Tokyo-based nail art revolutionary, Tomoya Nakagawa, sculpts brilliance for the tips of your fingers. Bubbles, tentacles, and cuffs bloom from the nailbed, creating adornments that have grown and evolved in both intricacy and length.
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Tokyo-based nail art revolutionary, Tomoya Nakagawa, sculpts brilliance for the tips of your fingers. Bubbles, tentacles, and cuffs bloom from the nailbed, creating adornments that have grown and evolved in both intricacy and length.
It’s a one-way ticket to the uncanny valley when you enter the hybrid realm of Nicoleta Mureş’ pieces. Combining elements from our physical reality with the exaggerated, 3D animated avatars offers an alternative look at the issues that plague us.
“The transmission of wave energy requires the quasi-elastic collision of some elementary particles of matter, which determines the direction and speed of the transmission, and this substance, which plays a decisive role in the propagation of waves, is the medium.”
Meuko!Meuko! reverses this cause-effect relationship of the physical level, in her approach it is the «wave» that determines the «medium».
With the artistic world so dominated by digital art and processes nowadays, especially since the pandemic made exhibitions and physical art less viable, Agata Ingarden’s conceptual sculptures feel fresh and exciting, providing fictional narratives that bare crossovers with our own existences.
y3000w creates microworlds as frames of experiences, looking for relationships of coexistence with each element of the natural or digital world through an emotive approach to photography.
Synthesizing the “darkest primary emotions” into celestial lights and virtual realms: 3D artist Sara Dibiza gives insights into her meditative visualizers, collaborative design, and creating her own video game.
As a new age tech savvy fashionista, Piper ZY brings futuristic art to wear accessories into digitally augmented fashion.
Sybil Montet’s CGI imagery and cinematic narrative open up about the experiential potential of virtual space through magical realism and the poetics of simulation. For Coeval she presents a special preview of three new works: Skyscraper, Flood and Safeguard.
Reflecting on the connection between sound, space and people, Kohui explore immersive sonic geometries and the multiple possibilities of sensing and visualize sound, creating virtual landscapes through algorithmic processes inspired by natural phenomena.
Headdy makes your head spin: artist Matias Misael probes the uncanny valley with his new project.
In this conversation, Gawȩda and Kulbokaitė recount a complexity of practices evolving around reading as performative engagement, polyphonic chants as arcane carrier of information, molecular experiences by earthly scents and the role of AI in shaping the present.
With the introduction of the metaverse in the new year, as well as an inability to utilise our physical existences in the pandemic, we have had revert to digital presences. 3D artist WJX (Wang Jingxin) addresses our transition to technological processes as creatives, and possible futures this can provide.
Guardianangel School take the mystique and fantasy of Victorian textiles to meticulously hand-made lampshades: these become newly crafted antiques the duo sketch and construct out of vintage materials.
Intertwining visual and sound productions, Female Pentimento’s world is enlightened by ethereal creatures inhabiting apocalyptic or heavenly environments, inspired by biospiritualism, religious symbolism and ecological issues.
Balaclava-clad NFT artist, DotPigeon, is rioting against social conventions and the restrictions of creativity. Vivid and aesthetically pleasing, his work combines recognizable indicators of luxury whilst the art’s protagonist, who also dons the bally, contrasts with the polished placidity of his lavish settings.
Although conventionally the practice of witchcraft and modern digital processes dominating our world are seen as being as far apart as physically possible, music artist DASYCHIRA finds a way for these to work in conjunction to hone in on and add power to their artistry.
E.G. Linton writes on why artist C. Lucy R. Whitehead still rocks his world.
In the midst of the climate crisis, in a world where our future is so unsure and pondered upon with theories such as Area 51 tainting our opinions of what actually could be out there, Fertile Strains takes our theorising into a digitally manufactured, fictional species in our dystopian future.
With clients such as Hungry and Brooke Candy, Loki Dolor’s work transforms wearers into futuristic, creature-like hybrids of their composure, utilising 3D printing processes in conjunction with inspiration from nature to bring together humanity’s past and future in intricate wearable art.
In a post-pandemic world where shooting in teams on location is no longer feasible, creatives have been taking initiative by utilising technological programs to mimic activities they are skilled in digitally. The Sick Oscillator Boy is an example of one of these artists, utilising digital programs to create works that consider what future our world, and physical forms may face with the sinister rise of technology.
