Sandrine Deumier Could the digital imaginary amplify our humanist unconscious? Sandrine Deumier’s work investigates post-futurist themes created in phantasmagoric tableau-vivants to ignite our human emotions. MiMi Lamine  |  Ed. Peter Traynor  | 17 November 2021 Website Sandrine Deumier (they/them) (b. 1978, France) are an author, video artist and performer based in Toulouse, France. With their dual philosophical and artistic training, Deumier’s practice spans text, digital poetry, multimedia installation and audio-visual performance in collaboration with composers.&nbs ..read more

wwwunderkammer from XR to social VR – Carla Gannis wwwunderkammer appeals to the 16th  century “Cabinets of Curiosity” to consider the uncanny complications of grounded reality and virtual reality, nature and artifice, science and science fiction in contemporary digital culture, while building virtual worlds, founded upon de-colonizing, post-human, and feminist archives. Isabella Helms  |  Ed Cristina Brooks  | 4 April 2021 Carla Gannis’ Cabinet of Curiosities On the 14th of April 2021, Agora explored digital artist Carla Gannis’s most recent project, which reimag ..read more

Many have tried to create an artistic community that welcomes non-binary and emerging artists. UK-based, global collective The Immersive Kind are experts in the matter, providing a 24/7 inclusive online community and platform for tech and art enthusiasts. You will learn about this fascinating experiment in Agora’s upcoming talk on January 27. Isabella Helms  |  Ed Cristina Brooks  | 24 January 2021 View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Immersive Kind (@immersivekind) Marcela Baltarete @marcela_baltarete in collaboration with Kadine James (2020) © Courte ..read more

Claudia Hart A bridge between the virtual space and the reality, Claudia Hart’s works constantly seek to depart from the traditional male depictions of the virtual female. Euan McPherson | Ed Kiran Sajan | 14 October 2020 Website Social VR NFT on HEN Claudia Hart is a pioneering American digital artist. An early user of virtual imaging, her work uses media installations and virtual reality technologies to create symbolic representations that seek to provide a feminist perspective on digital technology. Hart was born in New York in 1955. She has a degree in art history f ..read more

While many digital artists have embraced technology in the internet age, technologists have also embraced art, blurring the boundaries between art and science. Mechanical-engineer-turned-digital-artist Tamiko Thiel has been at the forefront of this evolution for over four decades, encouraging digital artists not only to play with these boundaries, but to break them. Peter Traynor  |  Ed Cristina Brooks   | 2 November 2020 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tamiko Thiel (@tamikothiel) CM-2 on view starting 21st March 2020, for next several years at @tekniskamu ..read more

“Sudan is not really a country at all, but many. A composite of layers, like a genetic fingerprint of memories that were once fluid, but have since crystallized out from the crucible of possibility” –  Jamal Mahjoub Mishelle Brito  |  Ed Cristina Brooks   | 6 October 2020 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rayan Elnayal (@rayan_elnayal) Rayan Elnayal 2020 © Courtesy of the artist. Elnayal’s on-going interest in her hybrid identity and diasporic childhood, along with a career as an architectural designer, inspired her to create her latest project: ‘A Ma ..read more

With her famous #arthacks and #glitchgoddess, the award-winning work of Marjan Moghaddam actively redefines form for digital art. On May 19th, Agora will be in conversation with Moghaddam to learn more about her career, as well as how digital interventions and embodiment can democratise exhibition spaces. Elizabeth Richardson  |  Ed Erin Floyd | 12 May 2021 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Marjan Moghaddam (@marjan_moghaddam_artist) Marjan Moghaddam, #GlitchGoddess intervention at Frieze NY 2019 #Arthack (2019), © Marjan Moghaddam Courtesy of the artist. Three ..read more

Residents: Raluca Moldoveanu and Alice Prum (Amiss Collective) Amiss Collective, Honey, I’m Home (2021) © Courtesy of the artists Raluca Moldoveanu and Alice Prum. Project concept: (“honey, i’m home”); Curator’s Words Isabella Helms | Ed. Peter Traynor | 19 November 2021 What springs to mind when you think about the ‘domestic space’? Do your thoughts take you to the comforts of home or the place you can be most yourself? For many, the solace of domestic spaces are better found online, where avatars transcend the limits of the human body and the possibili ..read more

Resident: Andrea G. Artz Andrea G. Artz , excerpt Taiku Forest of Query (2021) collaboration with writer Veronica B, and composer Hutch Demouilpied. © Courtesy of the artists. Project concept: Rise of the Tidal Island Queens Visitors are swallowed into a rough whirlpool to enter the VR experience and find themselves on a small island with a rocky beach. A gang of naked middle-aged female avatars descends from the savage waters of the foaming ocean interspersed with blood. The women have different shapes and sizes, and their faces are crowned with colourful mohawk hairstyles, not unlike a p ..read more

“What is art?” is a question that has been haunting the minds of philosophers, artists, gallery-goers, art critics, your mum and pretty much humanity-at-large since the dawn of representation itself. Yet, whilst most of us still grapple with the semantic definitions of  ‘what’, ‘is’ and ‘art’ one artist out there is taking it one step further still. Gabriella Gasparini  |  Ed Erin Floyd  | 4 May 2021 Ashley Zelinskie: What is Art for the Singularity? View this post on Instagram A post shared by ashley zelinskie (@azelinskie) Ashley Zelinskie, work in progress (202 ..read more