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🟦 THIS IS ME TRYING is an early version of TALE AS OLD AS TIME by Anika Meier.

"This is what I remember growing up to be like."

– Anika Meier

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🟦 PIXEL CARTOGRAPHY by Element Lee. Element Lee explores the relationship between humans, technology, and nature. He creates pixel drawings with mobile phones and expands them to physical media like laser, robotic drawing, and 3D printing.

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"My aesthetic foundation draws from two primary sources. One is classical Chinese drawings depicting gardens and architecture. The other is pixel art from retro computer games. I was exposed to both growing up in China: one represents tradition and the past, while the other symbolizes digital innovation and the future. This blend evokes feelings of nostalgia while also sparking thoughts about future possibilities."

– Element Lee

🟦 TRANSLATION AND ROTATION: VER A-1 X by Hein Gravenhorst

Hein Gravenhorst begins working on his computer-generated images with one or two base models, which are then developed further in various ways. One approach is through translation, where the base models are expanded horizontally or mirrored. Another method involves rotation, transforming the base models into circular patterns. In some works, he combines both techniques, utilizing both translation and rotation.

These computer-generated images are now being released as NFTs and represent a genuine continuation of his artistic output since the analog masterpieces.

In 1968, Gravenhorst, Kilian Breier, Pierre Cordier, and Gottfried Jäger presented the exhibition Generative Photography at the Kunsthaus Bielefeld. They consciously avoided depicting reality and instead developed a constructive, non-representational visual language through chemical and photographic experiments like chemigrams and luminograms. Their work bridged the gap to the computational art of their time, with rationality and systematic methods at its core.

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🟦 Aaron Huey’s series GASOLINE GARDENS addresses the topic of climate change through decorative wallpaper. The artwork, created with AI trained on his photographic archive, invites viewers to engage with transformed images of environmental crises in their everyday spaces.

Inspired by 18th-century tapestries, GASOLINE GARDENS references a past era of global transformation by depicting historical wallpaper patterns such as chinoiserie, with its idealized exotic landscapes, and Toile de Jouy, with its pastoral scenes. In 2024, Huey incorporates these decorative formats as text prompts in a model trained on his climate change photography archive. Colorful florals intermingle with spirals of smoke, industrial refineries, and diminishing forests, blurring the lines between aesthetic appreciation and ecological awareness.

GASOLINE GARDENS is based on Huey’s project, WALLPAPER FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, which he made available as free downloads at crisiscurated.com. This integration of such imagery into domestic and public environments—from boardrooms to bedrooms—creates a persistent, if veiled, reminder of our environmental challenges.

"By using my archive as a new lens, I can untether myself from the act of capturing a singular decisive moment. I can engage in an ongoing process of exploration and creation from those seeds of the past. What emerges is a hybrid reality where what is and was converges with what is not (or cannot be), as well as what could be in some future world—a multiversal viewfinder looking through another kind of lens."

– Aaron Huey

▪️ 50 NFTs
▪️ 250 EUR

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