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Study of a Floral Drift 1

The Birth of Evil

Sanguine Spirit

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The Cotton Boll

The Pomegranate

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<h3 dir="ltr">TAEX cordially invites you to an exhibition and special event at London Digital Art Week celebrating the work of artist and musician Massimo Magee on the 24 April 2024.</h3>
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<p dir="ltr">Staged at Cromwell Place in London, the exhibition is centred around the installation <em>3 Colours in 3 Modes</em>, a group of three pieces from <a href="/drop/32" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Audiovisual Digital Abstraction</em></a> Collection by <a href="/artist/34" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Massimo Magee</a>, alongside 6 digital art pieces curated by <a href="/curator/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aurora Garrison</a>, which are designed to sound together, live in the room. Each of the pieces, in its audio reading, has a slightly different length, which over time alters and evolves the sonic image of the exhibition. The pieces are shaped from audiovisual data, creating an immersive world of static colours and shifting electronic tones, all within a unique harmonic framework referred to as the Superformula. The visual reading of each piece is presented on aluminium.</p>
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<p>The event will feature a first-time live performance of a composition for string quartet by Massimo Magee, also derived from the Superformula harmonic framework, called Quartet Derivation, which will be performed several times throughout the evening, against the changing electronic backdrop of the audiovisual installation. </p>
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<p dir="ltr">Quartet Derivation is a contemporary classical piece—written to accompany 3 Colours in 3 Modes as part of a larger, ongoing electroacoustic project—that combines an avant-garde approach with unexpectedly Romantic-era undertones. Although it is an acoustic, classically-notated work for a string quartet, it was created using very digital techniques such as glitching and MIDI degradation, making for an intriguing contrast of the traditional and the cutting-edge.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The piece will be performed by the world-renowned contemporary classical music ensemble Apartment House, which has been performing vital new music from revered contemporary classical composers for nearly 30 years. Massimo will also perform live on the alto saxophone.</p>
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<p>Massimo Magee is an artist, writer, and musician. He creates avant-garde digital art that challenges traditional perceptions and representations by interweaving sound and visuals into a single file. Magee authored Manifesto (New Unities) in 2017 —a seminal call to action passionately advocating for a radical new approach to creating and consuming art. Magee’s call to action embodies his oeuvre's innovative spirit and relentless experimentation. </p>
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<p dir="ltr">Moreover, Magee's work as a recording artist on the esteemed New York label 577 Records has garnered him a dedicated following within the experimental music community. Massimo Magee is based in London, UK.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The event commences at 4 pm, open for general admission till 6pm, followed by 3 15-minute performances from 7 pm till 10 pm.</p>
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Multimodality: The Audiovisual Avant-garde

Interminable Company

6pm Eternal (Ancient and Broadly Compliant)

Pipe Dream

Green Monochrome

Canyons

Theochronic Plane

Pulse Aspects

Drops

Then It Goes On Without Us

Start As You Mean To Go On

Lozenge

Determined Expression

Amenta

Paroket

Accelerant

Revenge of the Bird

Smaragdina

Silicon Wildlife

Runaway Complexity

Equipoise

Entwinement

Old School

Weeper

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Two weeks before the closing of the Scoletta dell’Arte: Digital Reform exhibition, TAEX is throwing a special event in Venice. With lots of news and projects to share, we decided to gather our friends and art lovers to experience, talk, and think together about the future of digital art.

<h4 dir="ltr">Two weeks before the closing of the Scoletta dell’Arte: Digital Reform exhibition, TAEX is throwing a special event in Venice. With lots of news and projects to share, we decided to gather our friends and art lovers to experience, talk, and think together about the future of digital art.</h4>
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<p dir="ltr">TAEX Head of Development, Stefanie de Regel, will provide a brief recap of the season's highlights and explain how our platform has become one of the fastest-growing digital art platforms. She will also share some of our upcoming plans, but not all of the secrets! It is very important for us to share our mission, recent accomplishments, and insights with our community.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">To honour our commitment to research and education (and to further celebrate the exhibition's main concept), TAEX Curator Antonio Geusa will present What Crypto Can Do For Art, What Art Can Do for Crypto—a guide for artists, curators, collectors, and all art lovers to get to know better how blockchain technology and art interact. In the course of the evening, a limited print edition of the guide will be distributed among our guests. Whether you’re a collector, an artist, or an explorer, this book is a must have. </p>
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<p dir="ltr">Among the works of the artists presented at the exhibition Scoletta dell’Arte: Digital Reform, three collections are already being showcased by TAEX:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">• <a href="/drop/43">Error#0 by Franceso d’Isa</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">• <a href="/drop/40">Neo-mastr by Funa Ye</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">• <a href="/drop/18">Сollection by Shu Lea Cheang</a></p>
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<p dir="ltr">We are happy to announce that the exhibition will continue its journey in digital format on our platform, TAEX. During this special evening, TAEX will launch the freshly-minted You’re Making Art collection by Andrea Meregalli, which consists of 350 images, and we also will know what is new with Accurat and MAOTIK. </p>
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<p dir="ltr">Meregalli will personally assist our guests in their interactions to make art together with his AI-powered installation, a real hit among the public of the exhibition with over 10,000 works produced since the opening in April this year. Moreover, our guests will have a chance to receive a personal art gift from the artist—a unique image gednerated via the installation.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The exhibition will be open to the public until September 15, 2024*, with an exception of September 2nd.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">*closed on Mondays</p>
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<p dir="ltr">To access Scoletta dell’Arte all'infinito, please RSVP via <a href="https://6kdkkh9ypk4.typeform.com/to/dBiJrNYY">the link</a> till August 23.</p>
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Scoletta dell’Arte all'infinito

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<h3 dir="ltr">TAEX is delighted to announce the exhibition Scoletta dell'Arte: Digital Reform, dedicated to digital art in a truly foundational way. </h3>
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<p dir="ltr">Taking place at Scoletta dell’Arte dei Tiraoro e Battioro — an 18th-century college of the guild of artisans who produced gold threads and leaves — the exhibition provides a journey through digital craftsmanship. By observing the works of contemporary digital artists, the pioneers of the genre, and some of the most notable old masters, the visitors are invited to experience pieces that visualise the process of learning to make digital art and its direct links with the History of Art.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Curated by digital art researcher Dr Antonio Geusa, the exhibition restores the old building to its original role as an informal school — gold threads and leaves replaced by lines of code and audio-visual artefacts. Yet, the learning process is nothing but conventional. The visitors are invited to grasp the most important skill — of looking at, contemplating, and enjoying digital art oeuvres. Among the artists involved are TAEX’s Shu Lea Cheang, MAOTIK and Funa Ye; alongside new artists to the platform with a very established past: Andrea Meregalli, Francesco D’Isa, and Accurat.</p>
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<p>The route of learning begins with an interactive installation by Andrea Meregalli You Are Making Art, which places the viewer in the role of both the art maker and the art piece with the help of an artist-programmed AI platform constantly producing new images throughout the 6 months of the show. The roots of this installation go back to the mid-60s of the last century, when artists began to produce performative situations to bring the process of dematerialisation of the work of art to its maximum. You Are Making Art takes up this mission, updating it with the use of AI and problematising the very idea of the authorship of the digital work of art. </p>
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<p>From a conceptual work, we move towards an analytical one centred around the rules of governing aesthetics. Francesco D’Isa’s Errors consists of a set of digital prints and an interactive installation. In both works, the artist comments on the subjective nature of what constitutes a mistake in making art in collaboration with artificial intelligence. Using text-to-image programs available on the Internet, the artist composes custom prompts that generate bugs in the system, causing unexpected answers that disrupt the original request yet maintain internal consistency. Here, the artist works as a human psychoanalyst, trying to probe the complexity of the machine's subconscious.</p>
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<p>MAOTIK's immersive installation is the next “class” in our school. It channels those pivotal chapters in Digital Art History about the work of those artists (who were also skilled engineers) who, since the mid-1960s, built special equipment and created custom programs to help them find a “new visuality” for their contemporaneity. Accordingly, the artist has written original software and programmed the multi-channel installation to create a total, direct, and gripping audio-visual experience for the viewer with the digital work of art.</p>
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<p>The exhibition continues with an “exhibition within exhibition”, filled with sketches of the old masters that have a direct connection with the process of learning and the nature of the digital. Featuring the works of Theodore Gericault, Abraham Bloemaert, George Rouault, Kazimir Malevich, among others from the private collection, this section showcases the process of making: from sketching to structuring; from classical craftsmanship to breaking with convention. </p>
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<p>Jumping a few centuries ahead we meet Neo-Mastr Portraits by Funa Ye, a work that speaks about technology and identity. This series of unique pieces, made using GAN technology, delves into the multifaceted identity, culture, and aesthetics of modern China through AI-driven artistic representation. Looking much like a wall filled with old portraits, the project analyses online images of Chinese ethnic minorities and the selfies of Smart — a well-known subculture in China that has a very distinct sense of identity — to create distinct avatars.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Approaching the end of the exhibition, moving towards the windows overlooking the Grand Canal, visitors are presented with a research installation by Accurat — an Italian studio which practises Data Humanism approach to analysing information. This is a work that questions the role of “landscape painting” today and how it can be rethought and reinterpreted in the digital age. Using a data-driven approach and the city of Venice as subject, Accurat creates a new “painting” which is the visual representation of metadata related to the city morphology and its social functioning made by a plotter behaving like a human painter.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Last, but not least, each method has its discontents, which often come from misuse. This is the topic of Shu Lea Cheang’s work UKI Virus Rising, which brings the process of learning to the level of a warning. Unquestionably, an essential admonition when new technologies are taken into account. This action-filled animated story is a cautionary tale about the dangers of using/abusing technology when not mediated by reason, in the form of a digital animation.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Two special projects devised by Dr Antonio Geusa and TAEX are also included in the exhibition to enrich the learning experience even more. At the disposal of the exhibition’s visitors, there is a computer running Vera, TAEX’s custom text-to-image program. With the help of AI that has been specifically trained on a database of images of works belonging to the History of Digital Art, users can turn their prompts into original artworks that they can eventually own. </p>
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<p dir="ltr">For those who fancy a more analogue investigation into the reliability of artificial intelligence when it comes to the knowledge of art history, there is a quiz card game that visitors can play by themselves, in couples, or in groups. All questions and answers are given by AI, which was asked to make a quiz game. Each card presents a question, 4 possible answers, the right one according to AI, and a much-needed explanation when the machine does not get it right. </p>
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"In the Salty Sand, the Sun Has a Musky Smell"

Flowers

Red Pill

UKI Virus Rising

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UKI Virus Becoming

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Curators

The Lux Room

Daniel Peace

Nail Farkhatdinov

Aurora Garrison

Dasha Shkel

Dr Antonio Geusa

Alexander Burenkov

Dr Margarita Kuleva