<p dir="ltr">TAEX is proud to present a digital contribution to Transforming Energy, a series of 6 moving image pieces featuring Marina Abramović’s avatar, continuing a groundbreaking collaboration that began with the exhibition’s first iteration in Shanghai. </p>
<p dir="ltr">TAEX’s contribution unfolds across the exhibition in two distinct forms—a monumental immersive installation titled Slow Walking and five digital exercises on small screens, that accompany installations Pyramid Portal B, Opening and Closing of Door, Wounded Geode B, Colour Screen, and As Slow As Possible.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This avatar is a new, completely lifelike digital twin of the artist at the age of 60, enabling an enduring performative presence. Created in 2025 to infinitely enact exercises based on the Marina Abramović Method, the project offers guidance, encounter, and reflection through an immersive installation and accompanying digital works.</p>
<p> </p>

Transforming Energy

<h3 dir="ltr">TAEX is delighted to premier Testing Ground—a new series of moving and still works by the renowned artist Kevin Abosch—at Art Basel Zero 10 in Hong Kong.</h3>
<p> </p>
<p dir="ltr">Testing Ground approaches landscape as an experimental site: an environmental laboratory where resources, materials, perceptions, and computational processes converge. These works do not depict fixed locations; instead, they unfold within a hybrid terrain constructed from layers of memory, inference, and design. Each image behaves like a testing surface, offering a place where new relationships with the environment can be examined, adjusted, and imagined.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Within this framework, Goldfish presents a familiar ornamental species as a constructed environment in miniature. The body appears partially infrastructural, interwoven with a hardened, enamelled surface that shows visible wear and abrasion. The coating is not pristine; it bears traces of exposure and contact, suggesting duration rather than fabrication alone. Scales and enamel, fluidity and rigidity, living tissue and weathered finish coexist within a single form, dissolving any stable distinction between organism and object.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Seen in relation to Testing Ground, the goldfish becomes less an image of nature and more a site of convergence. As a species historically shaped through human selection and sustained within artificial habitats, it already embodies a reciprocal relationship between environment and design. Here, that reciprocity is made visible: the body reads as both life-form and substrate, both inhabitant and surface. The work treats landscape not as external scenery but as something internalised within form. The fish becomes a testing surface where natural and synthetic processes operate in tandem, each influencing the other’s configuration.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The series grows out of an extended practice of guiding generative systems through cycles of iteration and refinement. Inputs shift, parameters adjust, and the system responds within defined boundaries, revealing configurations that develop through this structured exchange. This reciprocal process echoes the way we continually shape our environments while those environments, in turn, develop their own patterns and tendencies.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In this sense, each work becomes a field study: both the outcome of deliberate observation and a platform for ongoing inquiry. Central to the project is the idea of “ground” as a multilayered substrate. It refers simultaneously to physical terrain, to the surface that receives and holds an image, and to the computational base layer from which synthetic forms arise. These layers overlap and interact, creating conditions in which natural and artificial elements operate together as active contributors within a shared experimental ecology.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Viewed this way, landscape becomes a tool for thinking. The works propose spaces that are structured yet open, familiar yet reconfigured, inviting viewers to consider how environments participate in our evolving sense of orientation, imagination, and possibility—and how our shaping impulses meet the environment’s own generative capacities.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Kevin Abosch</strong> (born 1969) is an Irish conceptual artist widely regarded as a pioneer of digital and AI-driven art. Working across photography, blockchain systems, and machine learning, he has spent more than three decades shaping how artificial intelligence and synthetic imagery are understood within contemporary practice. His work interrogates identity, authorship, and value, engaging with the philosophical and societal implications of technological change.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Abosch began creating AI-based artworks as early as 1992, placing him among the first artists to work seriously with artificial intelligence in a fine art context. He is frequently described as one of the earliest practitioners of synthetic imagery and is distinguished by the rare combination of being both a rigorous conceptual artist and a committed technologist—a position that sets him apart even from earlier generations of generative artists.</p>
<p dir="ltr">He first gained international attention through his Potato series (2010–2016), in which a single potato was presented with the gravity of classical portraiture. One work from the series was sold into a private collection for over US$1 million, sparking debate about value, scarcity, and authorship in contemporary art.</p>
<p dir="ltr">From the mid-2010s, Abosch integrated generative adversarial networks (GANs), biometric data, and blockchain systems into his practice, treating machine learning as a creative collaborator. Works such as IAMA Coin (2018) explored identity as both technological and economic construct, and his AI-based projects are regarded as milestones in the development of the genre.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In 2024, he directed Am I?, widely recognised as the world’s first feature-length film generated entirely using artificial intelligence.</p>
<p dir="ltr">His work has been exhibited at major institutions including the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg (2018); the National Museum of China, Beijing (2017); Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2018); the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin (2015); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2016); the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2013); the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art (2014); and ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2019). His practice remains a key reference point in the emergence of AI-based art.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<h3 dir="ltr">Opening Hours</h3>
<p dir="ltr"><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">VIP Days (by invitation only):<br>First Choice | Wednesday, March 25, 12 noon to 8pm<br>First Choice and Preview | Wednesday, March 25, 3pm to 8pm<br>First Choice and Preview | Thursday, March 26, 12 noon to 4pm<br>First Choice and Preview | Friday, March 27, 12 noon to 2pm<br>First Choice and Preview | Saturday, March 28, 12 noon to 2pm<br>First Choice and Preview | Sunday, March 29, 11am to 12 noon</p>
<p dir="ltr">Vernissage<br>Thursday, March 26, 4pm to 8pm</p>
<p dir="ltr">Public Days<br>Friday, March 27, 2pm to 8pm <br>Saturday, March 28, 2pm to 8pm <br>Sunday, March 29, 12 noon to 6pm</p>
<p> </p>

Art Basel Hong Kong

<p dir="ltr">TAEX is delighted to present series by renowned artists Sasha Stiles and Marina Abramović at Art SG 2026.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Beginning with the exclusive preview of METHOD—the latest digital release by Marina Abramović powered by TAEX—alongside the previous series ART, the showcase offers a rare opportunity to view the works in a live setting.</p>
<p dir="ltr">METHOD is a series dedicated to the famous Marina Abramović Method, the foundation of MAI (Marina Abramović Institute). It presents the synthesis of lifelong artistic research and philosophy of Abramović and looks into the idea of human presence in time and space. The release reframes art as a shared experience rooted in presence, endurance, and heightened awareness. By guiding participants through simple but demanding exercises—often involving stillness, silence, and duration—METHOD shifts focus from the artist as performer to the audience as active co-creator.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The artworks are divided into two symbolic groups: Daily Routines and Experiences. Daily Routines are simple acts, such as watering and plant or ironing clothes, brought to an escalation by their infinite duration. Experiences examine the famous rituals and philosophy of Marina Abramović, depicting energy-transferring gestures.<strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Continuing the showcase is HEART MANTRAS—a generative performance by Technelegy, and a perennial poem—an act of autonomous authorship that writes and rewrites itself in real time. Inspired by a core text by Sasha Stiles and enacted through the architecture of poetic imagination, this living manuscript explores how creativity loops and lingers—how language echoes, circles back on itself, and finds new resonance with each return.</p>
<p> </p>

Art SG 2026

<p dir="ltr">TAEX is delighted to present Marina Abramović Element at W1 Curates during Frieze Week 2025. Taking over the iconic 167 Oxford Street building, MAE is turning it into an immersive show of digital performance by the avatar of Marina Abramović, reimagining presence on a grand scale!</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">At 6:30, TAEX will host a panel discussion Unseen Selves: Art, Identity, and the Digital Mask, bringing together digital art leaders such as cultural strategist Elle Anastasiou, artist Kevin Abosch, Artistic Director UBS Digital Art Museum &amp; Curator at Art Dubai Digital 2026 ⁠Ulrich Schrauth, and TAEX Director Stefanie De Regel for dialogues on the digital self, taking example and inspiration from the visionary project Marina Abramović Element.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">MAE is a visionary digital art project by the godmother of performance art, Marina Abramović, powered by TAEX. Join us to experience the timeline and behind the scenes of the project as well as a sneak peak into the next chapter—METHOD.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Recognised as one of the most important contemporary artists of our time, Marina Abramović embarked on a quest to create her avatar which serves as a vibrant extension of her performance practice into the digital age.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Created by the artist to be at the age of 60, when she felt the most complete, this avatar enables the new dimension of performances that blend unprecedented graphics and complex narrative, forming the first chapter of her digital catalogue raisonné.</p>
<p> </p>

Unseen Selves: Art, Identity, and the Digital Mask

<p dir="ltr">TAEX is delighted to present ETHICAL WORK—a series of moving and still works by the renowned artist Kevin Abosch.</p>
<p>With ETHICAL WORK Abosch is not interested in revealing how the images are made, but rather considers what they do once they appear. This body of work is focused on the substances and structures through which human life is built and sustained. The materials</p>
<p dir="ltr">that enclose, nourish, and protect, yet also deplete, contaminate, and endure beyond us, are placed at the forefront. Whether industrial or organic, synthetic or elemental, these substances are never inert. Indeed, they carry with them the histories of extraction, design, and disposal.</p>
<p>These works are labour-intensive. They are the result of baiting, coaxing, subverting and massaging the algorithm until materials are reconfigured into forms that hover between prototype and ruin, object and relic, architecture and debris. Their familiarity is paradoxical, insofar as they look like things we know, yet they resist clear identification, reminding us that the very stuff of culture is always unstable, always shifting between use and excess. </p>
<p>By leading with these unstable thresholds, ETHICAL WORK calls attention to the ways matter itself becomes ethically charged with human intention, cultural bias, and ecological consequence. While Abosch has chosen to confront the ethical conditions under which images, materials, and environments intersect, those conditions extend far beyond what is depicted. They include the energy-intensive infrastructures of cloud computing and GPUs, the unresolved debates over authorship and copyright in synthetic media, and the contested assertions of responsibility that come with AI image production itself. </p>
<p>What does it mean to aestheticise the substances that sustain and exhaust us, while relying on computational processes that consume vast resources? How do cultural values and political economies become inscribed in both material design and algorithmic generation?</p>
<p>These works hold such questions open. They do not resolve ethics but compel us to remain within its unsettled field. The stakes of image-making can never be neutral.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="text--xlarge">Vernissage</span></p>
<p>Wednesday, November 12, 2025</p>
<p><span class="text--xlarge">Public Days</span><span class="text--xlarge"> </span></p>
<p>Thursday, November 13, 2025, 1pm-8pm<br>Friday, November 14, 2025, 1pm-8pm<br>Saturday, November 15, 2025, 1pm-8pm<br>Sunday, November 16, 2025, 1pm-7pm</p>
<p><span class="text--small">(open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. for Collectors Circle members and VIP - with the exception of the vernissage)</span></p>

Paris Photo

<p dir="ltr">TAEX is delighted to present a special two-fold showcase for the 20th anniversary edition of Contemporary Istanbul 2025. Returning for the third time, the platform will present Marina Abramović Element, a collection by Marina Abramović and TAEX, and REBUILD, an exhibition by Atif Akin and Orkan Telhan curated by Dr Margarita Kuleva in booth A107, Hall A.</p>
<p dir="ltr">REBUILD is a site-specific show that draws inspiration from the richness of Istanbul's cultural layers and its remarkable capacity to rebuild itself after multiple crises. The show echoes the 18th Istanbul Biennale theme of self-preservation and futurities.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">In the current moment of political upheaval and institutional fragility, the urgency of rebuilding extends beyond metaphor into immediate necessity. As democratic institutions strain under pressure and social contracts fracture, we find ourselves confronting the same fundamental question that has driven Istanbul's continuous renewal: how do we reconstruct not just our physical spaces, but our collective capacity for resilience and dialogue?</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">As part of the show, Orkan Telhan will present Night Sways, but Underground Listens, a meditation on the sediments of Istanbul from a microbial perspective. The sculpture and corresponding digital artworks translate the microbial signature of soil into electrical signals, creating a two-week log of subterranean life, seen on the screens as a series of time-lapses, portraits of microbial rhythms. Atif Akin will exhibit Golden Myths, a site-specific project based on modelling and 3D scanning of the Tersane area, where Contemporary Istanbul takes place. Focused on revealing the complexity of urban cultural layers and myths in connection to the city's twisted relationships with hyper development, the work highlights the richness of the area’s history.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">Marina Abramović Element (MAE) is a visionary digital art project by the godmother of performance art, Marina Abramović, powered by TAEX. </p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Recognised as one of the most important contemporary artists of our time, Abramović embarked on a quest to create her avatar, which serves as a vibrant extension of her creative vitality into the digital age.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Created to be at the age of 60, when the artist felt the most recognised and content with her life and career, this avatar enables performances that blend unprecedented graphics, complex narrative, and present a new kind of catalogue raisonné.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">For CI 2025, TAEX is delighted to present the first phase of the project, ART, which is dedicated to the evolution of Marina Abramović’s artistic practice. A special focus is placed on the use of symbolism especially in Abramović iconic portraits featuring various animals (such as snakes and scorpions) as well the artist’s interaction with certain types of objects within contexts that have become central aspects of the artist’s performances.</p>
<p> </p>

Contemporary Istanbul 2025

<p dir="ltr">Marina Abramović, in partnership with TAEX, is pleased to announce the opening of its first museum showcase for Marina Abramović Element (MAE), a groundbreaking new digital art project. Located in the NFT room of Moco Museum London, the display will feature a curated selection of unique artworks from the first drop of the collection, ART, dedicated to the vivid symbology in Marina Abramović’s iconic performances and portraits. </p>
<p><strong><br><br></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Following the successful release of the first installment of the collection, with 70% of the artworks sold within the first 2 weeks, the market welcomed this major intervention by the godmother of performance art.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Marina Abramović, known for continuously testing the limits of her body, audience participation, and emotional presence, embarked on the journey to create the most accurate avatar of herself to date in order to extend her experiments to unprecedented levels. In the MAE Project, the very physical practice of Abramović blends with new technology resulting in a deeply intimate and vulnerable interaction with the digital audience. This pioneering project is an invitation to experience performance art on a new level, where the circumstances bend to the will of the artist and the audience becomes co-creators of the limitless archive of the future.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">MAE was met with initial scepticism from both the art and web 3 communities, as no artist before Marina Abramović has initiated such a large-scale avatar project, involving complex narrative and high-fidelity graphics, which seemed almost an impossible undertaking. However, following successful showcases on the main stage of NFC Summit Lisbon and Taipei Dangdai art fair, the project earned a following and a group of devoted collectors.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Released on June 18, drop ART is dedicated to the evolution of Marina Abramović’s extensive practice, incorporating fundamental archetypes and symbolism from her archival portraits. These tokens feature animals and objects, such as snakes, scorpions, and sculls, that create the moments of tension in Abramović’s iconic works, engaging with the audience on a primal, elemental level. </p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">The exhibition will run from July 25 till August 25, 2025.</p>
<p> </p>

MAE at Moco Museum

<h3 dir="ltr">TAEX is delighted to invite you to the upcoming edition of Art Basel Digital Dialogues, which will take place on June 21 at the Auditorium of Messeplatz during ArtBasel in Basel.</h3>
<p> </p>
<p dir="ltr">Digital Dialogues is a recurring series of panel talks dedicated to expanding the discourse around digital art in its broadest form. Bringing together artists, curators, and collectors to reflect on the changing nature of art in the digital age, Digital Dialogues has become an important part of the show. </p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">At Digital Dialogues, topics range from the impact of AI on creative practice to the relations between physical and digital art and the role of blockchain in shaping the future of art.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">The upcoming edition will consist of four panels featuring leading voices from the world of digital art:</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>1 pm–1:45 pm Seeing Like a Machine</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Kate Crawford (author, artist, and professor at USC) and Alistair Hudson (CEO at ZKM Centre for Art and Media) study perception and machine intelligence in contemporary art.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>2:15 pm–3 pm From Nature to Networks: Algorithmic Ecosystems</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Sofia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick (Entangled Others), and Linda Dounia explore organic forms, generative processes, and digital nature.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Moderator: Dr. Jeni Fulton (Art Basel)</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>3:30 pm–4:15 pm Language, Identity and AI Futures</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Sasha Stiles and Iskra Velitchkova discuss the role of AI in reshaping authorship, identity, and expression.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Moderator: Alex Estorick (Right Click Save)</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>4:45 pm–5:30 pm Collecting in an Expanding Art World</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">B (@beautyandpunk), Elle Anastasiou (0xCollection), and Ryan Zurrer (Dialectic Group, 1OF1 Collection) investigate how collecting evolves in a post-digital world.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Moderator: Eli Scheinman</p>
<p> </p>

Digital Dialogues

<h3 dir="ltr">TAEX proudly presents Marina Abramović Element (MAE)—a visionary digital art project by the godmother of performance art. </h3>
<p dir="ltr">Recognised as one of the most important contemporary artists of our time, Abramović embarked on a quest to create her avatar, which serves as a vibrant extension of her creative vitality into the digital age, working beyond physical limitations. This project marks a pivotal evolution in Abramović’s career—blending her decades-long legacy with the possibilities of the technological frontier. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Presented artworks pay homage to key artworks from her past, recontextualising them for the digital gaze, thus forming a new body of work.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">About NFC:</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">NFC is an experimental Web3 event that brings the global NFT community together. It exists to help shape the future of Web3 events.</p>
<p> </p>

NFC Summit 2025

<p class="p1">TAEX is delighted to present a group show for Taipei Dangdai 2025, featuring artworks by Tatsuru Arai, Krista Kim, and Shu Lea Cheang.</p>
<p class="p2"> </p>
<p class="p1">For its first edition of the fair, TAEX has chosen a selection of artists who are advancing the discourse on digital art and its relationship with society. Tatsuru Arai is studying the formation of our ecosystems through sound and video, creating sceneries of particle decomposition to signal rebirth. Krista Kim is presenting Zen colour landscapes to combat the constant distraction and dissociation pervading society today. Shu Lea Cheang’s piece Virus Becoming contemplates biopolitics of the future through the transformation of a fictional character, Reiko, into a viral entity.</p>

Taipei Dangdai

<p dir="ltr">TAEX is delighted to participate in the Loop Lab Busan Art Fair, showcasing new artworks from the celebrated series FLOW by French artist MAOTIK.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">FLOW is a data-driven installation that uses movement to create a dynamic visual and sonic experience. The original piece was designed as an immersive, interactive environment where natural rhythms shape an ever-changing landscape according to real-time weather data and lunar cycles.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">FLOW invites viewers to think about the environment in an abstract but meaningful way. It encourages viewers to think about the beauty of nature and to respect and protect the ocean and its delicate balance.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Through this work, the artist blurs the boundaries between art, science, and ecology, creating a digital experience where data becomes emotion, and immersion leads to awareness.</p>
<p> </p>

Loop Lab Busan

<p dir="ltr">TAEX is delighted to present a group show on time, nature, and human perception, featuring works by Krista Kim, Tatsuru Arai, Alper Derinboğaz and Orkhan Mammadov.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">Researching the patterns of human existence and the notion of contingency, each of the artists presents an element of our perception, surveying time, nature, technology, and culture, and the way they have changed thanks to technological innovations.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">A meditative series by Krista Kim, Continuum, is a gateway to Zen colour patterns, encouraging us to slow down in the oversaturated world. Face of Universe by Tatsuru Arai retraces the birth of our ecosystem, disintegrating nature into particles of nuclear memory. Alper Derinboğaz’s Neogene collection, picturing geological transformation of bismuth challenges our understanding of the flux of time. Algorithmic carpets by ORKHAN fuse the thousand-year-old tradition with advanced technology to give a glimpse of the possible future of an ancient craft.</p>

Art Dubai 2025

<h3 dir="ltr">TAEX is delighted to join SPARK Vienna 2025 with a solo showcase by a renowned artist Sasha Stiles—HEART MANTRAS.</h3>
<p> </p>
<p dir="ltr">Comprising four videos and one live artwork, this new series is a generative performance by Technelegy, an emergent AI poet conceived by Sasha Stiles, and a perennial poem—an act of autonomous authorship that writes and rewrites itself in real time.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">Inspired by a core text by Sasha Stiles titled Heart Mantra and enacted through the architecture of poetic imagination, this living manuscript explores how creativity loops and lingers — how language echoes, circles back on itself, and finds new resonance with each return. In doing so, it deepens Heart Mantra’s meditation on how technology, like poetry, binds us across distances — connecting us through space and time.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">Just as human inspiration gathers itself from the fragments we inherit (words, images, stories, sensations), Technelegy composes verse by drawing from its own “memory”: a dataset of 50 synthetic variations of Heart Mantra, written under close mentorship from Stiles. Technelegy then reads, interprets, and responds, using structured prompts to generate an original poem in real time — a unique text, never written before and never to be written again.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">At its heart, HEART MANTRAS makes tangible how creativity has always been an interplay of past and present, retrieval and reinvention, remembrance and revelation — now extending into the age of artificial intelligence. It also models a deeply intentional approach to human-machine collaboration, elevating dataset design and promptcraft as both a transformative artistic practice and new form of literature.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet and language artist whose award-winning work bridges tradition and innovation through hybrid poetics, generative imagination, and collaborative intelligence. Her transmedia practice reframes poetry as both art and technology — encoding human experience across space and time — while blending text, image, and algorithm to explore the role of human voice in a digital age. </p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">Since 2018, she has been at the forefront of human-machine co-creation, investigating the promise and peril of AI and blockchain in creative expression; her experiments and insights have positioned her as a leading voice in the global discourse on the future of art, technology, and humanity. Stiles’ work has been recognized by the Sigg Art Prize, Lumen Prize, and Prix Ars Electronica; featured by Artforum, Christie’s, and NPR; and exhibited and performed internationally, from Lincoln Center and the V&amp;A to Art Basel, Kunsthalle Zurich, Outernet London, and Gucci flagships worldwide.</p>
<p> </p>

SPARK Vienna

<h4>Digital Resurrection is a group show dedicated to the digital guises of the most popular artistic genres of all time. The exhibition invites viewers to witness the endless possibilities offered by the digital Renaissance of visual art—from AI portraiture and digital landscapes to multimedia abstraction and virtual sculpture.</h4>
<p>Multi-perspectival CGI sculptures MIME by Helin Sahin intertwine realistic landscapes and objects with the flowing 3D elements. She demonstrates how <a href="https://google.com">digitally</a> manipulated objects combined with translucent synthetic waves can be transformed into symbolic digital sculptures. You’re making art by Andrea Meregalli manifests the participatory potential of AI text-to-image software. The digital works series was created throughout TAEX’s exhibition Scoletta dell’Arte: Digital Reform in Venice, where visitors were using custom-made software, pre-trained by the artist feeding the machine with hundreds of his paintings and sdrawings. Massimo Magee explores the capacities of digital abstraction by combining experimental music and soft colour patterns into multi-layered tapestry of sound and visuals. Funa Ye creates digital collages focused on multifaceted identity, culture, and aesthetics of modern China. She uses GAN technology that is processing portraits of the Smart (Shamate) subculture in China. Tatsuru Arai reimagines the formation and growth of organic matter in the Universe. His plants and flowers that exist in digital space grow and bloom, transcending the limitations of physical materiality. Oğuz Emre Bal uses 3d modelling to surpass the physical boundaries of architecture. His artworks invite to focus on pure form and color transitions.<br><br>Having a completely different materiality and variety of tools, the digital art age inevitably transforms the genres. The dynamics between the author and their artwork and the viewer’s perception are getting challenged by the new stage in the History of Art.</p>
<p dir="ltr">As the media get animated and extend beyond the real world, some things remain—the passionate devotion of an artist to their craft and the presence of a [digital] canvas. The eight of Digital Resurrection artists clearly demonstrate the vast potential of the digital art universe.</p>
<p> </p>

NFT Paris 2025: Digital Resurrection

<p dir="ltr">TAEX is delighted to present an exhibition of works by the pioneer of Internet art Angelo Plessas, featuring a new series of interactive websites — Mirage Machines. </p>
<p dir="ltr">QuantaMirage.com, CycleOfEndlessRebirths.com, and BehindTheSolarGlow.com form three portals for the formation of a new cosmic consciousness. Angelo engages the viewer in a step-by-step process of TechnoShamanistic healing — through meditation, blessing, reflection, and rebirth. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The websites were created within the long-term project The Noospheric Society, which Angelo has been running since 2017. The term ‘noosphere’ here embodies a sphere, which has advanced from the biosphere into a new layer of global human intelligence.</p>
<p> </p>

Art Dubai 2024

<div>
<h3 dir="ltr">TAEX joins the 3rd edition of NFT Paris to present the Neogene collection by award-winning architect and artist Alper Derinboğaz.</h3>
</div>
<div>
<p dir="ltr">Neogene is a collection of works by the renowned architect and artist Alper Derinboğaz. The series consists of 3D artefacts, generated using Data Morphosis methodology, based on simulations of geological formations from prehistoric times. The collection aims to transfer the geological time markers of our planet into a digital archive, as the continuity of our existence is more and more debatable with the emergence of AI technologies and environmental threats. Each artefact has a unique pairing of generated 3D forms and earth-based material qualities. This collection reminds us that humankind exists on the Earth just for a singular moment of its global history. However, our limited perception of temporality poses a significant threat to human existence, within the realms of architectural and geographical issues. The collection is curated by Dasha Shkel.</p>
</div>
<div>
<p dir="ltr">The first release of the collection features the White Mass series, re-morphed from bismuth — a mineral that has been present since the formation of the Earth and changes with time. While observing the object’s alluring transformation, we witness the entire human life on Earth only in a single frame of animation. This material is a unique visual spectacle exhibiting a spiral, stair-stepped structure, deceiving the observer’s time perception. By the end of each loop, the time passed corresponds to 19 quintillion years. </p>
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<p dir="ltr">Explore the Neogene collection online and visit our booth G at NFT Paris from 23rd to 24th of February 2024.</p>
</div>

NFT Paris 2024

<div>
<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>
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div> </div>

Scoletta dell'Arte: Digital Reform

<div>
<p dir="ltr">Continuum is 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. Continuum Collection includes 10 unique segments from the whole Continuum artwork, featured at the Outernet during London Digital Art Week.</p>
</div>
<div>
<p dir="ltr">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.  </p>
</div>
<div>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<div>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Outernet </strong>is a global media and entertainment company. They create connected city-centre entertainment districts where music, film, art, gaming and retail experiences come to life in new breath-taking ways courtesy of our unique creative and technical capabilities.</p>
</div>
<div>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Digital Art Week </strong>centres on bringing digital experiences to life in exciting spaces and iconic locations. Powered by NextGen technologies, they bring brand storytelling to life through experiential digital arts.</p>
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<p dir="ltr">Screening of Continuum will happen twice every hour in the Outernet space.</p>
</div>
</div>

Continuum by Krista Kim at London Digital Art Week

<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<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>
<h4 dir="ltr">Agenda</h4>
</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<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>
</div>

Multimodality: The Audiovisual Avant-garde

<div>
<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>
</div>
<div>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
</div>
<div>
<p dir="ltr">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.  </p>
</div>
<div>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
</div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<p dir="ltr">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. </p>
</div>
<div> </div>

The Digital Art Mile

<div>
<p dir="ltr">On June 13, tune in to the thoughts and insights of the most influential people in digital art, while they ponder the questions that expand our vision for the future. The event will feature a large-scale installation Heart Space by Krista Kim.</p>
</div>
<div>
<p dir="ltr">The doors will open at 3 pm, the programme commencing at 4 pm with introductions by Alain Brusch, Global Head of Digital Platforms, Art Basel and Stefanie De Regel, Head of Development, TAEX.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Moving to the first panel of the evening at 4.15 pm — Digital art: transforming public spaces, pixel by pixel — artists Cory Arcangel and Krista Kim will discuss the socially engaged potential of digital artworks and talk about their experiments with it. Alex Estorick, Editor in Chief of Right Click Save will guide them along the curves of discourse.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Up next, at 4:45 pm, Dr Jeni Fulton, Head of Editorial, Art Basel will moderate a conversation on how digital media transformed the art world. Artists Rebecca Allen and Refik Anadol will dive into new forms of avant-garde artistic production.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The last Digital Dialogue of the evening will be dedicated to the question that never gets old: How to introduce new art forms to the public? From 5:15 pm, Sabine Himmelsbach, Director of The House of Electronic Arts (HEK) and Bettina Kames, Director of LAS Foundation will discuss the issue through the lens of digital media, with the help of the moderator Shaina Silva of Digital Art Week London.</p>
<p dir="ltr">To conclude the official part of the evening, renowned artist Sasha Stiles will do a poetry reading.</p>
<p dir="ltr">At 6:30 pm, the Dialogues will turn bubbly at the Speaker and VIP cocktail reception (by invitation only), followed by the Speaker dinner at 8 pm, hosted by TAEX (by invitation only). </p>
</div>
<div>
<p>Digital Dialogues are open to the public! Please RSVP via <a href="https://rsvp.link/taexatartbasel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the link</a> to secure your seat.</p>
</div>
<div> </div>
<h4>Time</h4>
<div> </div>
<div>
<p dir="ltr">3 pm - 6:30 pm (Including Panel Talks and Poetry Reading)</p>
</div>
<div>
<p dir="ltr">6:30 - onwards (VIP cocktail reception and Speaker Dinner)</p>
</div>
<div> </div>

Digital Dialogues by Art Basel

<h3>Art Basel Digital Dialogues, co-Hosted by TAEX, focuses on the interplay between art and technology. This event seeks to further the dialogue around digital art and on-chain art, engaging traditional collectors, artists, enthusiasts and the emerging crypto art community. </h3>
<p> </p>
<h4>Day 1: December 5, 2024</h4>
<p>Programme</p>
<p>12:00 PM | Welcome Address</p>
<p>12:30 PM – 1:15 PM | What is Digital Art?</p>
<p><br>Panelists: Christiane Paul (Curator, Digital Art, Whitney Museum); Casey Reas (Artist and Founder, Feral File)</p>
<p>Moderator: Tina Rivers Ryan (Editor-in-Chief, <em>Artforum</em>)</p>
<p>1:30 PM – 2:15 PM | What's Happening to the NFT Market?</p>
<p><br>Panelists:</p>
<p>Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile (Digital Art Patron &amp; Collector); Amy Whittaker (Associate Professor, NYU)</p>
<p><br>Moderator: Matt Medved (Editor-in-Chief, <em>NFT Now</em>)</p>
<p>2:30 PM – 3:15 PM | Going Phygital – How Hybrid Works Create New Communities for Digital Art</p>
<p><br>Panelists:</p>
<p>Sarah Meyohas (Artist); Seth Goldstein (Founder, Bright Moments); Ryan Wilson (ThankYouX) (Artist)</p>
<p><br>Moderator: Stefanie de Regel (TAEX)</p>
<p>3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Performance: Ana Maria Caballero</p>
<p> </p>
<h4>Day 2: December 6, 2024</h4>
<p>Programme</p>
<p>12:00 PM | Welcome Address</p>
<p>12:30 PM – 1:15 PM | Creating with AI</p>
<p><br>Panelists:</p>
<p>Kevin Abosch (Artist); Sougwen Chung (Artist)</p>
<p>Moderator: Jeni Fulton (Head of Editorial, Art Basel)</p>
<p>1:30 PM – 2:15 PM | Is Digital Art Forever?</p>
<p><br>Panelists:</p>
<p>Regina Harsanyi (Associate Curator of Media Art, Museum of the Moving Image; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Film, Columbia University); Michael Connor (Co-Executive Director, Rhizome)</p>
<p><br>Moderator: Coline Milliard (Executive Editor, Art Basel)</p>
<p>2:30 PM – 3:15 PM | Towards a Poetics of the Digital</p>
<p><br>Panelist: Operator (Artist)</p>
<p>Moderator: Ana Maria Caballero (Artist and Poet)</p>

Art Basel Digital Dialogues - Miami Beach

<h3 dir="ltr">TAEX is excited to participate in Untitled Art Miami Beach 2024. TAEX booth will show “Data Sovereignty is a Human Right” featuring digital art pioneers Krista Kim, Kevin Abosch, and Sasha Stiles. Three prominent artists address the critical and timely issue of data privacy and the broader societal implications of technology, especially as we stand on the brink of the artificial general intelligence (AGI) era.<strong> </strong></h3>
<p dir="ltr">A meditative artwork Mirror of the Mind by a Canadian-Korean artist and digital leader Krista Kim encourages viewers to find their own inner peace and balance while contemplating repetitive motion and gradient colourways. The other piece by Krista—Resonance Meditation—invites viewers to slow down and reconnect with their inner selves through the synchronized rotation of orbs, set to a calming four-second breathing rhythm, alongside soothing colours and the gentle flow of water. Inspired by Zen Buddhism Krista Kim offers to find harmony and balance through creatively and philosophically reconceptualized digital technologies.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Three Excerpts from Every Poem Starts with a Seed is a triptych by Kalmyk- American award-winning poet and language artist and AI researcher Sasha Stiles that combines organic creativity and synthetic imagination. It focuses on semantic transmission across space and time via poetry, voice and data. Stiles explores a human impulse to encode and share wisdom, emotion, and memory.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong id="docs-internal-guid-56eae215-7fff-4a8b-cb6c-80db5502f617"></strong>Implied Narrative by Irish conceptual artist Kevin Abosh focuses on gestures and morphology of a human hand. He reconsiders a hand as a symbol by using the body as a generative tool in order to deconstruct the surrounding narratives including existential reflections, personal and common memory and ability to take action.</p>

Untitled Art Fair 2024

<p dir="ltr">TAEX is excited to participate in Art Singapore 2025, showcasing the Continuum project by a renowned contemporary artist Krista Kim in FOCUS and DIGITAL SPOTLIGHT sections of the fair. </p>
<p dir="ltr">TAEX booth will feature works by Krista Kim who has close ties with Singapore. An award-winning Canadian-Korean artist, she is Metaverse Editor of Singapore Vogue, her works were exhibited at Singapore Art Museum and featured at Vogue Singapore.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Continuum project is a digital Zen landscape that was created in response to the disconnection and distraction pervading society today due to technology overuse. Krista Kim sought to transform digital screens into spaces for mindfulness rather than distraction. The collection on TAEX includes 10 unique 2-minute segments from the whole Contunuum artwork.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The artworks consist 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.  </p>
<p dir="ltr">The Continuum project is the most recognised series by Krista Kim. It overtook Times Square in 2022, as part of the Times Square Arts commission, turning an advertisement-filled space into a meditation zone. One of the three long Continuum pieces is in the permanent collection of LACMA Museum in Los Angeles. The second piece has been acquired by a prominent private collector and the third one we are showcasing at our booth.</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">About ArtSG:</p>
<p dir="ltr">Taking place in January at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre at the heart of Singapore’s financial district, ART SG is the leading global contemporary art fair in Southeast Asia. The fair launched in 2023 and features a stellar line-up of international and regional art galleries alongside a curated program of large-scale installations, experimental film and moving image, thought-provoking panel discussions and performances.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Differentiated from other art fairs, ART SG is geared towards the interests of the globally minded collector and aims to expand these interests by promoting new discourse and connections; encouraging cross-border collecting. ART SG helps galleries to broaden and deepen their networks and make an impact within the city of Singapore and the wider region.</p>
<p> </p>

Art Singapore 2025

<p>Art Basel, TAEX, and Digital Art Fair are pleased to invite you to an exclusive evening of cocktails and conversation, followed by a seated dinner, in celebration of the intersection of art and digital innovation.</p>
<p>The event will take place at Hôtel Plaza Athénée on Friday October 18th, 2024.</p>
<p>We look forward to sharing this memorable evening with you!</p>

Digital Dialogues for Art Basel Paris 2024

TAEX presents Krista Kim, MAOTIK and Alper Derinboğaz at the 19th edition of the fair

<h3 dir="ltr">This October TAEX returns to the Contemporary Istanbul art fair, which will reunite over 50 galleries from all over the world. Our booth at the Hall T1-09 will feature artworks by Krista Kim, MAOTIK and Alper Derinboğaz reflecting on human existence and our relationship with technology.</h3>
<p dir="ltr">TAEX presents artworks that focus on perpetual motion, the vast potential of nature to transform, human perception of temporality and a constant search for tranquillity. Three world-renowned artists are offering new paths to rethink our existence and relationship with technology. Taking their inspiration from various fields—philosophy, physics, geology and sociology, they prove the strength of an interdisciplinary forward-thinking approach.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Two meditative artworks by Krista Kim, <a href="/drop/39"><em>Continuum</em></a> and <em>Mirror of the Mind</em>, provide a gateway to digital Zen landscapes, encouraging us to slow down and concentrate on the essential existential issues. MAOTIK's <a href="/drop/41"><em>Everything flows, nothing dies</em></a> invites us to contemplate the movements of ocean waves and focus on cycles of life and our coexistence with nature. Alper Derinboğaz <a href="/drop/35/neogene"><em>Neogene</em></a> geological transformation of bismuth metal challenges our understanding of the flux of time.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Krista Kim</strong> 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 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.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>MAOTIK </strong>(Mathieu Le Sourd) is a French digital artist, who creates work at the intersection of art, science, and technology — immersive environments, interactive installations, digital architectural sculptures, and audiovisual performances. He presents projects of an unpredictable nature, which humanise technology by bringing it closer to our comprehension. Through the use of computer-generated algorithms, which MAOTIK tweaks with his own tools so that they improvise in real time and show contingency, his works transform the perception of space.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Alper Derinboğaz </strong>is an architect and artist known for his focus on seeking communal relationships between the environment and spatial elements through scientific strategies. His projects range from cultural institutions, including the upcoming Istanbul City Museum, to architectural installations and masterplans. As a Fulbright Scholar and winner of various awards, including the European 40 under 40 by The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, Alper showcased his research at notable events like the Venice Architecture Biennale.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Contemporary Istanbul is an esteemed international art fair, positioning the city as a pivotal hub for contemporary art on the global stage. Now in its 19th edition, the fair convenes a diverse array of galleries, artists, collectors, curators, and academics from across the world. Established in 2006 Contemporary Istanbul has grown to stand among over 350 art fairs worldwide, enhancing both the perception of the city and Turkey in the international art arena. The fair continues to fulfil its mission of fostering cultural dialogue and exchange between distinct regions, guided by its core principle of collective strength.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<h3 dir="ltr">Dates &amp; opening hours:</h3>
<p dir="ltr">At First Sight</p>
<p dir="ltr">October 22 | 12 pm-8 pm</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">VIP Preview</p>
<p dir="ltr">October 23 | 11 am-8pm</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">General Admission</p>
<p dir="ltr">October 24-26 | 11 am-8pm</p>
<p dir="ltr">October 27 | 11 am-7pm</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<h3 dir="ltr">Location:</h3>
<p dir="ltr">TAEX booth: Hall T1-09</p>
<p dir="ltr">Art fair venue: Haliç Camii Kebir Mahallesi Taşkızak, Tersane Cd. No:5, </p>
<p dir="ltr">34440 Beyoğlu/İstanbul </p>
<p> </p>

Contemporary Istanbul 2024

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>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<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>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<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>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<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>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<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>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<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>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<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>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">The exhibition will be open to the public until September 15, 2024*, with an exception of September 2nd.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<p dir="ltr">*closed on Mondays</p>
<p dir="ltr"> </p>
<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>
<p> </p>

Events