employs nuance in scale, producing a feeling instead of a spectacle. Ti’s background as an immersive artist and HCI technologist, and Catherine’s as an established choreographer, performance artist and gender scholar make for a uniquely medium-fluent output–bringing together environments, technology and the body.

Operator has been awarded a Lumen Prize (Immersive Environments), ADC Award (Gold Cube), S+T+ARTS Prize (Honorary Mention), and MediaFutures (a European Commission funded programme). They’ve been speakers at Christie’s Art+Tech Summit, Art Basel, MIT Open Doc Lab, BBC Click, Bloomberg ART+TECHNOLOGY, Ars Electronica, Contemporary Istanbul, and CADAF.

Ti and Catherine are originally from Los Angeles and are currently based in Berlin.

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Maxim Zhestkov (b. 1985) is a digital artist based in London. He merges his studies in architecture, sculpture, motion graphics, color, and sound to dramatize the intersection of the digital and the physical as a critical site for imagining the aesthetic possibilities and psychological implications of a phygital reality. Working as an independent designer, Zhestkov has worked with clients such as Adidas, IKEA, BMW, Google, Playstation, and Adobe. He has been awarded important industry awards: a Red Dot Award, a D&AD Award, an iF Design Award, and the ADC Award.

His work has been presented internationally in shows at major institutions, including Decentral Art Pavilion Venice (2022), Unit London (2021), Contemporary Istanbul (2021), MIT (2019), Modern Art Museum Shanghai (2019), and the Hermitage Museum (2019).  His work was part of festivals such as Cosmoscow (2021), ART021 (2020), Art Basel Miami (2019), and Ars Electronica (2018).

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"Artmaking is all about being able to talk to other people about what you're thinking about 99% of the time." – Maya Man

Maya Man (b. 1996) is a Los Angeles-based artist who considers the computer screen a space for intimacy and performance; her practice responds to contemporary internet cultures with a focus on identity and femininity. 

Her solo exhibition Secrets From a Girl has recently been shown at the Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, and SOOT, Tokyo (2022). She has been featured in group exhibitions Becoming, Heavy Manners Library; Artists Who Code, Vellum LA and Artsy, Los Angeles; Figure, Character, Sign, Aplus A Gallery, Venice (2022); Radical Return, BU Art Galleries, Boston; Social Code, Feral File, Online; Cyber Garden, Museum of Art Pudong; Blue Cables in Venetian Watercourse, Power Station of Art, Shanghai (2021); and FASCIA BLUES, CADAF, Miami (2019). Commissions include On Making Sense of TikTok for Are.na; THE MODEL MINORITY IS A MYTH! with For Freedoms; and madelinesnotes.cloud, with Brown Arts Initiative. 

Her work has been featured in Art in America, Forbes, Refinery29, DanceMagazine, and more.

Maya holds BA degrees in Computer Science and Media Studies from Pomona College, and is currently pursuing an MFA in Media Art at UCLA.

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Julien Espagnon (b. 1992) studied applied arts before becoming a web designer and then a frontend developer in a communication agency. During his studies, he discovered generative art and the use of code as a creative medium. For an entire year in 2017, he created a daily shape of animated generative art using Processing, which would become the "365 shapes of blue" project.

He translates his digital works into drawings using a plotter. The combination of these two media is the result of his research to develop a malleability between the digital and physical arts, which determines his way of thinking about his algorithms and his creations.


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"People generally dismiss technology as a threat to art. I will attempt to demonstrate that it is not, and even opens up previously unimagined artistic territory." – Herbert W. Franke (Kunst und Konstruktion, 1957)

Herbert W. Franke (1927-2022) was a pivotal figure in bridging the gap between art and science. He was a scientist, author of science fiction, curator, mathematician, physicist, and speleologist. He was a co-founder of Ars Electronica in 1979. Franke has been called "the most prominent German science fiction writer" by Die Zeit, and a "great storyteller" by the FAZ. He also developed a rational theory of art. As a writer, he has been a pioneer of virtual worlds since 1960 – with his first work DER GRÜNE KOMET (Goldmann, Munich). In addition, he pioneered cave research with the dating of stalactites, with which he was also able to reveal significant information about climatology since the last ice age.

As early as 1957, Franke proved in a book entitled ART AND CONSTRUCTION (Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich) that technology "opens up undreamed-of new artistic territory". Franke has consistently explored new territory with analytical methods and the assistance of machines for over 70 years, looking into the future of digital art until he arrived in the metaverse as an artist and curator in the early 2000s. He began experimenting with generative photography in 1953, used an analogue computer in 1954, and the first mainframe computers for his abstract algorithmic art in the 1960s and 1970s, before beginning programming himself in 1980 with one of the earliest Apple IIs.

He was a pivotal figure in the development of digital art, which he helped to shape over the next few decades as an artist, writer and curator. He was represented at the Venice Biennale in 1970 with a silkscreen from his QUADRATE series. It is his first work created with a digital computer in which he allowed chance to collaborate with an algorithm.

Herbert W. Franke saw mathematics, with its abstract world of formulae, as the essence of visual art since its beginnings in the 1950s. While he saw the artist as the analytical creator who uses mathematical methods to create structures, he assigned the computer the task of modulating these principles of order through varying random processes. Franke saw the computer as a partner from the beginning. He was always looking for known or newly discovered mathematical principles to use in his artistic experiments. For Franke, it was clear that it was the artist's task to examine new technologies with their great social significance for their creative potential, but also to draw attention to their opportunities and dangers. For they should not be reserved for technocrats, commerce or even the military. The field of tension between science and technology, as well as society and the individual, with its opportunities and dangers, was also at the centre of his award-winning utopian novels and anthologies.

On the occasion of Franke's 95th birthday in 2022, the Francisco Carolinum in Linz (the UNESCO City of Media Arts) honored the Austrian artist, science fiction author, and scientist with the exhibition VISIONARY. His first NFT drop sold out within 30 seconds on one of the leading NFT platforms, Quantum Art, in June 2022. The purpose was to fundraise for the establishment of his foundation: art meets science – STIFTUNG HERBERT W. FRANKE. This foundation aims to further publicize Franke's pioneering achievements and works through exhibitions and events, as well as to support scientific symposia on relevant topics. The foundation, which was established in the summer of 2022, will also co-finance or support research projects aimed towards expanding the bridge built by Franke in the twentieth century between the worlds of art and natural science of the twenty-first century.

Herbert W. Franke was a member of the PEN Centre Germany. He was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art 1st Class by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Culture in 2007, and the Cultural Medal in Gold by the State of Upper Austria in 2022. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe in 2018. 

Selected solo and group exhibitions: Experimental Aesthetics, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (1959); Herbert W. Franke – Wanderer between the Worlds, ZKM Karlsruhe (2010); Minus Space – Digital Pioneers, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Proof of Art. A Brief History of NFTs, from the Beginnings of Digital Art to the Metaverse, Francisco Carolinum, Linz (2021); Herbert W. Franke – Visionary, Francisco Carolinum, Linz (2022).

Selected art theoretical publications: Art and Construction (1957), Computer Graphics – Computer Art (1971), Art versus Technology? (1978), Phenomenon Art (1967), Phenomenon Art. The Cybernetic Foundations of Aesthetics (2nd extended edition, 1974), Cybernetic Aesthetics – Phenomenon Art (3rd extended edition, 1979), Aesthetic Information (together with H. G. Frank, 1997).

Selected science fiction literature: The Green Comet (1960), The Orchid Cage (1961), The Thought Network (1961), Zone Zero (1970), Sirius Transit (1979), Centre of the Milky Way (1990) Cyber City South (2005), Escape to Mars (2007).

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Anna Carreras is a generative artist and creative coder, focusing her work on the use of algorithms to create visuals that foster memories or evoke new ones.

She codes her work from scratch to create images that cannot be achieved in any other medium. She is interested in the complexity, surprise, and meaning that emerge from small, simple behaviors playing with systems. She fosters diversity and explores the balance between order and chaos in which nature and daily life seem to be suspended. Carreras draws inspiration from her Mediterranean culture and landscape to translate it into abstract visuals, vivid digital images, static or dynamic, geometric or organic.

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She has released NFTs on Feral File, Art Blocks, and CVerso. She has also developed and exhibited generative art and digital installations in renowned national and international institutions, museums and festivals like MUTEK ES+AR, Sónar Festival, Eufònic Urbà Decentraland, Venice Art Biennale, Medialab Prado Madrid and Abandon Normal Devices Liverpool, among others.

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Evgen Čopi Gorišek (b. 1994) is a Berlin-based artist. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Padre Gallery, New York, USA; The Hole, New York; Plan X Art Gallery, Milan; Ramp Gallery, London; Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam; Duve, Berlin; and KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin.

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Damjanski is an artist living in a browser. Concerned with themes of power, poetry and participation, he explores the concept of apps as artworks. 

His work has appeared internationally, including exhibitions at ZKM Karlsruhe, NRW-Forum, König Galerie, Roehrs & Boetsch, Pioneer Works, MoCDA, Tropez, Import Projects. Currently Damjanski resides in New York.

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" is the camera for the post-human era. Every picture people take automatically removes any person. The app "

" lets people capture the world like a machine sees it and the "

", an Augmented Reality gallery app aimed at democratizing physical exhibition spaces, art institutions and curatorial processes within New York’s Museum of Modern Art. WIRED covered the launch with the headline "

Augmented Reality Is Transforming Museums

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He created an online space that only programs can access. This software performance called "

" first hit Reddit’s front page before it was shown at the König Galerie in Berlin.

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Marcel Schwittlick is an artist living and working in Berlin, Germany. His work examines the cybernetic aspects of generative systems and modern technology. In addition, he is interested in digital culture, its influence on society, and the chances for alternative kinds of communication. Finally, he is connecting to various practices, forging a relationship between physical and digital media, traditional and modern approaches. Schwittlick works with multiple media, including digital images, material and interactive installations, generative poetry, and conceptual video.

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Upon hacking the Frieze Art Fair in 2019 Gretchen was catapulted to art world notoriety with international coverage, solo museum exhibitions, prestigious residences, and major acquisitions. She made her first Vision Boards in 2020 as part gazell.io and had subsequent solo exhibitions in California, London, Austria, Germany, and Dubai.

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Mario Klingemann is an artist who uses algorithms and artificial intelligence to create and investigate systems. He is particularly interested in the human perception of art and creativity, researching methods by which machines can augment or emulate these processes. Thus, his artistic research spans a wide range of areas like generative art, cybernetic aesthetics, information theory, robotics, feedback loops, pattern recognition, emergent behaviors, neural networks, cultural data, and storytelling. Klingemann is the creator and guardian of Botto, an autonomous decentralized AI artist that, steered by its community, has created and sold NFTs for over 2 million dollars since its inception in fall 2021 and currently ranks among the top-10 artists on SuperRare.

He was the winner of the Lumen Prize Gold 2018, received an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2020, and won the British Library Labs Creative Award 2015. He was an artist in residence at the Google Arts & Culture Lab and has been recognized as a pioneer in the field of AI art. 

His work has been shown in international museums and at art festivals like Ars Electronica, the Centre Pompidou, ZKM, the Barbican, the Ermitage, the Photographers' Gallery, Colección Solo Madrid, Nature Morte Gallery New Delhi, Residenzschloss Dresden, Grey Area Foundation, MediaCity Biennale Seoul, the British Library, and MoMA. 

He is represented by Onkaos in Madrid and DAM Gallery in Berlin.

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Aaron Penne (b. 1988, United States) is a renowned artist and engineer making generative artwork with code since 2018. Penne is currently the Director of Engineering at Art Blocks, aiming to help build the future of generative art as a medium. In 2021, he was one of the top 50 artists in the NFT space globally. In 2022, Penne and his musical collaborator Boreta received the inaugural NFT Award for the Lumen Prize for Art and Technology

His work has been sold at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, and he has shown internationally at galleries and museums such as ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Museum, Seattle NFT Museum, CADAF, and Bright Moments Gallery amongst others. 

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Leander Herzog (b. 1984) is a visual artist based in Switzerland, creating images with code since 2006. His focus is generative and interactive abstraction on the web. Currently he combines his experience from building websites and digital products with generative art and the new potential NFTs present. Herzog’s practice explores visual maximalism enabled by contemporary computer graphics and the widespread availability of networked screens as well as minimalist abstraction based on web technology standards. He plays with the contrast between the simplicity of algorithmic systems and the complexity of their emergent properties.

In the last decade, his work evolved from static images to moving visuals and realtime experiences on the web, including generative audio, interactive installations, data driven sculpture and digital fabrication. Titles and aesthetics of his works often reference the history of painting as well as the artist's own past experience with graffiti writing.

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Photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek knows how to translate humour into authentic and unpolished pictures. Currently based between Berlin and Vienna, he toys with the absurdity of the every day life using his highly acclaimed talent for the good, the bad and the ugly. 

He is best known for his viral art series "Doggystyle", "Jumping Cats", and "Better Living With Alpacas". Koekkoek was called "the art world's Dr Doolitle" by It's Nice That.

With his roots in Tyrol/Austria, he moved to New York in 2008 to learn at Magnum Photos. Since then he has released award-winning art publications and exhibited throughout Europe, Asia and the US.

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Jesse Draxler is an LA-based artist working in mixed media and digital formats to create deconstructed, distorted images that explore ideas around beauty, sexuality, and subculture. He works exclusively in monochrome. 

His work has appeared in Juxtapoz, Interview, Vice, and on the cover of Dazed. The New York Times and Alexander McQueen have both commissioned works.

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Jonathan Monaghan is an award-winning visual artist who works across a range of media, such as prints, sculpture, and animation, to produce otherworldly objects and narratives. Drawing on wide-ranging sources, such as historical artworks and science fiction, his fantastical pieces uncover subconscious anxieties associated with technology and consumerism.

Monaghan’s work has been exhibited at the Sundance Film Festival and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. His work has been featured in several media outlets, including The New York Times, Vogue Italia, and The Washington Post. 

His work has been acquired by numerous public and private art collections, including The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Washington, D.C., Art Bank Collection.

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Ivona Tau, PhD, is a generative A.I. artist from Vilnius, Lithuania, who works with neural networks and code as a tool in experimental photography and motion painting. Her goal is to find and evoke emotions through artificially intelligent tools. She creates universally relatable memories by transforming her experiences captured on analog and digital film through generative neural networks (GAN).

Tau is active in the research community and holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology. She published multiple scientific papers in the field of Computer Vision and Artificial Neural Networks.


Tau comes from the intersection of arts and technology, with 15 years of combined experience in professional photography and A.I. research. She was awarded the best award in the Digital Ars 2020 contest for art created with AI, the Computer Animation category award in Computer Space International Computer Art Forum 2021, and elected as one of the TOP 10 Women in AI 2022 by the Women in Tech Foundation.

Tau’s work has been exhibited widely, including Sotheby’s New York, Duran Arte y Subastas, Fauves Paris, Pandolfini Florence, The House of Fine Art, Art Week Shenzhen, Vellum, CAFA, Ars Electronica Garden, Museum of Applied Art in Frankfurt am Main, Bright Moments Berlin, Art Basel Miami Beach, SCOPE Art Fair and many more.

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