Krista

Photo courtesy: N°OW’HERE”

Digital art ideas start from N°OW’HERE”. TAEX co-hosted a private event and a panel talk with Art Genève and private members club N°OW’HERE”.

A special event in Geneva co-organised by N°OW'HERE", TAEX and Art Genève on September 24th was beyond a doubt a night to remember. A full house of digital art lovers gathered to attend a panel discussion you heard the latest inputs by the prominent art world professionals: collector Pierre Sigg, the Museum of Art &amp; History of Geneva’s curator Samuel Gross, and Stefanie De Regel, Head of Development at TAEX moderated by Santiago Rumney-Guggenheim, Director of Arts and Culture at N°OW’HERE”, and to continued to exchange ideas over a cocktail. The support of Art Genève ensured the high-level of our event. 
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TAEX Head of Development Stefanie De Regel giving a speech
The panel talk “Redefining Value: The Intersection of Digital and Traditional Art” showed a panorama of accelerating ideas and opened-up the process of the pioneering thinking that will become tomorrow’s reality. The principal goal of the discussion was to provide an extensive perspective of the contemporary digital art market, whether they are art platforms, museums, art foundations or curators. The welcoming space of N°OW’HERE”, created as a space of exploration for the tech elite, leaders in the fields of art, fashion, entertainment, and business was boosting the creative and entrepreneurial networking on a higher scale.
Visionary strategies are impossible without talents. That’s why TAEX and N°OW’HERE” presented a selection of digital artworks by pioneering digital artists at N°OW’HERE” Club—a historic mansion dating back to 1875, renovated by the Italian firm Galante-Menichini. Right by the entrance at the reception area we presented two works by MAOTIK—MATERIA: Liquid and MATERIA: Gas—that reflect on the eternal and the natural. Continuing to ponder the nature we showed Neogene by  Alper Derinboğaz, who invites the audience to rethink our perception of time by contemplating the transformation of one of the oldest metals on Earth, bismuth. 
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Moving further to the Satoshi room, TAEX offered a moment of a digital escape created by Krista Kim. Her Continuum Collection is inspired by Buddhist philosophy and turns digital technologies at the service of mental health and mindfulness. Further to the next room, TAEX displayed the HOLO Collection by Oğuz Emre Bal, whose digital droplets represent a raw material of urban elements and an architectural equivalent to a cell in biology. 
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At the Conference room, where a panel talk took place, TAEX showed a brand new artwork SUPERNATURAL by MAOTIK, a generative art piece which allows the viewers to enter the mind of an artist at the precise moment — when the artist’s entire self is captured under the spell of creative forces. In the same room, the Face of Universe series by Tatsuru Arai was presented as well. It focuses on the physical nature of the Universe. Particularly interested in geometric structures and perception of sound, Arai offers a fundamental pillar that allows us to understand the true nature of the universe.
Please explore the integrity of TAEX’s collections of curated digital art from world-renowned artists in our <a href="/drops">Collection section</a>.

How it went: N°OW’HERE”, TAEX and Art Genève special event in Geneva

Refik Anadol, In Search of Vera Molnár, 2024

We encounter algorithmic art much more often than we may think. Ornamentation, kinetic art and digital generative art share common structures, grounds, and concepts. More about them—in our new column.

When we hear about algorithms today, the first things that come to mind are AI and machine learning, social network feeds and advertisements. In one way or another everything that has to do with algorithms is strongly associated with computers. So would it be truthful to say that algorithmic art is always related to computers? Spoiler—not at all. Algorithmic art has a way longer history than we could have imagined.
Algorithms lie in the core of calculation, regardless if they’re performed by a human or a machine. Being a series of steps they lead toward the resolving of a problem or getting a result. So what makes an artwork an algorithmic one is, in fact, the principle of calculated evolution and/or repetition. Of course, we can always dig deeper as Johanna Drucker did by writing that “the algorithmic condition of computationally generated work is merely the case that demonstrates a general condition. Works of art, be they literature, music, visual, or performance pieces, are instances of rule sets. They manifest the possibilities of the conditions for their production.”
Whether it is the linear perspective, Golden Ratio or a Fibonacci sequence that underlines an artwork, it is based on algorithms. So each time you see ornaments of the Islamic Golden Age, Renaissance frescoes or visionary architecture graphics by Piranesi or Escher—all of it is indeed algorithmic per se.
<img src="https://cdn72109500.ahacdn.me/news/upload-470446613.jpeg" alt="" width="1024" height="683"> M.C. Escher, Day and Night, 1938
It appears that algorithms do not always have to be executed by artists themselves and could be redirected to the audience. Christiane Paul pointed out that the “instruction- and rule-based practice” was taking an important place in various art movements including Dada, Fluxus and conceptualism as they had focused on the conceptual and participatory side of the artworks. For instance “score events” by Yoko Ono from her Grapefruit book 1964, or Marina Abramović Method cards (2022) by Marina Abramović are in fact algorithms designed for the audience to perform.
The major moment when algorithmic art entered the world of digital art (and one of the first pieces of digital art itself) was in the 1960s when such pioneering artists as Vera Molnár, Frieder Nake and Manfred Mohr started to do digital drawings via plotters, based on mathematical functions. This new approach led in 1965 to the two first-ever exhibitions of “computer art”, as it was called at that time. Under the umbrella of digital art, both algorithmic and generative aspects were reunited. Being one of the first generative artists, Vera Molnár brought algorithms throughout her eight-decade career and reached the first major digital auctions.
Meanwhile, kinetic and optical art focused on the contemplation of the movements and light was emerging. Based on mechanisms or computer software a significant part of kinetic art is algorithmic as well.
<img src="https://cdn72109500.ahacdn.me/news/upload-2679330610.jpeg" alt="Victor Vasarely, Feny, 1973, image: artblart.com" width="1107" height="1103">Victor Vasarely, Feny, 1973, image: artblart.com
Within the rapid evolution of computer software and technologies and the AI boom starting from the 1980s to this day, algorithmic art has become more immersed in digital art. An art project aurèce vettier by Paul Mouginot who creates graphics, sculptures and installations using algorithms as a source of “raw material expanding conceptual possibilities and complementing the initial knowledge of art history”. Aurèce vettier explores the borders between the physical and virtual worlds.
<img src="https://cdn72109500.ahacdn.me/news/upload-2855706148.jpg" alt="AD.VM.AV.IA, aurèce vettier x Vera Molnár, photo: Marc Domage: " width="1089" height="553"> AD.VM.AV.IA, aurèce vettier x Vera Molnár, photo: Marc Domage
Refik Anadol, known worldwide for his site-specific three-dimensional data sculptures and digital paintings, uses machine learning algorithms to create abstract artworks. This year he opened Dataland—the first museum focused entirely on AI art. Krista Kim creates abstract digital algorithms as well, but, in her case, she reconsiders the modern state of this tool in everyday life. “Algorithms are everywhere, and they are controlling what we see through social media platforms, "sharing" and "liking" has created a narcissistic and egocentric society that is lacking in humanity and authenticity.  It is our very "connectedness" on social media platforms that is diminishing real human connection”, she wrote ten years ago in her Techism manifesto. By turning this tool upside down, Krista turns all the disadvantages of algorithms into healing artworks.
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Alper Derinboğaz, an architect and digital artist used algorithmic modelling tools to process geological data for his project Neogene. The curiosity towards movement continues to capture the minds of digital artists, following their kinetic predecessors, including MAOTIK and IX Shells. Known as well as Itzel Yard, IX Shells created an educational group Creative Code Art, focused on algorithmic and generative art, using her background in Architectural Technology and Computer Science.
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Whether it is a captivating pattern, a sequence of movements or the funding core of generative art, algorithms play a significant role in contemporary art, both traditional and digital. With the evolving technology in art, algorithms are taking more room in the global art sphere. The question is— where will they take the art community?

Algorithmic art: from graphical and kinetic to digital

Noor Riyadh Festival 

At the end of November, TAEX team personally witnessed the groundbreaking opening of the 4th edition of Noor Festival, the world’s largest light art festival, in the framework of Ryadh Art.

<h3 dir="ltr">Curated by Dr Effat Abdullah Fadag, Dr Alfredo Cramerotti and Auronda Scalera the festival highlighted the connection between Althara (the earth) and Althuraya (the stars). Featuring more than 60 large-scale artworks, Noor Festival celebrates the power of creativity and ambition in bridging vast distances, both literal and metaphorical. A key part of the fundamental Saudi Vision 2030 program, the festival will highlight both 18 Saudi artists and 43 international artists. </h3>
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Krista Kim, Heart Space: 3256, Available on request
The Noor festival transformed the Kingdom’s capital into a gallery without walls and intertwined life, art and technologies across Ryadh’s major centres of gravity—the King Abdulaziz Historical Center, Wadi Hanifah district with long pedestrian paths, rest zones and the industrial JAX District. Using light as the main medium, most of the works are digitally-driven whether it is an immersive experience, projection mapping, or an installation. The program featured 62 light-based artworks, including Heart Space, the world's first biometric AI installation by Krista Kim; Spark a magical cloud of biodegradable light sparks inspired by fireflies and stars by Daan Roosegaarde; Aether, a 1500 drone show by British collective United Visual Artists.
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Nick Verstand, Aura, (2017), image: riyadhart.sa
In order to grasp the intense programme, the festival <a href="https://riyadhart.sa/en/noor-riyadh/festival-trails/">suggests</a> various paths from 3 hours to a 7-hour ‘Marathon of Light’. The artworks are supported by a public programme, including workshops, panel talks, and performances.
Former cultural capital of the Arab world according to UNESCO, Riyadh is now the heart of the global transformations of the cultural sector. Over the last years, Saudi Arabia <a href="https://hbr.org/sponsored/2024/08/the-vibrant-culture-of-saudi-arabia-today">made</a> unprecedented investments and efforts in the cultural sector supported by socio-economic reforms in the country. With <a href="https://www.christies.com/en/events/christies-middle-east/about">an expansion</a> of Christie’s to the Kingdom in the past September Saudi Arabia became an important art player not only in the region but worldwide.
The Noor festival is open to public until December 14th, take your chance to see it.

Stars are the limit at Noor Festival in Saudi Arabia

TAEX Booth at The Digital Art Mile

Crypto News reports on the opening of The Digital Art Mile, “an innovative digital art market held alongside one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious art fairs, Art Basel”. 

Crypto News: Sigg Foundation, TAEX and Tezos combine to showcase NFTs at the Digital Art Mile in Basel

“The event transformed Rebgasse”

<h4 dir="ltr">Crypto News reports on the opening of The Digital Art Mile, “an innovative digital art market held alongside one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious art fairs, Art Basel”. </h4>
 
Featuring TAEX, the article dives into the overview of the wonderful platforms and galleries, that occupied the 2 spaces in the heart of Basel for digital and analogue audiences to enjoy.  Read more about TAEX and our booth via <a href="https://crypto.news/sigg-foundation-taex-and-tezos-combine-to-showcase-nfts-at-the-digital-art-mile-in-basel/">the link.</a>

Krista Kim

TAEX is excited to announce that the Continuum project at Outernet by Krista Kim is extended until October 2024. Check the screening schedule to see it at Outernet London. 

Continuum by Krista Kim is extended until October

<h4 dir="ltr">TAEX is excited to announce that the Continuum project at Outernet by Krista Kim has been extended until October 2024. Check the screening schedule to see it at Outernet London. The screenings were originally presented by TAEX at <a href="/news/26/continuum-daw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">London Digital Art Week</a>.</h4>
 
Continuum, a digital Zen garden created by Krista Kim in the heart of London will stay in <a href="https://www.outernet.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Outernet</a>—the largest digital exhibition space in Europe—until the beginning of October. “We’re always on our digital devices, we’re bombarded by information and we’re relentlessly distracted. So I wanted to create a place where people can actually breathe,” admitted Krista in her interview with Katy Wickremesinghe, the founder of The Wick Culture.
 
Conceived in 2018, Continuum was shown at Times Square NYC and at the World Economic Forum. At the end of April 2024 TAEX proudly presented this fundamental project by Krista Kim to Londoners in the framework of Digital Art Week. Due to the vivid response of the audience the project was extended for four months and will be accessible at the same venue, the Outernet London.
 
Inspired by Japanese Buddhist Zen gardens Krista Kim invites us to take a moment for a personal reflection in the era of massive and infinite social media interactions. As a prominent digital artist she has redirected the tools that normally make us ingest huge volumes of information and may cause anxiety towards providing a space for self-awareness and meditativeness.
 
By placing Continuum inside a busy megapolis Kim inserts her digital Zen garden in the London urban landscape. Krista is not only offering each and everyone to decompress from the stresses of everyday life using an up-to-date digital language, but proposes to accept it as a part of a new and more mindful routine of contemporary humans. TAEX is very pleased to present this opportunity to Londoners and to remind you that one of 10 unique NFTs from the Continuum project <a href="/drop/39">may join</a> your collection.
 
Check out the interview with Krista Kim in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y21yE2ZeVs8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the special edition</a> Culturally Curious Hop by The Wick Culture.
 
Photograph courtesy of Digital Art Week.

The impact of digital art in Basel is more significant than one may think.

ARTnews on Basel’s First Digital Art Fair

“There is a need to educate, to show collectors that digital art is an interesting and rich genre,” Georg Bak, the founder of The Digital Art Mile, told ARTnews. The extensive media coverage and the positive response prove that this goal was achieved. As a <a href="/news/30/digital-art-mile">participating platform</a>, we feel the same.
 
Read the ARTnews <a href="https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/art-basel-digital-art-mile-recap-2024-1234710074/">article</a> with interviews of fair artists and founders to learn more about The Digital Art Mile's significant debut.

TAEX booth at The Digital Art Mile

Digital galleries unite for a screen-packed show in Basel

Artribune on TAEX’s participation at The Digital Art Mile

<h4 dir="ltr">"The rise of digital art is unstoppable" - writes Artribune in its latest article covering the new digital art fair in Basel, The Digital Art Mile.</h4>
 
Situated in the heart of Basel and coinciding with the main Art Basel show, the fair united leading digital art platforms and galleries, including TAEX. Read more about the show and TAEX’s showcase of Krista Kim via <a href="https://www.artribune.com/progettazione/new-media/2024/06/the-digital-art-mile-basilea-arte-digitale/">the link</a>. The article is available in Italian.

Continuum Collection v.6 by Krista Kim

TAEX is proud to present artworks from the Continuum project by the renowned artist Krista Kim at Digital Art Mile Basel from the 10th to 16th of June 2024.

TAEX presents Continuum by Krista Kim at The Digital Art Mile Basel

<h4 dir="ltr">TAEX is proud to present artworks from the Continuum project by the renowned artist Krista Kim at Digital Art Mile Basel from the 10th to 16th of June 2024.</h4>
 
We’re bringing to Switzerland a digital Zen landscape created by Krista Kim in response to the disconnection and distraction pervading society today due to technology overuse. Krista sought to transform digital screens into spaces for mindfulness rather than distraction. The collection includes 10 unique NFTs, segments from the whole Continuum artwork, available for collecting on our platform.
 
The artwork consists of subtle gradients on the screens that gradually shift over time, creating an ever-evolving tranquil scene. Krista’s inspiration came from her time spent in the serene Ryoanji Temple Garden in Kyoto combined with seeing the potential of digital interfaces as portals to peace.  
 
Krista Kim’s intention is for Continuum to serve as a bridge between digital and human - a place for us to reconnect with our presence and tranquillity. This guided meditation we are about to embark on is meant to transport us into that state.
 
Krista Kim is a contemporary artist and a founder of the Techism movement. Having an interest in both digital and physical realms she developed her signature technique that involves a wide range of media including digital software, light, video, glass and plexi. Kim focuses on the concept of digital consciousness and the effects produced by digital technology on human perception, media, social structures, and communication.
 
Krista is a contributing Metaverse Editor for Vogue Singapore. She is a cultural leader at the World Economic Forum (2023) and a member of the Meridian Institute for Cultural Diplomacy. Kim is a keynote speaker of major metaverse conferences all over the globe.
 
Kim’s works are featured in the permanent collections of Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris (2023), LACMA museum in Los Angeles (2022). Her works were shown at major art events such as Triennale di Milano (2022), Times Square Arts (2022), Venice Architecture biennale (2021), Paris biennale (2018) and art fairs. Kim’s exhibition list includes significant museums and galleries in Europe, US, Canada, China and Singapore. Among her artistic collaborations with brands are projects for Louis Vuitton, Lamborghini, Mercedes Benz AMG and Lanvin.
 
Kim’s artworks were featured on the cover of Bazaar Art, Vogue Hong Kong, and featured in AD, Artnet, NYT, Dezeeen, Vogue (UK, Singapore), FT, The Times, Forbes, New York magazine, The Art Newspaper and many others.
 
Kim holds a master's degree in fine arts at the LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore (2014) and a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Toronto (2001).
 
Kim has been featured in UNESCO's list of “50 Minds for The Next 50” and recognized as “the new digital Rothko” by Forbes. Her name appears in the ranks of top 30 Most Influential People of the Metaverse by Read and Write Magazine (2021), top 100 by Architectural Digest (2021), and top 50 “NFTy50” by Fortune Magazine (2022). Kim won the Excellence in Digital Art prize from the Createurs Design Awards (2024).
 
space31 is one of the main Digital Art Mile venues located in a reimagined retailer’s warehouse. It will spotlight the premier NFT galleries, platforms, and projects. and host the Digital Art Mile’s public lounge-an inviting space for visitors to relax and enjoy refreshments amidst the buzz of innovation. 
 
TAEX is a curated digital art platform that is building a new community whose aspirations spread beyond the material. We showcase and co-produce works by leading artists with critical acclaim. Together with like-minded individuals, who believe that the central value in art is created by exciting ideas and expertise, not media hype, we work to reform the art scene.
 
 
<h4 dir="ltr">Date</h4>
 
June 10-16, 2024
 
<h4 dir="ltr">Opening hours</h4>
 
Monday, June 10 — Saturday, June 15, 12:00-20:00
Sunday, June 16, 12:00-17:00
 
<h4 dir="ltr">Location</h4>
 
Booth 5, Space31, The Digital Art Mile, 
<a href="https://www.google.ch/maps/place/Rebgasse+31,+4058+Basel,+Switzerland/@47.5600149,7.5954945,17z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x4791b9b058b87191:0xd42b93188f40c71f!8m2!3d47.5600149!4d7.5954945!16s%2Fg%2F11c29fx0s5">Rebgasse, 31</a>
Basel, Switzerland 
 
<h4 dir="ltr">For any inquiries please contact:</h4>
 
TAEX Development Advisor
Stefanie De Regel 
<a href="mailto:stefanie@taex.com">stefanie@taex.com</a>

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Continuum

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Continuum Collection v.1

Сontinuum is a new collection by the renowned digital artist Krista Kim. Consisting of 10 works derived from one Continuum whole landscape, the project aims to counteract the everyday dissociation plaguing humanity due to technological hegemony.

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Continuum Collection v.3

Сontinuum is a new collection by the renowned digital artist Krista Kim. Consisting of 10 works derived from one Continuum whole landscape, the project aims to counteract the everyday dissociation plaguing humanity due to technological hegemony.
