Agora Digital Art

The Dream VR exhibition launched on 22 January 2023, led by our Digital Curator, Dr. Isil Ezgi Çelik, with an Opening Talk with prestigious guests:

The talk was followed by a VR tour with the artists.

Visit The Dream ►► https://agoradigital.art/virtual-reality-exhibitions/the-dream/

Eleven artists in the show: Lacey aka @Post.liang , Erin A Collins @erinacollins, Daniela Lucato @daniela.lucato, Olga Klimovitskaya @paraseusse, Jennie Feyen @fey.films, Johanna Rummel @johannarummel_, Joa Heikkinen @@Joa.Hei, Blobbt TV @@Blobb.TV, Jekein @Jekein, Martina Morger @@MartinaMorger, Cara Macwilliam @@CaraMcWilliam_art

Guest Artwork: Danielle Lebbos @Danielle_Lebbos

Guest Dreamer: Kaori Endo @_kaori_endo_

#AgoraDigitalArt #TheDream #VRExhibit #groupshow #womenindigitalart

Dans cet épisode, nous avons invité la galeriste allemande Priska Pasquer qui se réinvente en précurseuse dans la VR/AR et les NFTs.

IG: @priskapasquer | w: PriskaPasquer

En 2017, la galerie Priska Pasquer a lancé la première exposition numérique intitulée Reset III and Virtual Reality. Sur base de ce succès, 10 expositions numériques supplémentaires ont suivi dans l'espace jumeau virtuel de la galerie, permettant au programme d'expositions analogiques d'être étendu au monde virtuel avec des réalités virtuelles et augmentées. Et récemment, Priska Pasquer Gallery a lancé une archive ART NFT à Tezos. En plus de sa galerie à Cologne, Priska Pasquer Galerie ouvre une deuxième galerie à Paris, mi-janvier 2023, dans le quartier branché du Marais. L'adresse est 6 rue des Coutures Saint-Gervais, 75003 Paris - FR

#priskapasquer #WomanArtDealer #DigitalArt #NFT #VRart #Paris

In this episode, we invited the German gallerist Priska Pasquer who re-invents herself precursor in VR / AR and NFTs.

IG: @priskapasquer | w: PriskaPasquer

Back in 2017, Priska Pasquer Gallery launched the first digital exhibition called Reset III and Virtual Reality. Based on this success, 10 additional digital exhibitions followed in the gallery's virtual twin space, allowing the analogue exhibition program to be expanded into the virtual world with virtual and augmented realities. And recently, Priska Pasquer Gallery started an ART NFT archive in Tezos. In addition to her gallery in Cologne, Priska Pasquer Gallery is opening a second gallery in Paris, mid-January 2023, in the fashionable district Le Marais. The address is 6 rue des Coutures Saint-Gervais, 75003 Paris - FR

#priskapasquer #WomanArtDealer #DigitalArt #NFT #VRart #Paris

Residency Curator: Elizabeth Richardson

Learn about this whimsical residency ►► here

Join us for the Hubs Party on 19 July 2022, at 6 pm BST | 7 pm CEST

Have you ever thought of knitting a love letter to yourself? Gertrūda Gilytė’s durational project: Neuroplasticity or I Love You Gertrūda, does just that. Gilytė merges knitting and TikTok-based video performance to explore self-help discourse and the rise of online mindfulness trends.

Gertrūda Gilytė uses personal development as performance, exploring how self-development practices and personal vulnerabilities may be explored as an artistic tool. Neuroplasticity or I Love You Gertrūda examines personal development through knitting, a craft and method that has proven health and wellbeing benefits, including improving neuroplasticity, lowering blood pressure and slowing the onset of dementia, as well as reducing loneliness, anxiety and depression. “Neuroplasticity” refers to the means by which neural networks may be formed or reinforced through new skills or movements.

This project represents Gilytė’s desire to also explore “the object” and its place within art history. Gilytė has made a daily commitment to knitting “I love you”s into neon green scarves and documenting her process on TikTok until one of her scarves is sold in the art market. Her definitive goal of attributing art market value to a self-improvement object seeks to reflect the means by which personal development practices are becoming increasingly commodified.

This critique is amplified through the use of TikTok as a performance space and tool, in which Gilytė submerges within a narrative of influencer culture and mainstream personal development trends. Gilytė documents this process through daily TikTok videos that take place in various performative settings, accompanied by voice-overs that explore both her personal development and the performative aspects of a digital mindfulness persona. The artist questions the sincerity of her performance throughout, as Gilytė illuminates in one TikTok: “knitting is somehow seen as being a really wholesome activity, domestic and fragile maybe, […] but does it remain the same way if it’s purely performative? If, for example, I’m not wholesome at all but want to trick you, to appear this way?”

About the artist

Gertrūda Gilytė (born 1992, Lithuania) is a New Media artist whose work revolves around the theme of “personal development as a performative practice”. In 2022, she finished her MA in Art in Context at the University of Arts, Berlin. In 2016, she graduated from Sculpture Department at Vilnius Academy of Arts.  In 2015, she graduated in Political Science at Vilnius University.

#AgoraDigitalArt #GertrudaGilyte #ILoveYouGertruda #Neuroplasticity #WomenInNewMedia

@MarcellaFranca.Arts is our #artistinresidence during the #womensmonth with the sumptuous project #TheFaceofTheRain, previously presented @sat_montreal

More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/artist-residency-the-face-of-the-rain-marcella-franca/

The Face of The Rain is an immersive dance performance that mixes live performance movements captured by Kinect, then transformed into a 3D point cloud integrating generative images and animation.

This poetic experience talks about memory and the life cycle. We are all born from water and become rain after our death.

This video is available on @withfoundation

#MarcellaFrancaArts #digitalperformance #danceperformance #videoart #xrart #lifeanddeath #immersiveart #artistresidency #WomeninDigitalArt #AgoradigitalArt

W21 is an open-source data feminist project that has received contributions from all around the world.

W21 is an ongoing participatory art project focusing on post-feminism and intersectional practice in art, science, culture, and technology. We aim to map feminist practice and to write a collaborative manifesto for the digital era, with deep considerations of gender, class or race.

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Speakers: Margot Mottaz, Associate Curator at Superblue in conversation with Wilhelmina Madeley, Head of Exhibition at Acute Art and Zaiba Jabbar, Digital Curator and Founder of Her Vision.

The three curators will answer the following questions:

- How to build and engage with the audience in multidimensional spaces?

- How the body can perform and be represented in these constantly changing yet interdependent spaces?

Moderators: Valeria Facchin and Delanie Linden

For this #womensmonth, discover the artist residency project X-pop by @leahroh

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What comes into your mind when you think about Oriental women? Are they smiley discreet yellow faces, are they K-pop chic or cynical like in the Squid Game series?

In this work called X-pop, Leah Roh confronts the covert and overt racist depictions of East-Asian archetypes from pop culture, in a gamified satirical web-based VR experience. The viewer will experience the X-pop, a virtual celebration of Hollywood’s “Asian-American” community, in Mozilla Hubs.

About the artist

Leah Roh (b. 1991 – USA) is a Brooklyn-based 3D artist and educator. She builds computer-generated experiences that explore the ways in which interactive technologies can bridge the gap between new media and pop culture. Through 3D animation and game engine software, Leah designs engaging experiences based on her personal relationship with overt and covert systemic racism and sexism as a Korean-American woman, stemming from the inequities in representation in mainstream media. Her practice examines how virtual mediums can cultivate accessible spaces for cultural engagement and be applied for experiential education and storytelling. She is a NEW INC alum and currently teaches Experiential Art at Pratt Institute’s New Media programme and 3D design at NYU’s Integrated Design Media programme.

About @AgoraDigitalArt

Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one of the most dynamic creative hubs in London. We champion artists who have something to say. We bring diverse communities and artists together. With your generous support, we will build the best digital network.

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#leahroh #3Dartist #xpop #kpop #kdrama #koreanamerican #madeinusa #womenindigitalart #AgoraDigitalArt #internationalwomensday #venusofmetaverse

Hosted by Bethan Carrick @bethanelericarrick

Vanessa talks to Beth about DATEAGLE ART’s recent projects and discusses the everyday considerations that curators and gallerists go through to reach sustainable goals. Revealing how exhibition-making is not a simple path from artist to viewer, instead of being a constant mediation of multiple webs, Vanessa considers the path to achieving sustainability through curation.

DATEAGLE ART is a London-based contemporary art platform highlighting emerging and under-represented artists, founded in 2017 by curatorial duo Martin Mayorga and Vanessa Murrell. The pair have established a diverse, creative community through their intimate approach to connecting with artists. Cultivating online journal content, studio visits, interviews, offline exhibitions and public programming, the platform engages in an extensive discourse, observed through the lens of the artists they work with.

Originating from Spain, Vanessa Murrell is an art curator, educator and writer based in London. Concerned with the inclusivity of emerging artists and neglected sectors, she co-founded the contemporary art platform DATEAGLE ART in 2017. She has interviewed 150+ UK artists, co-curated exhibitions introducing 50+ artists and expanded her activities with commissions, exhibitions, educational initiatives and public programming. Her texts have been published in  Coeval, Dazed, émergent, Flash Art, METAL, Ocula, Soft Punk and Something Curated

About @AgoraDigitalArt

Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one of the most dynamic creative hubs in London. We champion artists who have something to say. We bring diverse communities and artists together. With your generous support, we will build the best digital network.

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#DigitalArt #NewMediaArt #AgoraDigitalArt #Gateagleart 

In this first episode of Recentering series, we chat with Creative Producer, Kate Farrell and Assistant Producer, Willow Bowen, from York Mediale.

Drawing on their national and international projects, Farrell and Bowen discuss how new media art allows them to explore humanity and nature, topics that are central to their organisation.

York Mediale is an International New media arts agency, originally founded in 2016 as a biennale festival. From their Yorkshire base, they represent artists and artworks, deliver new commissions and live events as well as are engaged with long-term interventions that support holistic artistic development. It is their aim to stimulate new thinking by working around the blurred edges of digital art.

Hosted by Bethan Carrick @bethanelericarrick

About @AgoraDigitalArt

Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one of the most dynamic creative hubs in London. We champion artists who have something to say. We bring diverse communities and artists together. With your generous support, we will build the best digital network.

►► Donate via Paypal

#DigitalArt #NewMediaArt #AgoraDigitalArt #YorkMediale

Hosted by Bethan Carrick @bethanelericarrick - the Podcast Recentering focuses on New Media Art, the cultural sector in the UK, and the environmental sustainability.

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Hello and welcome.

I'm Beth, your host for this new series called Recentering, which explores contemporary New Media Art through the lens of environmental sustainability.

The climate crisis is at the forefront of our collective mind right now. Whilst the art world's impact on the crisis is small in comparison to industries such as construction and agriculture, it still has a part to play.

In the series, I want to recenter the conversation around art and the environmental crisis, demonstrating the ways in which art can engage audiences on an emotional level on these vital topics, transcending facts, figures, and politics.

I'll be discussing with new media artists, curators and creative practitioners on the ways in which they push the boundaries through that practice in order to engage audiences with the environmental issues of today.

About @AgoraDigitalArt

Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one of the most dynamic creative hubs in London. We champion artists who have something to say. We bring diverse communities and artists together. With your generous support, we will build the best digital network.

►► Donate via Paypal

#DigitalArt #NewMediaArt #AgoraDigitalArt