Art Program // Rosewood Hotel Group
Curated Art Selection

During the last decade we feel technology should be everywhere and nowhere at the same time, perfectly integrated into our everyday experience in our homes and living spaces, without intruding. The future art audience has technology in their everyday life; through technology they experience the world around them, and this is what connects them to one-another.

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Colorful & Energetic

Joe Hamilton
Cézanne Unfixed

In Cézanne Unfixed, the relationship between the painting and the museum in the installation photograph is blurred. In his time, Cézanne was influenced by developments in science to challenge the ways of modelling space and volume, and this artwork continues that work. The brushstrokes of Cézanne break from their canvases to inhabit the spatial dimensions of the museum while the architecture flattens into the surface of the image plane. While old barriers are fractured, new barriers are created in the medium of this artwork, the digital video file.

Tone Bjordam
Coral

Production year: 2009

Length: 12:58 minutes

In the video Coral, we are captivated as viewers by what can best be described as a moving abstract painting with allusions to both traditional romantic, atmospheric paintings and chemical processes. With seductive imagery in a meditative pace, we are faced with cascades of colours that slowly appear to assume the shape of organic forms such as plants, smoke, clouds, explosions or, as the title suggests, corals. Paintings in motion Inspired by science and our experience of forms in nature, Tone Bjordam has for many years been working with video and photography projects visualising the movement and progression of liquid colour in fluids and unfolding organic forms. She stages controlled, yet playful experiments and creates imaginary landscapes and paintings in motion. She started using this technique as a student at the Art Academy in Oslo (2001-2007). Her first exhibited video with this technique was Liquid Landscape in 2005. A dark and gloomy landscape appears from the horizon and a cloudy weather system seems to build up around it. From there she moved on to make big format photographs of different liquids and in 2009, she made a video entitled Coral. In contrast to the dark, black and white, Liquid Landscape, Coral is bright and colourful. Coral won the People's Choice Award in all of the Carnegie Art Award exhibitions in 2010 in Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Sweden and Norway.

ZEITGUISED
geist.xyz

geist.xyz is a different kind of fashion project: what looks at first glance as an eccentric tangle of simulated dance and a color coordinated tumblr exploration turns out to be a study of handcrafted algorithmic textiles and procedural surfaces. A synthetic ghost shifts simulated textiles from passive matter to live organisms. They behave like apparitions in an artificial choreography, with movements that are imaginary yet familiar. Like a constant metamorphosis, the same sequence gets transformed over and over again. At each step, all aspects of the designs are modified, from algorithmic pattern to color scheme to fabric behaviour. The results are meandering layers of style changes. A linear montage shows the intricate details. Shuffled layers of metronomic sounds emphasize the transformation fluctuating in and out of sync. The grid of moving images on geist.xyz visualizes our conceptual approach and color scheme. Outtakes on instagram.com/zeitguised All conceptual, design and production work: ZEITGUISED. Sound track: "geist.xyz" by Superimposed Void (http://bit.ly/svgeist)

ZEITGUISED
Birds 4

A lighthearted essay on contextualized characters.
 Reconstruction follows deconstruction. This series is an exploration of the minimal elements that can bring about the notion of a bird. The answer given is a combination of movement mimicry paired with elements that exist in the association space of birds.

Nico Tone Collective
The Melody Of The Flower

In this series of works Digital exploration of symmetry and evolution of beauty. Referring to ancient arts of flower arrangements. A study of the balance of design while maintaining a natural flow. Recreated generatively.

Sean Capone
HyaSynth

'HyaSynth' is a looping digital animation depicting a hypnotically undulating field of baroque floral forms and neon-hued bursts of glowing energy. The cultural representation of Nature -- the 'decorative' -- is synthesized as a form of spectacular media simulation.

Anne Spalter
Interdimensional Fish

Dive into interwoven aquatic realms team with brightly colored fish. Can the fish leave their watery realm and experience higher dimensions? Can we? See https://mkaku.org/home/articles/hyperspace-and-a-theory-of-everything/ for more info on hyperdimensional universes and the use of fish to help scientists think about them.

Anne Spalter
Bora Bora: Palm Fronds

The regular leaf structure of palms trees and strong island lighting help create endless geometric investigation of the green palette. Based on original footage shot in Bora Bora.

Ronen Tanchum
Abstract Flow

in this body of works the artist employs computer generated programs to create animated paintings based on nature footage. Landscape is created using multiple interventions, simulating and inspired by Nature landscape

Ronen Tanchum
Nature Stream

in this body of works the artist employs computer generated programs to create animated paintings based on nature footage. Landscape is created using multiple interventions, simulating and inspired by nature landscape.

Pascual Sisto
Aucuba Expanded

Aucuba Expanded samples the organic occurring markings native to a peculiar household plant commonly known as the gold dust laurel (Aucuba Japonica ‘Variegata’); a plant variety that has been produced in strict cultivation by selective breeding. The synthesized version of the pattern is generated by an algorithm that randomly arranges the golden spots in space. Control and randomness are used in equal measure to recreate this naturally occurring organic pattern. This version includes 3 looped animations of three different specimens with monochromatic transitions.

ZEITGUISED
Transpire

ZEITGUISED is an art and design studio conjuring exquisite realities, at the intersection where digital and physical space meet.

Mellow & Relaxing

Claudia Hart
StillLife - 1.3

StillLife - 1.3 was inspired by the Vincent Van Gogh sunflower still lives and his fields of wheat, all painted from 1888-1889. Like all of the works in my still life series, it also uses a mathematical simulation for generation to grow the flowers based on fractal geometry. The flowers were set to grow half way through a 5-minute animation that I later slowed to 10, because it “felt” wrong. My approach to mathematics is as intuitive and expressive as the School of the Paris painters. I use algorithms and rules to set up structures, then break all of my rules until it has an emotional expressiveness that mirrors my own inner life.

Claudia Hart
StillLife - 1.1

StillLife - 1.1 was inspired by the Henri Matisse Red Interior, Still-life on Blue Table from 1947. It uses a mathematical simulation for generation to grow the flowers based on fractal geometry. The flowers were set to grow half way through the 5 minute animation. There is no “death” function in simulations softwares, so instead, I inverted the growth function which caused the flowers in the still life to glitch, break up, and ultimately disappear, a digital version of “death.” Instead of painting decorative patterns on the elements like Matisse did, I chose colors, and programmed a procedural pattern that would randomly evolve over the five minutes of the work.

Nico Tone Collective
The Silent Lake

A subtle digital interpretation of a work by the American painter John Frederick Kensett, George Lake. Kensett visited Lake George in the Adirondacks on numerous occasions and made many studies of the area. This work is based on Kensett's original painting, which is the largest and most accomplished treatment of the subject, as well as a fine example of his mature style. He has taken considerable liberties with the topography in composing the work, but certain specific sites can be identified. Kensett's vantage point was probably from Crown Island, off Bolton Landing on the west shore, looking across the lake northeast toward the Narrows. The distance has been substantially reduced in the representation, some of the islands have been omitted, and others relegated to the shore. Nico Tone echoes the original oil painting qualities and composition, while transforming it to the digital realm and allowing the landscape and its inhabitants to come to life.

Rebecca Hon
流荷 No.2 Flowing: In your mind

大自然永遠地重複着從誕生到死亡的過程。現在在人為干預行為下，人工重植、培養，大自然的作品和人類作品之間的界限已經是非常模糊。以此為概念，先以傳統中國水墨工筆染色技法完成荷的紙本作品，之後再結合後期動畫技術，創造了傳統中國水墨與當代新媒體結合的獨特風格。希望觀者能以當代人的視野重新審視和思考墨之美，能在大千的精妙處感吾到大自然的混沌而有道。

Rebecca Hon
流荷 No.1 Flowing: On the paper

大自然永遠地重複着從誕生到死亡的過程。現在在人為干預行為下，人工重植、培養，大自然的作品和人類作品之間的界限已經是非常模糊。以此為概念，先以傳統中國水墨工筆染色技法完成荷的紙本作品，之後再結合後期動畫技術，創造了傳統中國水墨與當代新媒體結合的獨特風格。希望觀者能以當代人的視野重新審視和思考墨之美，能在大千的精妙處感吾到大自然的混沌而有道。

Jacco Olivier
Flow

As seen through the eyes of a bug in a Rousseau painting.

Desmond Leung Le Sen
RED ONE

RED color has a variety of meaning and symbols throughout the history of mankind. It represents desire, power, creation, happiness, vitality, and authority, it connects to the earth energy of root chakras, that represents the human foundation and the feeling of being grounded. RED ONE depicted the birth of the power, blossom and evolved into the majestic landscape of energy. On the other hand, if human misuse the power, RED will be transformed into a signal and warning of the destruction and chaos. RED # is a series of artworks assemble the use of power, questioning the idea of human desire and creation by employing ink art, moving image, and virtual reality into a multi-dimensional art form.

Ronen Tanchum
Landscape

In this body of works the artist employs computer generated programs to create animated paintings based on nature footage. Landscape is created using multiple interventions, simulating and inspired by Nature landscape.

Nico Tone Collective
Flower Golden Set

In this series of works Digital exploration of symmetry and evolution of beauty. Referring to ancient arts of flower arrangements. A study of the balance of design while maintaining a natural flow. Recreated generatively.

Nico Tone Collective
Gold Blossom Poetry

In this series of works Nico Tone deals with Digital interpretation of works by Japanese old master Kano Sansetsu. The reptilian blossoms, which convey the atmosphere of an early spring morning and symbolize birth and renewal. Kano’s works focuses on themes of Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons, to depict nearly a year’s cycle of change from late spring to early winter.

Nico Tone Collective
Ikebana Dreams #1

In this series of works Nico Tone deals with the unravelling and manipulation of traditional flower arrangement, ikebana. Ikebana (生け花, 活け花, make flowers alive) is the Japanese art of flower arrangement.[1][2] It is also known as Kadō (華道, "way of flowers"). The tradition dates back to the 7th century when floral offerings were made at altars. Later, they were placed in the tokonoma (alcove) of a home. Ikebana reached its first zenith in the 16th century under the influence of Buddhist tea masters and has grown over the centuries, with over 1,000 different schools in Japan and abroad.

Nico Tone Collective
Recurring Reflection

Nature reflecting upon itself within this ordered chaos visual riddle. In each chapter of the work more hints are revealed.

Video Art

Jean-Michel Rolland
Musical Landscape

According to Wikipedia, a "soundscape is the component of the acoustic environment that can be perceived by humans." My soundscapes are the exact opposite. It's not the sounds that make up landscapes, but the landscapes that compose sounds. Differences in color, brightness, or saturation create audiovisual scores that give augmented realities to the panoramic photographs used.

Dana Levy
The Wake

Darkness yields to light, death yields to life; Israeli-born artist Dana Levy’s The Wake is a meditation on duality. Shot in the Entomology Department at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Levy released 100 monarch butterflies into the darkened corridors of department’s collections. Carefully mounted, preserved, and categorized specimens create a haunting stillness that is disrupted by an almost dreamlike awakening of butterflies on cases, drawers, and cabinets. Soon the entire collection seems to slowly return to life with movement and fight. The Wake explores subjects such as order and chaos, life and death, memory and nostalgia, archives, history, man’s relationship with nature, and dynamic reawakening. The stillness of the collection’s corridors bears silent witness to the passage of time: “A new life enters where one has left”. The ephemeral lives of these fragile insects come to represent our own inherent fragility, our desire to control and to be free, to fnd order and beauty in the chaos.

Nicolas Rupcich
EDF

In “EDF” the Chilean Patagonian landscapes from the “Torres del Paine National Park” are the main protagonists. As the video develops the images are slowly been deleted. The intervention consists in a “monumental black block" that literally blocks the landscape images. What we finally see is similar to the logic of the “fade to black” transition, the difference here is that not only the two-dimensional image fades to black, but also the topography is gradually covered. One of the main ideas in the project is the problem of digital representation, in the context of what some people calls the “post-photography era”, where the images are no longer a representation of reality, but a way of reality itself. The annulation of the geography in the screen is an effort for making a simple visual but symbolically strong intervention that make us aware of the instability of the representational surface.

Claudia Larcher
NOISE ABOVE OUR HEADS

The video work “noise above our heads” shows (natural) rock formations and (artificial) architecture fragments morphed into one another, as if they emerged together, as a dystopian scenario. The architectural spaces mounted into the boulders recall Bruno Taut's sketches of Alpine architectural visions. The "noise around our heads" evokes the image of a threatened danger; the camera motion that seems directly downward, a vertical pan-shot, suggests a motion of falling that is disturbing to the beholder. The threat itself cannot be located, the falling never culminates in a collision. The tension has no release, the threat has become permanent. Allegorically speaking, the work explores the question of the concealed and for the public inaccessible sites of data, bunker-like server-spaces that store billions upon billions of bytes of information.

David Young
Learning Nature

Is it inevitable that only our largest organizations, with their vast data sets, will decide how we will use AI? What if instead, what if we could start small and work at the scale of the personal? David Young’s "Learning Nature" uses AI (GAN) to generate images based on his own photographs, here from the winter woods of his farm in in upstate New York. With intentionally small data sets, the system, severely crippled by the standards of "normal" AI, struggles to understand. Nothing that emerges is accurate, but the work isn’t asking for accuracy — it’s asking for the machine to build its own unique vision of the natural world. The slow pace asks us to pause and reflect on AI and its relationship to nature.

Abstract

Nico Tone Collective
Untitled Abstraction #4

In this series of works Nico Tone deals with Digital interpretation of abstract works. The repetitive slow movement of the different fragments convey Tone’s idea of the abstract and set a relaxing mediative tone in this series of artworks.

Nico Tone Collective
Untitled Abstraction #1

Crisp Abstractions, After Frederick Hammersley. In this series of works Nico Tone deals with digital interpretations of abstract painting works. The repetitive slow movement of the different fragments constructs new evolving compositions and conveys a powerful, ever changing yet relaxing and meditative visual abstract rhythms.

Nico Tone Collective
Untitled Abstraction #2

Minimal Abstractions, After John Mclaughlin. In this series of works Nico Tone deals with digital interpretations of abstract painting works. The repetitive slow movement of the different fragments constructs new evolving compositions and conveys a powerful, ever changing yet relaxing and meditative visual abstract rhythms.

Nico Tone Collective
Quilt Structures

In this series of works Nico Tone deals with Digital interpretation of abstract works. The repetitive slow movement of the different fragments convey Tone’s idea of the abstract and set a relaxing mediative tone in this series of artworks.

Nico Tone Collective
Flowing Spheres #1

In this series of works Nico Tone deals with Digital interpretation of abstract works. The repetitive slow movement of the different fragments convey Tone’s idea of the abstract and set a relaxing mediative tone in this series of artworks.

Sara Ludy
Fire Mountain

Fire Mountain is a digital animation from Ludy’s ongoing series, Clouds (2011 - present). This series employs computer imaging programs to generate animated paintings. Dozens of painterly compositions are layered to create tangible textures, referencing the desire for virtuality to manifest physically.

Sara Ludy
Sky Lapis

Sky Lapis and Sky Ruby are digital animations from the ongoing series Clouds (2011 - present) by Sara Ludy. These works employ computer imaging programs to generate animated paintings. Through glassy textures and interwoven forms, Sky Lapis and Sky Ruby evoke the amorphous landscapes found in Ludy's oneiric VR environments.

Sara Ludy
Cloud Pond 1

This series employs computer imaging programs to generate animated paintings. Cloud Pond 1 is composed with multiple layers of animation, simulating atmospheric clouds reminiscent of the sublime found in Romantic painting.

Ronen Tanchum
Ocean

in this body of works the artist employs computer generated programs to create animated paintings based on nature footage. Ocean is created using multiple interventions, simulating and inspired by Nature landscape paintings.

*these artworks are available in landscape orientation

Camouflage is a series of algorithmic paintings by Quayola. Camouflage investigates the ways in which nature is observed and synthesized by machines. Employing custom computer software, natural landscapes are analysed and manipulated to become new abstract formations.

Siebren Versteeg’s works exemplify a continued exploration of the intersections between code (Langue) and abstraction. Here, algorithms are set loose to paint continuous yet indeterminate compositions in real-time. The meditative results confront their viewer with a kind of digital sublime where process supersedes resolution, and all is subject to the winds of change. Despite their embrace of continuous flux however, the meticulous rendering of the painterly that is at the heart of these algorithms imbue them with a reverent nod to the complex and often debated history of the viscous medium, asking us again to consider the notion of what a painting might and might not even be. After Indifference renders a continuous abstraction made with small brushes of varying personality and intention. In this work, the additive process of mark making builds ad infinitum, resolving only at the point when the video loops.

Refik Anadol’s latest project on the materiality of remembering. Melting Memories offered new insights into the representational possibilities emerging from the intersection of advanced technology and contemporary art. By showcasing several interdisciplinary projects that translate the elusive process of memory retrieval into data collections, the exhibition immersed visitors in Anadol’s creative vision of “recollection.” “Science states meanings; art expresses them,” writes American philosopher John Dewey and draws a curious distinction between what he sees as the principal modes of communication in both disciplines. In Melting Memories, Refik Anadol’s expressive statements provide the viewer with revealing and contemplative artworks that will generate responses to Dewey’s thesis. Comprising data paintings, augmented data sculptures and light projections, the project as a whole debuts new advances in technology that enable visitors to experience aesthetic interpretations of motor movements inside a human brain. Each work grows out of the artist’s impressive experiments with the advanced technology tools provided by the Neuroscape Laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco. Neuroscape is a neuroscience center focusing on technology creation and scientific research on brain function of both healthy and impaired individuals.