In the galleries: Jonathan Monaghan at Addison RippleyOriginally inspired by video games, Jonathan Monaghan has projected his computer-animated videos into a realm all his own. “Power Trip,” his Addison/Ripley Fine Art show, includes two short videos but consists mostly of digital prints that wittily mash up Renaissance-style portraits with examples of modern technology.

BITFORMS GALLERY EXHIBITED A GROUP SHOW THAT EXEMPLIFIES NEW MEDIA ART A pioneer and champion of new media, digital and internet-based art, New York-based gallery bitforms presented the works of Ellie Pritts, Claudia Hart, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Manfred Mohr, Jonathan Monaghan and Refik Anadol.

Are NFTs dead? Not at Art DubaiFeatured artists include Jonathan Monaghan, whose work Mothership was the first piece minted on the beta version of Ascribe, a now defunct protocol that was built on the Bitcoin chain.

The Fever Dream: An Interview with Jonathan Monaghan“Symbols of power and finance and corporations come together in a fever dream, which is mixed with ancient mythology and references to childhood video games,” Monaghan said. “They are journeys through nostalgia but with a larger commentary on the situations that occur in the world.”

http://Web3 Travel Guides: Future Horizons, Art Dubai Digital And BeyondOne of the longest-running and most well respected new media art galleries, bitforms represents established, mid-career, and emerging artists critically engaged with new technologies, offering an incisive perspective on the fields of digital, internet, and time-based art forms.

Seeking the Digital at PHOTOFAIRSbitforms’ booth presents new media works with a high-tech edge. Jonathan Monaghan’s Starship Baroque, from the series A Trace Left by the Future, stands out from most of the fair’s offerings for their apparent lack of photographic process.