Renaissance Digital Revival

Morten LASSKOGEN

Denmark, 3 April 1986

“The Encounter Of Minds”

Each new generation of artists pushes the limits of their imagination by simultaneously embracing and defying what has already been created. In order to synthesize new meaning and new aesthetics, they are invited to look back and understand the past first.

'The Encounter Of Minds' embodies the idea of art as a bridge between art movements, styles, concepts and media. Between the classical and the modern, the traditional and the digital, the timeless and the newly created that must yet withstand the test of time.

Bridges between eras can only be built by the artists of the present as they are able to look back and connect with the art of the creators before them. In this sense, this artwork is also about the very privilege to transcend time and meet those who created before us.

ZIGOR

Spain, 2 January 1982

“Rinascita”

Rinascita is a bridge between classical culture and the present day that puts the human being at the center of innovation with a solemn, fantastic and fun nature. The human being as creator, lover and collector of art in all its forms and colors. Rinascita is born from the deepest admiration for the works of incomparable beauty of the Renaissance to the fantasy worlds hidden behind the walls of logic, nature as an eternal source of inspiration and the digital era as a tool for creation and innovation. Rinascita is art, emotion and fantasy.

With this artwork, the crypto-artist Zigor, breaks the barriers of traditional art combining classical culture and digital art showing, through this tribute to the Renaissance era and its home, Florence, his particular way of seeing the world.

A. L. CREGO

Spain, 14 June 1987

“Flow”

Since we are humans, we find pleasure and peace on staring at repetitive natural movements as bonfires, waterfalls, whirlwinds, rain... These kind of movements inducted us into a meditative state in the same way that repetitive actions make us forget the space/time we are. The seamless loop allows the Visual Mantra to exist. Deconstruction of a video loop into the basic digital element, the white pixel. Video edition. Gif format.

Marcel VAN LUIT

Netherlands, 31 August 1982

“Aurora”

Time is so measurable and at the same time we experience time in so many different ways.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Aurora represents the peaceful eternity we long for when in love. It’s a state of mind and a place where the past, the present and the future come together, with enough room for imagination. 

Petr GRIC

Czechoslovakia, 24 October 1968

“Deep Zoom Hallucination - Attachment”

An AI-rendered journey into Peter Gric painting Attachment II from 2017 (acrylics on canvas, 100 x 120 cm). He guided the DiscoDiffusion AI with several consecutive text prompts to steer the transformation in the desired direction.

Ivona TAU

Lithuania, 26 July 1990

“The Artificial Classical Order”

The form boundaries do not exist in the latent space learned by an artificial neural network. The assemblage of parts is reconstructed in new ways each time a concept is generated. The proportions are skewed to fit a path between every two points. The artificially imagined classical order lives in the generalization of the principal components.

The artist is training AI (GAN) to find transformations and intersections of different discrete concepts, which is unnatural to humans as we imagine them in isolation. In their technique, a training collection of thousands of photographs of memories captured on film and matrix serves as guidance material to extract new meanings. The artist explores how the individuality of the original images is lost when they are imagined by GAN.

Most of Tau’s inspiration comes from experimental and surrealist photography. The shift to generate one’s own reality with a camera, instead of mimicking the surrounding world, allows dwelling on the numerous dimensions of the data surrounding us. In a very general sense, machine learning and artificial intelligence are just a new way of seeing things, from a very far perspective, not bound by the limits of our minds, used to low-dimensional information.

Camila NOGUEIRA

Portugal, 28 July 1993

“Rooftop Dreams”

Endless thinking

Past loves, losses,

Things I didn’t do, calls I didn’t pick

Urban chaos

But up here

Only summer breeze and city white noise

Finally, daydreaming for a bit

Come join me..

ISMAHELIO

Spain, 15 December 1986

"Vitruvian Disco"

Leonardo da Vinci created the Vitruvian Man around the year 1487. It depicts a nude male in two superimposed positions inscribed in a circle and square. The drawing is accompanied by notes based on the work of the famous architect Vitruvius Pollio.

"Vitruvian Disco" is a contemporary interpretation of the Vitruvian Man. Only this time, there's no man nor flesh but geometry.

There are no human notes from Vitruvius but an illegible abstract language.

The colours belong to Florence's Duomo at dusk.

The shapes aim to deconstruct the city grid, encapsulating the movement of its inhabitants.