Shows
Agora Digital Art23.11.22 The Dream VR exhibition - talkThe Dream VR exhibition launched on 22 January 2023, led by our Digital Curator, Dr. Isil Ezgi Çelik, with an Opening Talk with prestigious guests:
Sharon Sliwinski, Assoc. Prof. University of Western Ontario, and Founder of the Museum of Dreams
Marek Wojtaszek, Asst. Prof. University of Lodz
Duane Rousselle, Asst. Prof. IITG Founder of Anarchist Development in Cultural Studies
Vesna Petresin, Transdisciplinary artist who will discuss the work: The Dreams Our Things Are Made On
The talk was followed by a VR tour with the artists.
Visit The Dream ►► https://agoradigital.art/virtual-reality-exhibitions/the-dream/
Eleven artists...
2023-02-111h 03
Agora Digital Art23.01.02 Pioneers 3: Priska Pasquer Gallery (en français)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 archi...
2023-01-0214 min
Agora Digital Art23.01.02 Pioneers 3: Priska Pasquer Gallery (in English)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 s...
2023-01-0214 min
Agora Digital Art22.07.01 Agora Podcast: Gertrūda Gilytė presents "Neuroplasticity or I Love You Gertrūda"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 Yo...
2022-07-0214 min
Agora Digital Art22.04.05 Marcella França - The Face of The Rain - Digital Residency project@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 #Womenin...
2022-05-0121 min
Agora Digital ArtW21 Partner event: Three degrees of separation: from Real to Virtual spacesW21 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 curato...
2022-03-241h 19
Agora Digital Art22.03.10 Agora Residency: X-pop by Leah RohFor 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. 19...
2022-03-1747 min
Agora Digital Art22.03.13 Recentering #2: Vanessa Murrell from DATEAGLE ARTHosted 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...
2022-03-1328 min
Arts & Entertainment with Chris & RandallPop-up Retail, Installation art, Happening, Land art, Virtual reality, Immersive artChris and Randall discuss Pop-up Retail, Installation art, Happening, Land art, Virtual reality, Immersive art. Are they all part of a single aesthetic? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-up_retail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality https://agoradigital.art/blog-what-is-immersive-art/ Topics discussed include: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tant_donn%C3%A9s https://www.thecollector...
2022-01-0734 min
Agora Digital Art21.11.25 Recentering #1: York Mediale - Kate Farrell and Willow BowenIn 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...
2021-12-1719 min
Agora Digital Art21.11.11. Recentering by Bethan CarrickHosted by Bethan Carrick @bethanelericarrick - the Podcast Recentering focuses on New Media Art, the cultural sector in the UK, and the environmental sustainability.
More info ►► Agora Digital Art
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 p...
2021-12-1501 min
Agora Digital Art21.11.09 Agora Residency: “honey, i’m home”); - Amiss CollectiveRaluca Moldoveanu and Alice Prum (Amiss Collective) talked with Isabella Helms about their residency project “honey, i’m home”);
As the domestic landscape engages with objects in relation to social constructs, the Amiss proposal captures meanings within objects of the banal: mirrors and concepts of identity and vanity; laptops and notions of digital connectivity; cleaning supplies as a reflection on gender roles; makeup items suggesting the struggle surrounding beauty standards; magazines and idea of connection with media and culture; beds and definitions of sexuality. The use of some of the stated above objects supports the intrinsic nature of bia...
2021-11-1913 min
Agora Digital Art21.09.22 Agora Residency: "m o r e" [m á s] - Residencia del artista Gabriela Reyes (en español)Gabriela Reyes alias @CeroTres conversó con MiMi sobre su residencia en Ágora.
👉 Descubre su nuevo proyecto llamado “m o r e” mezclando nuestras emociones con su arte generativo abstracto monocromático y su sonido.
Curada y moderada por Liz Richardson
Visite la exposición de realidad virtual: más ►► Hubs Mozilla diseñados por @Metaxustudio
Sobre el artista
Gabriela Reyes (B. 1990, México). Diseñador y Artista Multimedia egresado de la Escuela de Diseño del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes de México.
El desarrollo de su trabajo artístico...
2021-11-0513 min
Agora Digital Art21.09.22 Agora Residency: More - Gabriela Reyes artist's residency (new recording)Gabriela Reyes aka @CeroTres conversed with Liz Richardson @_Liz_Richardson about her Agora's Residency.
👉 Discover her new project called “m o r e” mixing our emotions with her monochrome abstract generative art and sound.
Curated and Moderated by Liz Richardson
Visit the VR Exhibition: m o r e ►► Hubs Mozilla designed by @Metaxustudio
About the artist
Gabriela Reyes (B. 1990, México). Designer and Multimedia Artist graduated from the School of Design of the National Institute of Fine Arts of Mexico.
The development of her artistic work is an accompani...
2021-11-0516 min
Agora Digital Art21.11.05 Agora Residency: Women in Proverbs - Irem Çoban (in English)Are all proverbs always wise? Discover some extravagant thoughts about women with Turkish illustrator, Irem Çoban.
Artist: Irem Çoban
Project: Women in Proverbs
Digital Curator: Isil Celik
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. The Digital Art exhibition Women in Proverbs provides a colourful criticism of the ways in which proverbs around the world depict women.
This year, Agora Digital Art’s artist in resident in S...
2021-10-1613 min
Agora Digital Art21.11.05 Agora Residency: Atasözlerinde Kadın - İrem Çoban (Türkiye’den Misafir Sanatçı)Atasözleri her zaman doğru mu söyler? Türk illüstratör İrem Çoban ile kadınlar hakkında yanlış bilinenleri keşfedin.
Sanatçı: Irem Çoban
Proje: Atasözlerinde Kadın - Women in Proverbs
Dijital Küratör: Işıl Ezgi Çelik
Nereden olursanız olun ve hangi dili konuşursanız konuşun, kadınları nesneleştiren veya küçük düşüren bir atasözü düşünün. Büyük olasılıkla, birçoğu olmasa da bir tane bulacaksınız. Kadın Atasözleri Dijital Sanat sergisi, dünyanın d...
2021-10-1615 min
Agora Digital Art21.09.22 Agora Talk 29: More - Gabriella Reyes artist's residencyGabriela Reyes aka @CeroTres conversed with Liz Richardson @_Liz_Richardson about her Agora's Residency.
👉 Discover her new project called “m o r e” mixing our emotions with her monochrome abstract generative art and sound.
Curated and Moderated by Liz Richardson
About the artist
Gabriela Reyes (B. 1990, México). Designer and Multimedia Artist graduated from the School of Design of the National Institute of Fine Arts of Mexico.
The development of her artistic work is an accompaniment between visual programming, basic electronics and phenomenological exploration of light and spac...
2021-09-3023 min
Agora Digital Art21.07.14 Agora Talk 23: The Rise of The Care Machines - Wednesday Kim and Flavia VisconteListen to our #artpodcast and discover 🔥𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕽𝖎𝖘𝖊 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕮𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘🔥 featuring #motherartists
Moderator and Curator: Isabella Helms
More info ►► website
Artists in the show:
Julie Béna, Catherine Biocca, Ching Ching Cheng, Sofía Córdova, Julie Grosche,
Faith Holland and Hildegard Holland Watter, Monika Horčicová, Rory Scott, Wednesday Kim and Flavia Visconte
@chingchingcheng @juliebena @catherinebiocca @yagrumo_yal @julie_grosche
@asugarhigh @monika_horcicova @rks_xo @flaviavisconte
👉Check this show: https://www.deformal.com/exhibitions/the-rise-of-the-care-machines
MozillaHubs is still on and better experienced on desktop with Firefox or GoogleChrome!
Presented by De:Fo...
2021-07-1926 min
Agora Digital Art21.07.07 Agora Residency: Homo Ex-Machina - Joshanne Dar's artist residency@JoshanneDar @joshanne conversed with @amielmimi about her Agora's Residency
👉 Discover her new project called “Homo ex Machina – now playable” mixing our awareness of virtual back to the physical
Curated and Moderated by Amiel Maucade
About the artist
Joshanne Dar (b. 1996) is an Asian-Australian artist; her practice merges art direction, filmmaking, moving image, performance, sculpture and digital installation. Her interests incorporate science, math and psychology; attempting to create alternative discourses around social topics through deconstruction and experiments with atmosphere and subject matter.
About @AgoraDigitalArt
Agor...
2021-07-1422 min
Agora Digital Art21.04.07 Agora: Blockchain Certification for Digital Art - Vinciane JonesIn this Agora, we learned more about the importance of certification and creative authenticity for digital artists. Vinciane Jones spoke about how Verisart empowers artists to tell the story of their work and enables trusted transactions by giving collectors confidence in the identity of the artists.
Vinciane Jones, Head of Community at Verisart, talked about the importance of certification and the options available to artists.
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 s...
2021-07-0630 min
Agora Digital Art21.06.23 Agora Talk 27: What’s the meaning of architecture in the Metaverse? Pierre Francois GerardImmerse yourself in the Metaverse
In this Agora Talk, discover the advantages of social VR in Mozilla Hubs with Dr P-F Gérard from Metaxu.Studio
More Info ►► Talk Page
The VR expert will share a quick history of virtual reality technology and give us a personal guided tour in Mozilla Hubs.
Curator and Moderator: Isabella Helms
Apologies for the echo, it's usually not like that.
About @AgoraDigitalArt
Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one of the most dynamic creative hubs in Lo...
2021-07-0628 min
Agora Digital Art21.03.17 Agora Talk 18: Speculative Futures - Alice ScopeMore Info ►► Talk Page
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
About @AgoraDigitalArt
Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one of the most dynamic creative hubs in L...
2021-06-1131 min
Agora Digital Art21.06.01 Curator’s Radar #5: Classical videogame art with Kristoffer ZetterstrandIn 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 on...
2021-06-0126 min
Agora Digital Art21.03.31 Agora Residency: Memory + Identity at the Border of Digital and Physical Art - Emma Shapiro@AgoraDigitalArt is thrilled to have Emma Shapiro @exshaps as our #artistinresidence and during the #womensmonth2021
More info ►► Agora Residency Cuerpas
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 contra...
2021-05-3139 min
Agora Digital Art21.05.05 Agora Residency: Digital Art for the Singularity - Coding the Essence of Humanity - Ashley ZelinskieMore Info ►► Talk Page
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...
2021-05-3028 min
Agora Digital Art21.05.19 Agora Talk 21: Embodiment and Interventions in Digital Art – Marjan MogghaddamAs 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.
More info ►► Past Talks
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...
2021-05-2348 min
Agora Digital Art21.05.16 Pioneers #2: Christiane Paul, a legend in Digital ArtAgora 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?
The curation of version 4.0 at DiMoDA, The Digital Museum of Digital Arts (VR Museum).
Several projects curation at the Whitney Artport website.
The fourth edition of the book Digital Art will be published soon.
...
2021-05-1646 min
Agora Digital Art21.05.06 Belonging #2: Exploring Shifting ProximitiesIn 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.
More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/podcast-belonging-2-exploring-shifting-proximities/
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...
2021-05-0749 min
Agora Digital Art21.04.27 W21 - Partner event: Posthuman Condition in Digital Art Practice - Lito Kattou and Kay WatsonWomen21Century 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.
►► More info on the event page
►► Participate in the project
W21 20/21 theme is dis/embodiment.
►► Lito Kattou and Kay Watson
This talk explored how Digital Art, with its capacity to...
2021-05-0233 min
Agora Digital Art21.04.25 Curator's Radar #4: Who's Jim From Freeze Magazine?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
Abou...
2021-04-2920 min
Agora Digital Art21.04.16 Belonging #1: what is at the heart of the Nxt Museum with Natasha GreenhalghTransforming 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.
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
Luc...
2021-04-1728 min
Agora Digital Art21.04.15 Numomo partner event: NFTs - How to capture more value from your digital artworks? (4/6)How to capture more value from your digital artworks?
with the Founders: Scott Fuzion and Jin.S
They answered 3 questions, based on Jin's experience:
How to build your online community?
How to keep engaging with your followers?
How to sell digital token art?
NUMOMO is a creative token agency based in Seoul, South Korea. Both founders, Scott Fuzion and Dr. Rolf Hoefer answered the problems artists face in the digital age and how blockchain can solve them.
►► More info on the event page
#N...
2021-04-1644 min
Agora Digital Art21.04.02 Numomo partner event: How to capture more value from your digital artworks? (3/6)How to capture more value from your digital artworks? (3/6)
with the Founders: Scott Fuzion and Dr. Rolf Hoefer
Special Guest: @dielamaharanie
NUMOMO is a creative token agency based in Seoul, South Korea. Both founders, Scott Fuzion and Dr. Rolf Hoefer answered the problems artists face in the digital age and how blockchain can solve them.
►► More info on the event page
#dielamaharanie #NUMOMO #AgoraDigitalArt #NFT #NFTs #NFTArt #NFTArtist #NftWomenArt #NftWomen #NftWomenArtists #WomenInNFT #WomenInNFTs #womenincryptoart
2021-04-1551 min
Agora Digital Art21.02.25 Pioneers #1: Tamiko Thiel - Reflections on the Artist’s WayThe new podcast series Pioneers focuses on the digital artists who were the early adopter of art and technology. This episode is hosted and curated by Peter Traynor, Digital Contributor @AgoraDigitalArt
Tamiko Thiel talks here about her career so far as both an artist and as a developer of some of the first super-computers. She reflects on her experiences as a woman in both art and technology, not just in terms of obstacles she encountered but also the support she received. She also considers some of the barriers she encountered as she crossed from one to the...
2021-04-0252 min
Agora Digital Art21.03.19 NUMOMO Partner event: What is Life as a Crypto Artist? (2/3)What is Life as a Crypto Artist? (2/6)
with the Founders: Scott Fuzion and Dr Rolf Hoefer. And, the new collaborator: Jules Simoneau
Special guests crypto artist: Snow Yunxue Fu
NUMOMO is a creative token agency based in Seoul, South Korea. Both founders, Scott Fuzion and Dr. Rolf Hoefer answered the problems artists face in the digital age and how blockchain can solve them.
They discussed how artists can use NFTs to sell their digital art, develop their brand and engage their community.
►► More info on the event page
2021-03-2856 min
Agora Digital Art21.03.21 Curator's Radar #3: Zach LiebermanIn our third episode of Curator’s Radar, we are in conversation with Digital Artist, educator and coding mastermind Zach Lieberman.
Nothing is off the table here, we asked him about his work process on his highly appraised “Everyday Sketches” that he has been working on since 2016 and posting consistently since then, join us for a fun conversation on the experience of an artist turned coder turned digital artist.
This Curator’s Radar episode is hosted and curated by @AdrianStClair, Digital Curator @AgoraDigitalArt
About the artist
Zach Lieberman (B. 1977...
2021-03-2732 min
Agora Digital Art21.03.10 Queer as Art: Sammie VeelerThe new podcast series Queer as Art is focusing on queer digital artists, hosted and curated by Amiel Maucade, Digital Curator @AgoraDigitalArt
About the Artist
Sammie Veeler is a Californian multidisciplinary artist. Her prolific production encompasses literature, music and virtual reality. From writing her own democratic and participatory novel based on James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, following a Surrealist legacy of the train of thought, to experimental and organic music producing, Sammie Veeler asserts her Jack of all trades status.
Coming from as much self-exploration as self-knowledge, her touch all work tackles identity iss...
2021-03-1817 min
Agora Digital ArtBelonging hosted by Natasha Waddell (trailer)Agora Digital Art new podcast addition is : BELONGING, hosted and lead by Natasha Waddell, Museum podcaster.
Belonging is a podcast, which will focus on methods of curating digital and new media art. Examining what challenges digital art presents to traditional methods of curation and how museums can incorporate this and work to promote less conventional narratives through the curation of the art, helping us to further understand day's world and looking at what it means to belong within a museum space.
I'll be developing a series of podcast episodes, examining the role of women in...
2021-03-1701 min
Agora Digital Art21.03.10 Queer Art #1: Sammie VeelerThe new podcast series Queer Art is focusing on queer digital artists, hosted and curated by Amiel Maucade, Digital Curator @AgoraDigitalArt
About the Artist
Sammie Veeler is a Californian multidisciplinary artist. Her prolific production encompasses literature, music and virtual reality. From writing her own democratic and participatory novel based on James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, following a Surrealist legacy of the train of thought, to experimental and organic music producing, Sammie Veeler asserts her Jack of all trades status.
Coming from as much self-exploration as self-knowledge, her touch all wo...
2021-03-1319 min
Agora Digital Art21.03.05 NUMOMO Partner event: What is digital token art on the blockchain? (1/3)What is digital token art on the blockchain? (1/6)
NUMOMO is a creative token agency based in Seoul, South Korea. Both founders, Scott Fuzion and Dr. Rolf Hoefer introduced the problems artists face in the digital age and how blockchain can solve them.
They discussed how artists can use NFTs to sell their digital art, develop their brand and engage their community.
►► More info on the event page
What did we learn?
How NUMOMO’s network can fast track artists’ success following the “same feather flock together”.
How NUMOMO plays the role of...
2021-03-0847 min
Agora Digital Art21.02.27 W21 - Partner event: Does AI Need a Body - Gretchen Andrew and Helene von SchwichowWomen21Century is an open-source data feminist project that has received contributions from all around the world.
W21 is an on-going 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.
►► More info on the event page
►► Participate in the project
W21 20/21 theme is dis/embodiment.
The speakers were asked three questions:
Does AI need a body?
How d...
2021-03-0720 min
Agora Digital Art21.02.10 Agora Talk 16: DSLcollection: A Challenging Project between the Gaming and the Art experience - Karen LevyIn exclusivity for Agora; @KLevy75 from @Aika.Connection introduced us the “Forgetter”, the new VR Game concept to host the prestigious #DSLcollection.
More info ►► @AgoraDigitalArt
What did we learn?
What are the curatorial challenges to build narratives and immersive experiences in different environments: such as #VRChat or on #Stream - the gaming platform.
DSLCollection
From the very beginning of setting up the DSLcollection in 2005, Dominique and Sylvain Levy wanted to establish a model that would make collecting art continuously active and meaningful, always moving with...
2021-03-0128 min
Agora Digital Art21.02.17 Agora Talk 17: Lend Me Your Face – Go Fake Yourself! – Tamiko Thiel and Jon UriarteTamiko Thiel, Multimedia artist and Jon Uriarte, Digital Curator at The Photographers’ Gallery for Lend Me Your Face – Go Fake Yourself! a participatory deep fake artificial intelligence project on view at TPG until 17 March 2021.
This project uses deep fake artificial intelligence technology to animate single photos of faces with facial expressions and body language "borrowed" from driving videos of public figures.
With deep fake AI technology, the face - the most intimate and yet public part of the self - and the emotions it expresses can more and more easily be manipulated and placed in contexts...
2021-03-0138 min
Agora Digital Art21.02.14 Curator's Radar #2: Lucy WheelerThe new podcast series Curator’s Radar continues with the extended reality artist @LucyJWheeler
Learn more about her work series “Just In Time”, her collaboration with various artists to create a community in the metaverse.
She also is the co-founder and creative director at The Immersive Kind.
This Curator’s Radar episode is hosted and curated by @AdrianStClair, Digital Curator @AgoraDigitalArt
About the Artist:
Lucy Wheeler (b. 1995) is an extended reality artist living and working in London, UK. She teaches digital technologies at London College of Fashion a...
2021-02-2620 min
Agora Digital Art21.01.27: Agora Talk 15: The Immersive Kind XR studio: Future Art Ecosystems – Lucy WheelerLucy Wheeler, Creative Director at The Immersive Kind, shared insights into their recent projects in the metaverse. She showcased the artists The Immersive Kind collaborated with, unveilling how creative practitioners use digital tools to shape our realities as we know it.
More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/the-immersive-kind-xr-studio-future-art-ecosystems-lucy-wheeler/
What did we learn?
We saw the projects in fashion XR.
We learned how much inter-disciplinary collaboration can support a project in the metaverse.
We learned how access to technology is a privilege and how IK is giving access to schools.
We learned what's up for...
2021-02-2030 min
Agora Digital Art20.12.16 Agora Talk13: Digital Art: Engaging Beyond the Screen‘An Imaginary Ruin” by Claudia Hart is still on view at Gazelli Art House. Experience the artwork in VR either in the gallery or on Mozilla Hubs.
In this episode, learn how the early collaboration, as a digital residency @Gazell.io, has led to this current exhibition.
More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/digital-art-engaging-beyond-the-screen-mila-askarova-and-claudia-hart/
What did we learn?
How Claudia Hart uses her architecture and 3D animation skills to build a social immersive venue that displays her work in a new engaging manner.
About @A...
2021-01-2954 min
Agora Digital Art21.01.13 Agora Talk14: The Sound in My Head - Monica VladMonica Vlad transitioned from engineering hydropower to another fluid: sound. In this talk, she shared how she overcame the fear of creating sound compositions and audiovisual live performances on stage. Her performances are based on pure intuition, following her inner creative voice.
More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/the-sound-in-my-head-a-perfect-moment-for-women-in-digital-art-monica-vlad/
What did we learn?
Why women should trust their intuition and creative voice.
Why going out of your comfort zone can bring amazing projects and collaborations
Why VR offers a multitude of possibilities, not only visually but also acoustically.
2021-01-2031 min
Agora Digital Art21.01.08 Curator's Radar #1: Sian FanThe new podcast series Curator’s Radar starts with the interdisciplinary artist @SianFan.
Learn more about her performance in VR, her interest in gaming, the importance of spirituality and how she incorporates natural elements in her work.
Discover also what’s hot with her current commission and her next projects in 2021.
This Curator’s Radar episode is hosted and curated by @AdrianStClair, Digital Curator @AgoraDigitalArt
About the Artist:
Sian Fan is an upcoming interdisciplinary artist working in London. She is a graduate of the Fine Art Masters at...
2021-01-1019 min
Agora Digital Art20.12.09 Agora Talk12: Digital Bodies as Narratives - Lilia ZiamouLilia Ziamou shared insights from her art practice and discussed how digital representations of the body, and therefore digital identities, can be conceived and presented as a narrative.
More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/digital-bodies-as-narratives-lilia-ziamou/
What did we learn?
How do we create digital identities?
What are the challenges that are inherent in the process of creating online identities?
How can we express ourselves online to reveal aspects of our authentic self?
About @AgoraDigitalArt
Agora Digital Art is a certified social enterprise. We are one o...
2020-12-1433 min
Agora Digital Art20.11.11 Agora Talk10: Re-materialisation and Affective Networks in Digital Art - Patricia Siller and Doreen RiosPatricia Siller, co-founder of Janet40, and Doreen A. Ríos, director of [ANTI]MATERIA, shared their experiences while working within the production, curation, and research of digital art in Mexico. They dived into the current state of affective networks in Mexico City as well as what it means to rethink the materialities of digital production while searching for ways of expanding its reach.
More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/re-materialisation-and-affective-networks-in-digital-art/
What did we learn?
How Antimateria and Janet40 started from scratch.
How Mexico City is becoming a blooming digital art hub.
How to nurture...
2020-12-0558 min
Agora Digital Art20.11.25 Agora Talk11: Gate22, a concept-Museum of Digital Art & Design in virtual reality - Nataliya VelykanovaIn this talk with #NataliyaVelykanova @Gate22Official, shared her vision of the future concept-Museum of Digital Art & Design in virtual reality.
Curator and Moderator: #AlexandraBusila
👍 Current Crowdfunding on #Ulule, support culture! It’s a win all or a lose all crowdfunding platform.
👉 https://www.ulule.com/gate22-introspexion/?lang=en (until 6 December 2020)
More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/gate22-a-concept-museum-of-digital-art-design-in-virtual-reality-nataliya-velykanova/
What did we learn?
How to fully immerse the audience and interact with a work of art in VR
That the future is, of...
2020-12-0228 min
Agora Digital Art20.10.28 Agora Talk9: A Female Digital Avatar of the Mind - Or WilliamsMoving from sculpture and participative performance to exploring digital escapism during Covid19; discover the new series of digital works “Dystopia of the Mind” by Or Williams.
Or Williams’ research that challenges the concepts of perfection. Or Williams is a multidisciplinary artist based in the UK. Her work incorporates low tech imagery and aesthetic, constructs of Digital and New Media watercolour painting, photography and performance.
More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/a-female-digital-avatar-of-the-mind-or-williams/
What have we learned?
How covid19 lockdown was beneficial to extend Or Williams’ transition into the digital.
Most of the...
2020-11-0124 min
Agora Digital Art20.10.14 Agora Talk8: Re-telling our hiSTORIES via 3D Digital Art - Rayan ElnayalBiritsh-Sudanese artist and architectural designer, Rayan Elnayal explored the artistic journey and conceptualisation of her latest project, A Magic Realist Afrabia, as well as discussed relevant themes in her work including: Magic realism, Afrofuturism, the portrayal of western media narratives, identity and ethnic hybridism.
►► More info https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/re-telling-our-histories-via-3d-digital-art-rayan-elnayal/
What have we learned?
The third-space is not only related to ethnicity but also it encompasses a wider range of in-between states.
We learn more about Ryan hybrid identity
Rayan included in this project not only magic realism and fu...
2020-10-2541 min
Agora Digital Art20.09.23 Agora Talk7: How Digital Art encourages connectivity across borders – Ellie Niblock and Alaa TarabzouniArtists Ellie Niblock (UK) and Alaa Tarazbouni (Saudi Arabia) collectively explore the environment both digital and physical through the lens of sculpture and architecture. With Love, From Nowhere: The Places of the Not-Yet is an exploration into unknowable places of the not yet, translating an impossible physical experience of visiting the fictional non-places through the combination of drawing, sculpture, 3D scanning, mapping and sound; thus, making the imaginary, intangible spaces comprehendible through the virtual domain.
►► More info https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/how-digital-art-encourages-connectivity-across-borders-ellie-niblock-and-alaa-tarabzouni/
What have we learned?
How two artists combine their skills to create a...
2020-09-2936 min
Agora Digital Art20.09.09 Agora Talk6: Can Digital Arts Help You Fall In Love? - Elif Eda“The Thing Between Us” is the first VR film of Elif Eda who performed, directed and produced this incredible work.
As a filmmaker, Elif Eda has always thought the movies she makes or produces should create new “eyes” for the audience rather than telling a story written in stone. She has always wanted the audience, eventually, to replace her/his eyes with the characters’ eyes and start telling the story of another person to themselves as if it is theirs.
►► More info https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/can-digital-arts-help-you-fall-in-love-elif-eda/
What have we l...
2020-09-1338 min
Agora Digital Art20.08.26 Agora Talk5: The Liminality of The Digital Art - Snow Yunxue Fu and Wade WallersteinIn this talk, Snow Yunxue Fu and Wade Wallerstein gave us deep insight about Liminal, Liminality and Liminoid. And, Wade Wallerstein shared with us a few examples of his Digital Curatorial work for Silicon Valet.
How does the concept of liminality and liminoid play in contemporary digital art?
The word liminal is often used to discuss the sublime within digital space and the VR experience, conjuring up notions of time, space, and perception, and echoing the experience of the sublime in nature. Working primarily with 3D software, Fu creates scenes of experimental abstraction that translate th...
2020-08-3154 min
Agora Digital Art20.08.12 Agora Talk4: My Investigation: The Neurological Effects of the Digital Age - Gabriella Warren SmithIn this talk, Gabriella shared the results of her research project “Cognitive Sensations”, a public programme of cross-disciplinary practice in art and science examining the impact of technology on the brain.
How are perception and attention impacted by repetitive screen exposure, and what is our biological future with these devices?
More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/the-neurological-effects-of-the-digital-age-gabriella-warren-smith/
What did we learn?
Cognitive Sensations is now officially registered and the project is expanding.
Our behaviour related to technology can be trained.
Neuroplasticity is what keeps our brain up to sp...
2020-08-1444 min
Agora Digital Art20.07.22 Agora Talk3: (M)otherhood Online, Offline & in Lockdown with Helen Benigson and Paola LucenteThrough Dr Helen Benigson latest PhD research, we learned more about how maternality is performed online, offline and in Lockdown but mostly interrupted through our devices and the Internet. Also, Helen Benigson and Paola Lucente unveiled (M)otherhood in the Digital Age. They discussed the impact of the Internet and COVID-19 on parents and carers.
More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/motherhood-online-offline-in-lockdown-helen-benigson-and-paola-lucente/
What did we learn?
The truth about motherhood is not transmitted and voiced.
The Procreate Project will have a physical “Mother House” in Lewisham, London.
The most common feeling, a...
2020-07-2559 min
Agora Digital Art20.07.08 Agora Talk2: Immersive Atmospheres: A digital approach to spatial practice with the PLOT Gallery and Rebecca Van BeeckIn this conversation, the PLOT Gallery and Rebecca Van Beeck talked about spatialisation and immersive architecture.
We learned a lot about their project and performance.
More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/immersive-atmospheres-a-digital-approach-to-spatial-practice-rebecca-van-beeck-and-the-plot/
What did we learn?
1. How architectural design brings people together in an on/offline material relationship.
2. How to integrate the domestic interior with playfulness into the serious architecture domain.
3. How to question: “What is the Internet? What is an online community?”
4. How a simple participatory project supporte...
2020-07-1059 min
Agora Digital Art20.06.24 Agora Talk1: Digital Art as a Form of Subversion with Gretchen Andrew and Penny SlingerIn this conversation, Gretchen Andrew and Penny Slinger shared how their practice crosses in and out of the digital as a mean to subvert material and cultural expectations.
More info ►► https://agoradigital.art/agora-talks/past-talks/digital-art-as-a-form-of-subversion-gretchen-andrew-and-penny-slinger/
What did we learn?
1. How those two women artists use subversion in their art practice.
2. How beneficial a relationship between mentor and mentee is for both artists.
3. How political activism is manifested in the artists’ works.
4. How we relate to nature and what we could do dif...
2020-06-2641 min
Agora Digital ArtNatasha Caruana "Timeley Tale" (2019)Discover a moving story during the discussion between @natasha.caruana and @londonartcritic about #TimelyTale
Timely Tale @natasha.caruana is at ASC TheChaplinCentre
Work originally commissioned by @photoworks_uk & @house_biennial
0-12.12.2019 ASC, Taplow House, The Chaplin Centre
Photographer Natasha Caruana tells us the moving story of her mother. Using VR technology, the viewer is immersed in her mother’s world while sitting in a reproduced NHS waiting room.
#womanslife #natashacaruana #contemporaryphotographer #londonartist #Britishartist #femalegaze #tabishkhan #agoralondon #womanphotographer #vr
2020-01-2805 min