Sofia Crespo
{fireflies of the {ocean} deep}, 2022
Reserve Price: 7 ETH
Of all jellyfish known it is estimated half of them are in some way bioluminescent, primarily a mechanism used for defense in a myriad of ways. To us, the exceedingly rare visitor, oceans are deep and dark: an eternal night that heeds neither sun nor moon. Yet, the cycles of life spark countless, constant displays of light: some short, others lingering. Together we might imagine the ocean as a vast night filled with fireflies, a churning spectacle of tiny, glowing moments of life. If we allow ourselves this convenient fiction, might it not be a little harder for us to think of the oceans as empty? We might not know what fireflies dream of, but we know the air we breathe to be their home. Of the water we drink, the soft lights of medusas as they speak in light?
Medium: Video / GANs
Duration: Infinite Loop (10 sec)
Resolution: 2048x2048px / H.264 encoding / mp4
Sofia Crespo is an artist working with a huge interest in biology-inspired technologies. One of her main focuses is the way organic life uses artificial mechanisms to simulate itself and evolve, this implying the idea that technologies are a biased product of the organic life that created them and not a completely separated object. Crespo looks at the similarities between techniques of AI image formation, and the way that humans express themselves creatively and cognitively recognize their world. Her work brings into question the potential of AI in artistic practice and its ability to reshape our understanding of creativity. On the side, she is also hugely concerned with the dynamic change in the role of the artists working with machine learning techniques.
Claire Droppert
Gravity - Sand Creatures I - Caterpillar, 2014
Reserve Price: 2 ETH
“Sand comes alive and creatures are born in frozen moments of weightlessness...” The series forms part of my ongoing 'Gravity Project', where the earth's different elements are captured to let them stand out in their natural surroundings using moments of zero gravity. ‘Sand Creatures I’ series focuses on nature in an unexpected way. The explosive and at times powdery scenes of the grainy sand being thrown into the air can be taken as a manifesting life form, as they become sand creatures. In this unique, animated NFT collection, the Sand Creatures come to life, blown away by the fresh sea breeze off the Dutch coast. The series has been featured in several publications including The Huffington Post, Wired and ABCNews and have been exhibited in national- and international exhibitions in Zurich, Brussels, Paris and Amsterdam.
Medium: Photography
Duration: Infinite loop (15 sec)
Resolution: 4000 × 2666 px
Claire Droppert is a conceptual photographer and visual artist based in Rotterdam in The Netherlands. Her work explores serenity, simplicity and silence. Droppert is drawn to desolate spaces and landscapes and with a minimalistic approach, her aim is to capture the essence of natural elements in a unique way. Through her work, she would like to leave a positive, emotional impact that inspires others.
Droppert’s work has been exhibited in national- and international exhibitions in New York, Paris, Brussels and Rotterdam and has been featured in publications and international media sites including The Huffington Post, Wired, ABCNews, Lightroom, Gizmodo, This is Colossal, Fastcodesign, Design You Trust, Fubiz, Apple and The Ellen Show.
Eceertrey
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List Price: 5.15 ETH
.in the clouds .mountains .vimana .unknown .sky
Medium: Photography + Augmented Reality
Resolution: 6000 x 4286 px
Eceertrey is a Denver based digital artist working with a mix of augmented reality, virtual Reality, and photography. Eceertrey explores nature and the environment and incorporates objects from his imagination into our existing reality, creating his own hybrid world.
Eceertrey
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Not for sale, owned by The Museum of Crypto Art (M○C△)
Walking along the alpine wilderness.. a beautiful wooden boardwalk leads me along my journey... Suddenly the sounds of nature stop. pure silence. followed by a deep chest rumbling vibration. I look up and see it. My heart races and my body swells with heat, I was able to get this picture while my nose began to bleed before I turned around and barely made it back out alive.
Medium: Photography + Augmented Reality
Resolution: 13500 x 10125 px
Eceertrey is a Denver based digital artist working with a mix of augmented reality, virtual Reality, and photography. Eceertrey explores nature and the environment and incorporates objects from his imagination into our existing reality, creating his own hybrid world.
Jeff Frost
Lateral Duality, 2022
Reserve Price: 4 ETH
Lateral Duality ponders simultaneous states of being and the communication between them. We exist both as a universal consciousness and as the individual self. This division is necessary for survival on a day-to-day basis. Pushing through the limits of digital frontiers while still craving the carnal knowledge of creation connects us to the essence of what it is to be alive. Anthropomorphizing a Joshua Tree in a state of superposition causes time to appear sped up and frozen simultaneously. We can begin a conversation with a curious universe in this liminal state.
Medium: Video
Duration: Infinite Loop (13 sec)
Resolution: 3840 x 2560 px
Jeff Frost grew up in a remote corner of Utah hiking with his grandfather and has lived in southern California for the last 22 years. Time and sound are his two primary mediums, often expressed through a number of sub-mediums including painting, photography, video, and installation. Nearly all of the above are combined into short films exploring themes on the spectrum of creation and destruction. Frost’s work has been shown at the California Museum of Photography (UCArts), Museum of Art & History Lancaster (MOAH), Museum of Sonoma County, Palm Springs Art Museum, the Center for European Nuclear Research (CERN), Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), and many others. In 2020 his video art projects, California on Fire and GO HOME won numerous awards at international film festivals including the Clermont-Ferrand Intl Film Festival and ÉCU The European Independent Film Festival. He was selected for the Nordic LA residency at the ACE Hotel & the FBAiR Los Angeles residency programs in 2019. He performed a sound-art set at the Desert Daze music festival in 2019. He was both a producer and subject of the 2017 Netflix docu-series, Fire Chasers. That same year he contributed to the National Geographic series, One Strange Rock. He has been featured in numerous online publications and TV interviews such as PBS Newshour, TIME Magazine, Artnet, and American Photo. He has spoken at the Seattle Art Fair, University of Southern California, Palm Springs Art Museum, Orlando Museum of Art, Snap! Orlando, and photoLA.
Grif
The Tiger That Felt Like a Lion, 2021
Reserve Price: 10 ETH
A visual metaphor of change, self reflection, growth, and identity. A tiger mimics the mane of a lion as he sprints through an infinite plane, only to shed the illusion and return to his natural stripes.
Medium: Digital
Duration: Infinite Loop (9 sec)
Resolution: 3840 x 2160 px
Grif is an award-winning multidisciplinary visual artist and director. Grif was the winner of ADC Young Guns in 2012, PRINT magazine's New Visual Artist award in 2015, and most recently named on the Louis Vuitton 200 Visionaries list. Grif has directed branded films, and created art for the likes of Apple, Nike, HP, Givenchy, & Louis Vuitton. His studio and art practice is located in New York City.
Luna Ikuta
California Poppy, 2021
Not for sale, owned by The Museum of Crypto Art (M○C△)
Transparent California Poppy Serie by Luna Ikuta. This work is part of the The Museum of Crypto Art (M○C△) genesis collection.
Medium: Film & Digital Media
Duration: Infinite Loop (30 sec)
Resolution: 3840 x 2160 px
Luna Ikuta is a multimedia artist who creates stunning works that inspire feelings of serenity and self-reflection. Her otherworldly Afterlife series features a wide variety of flora foraged locally from urban and rural areas around Southern California, each made transparent using a special process developed by Ikuta, revealing their intricate structures otherwise invisible to our eyes.
Leo Isikdogan
A Machine's Dream of Nature 2022
Reserve Price: 2 ETH
A Machine's Dream of Nature is a generative artwork that explores the simplicity, complexity, and beauty of nature. Driven by computational aesthetics, the work makes use of linear algebra, geometry, and learning algorithms to create vibrant landscapes. The artwork was designed using code and a custom AI-art model that was trained to create an impression of nature using a limited number of triangles at a time, resulting in a simplified, but expressive, representation of a sophisticated natural world.
Each bidder who provides the artist with a mailing address will receive a giclee print on archival matte paper.
Medium: Digital Video
Duration: Infinite Loop (45 sec)
Resolution: 1440 x 1440 px
Leo Isikdogan is an interdisciplinary researcher, engineer, and artist based in California. His practice spans a broad range of disciplines, including machine learning, computer vision, image processing, computational photography, remote sensing, and virtual reality. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.
Leo uses artificial intelligence to create art as well as to solve practical problems. In his artistic practice, he uses code as a medium to express his artistic vision. In his engineering practice, he builds efficient machine learning and image processing systems for consumer electronics. Leo worked for Motorola/Lenovo and Intel, and is currently a Research Engineer at Apple.
Thomas Jackson
Tulle 005, 2020
Reserve Price: 2 ETH
Looking back now, I see 2020 as a year of adaptation. As painful as the COVID lockdowns were, they created a powerful incentive to simplify, and to come up with ways to do more with fewer resources. They also gave us plenty of time to think about the escalating environmental consequences of our profligate habits, among them wildfires, hurricanes and global pandemics. For me personally, 2020 was proof of the adage that creativity thrives under constraints. Unable to travel, for instance, I visited the same local locations again and again, finding new dimensions in familiar landscapes. And rather than skipping from one sculptural object to another, I focused on a single material all year, nylon tulle.
I chose tulle for its mutability—depending on how it’s arranged and how the wind catches it, it can morph from a solid to a liquid, to fire to billowing smoke. Above all, 2020 was the year I tried to harness the wind. On every shoot, Northern California’s offshore breezes were my collaborator, the force that transformed my installations from lifeless fabric to living things. As collaborations go it was a tumultuous one—of the twenty or so pieces I built and photographed in 2020, thirteen were failures. But the exceptions like this one, shot in the Point Reyes National Seashore, made the effort worthwhile.
Medium: Photography
Resolution: 3000 x 2360 px
Thomas Jackson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. After earning a B.A. in History from the College of Wooster, he spent his early career in New York City working in book publishing, then as an editor and writer at Forbes Life magazine. An interest in photography books eventually led him to pick up a camera, shooting Garry Winogrand-inspired street scenes, then landscapes, and finally the installation work he does today. A self-taught artist (with the exception of a number of classes at the International Center of Photography in New York), Jackson has pioneered a unique working process that combines landscape photography, sculpture and kinetic art. His work has been shown widely, including at The Photography Show (AIPAD) in New York, the Center for Contemporary Arts in Sante Fe and the Bolinas Museum in Bolinas, CA. Jackson was named one of the Critical Mass Top 50 in 2012, won the “installation/still-life” category of PDN’s The Curator award in 2013 and earned second place in CENTER's Curator's Choice Award in 2014. He lives in Pennsylvania.