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QUINTESSENCE On view 7 - 17 December, 2023 NFT drop 14 December 2023 | 6 pm CET EXPANDED.ART | Friedrichstraße 67 | Berlin EXPANDED.ART (@expanded.art) is delighted to present QUINTESSENCE by Skye Nicolas, his first solo show, at the gallery in Berlin. QUINTESSENCE is a collection of 100 digital artworks that undergo Nicolas' distinctive process of distillation. Masterworks by Cézanne, Renoir, Gauguin, Manet, Seurat, Van Gogh, Degas, Pissarro, and Toulouse-Lautrec are rendered as pixel paintings, inviting the viewer to contemplate intricate and delicate compositional constructs. As these masterpieces undergo the transformative journey into pixels, a paradox is revealed—one that is both enchantingly accessible and philosophically reflective.  This richly vibrant collection resonates with the nostalgia of the artist's childhood, harkening back to the 1980s, when he first delved into explorations of basic computer graphics on early systems like the Apple II. Embracing the limitations of an emulator, these works embody the artist's interest in using ubiquitous tools in the art production process to thoughtfully explore topics of appropriation and authorship.  “It is truly a privilege to be living in a time when artists are able to reference, remix, modify, and creatively utilize images of such iconic masterworks—all made possible by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s generous Open Access Policy. The MET’s decision to release these images into the public domain is a step forward in cultivating and encouraging creativity.” —Skye Nicolas Animated MP4 videos display shimmering pixels highlighting compositional color variations, and are minted as ERC-721 NFTs on the EXPANDED.ART Ethereum contract. Collectors may also choose to collect a physical piece, as each pixel painting comes with a still image jpeg and txt file written on a 3.5-inch floppy disk readymade, labeled, and signed by the artist.
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Skye Nicolas, TO FILL THIS SPACE OF EMPTINESS, 2022, Exhibition View from Art Düsseldorf (@artduesseldorf) 2022 in a collaborative project with BANG & OLUFSEN (@bangolufsen) PRISKA PASQUER GALLERY (@gallerypriskapasquer) Web3 Travel Guides: The Parisian Crypto Art Scene by @anamariacaballero for @forbes Priska Pasquer Gallery: Since launching her gallery in 2000 in Cologne, Germany, Priska Pasquer (@priskapasquer) has focused on exhibiting works that critically examine the construction of the self in the digital age. The Parisian satellite opened in early 2023 and has since hosted several impeccably produced, ambitious exhibitions. Though not solely focused on art whose provenance is certified via the blockchain, this highly respected gallery often shows digital icons like Skye Nicolas and Kim Asendorf. “The first museums are starting to include digital art via NFTs in their collection and after the hype and the fall of collectibles in recent years now digital art, [rooted in] art history, is rising,” the affable Pasquer reflects. “Paris is the meeting point for every form of art right now, and I am very interested in the connection between all mediums...I am interested in bridging worlds, not in creating new silos.” Pasquer practices what she preaches and has three exhibitions slated for 2024. Try to visit them when she’s in town, as she gives wonderful curatorial tours. 6 rue des Coutures Saint-Gervais Forbes | forbes.com
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Skye Nicolas SHUNDO ODDISH REDUX (detail view) 2023 PNG 1392 x 2474 px Edition 1/1 On view 29 August - 9 September, 2023 TECHNO TERRAIN: NATURE IN THE AGE OF THE METAVERSE in collaboration with @objktone curated by @anika EXPANDED.ART | FRIEDRICHSTR. 67 | BERLIN Shundo Oddish Redux melds the enigmatic aesthetics of 16th-century Japanese yōkai scroll art with the unmistakable contemporary lens of augmented reality. The artist's four-year odyssey within the immersive realm of Pokémon Go as VICIOUSYOUTH constitutes the very marrow of this piece—an artistic pilgrimage fueled by the pursuit of exceptional digital creatures, none more compelling than the fabled "Shundo" Pokémon, a compelling synthesis of the elusive "shiny" Pokémon variant and the scarcely attainable "hundo" breed, renowned for their perfect individual values, bespeaks an intricate coalescence of rarity and significance. Beneath this vibrantly playful veneer lies an implicit homage to Jannis Kounellis' seminal "Untitled/12 horses, 1969,'' where the mélange of living creatures served as the conceptual heartbeat. The present work, Shundo Oddish Redux, navigates a contemporary dance between history and innovation. By casting VICIOUSYOUTH's personal voyage as both narrative and archetype, this tableau resonates with the digital zeitgeist, wherein the ethereal plane and corporeal reality intertwine. Echoing Kounellis, this piece beseeches viewers to dissect their rapport with the augmented realm and the treasures it harbors. Painstakingly crafted with emojis, a subtle commentary surfaces that mirrors the precarious societal tensions in an era shadowed by ecological uncertainty. This provocative jumble of ideogrammatic symbols captures the very essence of our communication, imbued with satirical undertones and the weighty levity that has come to define our discourse within the Anthropocene epoch, where the specter of ecological upheaval looms large.
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Skye Nicolas SHUNDO ODDISH 2023 MP4 (AR gameplay screen recording) 1 min 1080 x 1920 px Edition 1/1 On view 29 August - 9 September, 2023 TECHNO TERRAIN: NATURE IN THE AGE OF THE METAVERSE in collaboration with @objktone curated by @anika EXPANDED.ART | FRIEDRICHSTR. 67 | BERLIN Shundo Oddish integrates an extraordinarily elusive virtual creature with nature. Such representations of supernatural beings invading and residing in our physical universe have their aesthetic roots in the classic yōkai scroll art of 16th-century Japan depicting mythical monsters, illustrating a rich heritage of fantastic tales told throughout the Edo period. Conceptually, the piece echoes Jannis Kounellis’ Untitled/12 horses, 1969, a seminal moment in postmodern art wherein the incorporation of live animals was essential to the creation of the artwork. Skye Nicolas reframes Kounellis’ gambit with a contemporary context explored through the magical lens of augmented reality, adding new layers of inquiry while exploring the phenomenon of our increasing parasocial relationships with anthropomorphized digital entities and their role within an evolving digital economy. In 2016, the artist played the popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go under the name VICIOUSYOUTH. After four years of immersive gameplay, he has encountered, captured, and successfully collected several "Shundo'' Pokémon: exceedingly scarce digital creatures, an amalgam of "shiny" Pokémon, a highly rare and sought-after variant, and a "hundo," which signifies it has perfect IVs or individual values, broken down into three statistics: attack, defense, and stamina (HP). These metrics combined make for an almost impossible catch. Shundo Oddish peers beyond the veil of emergent AR technologies, confronting the ephemeral nature of value extracted from the fertile soil of new digital economies, where precious digital assets are anointed as revered treasures. Suspended between dream and reality, we are made privy to a liminal space where the boundaries of the physical and the virtual dissolve and the botanical dances with the digital.
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“In a vast expanse of ones and zeros, we find fertile ground for collaboration and inspiration. Artists and thinkers converge, forming the interconnected fibers of this Web3 tapestry. But let us not forget that its true essence is not found in the perfection of algorithms but in the imperfections of the human spirit. Whether we are blanketed in nostalgia or overzealously chasing the horizon of an unknown future, it is our humanity that sets us apart from the sterile sea of digital conformity. May our voices, our creativity, and our ever-curious minds find ways to transcend the machine-like limitations imposed in this technological age.” – Skye Nicolas @expanded.art presents VOICES OF WEB3: THE ARCHIVE 2023. An archive of voices and statements summarising the year 2023 in digital art and culture. It is a document in time on the blockchain, bringing together some of the leading voices shaping Web3 and the history of digital art: artists, curators, and collectors. 
The statements have been recorded in the form of spoken word, poems, and songs by the contributors and are frozen in time as VOICE GEMS on the blockchain. The VOICE GEMS were created by Harry Yeff (Reeps100) and Trung Bao, who have developed a voice-centred generative system utilizing data found in a human voice to synthesise the form and colour of the artwork. Every voice is unique, and with that comes unique fingerprint-like data. Features like pitch, resonance, harmonics, and pace sculpt particle data points in a simulated digital space. Visit EXPANDED.ART to learn more about VOICES OF WEB3 - THE ARCHIVE 2023 and listen to the first 10 VOICE GEMS.
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Skye Nicolas DANCE DANCE DANCE Animated GIF 581 x 581 px, 24fps 128 Colors 2021 Dance Dance Dance, is a visual ode to 80’s youth culture. Rendered in a vibrantly saturated color palette synonymous with the era, the stylized gif features a dancing teen whose dance moves are data moshed to create splashes of glowing neon color that enrich the picture field; like digital paint applied onto a canvas of CRT scan lines. The piece flawlessly encapsulates the fervent energy of a bygone era, celebrated in a never ending loop of an idealized memory of youth. THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH 23 Years of Digital Art from The New Float Collection Opens May 16, 2023 10pm CET / 4pm EST / 1pm PST newfloat.org Dance Dance Dance is part of The New Float Collection, founded by @manuelrossner
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In the series THE INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORITY OF AI-CREATED ART, Skye Nicolas examines ChatGPT’s declarative arguments on why AI-created art is intellectually superior, using the prompt: “Provide a digital minimalist conceptual art piece making the argument why AI-created art is intellectually superior and why it should be minted as an NFT.” 
Nicolas extends his exploration of text rich triptychs (first exhibited at the Dallas Contemporary Art Museum in 2019) with META PROSE, a conceptual exercise in authorship using AI technology to produce meta-prose artworks from a flowing stream of online collective consciousness. The schema of these AI-generated outputs consists of statements and minimalistic visual elements to compose standalone pieces that may be combined into a varied permutation of triptychs, typifying the artist's poetic distillation process of artistic and cognitive expression. Nicolas employs ChatGPT as a tool in the production process to allow for a limitless variety of outputs while utilizing the same prompt, tracing back to the iconic conceptual artworks of Sol LeWitt that give directions to construct the artwork. The artist continues to assert authorship of the work in perpetuity through the use of the prompt in the future to produce variants of it. This contemplation on authorship takes into account the novelty of our early contacts with pervasive AI technology during the nascent stages of its development. THE INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORITY OF AI-CREATED ART is part of the exhibition ALGORITHMIC EMPATHY. THE PROMISES OF AI, presented by EXPANDED.ART and VerticalCrypto Art at EXPANDED.ART in Berlin, 18-23 April, 2023. 16 artists explore the vast potential of future relationships between AI and creative expression to hypothesize on the not-so-distant future. In a world where technological advancements happen in the blink of an eye, AI is being pointed to in the cultural zeitgeist as an example of a potentially bleak and ominous future. It is worth considering, however, the ways computers and machine learning can push forward creativity, human connection and philosophical dialogues. EXPANDED.ART | FRIEDRICHSTR. 67 | BERLIN
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Globe Platinum Presents #ArtFairPH/Digital Art Fair Philippines (@artfairph) introduces a new section that focuses on digital media, work that incorporates and engages with computer technology, animation, virtual or augmented reality, the metaverse, and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). The section highlights two special exhibits featuring Filipino digital artists making waves in the global digital art sphere. New York-based Skye Nicolas (@skyenicolas) presents "Frequencies of Nostalgia", while Mark Constantine Inducil (@markinducil), who currently lives and works in Melbourne, mounts "Homecoming". The exhibits are curated by Born Calleja (@osongkalye) and Jopet Arias (@jopet.arias) Photo Credit: Alexandra Park ART FAIR PHILIPPINES 2023 February 17-19 10am-9pm The Link, Ayala Center, Makati www.artfairphilippines.com
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“If art is the communication of an idea between the artist and the viewer, good quality art I believe facilitates a successful data transfer. The emotions and thoughts are embedded in the work, and can be transmitted and downloaded by the viewer.” —SN. Living In A Science Fiction Novel: Interview with Skye Nicolas by @anika Read the full interview at http://EXPANDED.ART A NEW BEGINNING | FRIEDRICHSTR. 67 | BERLIN Ranging from large format paintings, filmmaking, photography, public space interventions, sculpture, and digital artworks, post-conceptual artist Skye Nicolas blends elegantly composed amalgamations of vivid imagery with familiarity and the skewing of timelines through various means of precisely executed appropriation. His thoughtful method of reassigning of pop culture references reveals a complex interweaving of key components in his work, highlighting concept and composition as core fundamentals. He investigates the role of memory in the post-internet age through intimate conversation and hidden dialogue wherein nostalgia plays a vital ingredient in defining a recognizable visual language and signature style. The complex interweaving of a conceptually layered armature and a visually poetic distillation process inspires the creation of works that feature a recurring theme that he refers to as Induced Nostalgia. This cerebral phenomenon elucidates the full bandwidth of an induced visceral experience manifested in the transmission and exploration of personal narratives and private myths—inviting us to reflect and reconcile with the powerful forces and events that have shaped our present selves.
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“The internet is not only a repository of content; it can also be seen as a living neural network that is constantly sifting and editing the data that we interface with. Source material culled from the internet represents our collective memory and has the great potential of revealing so much about us.” —SN. Living In A Science Fiction Novel: Interview with Skye Nicolas by @anika Read the full interview at http://EXPANDED.ART A NEW BEGINNING | FRIEDRICHSTR. 67 | BERLIN Ranging from large format paintings, filmmaking, photography, public space interventions, sculpture, and digital artworks, post-conceptual artist Skye Nicolas blends elegantly composed amalgamations of vivid imagery with familiarity and the skewing of timelines through various means of precisely executed appropriation. His thoughtful method of reassigning of pop culture references reveals a complex interweaving of key components in his work, highlighting concept and composition as core fundamentals. He investigates the role of memory in the post-internet age through intimate conversation and hidden dialogue wherein nostalgia plays a vital ingredient in defining a recognizable visual language and signature style. The complex interweaving of a conceptually layered armature and a visually poetic distillation process inspires the creation of works that feature a recurring theme that he refers to as Induced Nostalgia. This cerebral phenomenon elucidates the full bandwidth of an induced visceral experience manifested in the transmission and exploration of personal narratives and private myths—inviting us to reflect and reconcile with the powerful forces and events that have shaped our present selves.
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“Art is a conversation between the past, present and future. If you have something substantial to add to the conversation, you will be part of that greater conversation.” —SN. Living In A Science Fiction Novel: Interview with Skye Nicolas by @anika Read the full interview at http://EXPANDED.ART A NEW BEGINNING | FRIEDRICHSTR. 67 | BERLIN Ranging from large format paintings, filmmaking, photography, public space interventions, sculpture, and digital artworks, post-conceptual artist Skye Nicolas blends elegantly composed amalgamations of vivid imagery with familiarity and the skewing of timelines through various means of precisely executed appropriation. His thoughtful method of reassigning of pop culture references reveals a complex interweaving of key components in his work, highlighting concept and composition as core fundamentals. He investigates the role of memory in the post-internet age through intimate conversation and hidden dialogue wherein nostalgia plays a vital ingredient in defining a recognizable visual language and signature style. The complex interweaving of a conceptually layered armature and a visually poetic distillation process inspires the creation of works that feature a recurring theme that he refers to as Induced Nostalgia. This cerebral phenomenon elucidates the full bandwidth of an induced visceral experience manifested in the transmission and exploration of personal narratives and private myths—inviting us to reflect and reconcile with the powerful forces and events that have shaped our present selves.
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@worldoffad features UNTITLED [SAKURA HX-59749D] acquisition by @misanharriman for the Tezos Foundation inaugural permanent collection.
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