A Digital Transcendence: The Intersection of Art and Tech

Jul 22

Written By cansu peker

Exhibition on view:
July 14 – July 31, 2023
10:00am – 8:00pm daily

Curated By:
Paloma Rodriguez, SuperRare

Location:
0x.17 Gallery
Ground Floor, Pier 17
89 South Street
New York, NY

*A Digital Transcendence: The Intersection of Art and Tech by SuperRare is on view at 0x.17 Gallery at The Seaport, NYC*

Watch our reel from the opening night!

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Watch our reel from the opening night! 〰️

A Digital Transcendence: The Intersection of Art and Tech is a group show by SuperRare, curated by Paloma Rodriguez. The exhibition presents a collection of artwork by eight digital artists who incorporate technology into their creative practice. These artists push the boundaries of traditional art by experimenting with cutting-edge creative technologies, including digital painting, generative art, and artificial intelligence.

“In a world where technology permeates every aspect of our lives, the realm of fine art is no exception. This exhibition celebrates the visionary work of eight artists who consistently push the boundaries of traditional art by seamlessly integrating technology into their creative process. This transformative showcase takes viewers on an immersive journey exploring a fusion of techniques rooted in technological innovation.”

— from curatorial statement

Botto is a decentralized autonomous artist — Botto creates works of art based on collective feedback from the community, and Botto depends on the collective’s participation as an artist. Botto works in collaboration with thousands of participants to create artworks each week. The community considers themselves “stewards of Botto,” guiding the decentralized autonomous artist forward in its career.

Camibus is an etherealist artist from Transylvania, Romania. She is known for her striking and otherworldly depictions of elongated nude figures that seem to float amidst stark, sandy landscapes. The Glass CΞiling, her work in this exhibition, draws inspiration from the unacknowledged presence of the glass ceiling in our society, while serving as “a testament to the indomitable spirit of individuals who strive to overcome societal limitations and create their own paths to success.”

Emily Xie is a visual artist, creative coder, and engineer based in NYC. Her work has been collected and shown internationally including at Kunsthalle Zürich, Unit London, the Armory Show, Bright Moments, Art Blocks, Vellum LA x Artsy.net, Times Square, and the StandardVision Artist Showcase in Los Angeles. Emily Xie creates generative art that resemble lifelike textures and forms. She is inspired by textiles, collage, and wallpaper and puts these physical media in conversation with digital tools through her art. Her materials and patterns find new meanings and stories in the digital context.

Jack Kaido is a digital abstract painter who creates digitally-native works. Drawing inspiration from expressionism, minimalism, and color theory, he conveys emotions, memories, and ideas using interpretations of digital visual language like internet web pages and interfaces, search bars, apps, text, glitches, errors, gradients, composites and pixelation. In April 2023, the auction house Christie’s selected Jack Kaido for an exhibition and auction in New York, and cited him as “one of the artists at the forefront of digital art today who are influencing the future of the medium.”

Matt Kane is a generative artist from Chicago. He has started his journey as an artist with oil painting, and gave a decade-long brake working as a web developer. Kane went back to creating art as a creative coder and has been featured in major publications and has exhibited art worldwide. In 2020, his NFT artwork that changes every day with the bitcoin price volatility called Right Place & Right Time was sold for a record 262 ETH ($101,100) on the blockchain marketplace Async Art.

Osinachi is a self-taught digital artist based in Lagos. Being the first crypto artist from Africa, he was named one of the 100 Most Influential Africans for 2022 by New African Magazine. Among other African digital artists, his art has led to conversations around NFTs and how they speak to a larger humanity. Osinachi creates his artwork using Microsoft Word and mirrors his personal experiences through a unique visual language.

Finally, the show features a collaborative work by William Mapen and Christiane Lemieux, which is created using multiple inputs of Lemieux’s traditional art, archival textiles and Mapan’s art, and generative code. William Mapen is a digital artist who draws and paints with code and is currently based in Paris. Christiane Lemieux is a designer, entrepreneur, investor, and best-selling author based in New York City.

The show is curated by Paloma Rodriguez, who is a curator and art advisor at SuperRareLabs. SuperRare is the leading NFT marketplace for curated digital artworks. The artists need to meet SuperRare’s standards and submit original digital artworks that haven’t already been minted on other NFT markets to be welcomed to sell on the platform. The marketplace therefore makes sure to present the collectors only original and authentic single edition art that’s been created by a top digital artist.

“Art movements have played a pivotal role in shaping the trajectory of artistic expression throughout history. They allow us to reflect on society’s state, the tools explored, and the taboos challenged. Movements such as Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism have each reflected the cultural, social, and technological contexts of their time. In the contemporary art landscape, the emergence of the Digital Art movement similarly stands as an example of a unique and transformative phenomenon for the art world.”

— Paloma Rodriguez

A Digital Transcendence: The Intersection of Art and Tech is showcased at the 0x.17 Gallery. It’s a community-focused NFT gallery where art and technology meets in The Seaport, a beautiful neighborhood by the East River. The gallery showcases digital works of art, from Artifacts by Claire Silver to Enter the Inclusiverse by HUG, bringing awareness to the works and to the creators as hundreds of people feel curious to drop by to see the art as they walk by.

See the collection through June 21, 2023 from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. daily at The Seaport’s 0x.17 Gallery in New York City!