Adrian St Clair, Digital Curator
An Art and Design curator, who has experience in production of Art fairs as well as Museum exhibitions.
Alongside this he also has worked in Auction houses.
Graduated on Art and Design History and Practice. The main focus of his research is on digital Art Curation and History, which took over most of his written work at Kingston School of Arts. Recently, he has also taken a semester course at the Sotheby’s Institute in London of Art Business foundations and Placement.
Adrian believes art should be easily accessible to see and enjoy for everyone. This is a key reason that led his interest in becoming a Curator. He expanded this idea by exploring the potential that technology and the Internet can have to promote Art and creativity. As a result of this he wrote his dissertation at Kingston as a guide for the creation of fully digital and online Art exhibitions. However, his favourite Artist is still Caspar David Friedrich.
Having grown up in Madrid it was difficult for him to not be enthralled by places such as the Prado Museum. Later on, his experience working at the exhibitions department of the Thyssen Museum would fully cement his passion for curating.
Adrian StClair’ s Portfolio for Agora
Curator’s Radar Podcast
Videogame Art with Kristoffer Zetterstrand
In our fifth episode of Curator’s Radar, we are in conversation with Kristoffer Zetterstrand, an accomplished Swedish artist whose [...]
Curator’s Radar 4: Who’s Cem from Freeze Magazine?
That face when you meme your way to the top of the art world. Adrian StClair | Ed [...]
Curator’s Radar #3: art coding with Zach Lieberman
Play, Create, Surprise! Adrian StClair | Ed YoungMi Lamine | 21 March 2021 [...]
Curator’s Radar #2: Discover the XR artist Lucy Wheeler
Dive into the metaverse with Lucy Wheeler, an extended reality artist who converges her fine art skills with the [...]
Curator’s Radar #1: Discover Sian Fan the Multi-talented Artist
Agora Digital Art is proud to present the first episode of Curator's Radar with Adrian StClair. Our first mark [...]
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What is Data Art?
Let’s dive into the first artists using Data Art and discover what their concept was. Are you curious? Luke Treder | Ed. MiMi L. | 7 February 2023 [...]
Pioneers 3: Priska Pasquer
In this episode, we invited the German gallerist Priska Pasquer who re-invents herself precursor in VR / AR and NFTs. MiMi | Ed MiMi | recorded on 28 Dec 2022 [...]
Neuroplasticity or I Love You Gertrūda – Gertrūda Gilytė
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Painting the digital and painting digitally: The Proustian dialogue between Guy Yanai and Refik Anadol
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Lou-Lou João
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Digital era for The Garden of Earthly Delights
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New Media and Film: How Digital Changed Cinema
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Digital Dreaming: Four New Media Artists explore the abundance of imagination at the Venice Biennale
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Join our 90s redux with digital artist, Ilithya
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Art 101 or the Art of 1s and 0s: The infinite life of ASCII Art
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Buying the sky: Digital art at C/O Berlin exposes the reality of the cloud
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Four Women Artists Collapsing the Boundaries of the Metaverse.
The Metaverse is here, but whose world will it be? Discover four womxn artists who cross the precipice between traditional and New Media, moulding the Metaverse from within. Sarah L. Roberts | Ed. [...]
The Cyber Sublime, Between Myth and Reality
The Sublime 3.0: Fear & Awe is featured in The Wrong Biennale, pavilion 37, where we showcase how New Media artists are shaping and pushing the boundaries of the contemporary sublime. Divided into four categories: the [...]
The Face of The Rain – Marcella França
Marcella França’s artistic practice utilises a multidisciplinary approach to create powerfully evocative and immersive experiential art that speaks to the physicality of the human form. Through her multimedia form and hybrid language of dance, [...]
Neuroplasticity or I love you Gertruda – Gertrūda Gilytė
Resident: Gertrūda Gilytė Gertrūda Gilytė, Neuroplasticity or I Love You Gertrūda (2022) © Courtesy of the artist [...]
Six Female Webtoon Artists From Around the World Shaping Digital Comic Space
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Recentering 2: DATEAGLE ART
In the second episode of Recentering, Beth speaks to the co-founder of DATEAGLE ART, Vanessa Murrell, about the ways the curatorial platform seeks to champion environmental and socially sustainable practice. Bethan Carrick | [...]
Anna Ridler
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The Face Of The Rain – Marcella França
Resident: Marcella França Marcella França, The Face of The Rain (2020) © Courtesy of the artist. [...]
Keiken
Keiken Meet Keiken, the New Media artist collective based in London and Berlin bringing you new worlds with new values. The interdisciplinary, fem-led collective uses collaboration, Instagram filters, gaming, [...]
Magic by Kiki Reflects on Taking a Leap of Faith as an Independent Black Female Digital Artist
Magic by Kiki is an independent digital artist. Her clients include regular people, sole traders and large brands like Icy Cosmetics. She also works on artistic projects of her own and collaborations with other [...]
Dalena Tran
Dalena Tran Dalena Tran elucidates the vastness and overwhelming nature of the digital era in her video work Incomplete (2021). MiMi based on Eve Goulden | Ed. Peter [...]
The Rise of the Tidal Island Queens – Andrea G. Artz
Resident: Andrea G. Artz Andrea G. Artz , excerpt Taiku Forest of Query (2021) collaboration with writer Veronica B, and composer Hutch Demouilpied. [...]
The ultimate in iteration: Why do classical motifs keep popping up in digital art?
Digital art sits at the vanguard of art’s technical progression – it is hard to think of an artistic tool further from those used to sculpt the Venus de Milo than an iPad. So [...]
The Disembodied Sublime: Are You Really Who You Think You Are?
The Sublime 3.0: Fear & Awe is featured in The Wrong Biennale, pavilion 37, where we showcase how New Media artists are shaping and pushing the boundaries of the contemporary sublime. Divided into four [...]
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley uses Digital Art to reimagine the archive as an interactive experience. Will you centre Black Trans lives or be a passive trans tourist? Sarah [...]
What is Fungibility? NFTs, Slavery and Mushrooms.
Unpicking the lexicon of NFTs reminds us how interconnected capitalism, technology and slavery really are. Zelda Solomon | Ed. Peter Traynor | 27 December 2021 [...]
Rebekah Boshan Guo
Rebekah Boshan Guo Fashion Designer and Textile Artist Rebekah Boshan Guo merges material development, print design and up-cycling to develop new biodegradable materials and highlight sustainable solutions within the world [...]
Recentering 1: York Mediale
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Recentering by Bethan Carrick
This is Recentering, a podcast series hosted by Bethan Carrick. This podcast explores New Media Art, our environmental sustainability and what's going on in the UK by discussing across the cultural sector. Bethan Carrick [...]
Honey I’m Home – Amiss Collective
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X-pop – Leah Roh
Resident: Leah Roh Leah Roh, Xpop (2022) © Courtesy of the artist. Project concept: X-pop Curator's Words [...]
Sandra Araùjo aka S4RA
Sandra Araùjo aka S4RA If you're interested in exploring how computation shapes our world, have a look at this exhibition by S4RA (Sandra Araùjo: they/them) a non-binary and genderqueer Digital [...]
Bolim Jeon
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Digital Artist Refrigerator Art Creates Black Afro stories and Magical Heroins
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Sandrine Deumier
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Mária Júdová
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m o r e – Gabriela Reyes
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Wes Viz
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Honey, I’m Home 😉 – Amiss Collective
Residents: Raluca Moldoveanu and Alice Prum (Amiss Collective) Amiss Collective, Honey, I'm Home 😉 (2021) © Courtesy of the artists Raluca Moldoveanu and Alice Prum. [...]
Queering the Middle East and its Diasporas
This talk will draw on Walaa Alqaisiya’s work with Palestinian queer grassroots activism to discuss the political and conceptual urgency of centring settler-colonialism to gender and sexuality issues in the context of Palestine, the [...]
Valentina Ferrandes
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Women in Proverbs – Irem Çoban
Wherever you are from and whichever language you speak, just think of a proverb that objectifies or disparages women. Most probably, you will come up with one, if not with many. Işıl Ezgi [...]
Linda Loh
Linda Loh Digital artist Linda Loh’s works offer otherworldly landscapes of unfamiliar geometry and vibrant colour that will leave you mesmerised. Underlying these visually impressive creations however, is a curious [...]
Fair Warning: Risks and Opportunities for Digital Artists and Young Collectors
Why you should know about the new app that threatens to disrupt the conventional art market but offers opportunities to digital and new media artists and a new generation of art buyers who have [...]
#Blacktober: How Female Digital Artists Champion Black Representation In Webcomics
October is Black History month in the UK, which also coincides with #blacktober, a month-long event that celebrates and promotes Black and Mixed Black representation and creators’ works. For Agora, this means digital artworks. [...]
Sarah Meyohas
Sarah Meyohas Discover in this portrait, how Sarah Meyohas transforms everything into digital art. Rachel C. George | Ed. Peter Traynor | 12 October 2021 [...]
The Anxiety and Action of the Contemporary Natural Sublime
The Sublime 3.0: Fear & Awe is featured in The Wrong Biennale, pavilion 37, where we showcase how New Media artists are shaping and pushing the boundaries of the contemporary sublime. Divided into four [...]
Sian Fan
Sian Fan Unwind and meditate in cyberspace. New Media artist Sian Fan explores virtual embodiment, giving us time to breathe in our hyper-connected world. Sara L. Roberts | [...]
Cao Fei
Cao Fei Digital artist Cao Fei reflects on the impact of the rapid and chaotic changes in Chinese society on the sense of self, human relationships and the world through [...]
Databending: Painting the Post-Digital
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NFTism Pushes the Boundaries in the Digital Art World
NTFism: No Fear in Trying (NFTism) brings together around 100 digital artists from different backgrounds. The show taps into the diverse talent pool of male and female artists from around the world as it [...]
Women in Proverbs – Irem Çoban
Resident: Irem Çoban Irem Çoban, Women in Proverbs series: A woman who has big buttocks is the favourite one like a food with [...]
Four Arab Women Comic Book Artists
Ten years after the beginning of the Arab Spring how can they express themselves in the medium as Arab women? Arte TV | 2 September 2021 [...]
How Alexa Malizon Defines Her Identity
Alexa Malizon is one of 14 Australian artists who have been nominated for the Institute of Modern Art’s the churchie emerging art prize this year. In the run up to twin landmarks in Alexa’s [...]
What is Immersive Art?
The immersive art trend uses New Media to create a total-body experience. Is this a gimmick for the Instagram generation, or a transformative approach to Digital Art? Sarah Roberts | Ed. Peter Traynor [...]
How to create clean NFTs?
The world was disrupted by the non-fungible tokens, but those digital certificates present some difficulties. NFTs are difficult to mint, NFTs are expensive and NFTs damage the environment. In this article find two new [...]
West Sydney’s Finest Demon: Serwah Attafuah draws us into her digital dreamworld
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Mothers in Digital Art – Wednesday Kim and Flavia Visconte
Beyond the romanticised idea of (m)otherhood, does this "condition" changed with the symbiosis of technology and the artist's life? What are the stereotypes at play? Isabella Helms | Ed YoungMi Lamine | recorded: [...]
Green NFTs with Hic Et Nunc
Could Hic Et Nunc set an example for the future of NFTs? Jessica Lolonga Satchi | Ed. Peter Traynor | 15 July 2021 [...]
Lethabo Huma
Lethabo Huma Painting on a Digital canvas, Lethabo Huma’s virtual brushstrokes create expressive, personal New Media portraits James Dorman | Ed Peter Traynor | 10 July 2021 [...]
Léa Porré
Léa Porré The digital artist Léa Porré builds alternative worlds that transcend historical boundaries, detached from the binary notion of fact and fiction. Jessica Lolonga Satchi | Ed. Juliet Rennie | [...]
Tabita Rezaire
Tabita Rezaire Prolific digital art activist Tabitha Rezaire uses kaleidoscopic new media documentaries to reclaim the narratives of obliterated ancient African civilisations and share her perspective on the themes she [...]
Danger, High Voltage! Lightbulb Moments Abound at White Rabbit Gallery’s Lumen
Thunder, lightning, very very frightening! Light can shock, expose, surprise and clarify, but cannot exist without its sister state – darkness. In Lumen, White Rabbit Gallery’s twenty-third exhibition, digital and new media artists examine [...]
Wednesday Kim
Wednesday Kim Through sharing her perception of trauma, human psychology and identity, Wednesday Kim creates Digital Art with a human touch. Isabella Helms | Ed Peter Traynor | 27 June 2020 [...]
Palestinian voices in the arts
How do Palestinians express their identity and explore connections to their homeland through art? Deen Atger | Ed Peter Traynor | 26 June 2021 [...]
HyperAllergic: How Women Artists Were Marginalized in the Blockchain Discourse
These women artists have been developing the creative possibilities within blockchain technology since the beginning. Charlotte Kent | Ed HyperAllergic | 13 June 2021 Support [...]
AIDA Robot
AIDA Robot Is there a perfect algorithm for creating Digital Art? Artificial intelligence bot Ai-Da presents self-portraits, sculpture and more in her London Gallery Show. Sarah Roberts | [...]
Hedwich Rooks: A Polymorphic Art Practice
One of 100 talents recognised by GUP New Magazine in 2021, Hedwich Rooks shares insight into her diverse polymorphic practice. In this artist Q&A, she talks to Agora about all things technology, ecology and [...]
m o r e – Gabriela Reyes
Resident: Gabriela Reyes Gabriela Reyes, m o r e (2021) © Courtesy of the artist. Project concept: More Curator's [...]
Embodiment and Interventions in Digital Art – Marjan Moghaddam
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Digital Art: Hacks and Embodiment in the Work of Marjan Moghaddam
With her famous #arthacks and #glitchgoddess, the award-winning work of Marjan Moghaddam actively redefines form for digital art. On May 19th, Agora will be in conversation with Moghaddam to learn more about her career, [...]
Pioneers #2: Curator Christiane Paul
Agora Digital Art is excited to converse with Dr Christiane Paul, a legend in the field of Digital Art. Charlotte Call | Ed YoungMi Lamine | recorded: 12 May 2021 [...]
Marjan Moghaddam
Marjan Moghaddam Digital art innovator Marjan Moghaddam uses a unique style of 3d CG figuration and animation to explore digital embodiment for both traditionally curated art exhibitions and commissions and [...]
Auriea Harvey
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Belonging #2: Exploring Shifting Proximities at the Nxt Museum
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, [...]
Agora #1: Blockchain Certification for Digital Art – Vinciane Jones
Certification: What are the options for artists? YoungMi Lamine | recorded: 7 April 2021 Blockchain Certification for Digital Art - Vinciane Jones [...]
Are NFTs a Force for Good in the Art Market?
What exactly is an NFT, and why are they being touted as a tool for New Media artists to drive change in the art world? Sarah Roberts | Ed Cristina Brooks | 4 [...]
Ashley Zelinskie: What is Art for the Singularity?
“What is art?” is a question that has been haunting the minds of philosophers, artists, gallery-goers, art critics, your mum and pretty much humanity-at-large since the dawn of representation itself. Yet, whilst most of [...]
What Is at Stake in Jake Elwes’ Work of Queering AI?
New Media artwork, The Zizi Show by artist Jake Elwes is a deep fake drag show and the first-ever collaboration between artificial intelligence and drag. Deen Atger | Ed Juliet Rennie | 28 [...]
Exploration – Ashley Zelinskie
Resident: Ashley Zelinskie Ashley Zinskie, Exploration JWST (2017) Nasa laser gold plated 3d printed nylon 17 x 17 x 13 in © Courtesy of the [...]
Ashley Zelinskie
Ashley Zelinskie Can digital art be the language that bridges understanding of science, computers and humans? Ashley Zelinskie uses NFTs and 3D scans and printing to translate science and computers [...]
NFTs and Crypto Art Provide Platforms for “Invisible” Digital Artists
Japan-based digital artist and creator behind the virtual reality (VR) space Infinite Art Museum (IAM), Nigel Fogden tells us about his upcoming pieces and how NFT and crypto technologies breakthrough hierarchical art market barriers. [...]
NFTs in Digital Art: Tokens or Tokenism?
Discover how NFTs are democratising the art world and making it more inclusive to women in Digital Art. Venetia Jolly | Ed Peter Traynor | 28 April 2021 [...]
Women of Crypto Art (WOCA) Launch the NFT Arcana Crypto Tarot
22 women digital artists get together to create the world’s first functional Tarot NFT and launch it on programmable NFT art platform ASYNC, where it is currently available to view and open for bids [...]
Kelly Ewing Turns Female Forms to Digital Art
After turning her practice to Digital Media, artist Kelly Ewing explores the intersection of the feminine as an object and Irish folklore. Elspeth Walker | Ed Juliet Rennie | 23 April 2021 [...]
HyperAllergic: Why We Need a Feminist Manifesta of the Blockchain
The blockchain signals a shift in our identity formation in the 21st century. Claudia Hart | Ed HyperAllergic | 20 April 2021 Original article [...]
Belonging #1: What is at the heart of the Nxt Museum with Natasha Greenhalgh
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. [...]
wwwunderkammer from XR to social VR – Carla Gannis
wwwunderkammer from XR to social VR – Carla Gannis wwwunderkammer appeals to the 16th century “Cabinets of Curiosity” to consider the uncanny complications of grounded reality and virtual reality, nature and artifice, science [...]
Carla Chan Captures Nature in Digital Art
When thinking of Digital Art, you might imagine it as something artificial or unnatural, but this isn’t always the case. For Carla Chan, Digital Art can be organic and elemental. Depicting the movement of [...]
You’re Doing Amazing Sweetie? Kim and the Critical Eye of Digital Art
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Lu Yang
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Pioneers #1: Tamiko Thiel – Reflections on the Artist’s Way
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Coded Bias: Racial and Gender Bias in Algorithms
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What Is a Fashion Avatar?
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Penny Slinger
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FORMAT21’s Must-See Virtual Exhibition “Fluid Bodies”
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Queer As Art #1: Trans-Magic Identity Crisis – Sammie Veeler
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NUMOMO Podcast: What is Life as a Crypto Artist? (2/3)
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NUMOMO Podcast: What is digital token art on the blockchain? (1/3)
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Curating Speculative Futures – Alice Scope
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Cuerpas – Emma Shapiro
Resident: Emma Shapiro Emma Shapiro, Cut Outs, Projection Interaction (2021) © Courtesy of the artist. Project concept: Cuerpas [...]
Tamiko Thiel
Tamiko Thiel Tamiko Thiel uses deep fakes, fingerprints and phones to bridge the connection between digital media and reality. Sarah L. Roberts | Ed Peter Traynor | 2 March 2021 [...]
Reacting to 2020: A Digital Time Capsule
What would a digital time capsule of 2020 look or sound like to you? Samm Anga and Veronica Petukhov have collaboratively responded to the events and emotions of a tumultuous year through their multimedia [...]
The Spirit of the Salon Lives On In Melbourne – Digitally
In the age of hype and overexposure, can scrolling (or trawling) through Insta-art compare to the bustling exhibitions of 17th century Paris? The second National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Triennial invites you to explore [...]
How To Make It as a Digital Artist? Edie Murray Shares her 7 Top-Tips.
Edie Murray is a working artist. Here she sheds light on her experience and career as a Visual Artist working through the lens of New Media. She tells Agora how she makes a living, [...]
Carla Gannis
Carla Gannis When will digital art be considered a part of the art historical canon? Carla Gannis’ work reimagines historical masterpieces with digital iconography, inserting digital art into the heart [...]
Crypto, What Is It Good For?
An overview of cryptocurrency use case by Global Future Council on Cryptocurrencies Global Future Council on Cryptocurrencies | 16 February 2021 [...]
VR Film Makes the Silver Screen at Sundance
Do you trust the cloud to keep your memories safe? Using the medium of VR, Anna West and David Callana's film, To Miss the Ending, explores what happens when glitches begin to occur in [...]
What Is Generative Art?
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What Is a Deepfake?
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Make it Glitch, Baby! Why Womxn Have a Competitive Edge in New Media?
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The DSLcollection is Mind-blowing in an art game!
Rapidly evolving digital technologies offer unprecedented creative opportunities for digital artists, alongside the promise to disrupt strongly-held ideas about art ownership and collection. This month we are bringing you a unique collector’s perspective on innovative [...]
Who is Bolatito Aderemi-Ibitola?
By reclaiming narratives and generating space for collaboration, what can the world of Digital Art learn from Bolatito Aderemi-Ibitola? Her immersive installations fused with theatrical performance and augmented realities reveal how New Media art [...]
Alai Cinereo Weaves Gothic Narratives With Digital Comic Art
As the UK settles further into this winter lockdown you'll want to curl up and lose yourself in compelling storytelling offline with a book or, in spite of screen fatigue, streamed entertainment or a [...]
The Immersive Kind: A Space for Emerging Interdisciplinary Digital Artists with an X-factor
Many have tried to create an artistic community that welcomes non-binary and emerging artists. UK-based, global collective The Immersive Kind are experts in the matter, providing a 24/7 inclusive online community and platform for [...]
Rachel Rossin
Rachel Rossin Is technology nothing more than an extension of our body? Digital artist Rachel Rossin questions the difference between organic and virtual using AI, holograms and deep fakes. [...]
The sound in my head. A perfect moment for women in digital art – Monica Vlad
The sound in my head. A perfect moment for women in digital art – Monica Vlad Discover how Monica Vlad overcame the fear of creating sound compositions and audiovisual live performances on [...]
Digital Art Hidden in London’s Biggest AR Show
You can bring an invisible exhibition of Digital Art to life using just your smartphone in the capital’s first augmented reality show, Unreal City. Since December 8, the south bank of the Thames has [...]
The Intersection Between Gender and Artificial Intelligence
When most tech companies today (ab)use the term “AI” what they refer to are statistical models used to analyze large quantities of data (“Machine Learning”), sometimes using multi-layer architectures of neural networks (“Deep Learning”). [...]
Ophelia Fu Showcases New Crypto Art in Virtual World
UK-based mixed media and digital artist Ophelia Fu has a new digital art show that you and anyone else with lockdown-inspired cabin fever can view in a virtual world powered by the Ethereum blockchain. [...]
What is the Relationship between Digital Art and Memory?
How do we store and process painful memories? What’s more, who really decides what memories to keep — whose versions of events are privileged, especially in the digital age? These are some of the [...]
AES+F: Arzamasova, Evzovich, Svyatsky, and Fridkes
AES+F AES + F: Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky, and Vladimir Fridkes Russia’s new media artists’ collective AES+F uses haunting digital surrealism to recall nightmarish [...]
Claudia Hart: How Her Latest Digital Art Exhibition Got Meta
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Lilia Ziamou Creates Fragmented Bodies by Scanning Bones
Would you dare to use human bones as the basis for your next artwork? That’s what Lilia Ziamou has done. Her digital scans of human bones give rise to eerie, bone-like sculptures that can [...]
Claudia Hart
Claudia Hart A bridge between the virtual space and the reality, Claudia Hart’s works constantly seek to depart from the traditional male depictions of the virtual female. [...]
Faith Holland
Faith Holland Faith Holland displays a bold artistic vision, where human sexuality meets digital technology Euan McPherson | Ed Cristina Brooks | 1 December 2020 [...]
Meet James Turrell Who Lightens the Way for Immersive Installations
Pasadena-born digital artist James Turrell, who at the age of 77 continues to be one of America’s most prominent and influential artists, primarily uses his “perceptual” art to explore the relationship between light and [...]
Tabita Rezaire is Afloat Amongst Stormy Seas
The internet is the new ocean. As with the high seas in the late fifteenth century, today humans have managed to harness communication technologies to bring each other into closer contact. Henry Tudor [...]
Gretchen Andrew
Gretchen Andrew Can a woman artist subvert the machines? Well, let’s debug how Gretchen Andrew is using her SEO powers to set her digital supremacy. MiMi Lamine | Ed Cristina [...]
Where Science Meets Art, Helga Griffiths’ Multi-sensory Worlds
Euan McPherson | Ed Kiran Sajan | 22 November 2020 © Courtesy of the artist. Website Helga Griffiths was born in Ehingen, Germany, in 1959. [...]
What is the Digital Sublime?
What upsets our sense of harmony, self-preservation and spatiotemporality but, at the same time, fascinates us with a chaotic yet oddly satisfying sense of awe? Gabriella Gasparini | Ed Kiran Sajan | 22 [...]
What’s the Future of the Museum?
Virtual Reality is one of the technologies with the highest projected potential for growth. Whereas everyone speculates about the various applications of VR; the certainty is that virtual technology will open gates to limitless [...]
How Nicole Welch’s Time-lapse Video Collapses Time
Australian new media artist Nicole Welch explores the passage of time in her moving image works, immersing viewers in enveloping landscapes which evoke a sense of perpetuity. Elizabeth Harris | Ed Kiran Sajan [...]
Balancing Technologies and Thoughts
When you first see Chloë Cheuk’s works, new media art may not be the first thing coming to mind. Instead of flashy screens or complex computer coding, the artist embraces the beauty of simplicity. [...]
Re-materialisation of Digital Art in Mexico
Art has always faced the struggles of medium, technique, place and context. An art’s outcome has always been unsure from the moment it leaves the fingers of its creator. Its future always used to [...]
Black Blossoms School of Art and Culture: Decolonising the Physical and Digital Art World
The Black Blossoms artists’ group was established in 2015 by Bolanle Tajudeen. The original aim still holds true today: to support and highlight black women artists through talks, panels and exhibitions while collating a [...]
Sabrina Ratté
Sabrina Ratté Digital art goddess Sabrina Ratté deconstructs her own physique, using 3D scans of her body to remake the classical feminine nude in a digital art world. [...]
The Art of Breaking Boundaries: Digital Art at the Cutting Edge.
While many digital artists have embraced technology in the internet age, technologists have also embraced art, blurring the boundaries between art and science. Mechanical-engineer-turned-digital-artist Tamiko Thiel has been at the forefront of this evolution [...]
New Media Artist Siyu Cao Connects East and West in Webcomic Series
Francesca Miller | Ed Cristina Brooks | 2 November 2020 Artist Siyu Cao talks to Agora Digital Art about how she bridges cultures through her webcomic series, while she [...]
Seeking Perfection in Imperfection
The mark of what determines ‘perfection’ is one that is constantly changing, particularly regarding the female body. Isabella Helms | Ed YoungMi Lamine | 25 October 2020 [...]
Snow Yuxue Fu
Snow Yuxue Fu Delve into the liminal and explore the “techno-sublime” of digital art. Elspeth Walker | Ed YoungMi Lamine | 19 October 2019 [...]
Conflict in My Outlook_We Met Online (2020) – Xanthe Dobbie
Can a Buzzfeed-style quiz capture your online sexual persona? Would you want your results to be public? Queer Australian new media artist Xanthe Dobbie dares us to take an online quiz and ponder these [...]
Webcomic Series: Female Webcomic Artists Shoot to Fame
This is the first of a series of articles on female webcomic artists from around the world, telling how they gained prominence in a male-dominated industry thanks to their artistic talent and storytelling. [...]
Magic Realism and Afrabia
"Sudan is not really a country at all, but many. A composite of layers, like a genetic fingerprint of memories that were once fluid, but have since crystallized out from the crucible of possibility" [...]
Lethabo Huma: Painting Without a Brush
Lethabo Huma’s artwork highlights how the medium of painting is no longer just for physical paint, but also digital brushstrokes. Elspeth Walker | Ed Cristina Brooks | 5 October 2020 [...]
Sound and Motion: Arash Akbari Bridges Worlds
Iranian artist Arash Akbari’s newest work Sonomotion blends hypnotic visuals with experimental tracks to examine the ways that sound affects the properties of his digital matter. Across three video pieces, Akbari’s work explores the [...]
Composer Samm Anga Explores Digital Music and Multimedia Channels
If you’ve ever joined one of our Agora Talks, you’ve most probably experienced the work of Samm Anga in the ident music. Nick Dunn | Ed YoungMi Lamine | 29 August 2020 - additional [...]
Digital Art across Borders
With all of us staying at home more to limit the spread of Covid-19, many have settled into a new normal thanks to communications technologies allowing us to continue pursuing social activities. By now we’ve [...]
Can Digital Art Help You to Fall in Love?
Can Digital Art, and most specifically virtual reality, help us to understand each other? And, therefore help us to fall in love with the world around us? Katie Yook | Ed YoungMi Lamine [...]
What is Computer Generated Imagery (CGI)?
When you hear the term CGI you may suddenly be catapulted to the bright lights of Hollywood and the ground-breaking graphics of feature films such as Avatar, Jurassic World or The Matrix. Sophia Harris | Ed Clare [...]
Hyper-linking away from loneliness with Amrita Hepi
Can a chatbot help us find deeper human connection? In Hyper-linked at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Amrita Hepi wants us to find out. Elizabeth harris | Ed Clare Deal | 23 [...]
About the Net With Wade Wallerstein From Silicon Valet
From anthropology to digitalogy, there is only one jump that Wade Wallerstein did brilliantly with his project: Silicon Valet. YoungMi Lamine | 20 August 2020 [...]
We will be seen – visibility in the works of Martine Syms
Immerse into a digital realm, where stories are told through the eyes of an artist committed to depicting real life, in an uncensored whirlwind of video, performance, archive and image. Lauren Gee | [...]
Scroll > Swipe > Zoom > Tap > Scroll > Scroll > Scroll
Gabriella Warren-Smith captures this constant ‘automatic ingrained behaviour’ with our digital devices perfectly, revealing that the average person checks their phones every 12 minutes. Mishelle Brito | Ed Francesca Gransden | 8 August [...]
Scenographer, Architect and Artist: Rebecca van Beeck defies artistic labels
South African artist Rebecca van Beeck talks with our Editor about her migration online during lockdown and her participation in the experimental exhibition: THE PLOT. Interviewer Francesca Gransden | Ed YoungMi Lamine | [...]
‘Existence as Protest’: The Necessity of Osinachi’s Character Explorations
Prince Jacon Osinachi Igwe, known as Osinachi, is a Nigerian born artist who explores cultural, sexual and racial identity through his digital artworks created on Microsoft Word. Rebecca Bury | Ed Francesca Gransden [...]
Cinopticon (2020) – Giselle Stanborough
Conceptual artist, Giselle Stanborough considers the boundary between the public and private spheres in the context of online life. Elizabeth Harris | Ed Francesca Gransden | 28 July 2020 [...]
Four Diverse Female Artists Redefining The Digital Art Scene
Four women artists to watch using Digital Art in various disciplines. Sophia Harris | Ed Francesca Gransden | 27 July 2020 Digital art, although a relatively young art form, [...]
What is digital art and why does it matter?
What about digital art makes it “art”, and what makes it a worthy component of the 21st art landscape? Megan Powell | Ed Francesca Gransden | 20 July 2020 [...]
Procreate and be a mother … – Helen Benigson and Paola Lucente
What does it mean to become a mother in the 21st Century? Alexandra Busila | Ed YoungMi Lamine | 18 July 2020 © [...]
The Serpentine published “Future Art Ecosystems 1: Art and Advanced Technologies”
When Hans Ulrich Obrist said " It's time for Art and Technology", he meant it. Artnews | Brian Droitcour | 17 July 2020 The Serpentine Gallery, London, is revolutionising the [...]
(M)otherhood: Online, Offline and in Lockdown
Benigson uses the terms “Fattening” and “flattening” are words that we can physically feel on our fingertips. As something expands and contracts, our mind is drawn to matters of the flesh; the fullness of [...]
The New Media Sculpture and Performance of Colette Bernard
Looking at how technology is enhancing pre-existing artistic practises. Elspeth Walker | Ed Francesca Gransden | 10 July 2020 © Courtesy of the [...]
Speaking through screens, the spatial imagination of Sondra Perry
Technology is the chosen vocabulary of artist Sondra Perry, whose body of works form an unapologetic discourse on race, class and identity. Lauren Gee | Ed Francesca Gransden | 10 July 2020 [...]
Blue Prints (2020) – Cao Fei at Serpentine Gallery
Explore Cao Fei’s physical and virtual worlds as Blueprints re-opens at Serpentine Gallery Robert Perry | Ed Francesca Gransden | 19 February 2020 Cao Fei, Asia One, 2018, Video, 63’20”. Courtesy [...]
How architecture enhances digital experiences?
Over the past few months, nostalgia has been omnipresent in our hyperconnected memory culture. Alexandra Busila | Ed YoungMi Lamine | 8 July 2020 [...]
Immersive Digital Approach to Space
Agora digital is proud to present as our speakers Rebecca Van Beek a scenographer and artist, alongside Architects and co-founders of the Plot Art Gallery Alex Coetzee, Ashleigh Killa and Max Mellvill as part [...]
How women subvert the art world using digital art
Can women artists beat men with their own tools? That's what we going to discover with Gretchen Andrew and Penny Slinger in this first Agora Talk. Isabella Helms | Ed Francesca Gransden | [...]
How Digital Art subverts the gender imbalance in the arts
Women Artists Teaching Machines How To Dream ... Alexandra Busila | Ed Clare Deal | 14 June 2020 Penny Slinger, Don't look at [...]
NIRIN: 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020) – Lisa Reihana
Drawing attention to often sidelined and disenfranchised art and creators, Sydney’s 22nd Biennale curated by indigenous artist, Brook Andrew, has seized the opportunity to feature stories which all too often sit on the periphery [...]
Maria Mahfooz “It’s Not Easy Being Green”
It’s Not Easy Being Green, sang Kermit the Frog. Elspeth Walker | Ed: Clare Deal | 5 June 2020 30 Q’s with [...]
Any Means Necessary: The Interdisciplinary World of Jamilah Sabur
Journeying home in the works of Jamilah Sabur Lauren Gee | Ed Clare Deal | 29 May 2020 Jamilah Sabur. Un chemin escarpé [...]
Video visionary: the life and works of Nam June Paik
By normalising the use of modern visual technologies as fine art forms, Nam June Paik earned his reputation as one of the late twentieth century's most innovative artists. An archetypal postmodernist, Paik's fusion of [...]
Ellen Pau: self-taught video art pioneer
Get to know Hong Kong-born, media artist Ellen Pau and her unique journey to becoming one of the world’s most prominent video artists. Lauren Gee | Ed Francesca Gransden | 15 [...]
Art is Still Here: A Hypothetical Show for a Closed Museum (2020) – Lu Yang
M WOODS gallery in Shanghai has released an incongruous online group show. Elizabeth Harris | Ed Francesca Gransden | 27 April 2020 © Courtesy [...]
Tara Marynowsky, Coming Attractions at The National: New Australian Art 2019
Films such as Pretty Woman, watched and re-watched over time, can become like familiar friends. Elizabeth Harris | Ed Clare Deal | 11 May 2020 [...]
Refik Anadol is the painter of Data Art
Refik Anadol's algorithmic art is a merging of man and machine. Robert Perry | Ed Francesca Gransden | 8 April 2020 - updated 19 Dec 20 [...]
Companionship in the Age of Loneliness (2020) – KAWS
What a perfect title in Covid19 times ... Elizabeth Harris | Ed: Francesca Gransden | 4 April 2020 KAWS "Gone" (2020) at NGV [...]
Who is Miquela Sousa?
The 19-year-old is a singer, a model and an Influencer who is worth $6m. What is the Miquela's phenomenon? Elizabeth Harris | Eds: Francesca Gransden | 29 March 2020 [...]
Quarantine Chat!
Talk on the phone with someone else stuck at home. YoungMi Lamine | 12 March 2020 How it works? Danielle Baskin and Max [...]
Terminus (2020) – Jess Johnson and Simon Ward
Choose your own adventure or fated quest? Jess Johnson and Simon Ward’s cybernetic world captures the unease of reality. Elizabeth Harris | Ed: Francesca Gransden | 6 March 2020 [...]
How Art and Science Collide to a New Level with Genetics and Artificial Intelligence
Visions of the Future: Art, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence is a documentary by Arte Arte TV | 2019 Arte, Visions of the Future: [...]
Crypto Art Fraud on Rarible Sparks Governance Discussion
On Feb. 8, artist Karan Singh notified via Twitter, the blockchain-based art platform Rarible that some of his work had been fraudulently listed. Crypto Briefing | 14 February 2020 [...]
Timely Time (2017) – Natasha Caruana
Reviewed by Fiorella Lanni for thisistomorrow | Published on 23 October 2017 Courtesy of Tabish Khan - Experiencing the VR story of Natasha Caruana. Listen to the moving story underpinning "Timely [...]