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Alice Scope, the founder of Cultural Policy, shared her experience of virtual world creation and the construction of detailed identities in 3D characters. She illustrated how to apply personal experience to public projects, the process from inception to the exhibition of her two latest art projects (Webtaura and Posthuman Island), and discussed how digital art can tackle social issues.

About Alice Scope

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In our fifth episode of Curator’s Radar, we are in conversation with Kristoffer Zetterstrand, an accomplished Swedish artist whose blend of classical and digital art styles is behind some of the most exposed works of art to have ever existed.

Kristoffer speaks on his story as an artist encountering grand classical subjects within videogames, his relation to Minecraft and more on this month’s episode.

This Curator’s Radar episode is hosted and curated by @AdrianStClair, Digital Curator @AgoraDigitalArt

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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@AgoraDigitalArt is thrilled to have Emma Shapiro @exshaps as our #artistinresidence and during the #womensmonth2021

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This talk explores in-depth Shapiro’s series called #Cuerpas, a poignant visual exploration of the self, the female body and empowerment of identity that can arise when a woman goes on the other side of the camera.

Starting last December at The Liminal gallery in Valencia, Spain; Cuerpas is an investigation of identity, ageism and body-representation. These works include repeated encounters mixing multi-media including self-portrait collages, videos, projections and performance elements.

In contrast to the male gaze, for Emma Shapiro, the act of filming is a physical work in which one is both seeing and being seen. Her performance works emphasise torment, discomfort, vulnerability and exposure as a constant search to create a new language that would differ, in a more nuanced manner, from those of our fathers or lovers.

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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#ResidencyLab #WomenInDigitalArt #AgoraDigitalArt #agoranetwork #womenartists #feministart #femalebody #selfportrait #cutout #EmmaShapiro #IWD2021 #bodyascanvas #womenhistorymonth

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How can humans hope to transmit our cultural heritage into the future when humanity’s entire existence is a mere blink of an eye on a cosmic time scale? What does this sense of scale—of the vastness of time and space—means for art?

Utilising a post-New Media approach, wherein the media employed are merely vehicles in service of underlying concepts, Ashley Zelinskie attempts the process of translating our vast history into a universal language meant to stand the test of time.

By fabricating traditional objects in dual forms—as the classical entity and the data that represent them—her work seeks to focus a lens on our place as a small part of a larger whole. By drawing her inspiration from historical ideas and icons she is coding the essence of humanity into works of art—art for the singularity.

About the Artist: Ashley Zelinskie

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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As a pioneer in 3dCG and Digital Art, Marjan Moghaddam will take us on a journey through feminism, embodiment and #arthack interventions, spanning her career from the early days to the established artist today.

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Curator and Moderator: Elizabeth Richardson

About the artist

From important museum shows to viral animations, Marjan Moghaddam’s art practice offers lessons in expanding art history into the 21st century in authentic and persistent ways. Her pioneering techniques in each era have innovated aesthetically, technologically, conceptually, and philosophically.

While technology creates flatness in culture, she has delivered profound, moving, and sublime works. Whether it be through her proprietary technique of Chronometric Sculpture which blends the ideals of animation with that of sculpture, to her unique approach to the digital embodiment that employs her figural vocabulary of 3d CG modelling and character animation, she has sought out the profound aspects of contemporariness through digital toolsets.

A rare opportunity to hear from one of the very few women in the world with such a prolific digital art practice.

#MarjanMoghaddam #AgoraDigitalArt #WomeninCryptoArt #WomeninNFT #pioneers

Agora Digital Art is excited to converse with Dr Christiane Paul, a legend in the field of Digital Art.

In this episode, we have the chance to share Christiane Paul's views on the evolution of Digital Art, her work as an Adjunct Curator at the Whitney Museum, and her next projects.

What’s Next for Christiane Paul?

About Dr Christiane Paul

Dr Christiane Paul is Associate Prof. and Associate Dean at the School of Media Studies, The New School, and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In addition to those roles, Christiane is chief curator/director of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design, and a professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School.

She has written extensively on new media arts and lectured internationally on art and technology. Her recent books are A Companion to Digital Art (Blackwell-Wiley); Digital Art (Thames and Hudson, 3rd revised edition, 2015), Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (Intellect, 2011; Chinese edition, 2012), co-edited with Margot Lovejoy and Victoria Vesna; and New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (UC Press, 2008).

This Pioneers' episode is hosted and curated by @CharlotteCall, Digital Curator @AgoraDigitalArt

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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#Pioneers #ChristianePaul #DigitalArt #CharlotteCall #AgoraDigitalArt #WomenInDigitalArt

In this episode, we will find out from three different perspectives how the Nxt's current exhibition was formed and how it works to communicate the goals of the Nxt museum to strive for conversation, community and innovation.

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Multimedia artist Heleen Blanken talks about her work Habitat as part of the Shifting Proximities exhibition at Nxt Museum, represented by the Curator of the show, Bogomir Doringer, and Co-founder, Natasha Greenhalgh.

Habitat is a data-driven installation by Heleen Blanken with software developer NAIVI and sound artist Stijn van Beek, presented for the first time at Nxt Museum. The work translates 3D scans of organic artefacts from Leiden's Naturalis Biodiversity Center into a game-like, meditative environment.

About the artist

Heleen Blanken lives and works in Amsterdam. She is working across media cinematography, photography and installation art. She holds a Bachelor in Fine Art from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. 

The Nxt Museum: Shifting Proximities - group show until 30 June 2021 United Visual Artists Heleen Blanken Thijs Biersteker The Algorithmic Justice League Yuxi Cao (James) Roelof Knol Marshmallow Laser Feast Lucy McRae & Dr Niels Wouters

Belonging podcast is hosted, curated and edited by Natasha Waddell, Agora Museum Contributor.

About @AgoraDigitalArt

Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are building 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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#NxtMuseum #NatashaGreenhalgh #MuseumCuration #NatashaWaddell #DigitalCurator #WomenInDigitalArt #AgoraDigitalArt #DigitalArt #NewMediaArt

Women21Century 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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W21 20/21 theme is dis/embodiment.

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This talk explored how Digital Art, with its capacity to replicate and virtualise our reality, can help to redefine our notion of ‘being humans’. Drawing from the postfeminist writings of Rosi Braidotti, artist Lito Kattou explores the way we interact with the world by creating installations that keeps human characteristics as part of their ambiguous forms, implying in this way morphological conversations and adaptations. As part of her residency for 89plus curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castets at Google Cultural Institute in Paris in 2017, Kattou realised San, an ungendered AI hybridly conceived with the human, divine, and animal traits, living in the Red Lake in Mitsero, Cyprus – recreated by Kattou as a real-time digital environment.

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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#Women21Century #W21 #AIArt #AgoraDigitalArt #DigitalArtNetwork #AgoraNetwork #DigitalArt #NewMediaArt

In our fourth episode of Curator’s Radar, we are in conversation with Cem, the person behind one of the latest art world players that the digital age has brought up; @Freeze_Magazine is a prominent meme account commentating on anything that happens in the art world.

From how he has grown his 67k followers, to a lot of information about the surprisingly intricate process of making art memes among many behind the scenes insights Cem could give us.

This Curator’s Radar episode is hosted and curated by @AdrianStClair, Digital Curator @AgoraDigitalArt

About @AgoraDigitalArt

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Transforming the New Media Art Scene in the Netherlands, in this episode of Belonging, we chat to Natasha Greenhalgh about how the future, present and past all come together in Amsterdam’s Nxt Museum.

In this episode, we discuss what is at the heart of the Nxt Museum, and how the DNA of the Museum speaks to its relationship with the art, innovation, creatives & audience.

About the guest

Natasha Greenhalgh, Co-Founder & Creative Director at Nxt Museum (@NxtMuseum) in Amsterdam.

Having studied at Chelsea Art College, Natasha is trained in Spatial Design and this is what drives Natasha’s interest in how the Nxt Museum can most effectively use its dynamic space to communicate its obsession with the future, constantly looking for opportunity & innovation. Natasha is devoted to ensuring the Nxt Museum is a place for the many, not just the few, opening up conversations to those who might have previously felt excluded. In the future Natasha is planning to incorporate more performances, music and dance into the Nxt Museum’s programme, connecting with a diverse variety of up-and-coming creatives in order to achieve this. Natasha is currently developing Nxt Lab, an educational space for experimentation, research, development & failure, designed to empower and inspire the pioneers of tomorrow.

Belonging podcast is hosted and curated by Natasha Waddell, Agora Museum Contributor.

About @AgoraDigitalArt

Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are building 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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#NxtMuseum #NatashaGreenhalgh #MuseumCuration #NatashaWaddell #DigitalCurator #WomenInDigitalArt #AgoraDigitalArt #DigitalArt #NewMediaArt