sofia crespo artist studio visit - exclusive kate vass galerie series !
We are excited to launch our new series as KVG Virtual Artist Studio visits. Short films are created out of desire to give a sneak pick of how the artists work and talk about their practices. Usually, only few people get to know or have time to travel and visit the artists in person, we wanted to give an audience a taste of what it was like to meet the artists face to face, and get a snack-sized introduction to the artist’s world through a series of short, playful videos with still profound content.
We at Kate Vass Galerie are glad to share a short preview of what will come as our first virtual studio visit! Sofia Crespo is inviting us on an exclusive ‘behind the scenes’ video tour of her studio! 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. On the side, she is also hugely concerned with the dynamic change in the role of the artists working with machine learning techniques. Sofia will guide us through a little journey where we will get an amazing opportunity to see where and how she produces her work, with a special focus on her latest series ‘{}Chromatophores’ created together with engineer Andrew Pouliot:
“The pigment-bearing organs, or chromatophores, that enable many cephalopods to change the colouring and patterns of their skin in order to camouflage themselves are thought not merely to increase the odds of survival, but also be a means of communication. These works are communicative meditation wherein the generative output of an aquatically trained neural network is interacted with, and gently manipulated, so as to create a (bio)mimicry of multiple cells acting in concert to convey tonality, atmosphere and accentuation.”
Selected works from {}Chromatophores will be soon available for sale exclusively at Kate Vass Galerie as unique works digitally and on the blockchain.
Don’t miss it!