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Seed Systems: Speculative ecologies in XR Art Today 2.0

September 21 - October 26 2023, at Goethe Institute Toronto/Tkaronto

A second edition emerges one year later:


Artists:

Alison Bennett (AUS) | Nicholas Delap (UK) | Matthew D. Gantt (US) | Mohsen Hazrati (IRN/DE) | Nadine Kolodziey (DE) | Lauren Moffatt (AUS/DE)


Grappling with climate change and collective cooperation, a collaboration emerges as the XR art exhibition: Seed Systems. Six international artists who specialize in virtual world-building and plant knowledge, explore speculative approaches to future human-nature relationships, using new digital media art to cultivate an immersive garden of growth and foliage. Surpassing borders and moving between realities, Seed Systems brings perspectives from other places to Tkaronto/Toronto as an exchange between the exhibition visitors and artists responding to our current climate crisis and envisioning potential futures together.


Initiated by STYLY

Curated by Miriam Arbus (Sky Fine Foods) and Peggy Schoenegge (peer to space)

In cooperation with SOMA Berlin and Radiance


Opening event (all welcome): 21 September, 2023 6:30pm-8:30pm


Follow @stylyglobal @peertospace @skyfinefoods @radiance_vr


Premiering at Geary Art Crawl, Sept. 23-24 2023, and ongoing

Looking back at our histories of connection to places, while looking ahead into the futures shaped by our dreams and expectations. Artists Elina Lex, Akshata Naik, Amanda Amour-Lynx, Tru Elmore, Curtia Wright and curator Miriam Arbus come together in an exhibition of digital sculptures activated with augmented reality technologies. 


Welcome to Geary Avenue, a neighbourhood in flux where ghostly imprints of neighbourhoods pasts intertwine with our experiences. New buildings and structures replace our remembered landscapes, amidst rapidly increasing land prices, land use regulations. Long histories stemming from indigenous travel routes, river ways no longer exposed, and an old town centre commercial strip - to the mixture of industrial/warehouse and automotive spaces evolving into a quickly gentrifying hub of creative enterprises and studios. And train tracks: always moving, always through.


We invite visitors to participate, exploring the Geary stretch and reinventing the ways we navigate through space.

Each artist plants a digital object, ethereal site-specific sculptures that emerge upon interaction. Metaphysical portals that open a shared experience of place while initiating self reflection.


There is an opportunity for visitors to situate within the city and inspect our own place within these frameworks. 

It is our own imprint on spaces that marks the change. 


We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts to enable this Digital Now project.

Please tag @canada.council  and use hashtag: #Bringingtheartstolife

@skyfinefoods @elina_lex @tru_dee @amour.lynx @akshata.naik @curtia

Oliver Pauk, Chronos/Synthesis

2/12/2022 - 28/02/2023 J Spot Gallery Toronto/Tkaronto + ArtGate VR


Oliver Pauk’s inaugural collaboration with Sky Fine Foods, is an accumulation of time and work from the past 5 years. Finely textured forms emerge as attentive explorations of hand and digitally-processed objects, challenging expectations of physical and digital art. 


Expanding the pursuits of earlier work, Pauk involves an ongoing investigation of the dimensionality between the digital, abstraction, and representation. In his newest works this is continued via hand-carving methods on soft woods and high-density foam. 


This progression replicates visual elements and patterns often seen in computer-aided fabrication processes. The resulting presentation is a collection of 3D printed, CNC milled, and hand carved sculptures, alongside video and Augmented Reality (AR) objects. The works evolve between mediums, acting to blur divisions between the physical and the digital, the tangible and the intangible.


New hand carved sculptures demonstrate a technical precision that Pauk followers have grown to expect. Each has been created in an exploratory and extemporized manner that welcomes unexpected extrapolations of the artist’s aesthetic decisions. Pauk oscillates fluidly between hand and mechanical processes, yielding impromptu abstractions. Each work becomes a composition of intention and improvisation; unexpected forms and seductive material textures combine into a visual trickery that eludes categorisation. 

Seed Systems: Speculative ecologies in XR Art Today

September 9 -30th 2022, at SOMA 300 Berlin

Artists:

Alison Bennett (AUS) | Nicholas Delap (UK) | Matthew D. Gantt (US) | Mohsen Hazrati (IRN/DE) | Nadine Kolodziey (DE) | Lauren Moffatt (AUS/DE)


Grappling with climate change and collective cooperation, a collaboration emerges as the XR art exhibition: Seed Systems. Six international artists who specialize in virtual world-building and plant knowledge, explore speculative approaches to future human-nature relationships, using new digital media art to cultivate an immersive garden of growth and foliage. Surpassing borders and moving between realities, Seed Systems brings perspectives from other places to Berlin as an exchange between the exhibition visitors and artists responding to our current climate crisis and envisioning potential futures together.


Initiated by STYLY

Curated by Miriam Arbus (Sky Fine Foods) and Peggy Schoenegge (peer to space)

In cooperation with SOMA Berlin and Radiance

At: SOMA 300 Berlin, Eylauer Strasse 9, 10965 Berlin (DE) and online via STYLY

Duration: September 10 - 30, 2022

Opening: September 9, 2022, 6 - 10 pm

Closing event: September 30, 2022, 5-9 pm


Accompanying Event Schedule tba on Instagram >>> Follow @stylyglobal @peertospace @skyfinefoods @radiance_vr


Link for Press Kit: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1okU05GOgV2FihNsm-1EDorqGRDJiqiZE

Carson Teal: Sentient Windows

February 19 - April 12 2022

Organically: J Spot Gallery 240 Queen St. East, Tkaronto/Toronto

Virtually: Sky Fine Foods on the Art Gate VR platform

Jeremy Rotsztain: Walking a Turtle November 21, 2021 - January 30, 2022

Jeremy Rotsztain's immersive Virtual Reality
A 3d digital turtle in Sky Fine Foods Art Gate VR virtual art gallery

Jeremy Rotsztain: Walking a Turtle


November 21, 2021 - January 30, 2022
Presented in our virtual Art Gate VR gallery


Walking a Turtle is a virtual reality experience where players go on a walk led by a tortoise. Part game, part quantified-self wellness tracker, Walking is a farcical tool for resisting the attention economy. Players must endure an obstacle course with an unwavering, fixed gaze in order to be coached into a state of presence. Created by artist Jeremy Rotsztain, Walking references cultural critic Walter Benjamin’s musings on the flâneur as agents resisting modernity: “Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades. The flâneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them. If they had their way, progress would have been obliged to accommodate itself to this pace.”As players are challenged to maintain their focus for longer periods of time, notifications pop up all around them. Obstacles they encounter include a fantastical mechanical-era mobile phone (with a carved wood case, paper scroll display and ringing bells) and a fictive precursor to social media called “Daguerogram.”

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Group art exhibition Toronto Canada with Digital Artists and video art presented in a public

Moving Slowly Through

July 26 - August 30 2021

FT: Amanda Amour Lynx * Olivia McGilchrist * Sabrina Ratté * Chris Dorland * Diana Lynn VanderMeulen *Anna Eyler + Nicolas Lapointe * Claire Scherzinger

Irene P. Tello digital artist from Portugal whose ethereal works were presented at CADAF art fair

Sky Fine Foods x CADAF Art Fair 2021

June 17 - 23 2021

FT: Irene P. Tello * Olga Mikh Fedorova * Alex McLeod * Tristan Jalleh * Claudia Hart * Masha Batsea 

Diana Lynn VanderMeulen incredible digital artist from Toronto Canada with immersive swampy nature

Shimmer of a Petal...

Now a Mountain Stream

April 15 - July 15 2021

Diana Lynn VanderMeulen: Solo Exhibition

Annette Mangaard iconic video artist from Toronto Canada and Amanada Amour Lynx performance digital

#WatchingTogether in Spite of a Dying Planet

July 2020 - November 2020

Vector Festival

FT: Annette Mangaard * Trudy Elmore * Patricia Domínguez * Brianna Lowe * Amanda Amour-Lynx * Hannah Neckel


Group exhibition for CADAF Art Fair 2020

Sky Fine Foods x CADAF Online 2020

June 2020

FT: Alex McLeod * Olga Mikh Fedorova * Patricia Domínguez *Eva Papamargariti * Chris Dorland *Diana Lynn VanderMeulen * Sabrina Ratté 

Alex McLeod digital sculpture enabled in virtual immersive environment Art Gate VR

Sky Fine Foods x Art Gate International 2020

April 2020 - June 2020

FT: Alex McLeod * Olga Mikh Fedorova * Eva Papamargariti * Claudia Hart

Martina Menegon virtual 3D digital sculpture ft full body scans

Lossless Bodies

November 2019 - July 2020

a group exhibition with multiple locations

for The Wrong Biennale. 

find exhibition at www.lossless.cargo.site

FT: 

Claudia Hart * Sabrina Ratté *

Martina Menegon *  @nicemask *

Hannah Neckel * Olga Fedorova *

Vladimir Storm * Cross Lucid *

Claire Hentschker * Tiara Roxanne, 

Most Dismal Swamp * Masha Batsii  

Sky Fine Foods

  • Alex McLeod
  • Tru Elmore
  • Quinn Hopkins
  • Oliver Pauk
  • Akshata Naik
  • Carson Teal
  • Amanda Amour Lynx
  • Masha Batsii
  • Tristan Jalleh
  • Irene P. Tello
  • Hannah Neckel
  • Martina Menegon
  • Annette Mangaard
  • Patricia Domínguez
  • Diana Lynn VanderMeulen
  • Chris Dorland
  • Sabrina Ratté
  • Olga Fedorova
  • Eva Papamargariti
  • Claudia Hart

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