PHYGITAL finissage week on Oncyber.io
As the finissage of the PHYGITAL show, we present the digital components of the artworks in a virtual space on Oncyber between the 2nd – 9th of September, curated by one of the participating artists, Gordon Berger.
In recent years, many curators and museums have increasingly started exploring the possibilities offered by virtual exhibitions. Especially when the Covid-19 pandemic forced physical places to shutter for most of 2020 public interest in virtual art experiences grew like never before. By this time, the Crypto world had already discovered virtual exhibition places as the best way to showcase NFT art. As the finissage of our PHYGITAL show, which opened on the 18th of April 2022, we present digital artworks in a virtual space curated by one of the participating artists, Gordon Berger.
The show brings together works by 8 leading international contemporary generative artists whose digital artworks materialized in this virtual space, OnCyber.io. The works of Dominikus, Iskra Velitchkova, Anna Ridler, Marcelo Soria-Rodríguez, Ksawery Kirklewski, Kjetil Golid, and Vebjørn Isaksen are surrounded by Gordon Berger’s “Unity” series, forming a galaxy. The physical works and the works of the pioneers of computer art, Hans Dehlinger and Harold Cohen can be found on the dedicated website www.phygital.codes
PHYGITAL show
The term ‘phygital’, the hybridity of physical and digital experience got quickly incorporated not only into our everyday life but also into the art world. PHYGITAL exhibition is an intent to explore important works by generative artists with various implementations, generated by the machine bit by bit, infusing the pieces with more and more real-world complexity. The exhibition bridges the history of computer art by comparing significant works of pioneers such as Hans Dehlinger and Harold Cohen (machine drawings from the 80s) with contemporary artists, exploring the “aesthetic events” in the sense of Max Bense via generated graphics or by developing the analog means of presenting a digital work, as an actual mechanical display in CTRL_DAT work by Ksawery Kirklewski.
The exhibition takes place at www.phygital.codes, a dedicated web-based space created by Kate Vass Galerie, to bring online interaction with the artworks to the fore, where, afterward, physicality (as a sculpture or plotter drawing) of the code adds value to the realism from the inclusion of the texture and materiality to evoke sensory experience. All artworks featured in the show are unique. All contemporary works have digital (NFT) and physical output and are presented and sold as one.
