King’s College London: Claudia HartClaudia Hart has always been at the forefront of experimentation with virtual imaging, using 3D animation to make media installations and projections, then later as they were invented, other forms of VR and AR. Hart’s work is about issues of the body, perception, nature collapsing into technology and then back again.

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.

Midnight Moment: StormsEvery night in March, London-based Italian artist Quayola takes over Times Square with Storms, a mesmerizing depiction of deep-sea waves that engages and reimagines canonical imagery, particularly landscape painting, through the use of contemporary technology.

The Evolution of Landscape Painting in the Digital AgeBy uniting code, datasets, and human touch, Quayola creates vivid digital landscapes that synchronize in a fluid ballet of texture and colour, echoing an impressionistic aesthetic.

Artist Quayola On Why Algorithmic Art Is Like ImpressionismIn his artistic practice, Quayola employs technology as a tool, exploring the interplay of dichotomies: the tangible and the simulated, figurative and abstract. Storms comes to life with high-definition footage of stormy seas in Cornwall, England, captured by contemporary technology.

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.

Sotheby’s Offers Claudia Hart’s MORE LIFE in Sale of “Natively Digital: Ordinals”“This piece, MORE LIFE, was one of the first that I produced after the series of book works that I did in the early nineties. I consider it to be the beginning of my current installation-based 3D animation practice.’’ – CLAUDIA HART

Manfred Mohr, Refik Anadol, Quayola, Casey Reas at Art SGApplying what he has described as ‘programmed expressionism,’ Mohr is known for creating striking drawings using plotters, mechanical devices that hold a pen that sketches lines (generated by algorithms) on paper. His recent sculptural experiments, computer-generated algorithmic aluminum wall structures, will be a highlight of bitforms’ booth.

Marina Zurkow profiled in ART+TECHNOLOGYWe meet artists Olafur Eliasson and Marina Zurkow who are working to help heal the disconnect, developing democratic and expressive tools for storytelling and dialogue that encourage everyday activism.

Claudia Hart Breathes Life into Static Tropes of Modernism, HyperallergicClaudia Hart’s new exhibition focuses on the masters of Modernism, Matisse in particular, an artist whose work straddles early 19th-century and Modern art galleries in most museums. Hart’s use of Matisse seems to relish the contradiction at the core of modern and contemporary art today; in a field with so much appropriation, borrowing, and stealing, what does copyright mean anyway?

In Conversation With Claudia Hart, International Journal for Digital Art HistoryClaudia Hart’s work range in media: architecture, painting/illustration, installation, eventually moving on to study animation – leading her to 3D animation art. Theory seems to be both the starting point and the end point of all of her artistic endeavours. Here, Hart, sits down with Tina Sauerlaender to discuss her work, career and how we are experiencing a crisis of truth.

Sara Ludy directs video for Kass Richards’ debut solo record, The Language ShadowKass Richards elaborated further in a statement: “What ‘Atlantis’ is attempting to get at is the sacred humanity of the creative act, the importance of returning again and again to that meditative process, especially in a world of so much creative undoing.”

Quayola selected for Texas commission, “Pioneer Tower Public Art Project”Renowned new media artist Quayola will create a projection mapping video interpreting Fort Worth’s nature using high-precision 3D laser scanning and digital tracking systems projected on all four sides of Pioneer Tower.

Claudia Hart: The Ruins reviewed in The Brooklyn RailThe front window of bitforms gallery displays Claudia Hart’s The Orange Room (2019), a bold crimson painting featuring energetic twists of lime green that slink down a wall, into and then across a table: the two dimensional wall becomes one with the three-dimensional table so that neither kind of space operates clearly. It’s a painting that allows Hart to introduce rates of time to the dimensional illusions that Matisse created in his 1908 masterpiece, The Dessert: Harmony in Red.

The Tree of Life curated by Claudia Hart reviewed in The Brooklyn RailIn The Tree of Life, the esteemed digital artist Claudia Hart curated a show about how nature engages us amidst “the speed of time, history, archiving, memory, hard drives and resolution” that define our mediated lives. Her musings on how certain objects create moments and the way technology determines certain spans of time are thoughtful and thought-provoking, and they provide a context for the nine artists’ works. The website, designed by Shi Zheng, imitates the graphics of timelines—images and memory being two things at the heart of Hart’s opening essay written during the period of isolation.

Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) by Marina Zurkow: Streaming July 8 – 21, 2020bitforms gallery is proud to present Mesocosm (Northumberland UK) by Marina Zurkow as the third piece in a series of streaming generative artworks, presented in collaboration with Small Data Industries.

Close Readings 1 – Claudia Hart: SwingImages capture us somewhere. Or we write on images that capture us. The ten-minute video work, Claudia Hart’s The Swing (2006), part of the Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, captured me within the first few seconds.

The Tree of Life, curated by Claudia Hart, opens online May 15The works on my website timeline originate in the year 1995. Updating the early entries with higher resolution images was always the next thing on my to-do list. When Corona hit, it rose to number one. My update was to cover projects made between 1995 and 2014, which must have been the year I started thinking of myself seriously as an artist and the start of another story. In 1995, I published an illustrated book drawn with oil-paint, but stretched on canvas. I thought I should document it. In those days, documentation meant slides. In 1996, I bought a slide scanner.

Wet Logic reviewed by Louis Bury for Hyperallergic From behind bitforms gallery’s glass facade, an artistic toilet bowl (“Toilet Joke I,” 2020) beckons passers-by into Wet Logic, Sarah Rothberg’s and Marina Zurkow’s digitized meditation on water’s unearthliness.

A Child’s Machiavelli by Claudia Hart opens at bitforms gallery

Andrew Demirjian and Claudia Hart discuss emerging media, micro to macro.The weekly CAA Conversations Podcast continues the vibrant discussions initiated at our Annual Conference. Listen in each week as educators explore arts and pedagogy, tackling everything from the day-to-day grind to the big, universal questions of the field.

Claudia Hart’s A Child’s Machiavelli Book Release and Exhibition Opening at WallplayWallplay is pleased to host the newest edition of Claudia Hart’s A Child’s Machiavelli, published by Beatrice Books and edited by Patrick Reynolds. The original 1998 Penguin edition has been redesigned in collaboration with the author, and will be available for purchase on December 1st, 2019 through Amazon Books. A Child’s Machiavelli was initially written and illustrated by Hart in 1995, inspired by Niccolo Machiavelli’s Renaissance treatise, The Prince, long considered the first book of political philosophy. Hart’s version began as a series of oil paintings and small catalog, produced by the Realismus Studio, at the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, 1995.

Claudia Hart announced as apexart FellowThe ApexArt Fellowship is an alternative educational program that invites creative individuals to leave their familiar surroundings for a month-long stay in an unfamiliar city. The program provides new sources of inspiration through exposure to new cultures, interests, and experiences.

How Media Artists Relate to Art History: The Case of Claudia HartClaudia Hart is a pioneer of media art, one of the very few that worked at the onset of merging art and simulation technologies in the 1990s. But is being technologically vanguard enough for artists to gain credibility? Is it just about mastering new tools? These questions ask to ponder the blurring of roles between a creative and an engineer or IT specialist.

Claudia Hart, The Ruins, opens at bitforms galleryThe Ruins implements still lifes, the classical form of a memento mori, to contemplate the decay of western civilization. In this exhibition, Hart revises the canons of modernist painting and the manifestos of failed utopias. Exhibited works are meditations on the flow of history, expressed as a cycle of decay and regeneration.

Wet Logic, an exhibition by Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow, opens at bitforms galleryWet Logic presents a model of the world organized according to a wet, oceanic ideology rather than a dry, land-based paradigm. This is a world that manifests the circuitous nature of time and the enmeshment of humans to the planet. Rothberg and Zurkow present a series of systems that further human connection to oceans by way of action and imagination.

Marina Zurkow’s exhibition The Thirsty Bird opening at the Contemporary Art Museum St. LouisMarina Zurkow focuses her work on the intersection of nature and culture, offering wry and pointed critiques of this perilously dysfunctional relationship. The Thirsty Bird offers parallel narratives on two essential, yet incompatible elements: oil and water.