elementum & kate vass galerie’s NFT exhibition lands at Zurich airport
elementum’s NFT gallery pop-up arrives at Zurich airport
A terminal of algorithmic, technological art can be explored at Zurich Airport, Switzerland, as elementum and Kate Vass Galerie collaborate to present ‘Liebe Maschine, male mir’. The group NFT the exhibition curates the latest exploratory works of contemporary visionaries in digital art. Visitors are immersed in this perspective of future art development, where the creator sets the program while the machine delivers the result, rich in rare errors and controlled coincidences. Not only does it display a variety of releases as well as live coins, the gallery opens up a diverse range of networking events, lectures and further exhibitions.
contemporary exhibition with living mint
Elementum.art NFT Gallery at Zurich Airport, Circle 18, invites curious visitors to an immersive digital art experience. ‘Liebe Maschine, male mir‘ exhibition, curated by Georg Bak and Kate Vass, groups visionaries of contemporary digital art: Frieder Nake, Manfred P. Kage, Alexander Mordvintsev, Ganbrood, Espen Kluge, Hein Gravenhorst and Herbert W. Franke. Each one explores the boundaries between physical and digital art.
Cut off Frieder Nake‘Homage to Gerhard Richter’ NFT, on elementum.art
(Main image: Ganbroods ‘In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me’ NFT; image courtesy of elementum and Kate Vass Galerie)
All images courtesy of elementum.art, unless otherwise stated
To start the exhibition, Frieder Nake (b. 1938), one of the founders of computer art and former student of Max Bense, dedicates his origin NFT, entitled ‘Homage to Gerhard Richter’, to the namesake whom he considers the painter. the century. An algorithm continuously generates striped images of Richter in infinite variations for the new artwork.
Manfred P. Kage’s ‘Makrokosmos Mikrokosmos’ NFT and upcoming NFT release on elementum.art
Known for visually uncovering the aesthetics of the unknown, Manfred P. Kage (1935-2019) illuminates the invisible connection between human existence, nature and the cosmos in his new multimedia. The work combines the crystallization of acenaphthalene compounds in the microscope with an astroimage from NASA. The result captures the all-encompassing rhythm of chaos and order between the elements.
Alexander Mordvintsev’s ‘Autumn Red’ NFT and upcoming NFT releases on elementum.art
Alexander Mordvintsev (b. 1985) presents a new work from his latest series, entitled ‘Autumn Life’. The artist and creator of the DeepDream algorithm; one of the recent pioneers of digital art, conducts scientific research at Google to visualize deep neural networks. The new images are inspired by forests in autumn and their inhabitants. These are created using cellular automaton-based artificial life simulation. His three 1/1 unique NFT drops will be released on Friday the 18th. November at 17.00 CET.
Ganbrood’s ‘This Island’s Mine’ NFT
Image courtesy of elementum and Kate Vass Galerie
Using visual themes that have inspired the artist since his youth – mythology, film, photography and comics, ‘SOMNIV M’ by Ganboord (b. 1968) uses AI as a tool to pull these references together. The artworks, titled ‘In this hard rock, while you do keep from me’ and ‘This island’s mine’, take viewers on an exploration of pseudofigurative and mind-altering effects such as pareidolia, apophenia and synchronicity. Sci-if elements create cinematic universes where space adventures meet Renaissance scenes.
Espen Kluge’s ‘Lyrical Convergence 91’ NFT
Image courtesy of Kate Vass Galerie
Composer, visual artist and creative coder Espen Kluge (b. 1983) is fascinated by the exploration of semi-randomness in moments of improvisation, as reflected in the 2019 series ‘Alternatives’ and 2022 ‘Lyrical Convergence’. Both artworks use the same set of data, but different algorithms, as a showcase for the diversity of human perception, objectivity and subjectivity. The portraits are monumental, but alive with vector-based lines that evoke a certain dynamism. The artist handwrites the algorithm in pure javascript: the code takes images as input, loops through all the pixels in a raster image, picks some at random, and then engages pixels by putting lines between them. Each unique result expresses something personal, vivid, imaginative and lyrical.
Cut off Hein Gravenhorstits NFT, on elementum.art
Hein Gravenhorst (b. 1937) presents a new series of psychedelic digital transformations. The artist, one of the founders of generative photography along with Gofftried Jäger, Pierre Cordier and Kilian Breier, developed photomechanical transformations using countless exposures in the darkroom in the 1960s. The new works change patterns, reminiscent of medieval rose windows, into hypnotic computer animations.
Frieder Nake and Georg Bak in front Herbert W. Frankeat Circle 18, Zurich Airport, Switzerland
Herbert W. Franke (1927-2022) produced the film ‘Rotations / Projections’, which revives the three-dimensional program of the same name that created graphics using visual projections of spatial movements in the past. This artwork experiments with a basic program written by Gerhard Geitz, Monika Gonauser, Egon Hoerbst and Peter Schinner. Sequences of an experimental dance performance at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich by Walter Haupt in 1974 are accompanied by electronic music by Peter Scheffler, all created in real time on 16mm film.
exhibition info:
exhibition title: Liebe Maschine, male mir
cooperation partners: elementum and Kate Vass Galerie
curators: Georg Bak and Kate Vass
venue: elementum.art NFT Gallery
placement: the Circle 18, Zurich Airport, Switzerland
opening dates: 28 September to 24 December 2022
opening hours: Monday-Sunday, 12:00-19:00
exhibited artists: Frieder Nake, Manfred P. Kage, Alexander Mordvintsev, Ganbrood, Espen Kluge, Hein Gravenhorst, and Herbert W. Franke
