The Aorist program at the 2022 Art Biennale | Artribuno
The newly created organization for digital art Aorist brings to Venice an interesting program, including performances made with drones, immersive installations and a series of self-generated paintings to please the taste of collectors
A school of fish that reacts to the attack of a predator, staging an elegant and effective defensive dance. This is the metaphor chosen by the artists of DRIFT study (Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn) for their Venetian performance. The Dutch duo, invited to carry out a project in the church of San Lorenzo, headquarters of Ocean Space, used one hundred small luminous drones to stage a dynamic characteristic of the natural world. The movement of artificial creatures simulates the behavior of animal species moving in large groups, giving complex self-organizing systems. It is called “swarm intelligence” and represents an example of collective intelligence: in nature it is observed not only in schools of fish, but also in insect colonies, flocks of birds and herds of mammals. The result is a very suggestive show, also thanks to the charm of the location and the background music, created for the occasion by the well-known DJ Don Diablo.
IMMERSIVE AND GENERATIVE WORKS OF AORIST IN VENICE 2022
Social Sacrificethis is the title of the work, it is part of the project Codean initiative program designed by Aorista new reality that defines itself “a new generation cultural institution that creates a bridge between the digital and the physical“. The organization, which supports the work of artists who work with technology, is an NFT marketplace and pays particular attention to the environmental issue, operating exclusively with the most sustainable blockchains, those also based on the Proof-of-Stake system. Aorist was founded by Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile, patron and NFT expert; Ximena Caminos, web designer and curator, and Andrea Bonaceto, artist and entrepreneur.
In addition to the performance by Studio DRIFT, Aorist brought a work by the Dutch artist to Venice Rafaël Rozendaal – one of the best known representatives of the Post-Internet current -, which can be visited at the Venice Meeting Point, near the Arsenale. It is a small immersive installation entitled Observation made of mirrors and screens, inside which the visitor is enveloped at 360 degrees by ever-changing shapes and colors. Complete the program Code an online work, signed by the Swedish artist Jonas Lund. Is called MVP (Most Precious Painting) and it is a generative and participatory work: 512 digital paintings that change in response to the reactions of the public, trying to “optimize” to become more salable.
– Valentina Tanni