THE INBETWEEN: A Survey of Digital Art as NFTs
CADAF partners with Cosmoscow, Russia's foremost contemporary art fair, for THE INBETWEEN: Digital Art as NFTs this September 18-20, 2021.
Featured artists: 404.Zero, #NOTOOLATE, Kevin Abosch, Maria Agureeva, Ines Alpha, Sam Cannon, Ben Heim, Harif Guzman, Olga Ozerskaya, Andy Picci, Ivan Plusch, Dima Rebus, Recycle Group, Anne Spalter, Anna Taganzeva-Kobzeva, Maxim Zhestkov.
“THE INBETWEEN” is a survey of digital art as NFTs crafted by established and emerging digital artists powered by blockchain technology. Each work presented is a registered NFT allowing collectors to enjoy both the uniqueness and limitlessness of each piece.
Curated by Elena Zavelev (Founder & CEO of CADAF) & Jess Conatser (Chief Curator of CADAF and Founder of Studio As We Are)
Special thanks to Blockparty for providing Blockchain support throughout the fair!
Olga Ozerskaya (IVA) is an internationally recognised artist based in Moscow. Born in 1984 in Moscow,
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Ines alpha is a 3D artist based in Paris. She likes to create enchanted and fantastic versions of reality. Her main body of work consists in the “3D makeup” series, where she pushes further the boundaries of makeup and beauty using 3D softwares and augmented reality.
Guzman is an artist whose work inhabits and extends a tradition established in the 1920s Weimar Republic with the extemporized collage and assemblage of Kurt Schwitters, and which he continues in contemporary America via the precedence of Robert Rauschenberg, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the early gritty Pop Art paintings of Mike Kelley. His work is about transformation.
The pop / off / art gallery is one of the leading galleries of contemporary art in Russia. The gallery represents not only the art of Russian artists (including those living around the world), but also a number of international authors, focusing on artists from the post-Soviet space, Eastern and Central Europe.
Мultimedia artist from St. Petersburg, studied at St. Petersburg State University, graduated from ICA Moscow. In her works she uses her own language – symbols are rooted in hieroglyphic and runic writing, they can have different incarnations, they can be part of sculptures, videos, they can appear in various forms.
Anna Nova Gallery was founded by Anna Barinova in Saint-Petersburg in 2005, and is currently one of the leading galleries in Russia. In thirteen years, its team has held more than a hundred exhibitions, participated in more than twenty art fairs and organized countless public talks and lectures.
Andy Picci studied Photography at ECAL in Lausanne, visual communication at ESAM Paris, and owns a Master degree of Fine Arts from Central Saint Martins UAL. His work revolves around fame, social networks and the profound quest for self-identity. The torments in relation to the new age of social media dominance are his obsessions.
Kevin Abosch (born 1969) is an Irish conceptual artist known for his works in photography, sculpture, installation, AI, blockchain and film. Abosch's work addresses the nature of identity and value by posing ontological questions and responding to sociologic dilemmas. Abosch's work has been exhibited throughout the world.
Sam Cannon is an artist and director based in NYC & LA. Occupying a space at the cross-section of photography, video, experiential and performance, Cannon has produced projection installations, live performances, large-scale prints, and sculptures. She’s mounted exhibitions at Art Basel Miami Beach, Mana Contemporary and SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, and many more.
Digital mixed-media artist Anne Spalter is an academic pioneer who founded the original digital fine arts courses at Brown University and The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the 1990s and authored the internationally taught textbook, The Computer in the Visual Arts (Addison-Wesley, 1999).
Ben Heim is an Australian composer and audiovisual artist currently based in New York City. His work spans contemporary classical music, film scoring, video art, live immersive experiences, audiovisual installations/performances, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality.
The Russian art duo Andrey Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov, otherwise known as the Recycle Group, create work that is rooted in the concept of opposition: confronting contemporary iconography with the ancient, the sacred with the every day, and Western European values with distinctly Russian sensibilities.
Maxim Zhestkov is an artist who brings spectators to observe the connections between the physical and digital worlds through his works depicting a never-ending dance of moving matters. At the core of his practice lie universal principles that form our environments, societies, and universes.
