NOISE MEDIA Art Fair 2024
From January 17 to 21, 2024, the focus was on the NOISE Media Art Fair in Istanbul, where our gallery exhibited at booth A9.
We presented mixed media artworks by acclaimed local and international artists like Memo Akten, Emre Meydan, David Young, Mario Klingemann, and Kevin Abosch.
Kate Vass Galerie is excited to present a curated program at the NOISE Media Art Fair in Istanbul, showcasing mixed media artworks from both local and internationally renowned artists, such as Memo Akten, Emre Meydan, David Young, Mario Klingemann and Kevin Abosch. The exhibition features a diverse array of works, including installations, live performances, video works, prints and plotter drawings, each exploring how these artists perceive and reinterpret the world around them. The use of technology ranges from cutting-edge techniques like AI to traditional mechanisms like the plotter machine, providing an immersive experience at the crossroads of art and technology. The artworks raise significant socio-political questions and demonstrate the AI's capacity to navigate and interpret our reality and the natural environment.
In this exhibition, we explore the socio-political themes in the works of Memo Akten, a multidisciplinary artist and computer scientist, originating from Turkey and now based in Los Angeles. He is recognized globally as a pioneer in creatively applying AI and Deep Learning. Through his art, Akten investigates the interplay between ecology, technology, science, and spirituality using code as his medium. For the NOISE Media Art Fair, Memo presents one of his most famous projects from 2017, “Learning to See: Gloomy Sunday” now as NFTs for the first time. The series delves into themes of perception, highlighting how neural networks, similar to humans, filter their understanding of the world, especially nature, through pre-existing knowledge and biases. Akten also showcases an exclusive new series, “Layers of Perception: Meditation”, which continues his exploration of human perception and cognitive biases, bridging diverse realities and scales of space and time. Through these works, Akten challenges us to reconsider our understanding of truth and reality in an ever-changing world.
Memo Akten, Layers of Perception: Meditation series, 2023
We also present David Young, another prominent figure in the field of AI art, hailing from a diverse background in cutting-edge technology. His current works employ artificial intelligence and quantum computing to examine how beauty and aesthetic experiences can provide fresh insights into emerging technologies. Similar to Memo Akten’s work, David Young’s art focuses on AI's ability to interpret and reimagine the natural world around us. His "Learning Nature" series from 2018-2019, trains a machine on personal photographic data of flowers to create its unique, albeit not necessarily accurate, depiction of nature. Young invites AI to forge an independent and imaginative view of the natural world, free from human perception. He also unveils a new body of work, "Hallucinations" series, which uses AI to alter and reshape reality, commenting on the tech industry's inflated promises of AI, much like a hallucination where perception diverges from reality.
David Young, Loss of Control of Our Civilization (b10,25,1-m695), 2023
Mario Klingemann is an artist with a keen interest in the perpetual evolution of artificial intelligence, deep learning, generative and evolutionary art, glitch art, data classification and visualization, and robotic installations. His artistic mission is to decode, question, and challenge the fundamental workings of various systems, as well as the constructs of human perception. In this exhibition, he presents an exclusive new series titled “Neural Abstractions”, which builds upon Mario's earlier code from 2017. Utilizing neural networks that have been trained on an array of random images, the artist has created a collection in which each piece culminates in painterly textures that elicit emotional resonance.
Mario Klingemann, Neural Abstraction series, 2017 & Memo Akten, Learning to See: Gloomy Sunday series, 2017
Kevin Abosch, a conceptual artist known for his diverse creative ventures, ranging from photography and installations to blockchain art, unveils exclusive monoliths, “VOTE” this time. The artist takes on the performative role of poll-worker by embedding himself discreetly near 3 “voting booths” observing and collecting data pertaining to how “citizens” engage with the “voting booths.” At the close of the fair, Abosch will take this largely speculative and incomplete data, presenting 3 colorful and detailed visual abstractions which will be minted as ERC-721 Ethereum NFT’s. The artwork serves as a commentary on the act of voting and the broader implications of our choices in daily life.
Kevin Abosch, VOTE, 2023
The transformation of art from traditional methods to generative systems is exemplified in Emre Meydan's exploration of color and light, utilizing tools like plotters and algorithms. Meydan, now based in Germany, employs the 'moiré effect' in his “clp” plotter series to manipulate visual perception with lines and dots, creating illusions of movement, depth, and three-dimensional spaces on two-dimensional planes. His pieces evoke various aspects of nature, from water and sound waves to topographical maps. The exhibition will feature an immersive plotter performance, along with beautiful plotter drawings in various sizes that explore structure and perspective with subtle color palettes, signature to his style.
Kate Vass Galerie's exhibition opens from January 17th to 21st, 2024, in Istanbul at the Kadıköy City Museum, at booth A9, as part of the NOISE Media Art Fair.
Emre Meydan, clg 271223, 2023 & clg 120124, 2024