#8 Transformations: Latest at MoMA & Musée d’Orsay, Diverse Displays in FEMGEN, and Innovative Authentication
#8 Transformations: Latest at MoMA & Musée d’Orsay, Diverse Displays in FEMGEN, and Innovative Authentication
👋 Hello, we are Julian and Marcel, and welcome to our weekly edition of The Curious Collector. Each week we humbly curate what’s happening in the digital art realm. ✨
It is a subscriber-only newsletter, delivered every Sunday, highlighting mainly digital and sometimes physical art news.
In this issue, we're diving into a mix of exciting happenings in the art world. We’re taking a look at what’s new at Musee d’Orsay and MoMA and exploring how ancient ideas are meeting modern digital expressions.
We're also spotlighting exhibitions that showcase diversity and the evolution of art forms, delving into new tech that's changing the game in art authentication, and sharing thoughts on the challenges creatives are facing in today’s economy.
News Digest
Musee d’Orsay: Aiming to attract more people and maintain modernity, Musée d’Orsay is incorporating digital artworks available for purchase as NFTs into their exhibits and collections.
MoMA Postcard: This new, interactive initiative invites collective creativity. Participants collaboratively design digital postcards, serving as approachable, conversation-sparking NFT adventures in the world of digital art.
Chinese Art: Curator Huang Yi highlights the evolving landscape of Chinese art, illustrating a shift from ancient ideologies to contemporary digital art expressions, increasingly embraced by the younger generation.
FEMGEN Exhibition: This exhibition shines a light on the works of six leading artists, showcasing diversity in digital art with a focus on female and non-binary artists.
Virtual Paradigms: At Nunu Fine Art in New York, German conceptual painter Peter Zimmermann displays his distinctive epoxy resin paintings, which originate from manipulated digital images.
Digital Highlight
“The open source community has come through again, folks have been developing a motion based model to do video generation, and it's pretty amazing.
With machine learning, what it captures is concepts. So in order to explore image generation, it requires a person to model the conceptual space of language and images”
Artwork by Jason Hsu. Full Sequence and caption
Notable Insight
“Being a creative isn't the same as having a hobby. And having a “cool” job in the arts doesn't insulate you from needing to pay bills. Whatever economists want to call the downturn we’re in, it’s hitting artists especially hard. Art does not appear, fully formed, from the ether.”
Audrey Lim, President of VADA
Sale Spotlight
“Pixelated Perception explores the complex confluence of the digital and the tangible, highlighting the diverse transitions in Japan. In the 1990s, pixels, the minute elements of the digital realm, emerged prominently in platforms like mobile phone communications and instances of censorship, subtly altering our perception of reality.
Using AI generation, Kusano crafts portraits of individuals who, though they don't exist in fact, resonate profoundly in our memories and senses, employing the pixelated effect as a symbolic presence. Pixels signify the fragmented pieces of our identity and understanding in this digital era.
This work's aesthetic, reminiscent of video games, questions the overly pop-consumed roles of men and women, suggesting that these roles are, after all, fictional constructs.”
Artist To Watch
“From body parts to moving melted fluid plaster.
Body > Plaster > Photo > Input AI > New sculpture > Animation.”
Noortje Stortelder
Tech & Texture
T.R.A.C.E: ACK and Transient Labs have launched a new technology, integrating secure chips with blockchain, to establish immutable provenance and authentication for both physical and digital art.
Natural Static series: The project blends digital and analog elements using video of natural motion to create interactive, pixel-based water simulations, curated by Brian Droitcour.
Closing Remarks
Thanks for diving into this issue and uncovering the latest shifts and innovations in digital art with us.
We hope these insights into current trends and developments have been enlightening. Stay tuned for more insights and updates in our upcoming issue.