Found in the heart of Abu Dhabi’s Mina Zayed district, Madar_39 [M_39] has established itself as a key part of the MiZa neighbourhood and a growing hub for cultural and creative activity. The space, described as a “thriving ecosystem of creative and cultural entrepreneurs”, offers a supporting and structured environment for connection and enterprise with a dedication to elevating the growth of the creative sector.
Read MoreReem El Roubi and her husband, Amir Daoud Abdellatif, see themselves as custodians of art and cultural heritage. Their passion for collecting is driven by a deep appreciation for artistic expression and a commitment to preserving and amplifying voices from the regions they hold dear. Originally from Sudan, their journey as collectors began when they moved from London to Dubai in 2013, shaping a collection that weaves together Sudanese, African, and Middle Eastern art - connecting historical narratives with contemporary perspectives.
Read MoreDADA is a collaborative art platform where people worldwide speak through drawings and creative collaboration, resulting in participatory works. It is a decentralized community committed to building a blockchain token economy for the arts. The 2017 launch of “Creeps & Weirdos” an NFT project and collection containing 108 unique pieces created by 30 platform artists, established DADA’s position among the pioneers of crypto art.
Judy Mam and Bea Ramos, the founders of the movement talked to MORROW about the roots of DADA, the Creeps & Weirdos collection and the Invisible Economy that they are creating.
Read MoreOne day in early 2014, Edwin Rosero, a self-taught digital artist and graphic designer who had been tinkering about in Photoshop since a friend gave him an early Wacom tablet in high school, saw an online open call for a pop-up exhibition slated for later that year at London’s Tate Britain museum. The event Loud Tate: Code was a one-day event of art, music and performance exploring how code in language, fashion and technology shape culture. The work he created for that show was a digital derivative of English-born artist Peter Monamy’s 18th century painting Ships Distress in a Storm and was part of a wider series where he used a synthesis of 3D modeled geometry, digitally painted texture mapping, algorithmic pixel sorting and color-channel processing. His conceptual framework — an exploration of technological singularity, and the continuum of consciousness — is still topical today and speaks of the surprising prescience that Rosero also had about the way blockchain technology could impact the art market. In 2014, as he was learning and reading about Bitcoin, he had the idea to hide a public key in the color channels of his art, then send funds to that key, thus proving its provenance using blockchain’s immutable ledger.
Read MoreNili Lerner experienced an ‘aha’ moment in 2008, in the wake of the global financial crash when she realized that her artistic practice could delve into the subject of money. She was interested in the role of money in society and how one’s financial attributes represent the productive potential of each person. However, while she saw money as a superpower in the capitalist economy, she was also interested in the potential of technology to build a new kind of world.
Read MoreAn underground musician, Shamanic practitioner, cut-up artist, coder, and a “post y2k experience mindset state of being” are just a few of the ways that halluciphile describes himself. His personality and artistic approach are infused with so many references and influences that his output is widely varied, conceptual and not easy to define. In a nutshell, one way of putting it is that, he reaches for things beyond reach.
Read MoreSince MORROW collective became Publishers on Nifty Gateway, we’ve curated a bunch of drops with our artists and we are excited to be collaborating with the platform for Art Dubai Digital 2023. Here, we had a chat with Matthew Ferrick, Creative Lead at Nifty Gateway, to give us some insight into what makes NG tick.
Read MoreSuperRare token holders ($RARE) are in the middle of a Space Race, voting for projects that they believe will add value to the NFT community. MORROW collective are part of the Space Race and we are also collaborating with SuperRare for our Art Dubai Digital drop UAE First Immersion happening in the first week of March.
Read MoreAn interview with Marc Billings, founder and CEO of Blackdove
Q: How did Black Dove start?
A: In 2002 while visiting Art Basel I fell in love with the moving image artwork from Giles Hendrix. Raw, using the technologies of our time and unapologetically digital, the work symbolised the new generation of artists that would come after him. My co-founder Marisa and I were collecting and engaging in this new medium and built Blackdove for our own use. Only over time as the medium began to grow, did our friends and family begin to ask for our software for their own homes and offices and eventually the company was born. It has been a journey of love and support for all involved.
Read MoreMonaris didn’t plan to become an artist. It wasn’t her plan to embrace the photographic medium, nor to become one of the first NFT photographers. But her pursuit was instinctive and the results testify to a labour of dedication to an innate vision; her success came as a natural and deserved progression.
Read MoreMORROW collective is working with galleries and artists to bring together art from around the world in curated, themed exhibitions. One word in that sentence may stand out to cryptoart purists, who often prioritise frictionless, open and free access to making art available: curation. But is curation a bad thing in cryptoart?
Read MoreFor MORROW collective’s exhibition All-Seeing Eye, the following Q&A is part of a series of short artist interviews. The showcase was on September 28, 2023 at the exhibition’s partner space Seeing Things on Alserkal Avenue, paired with a drop on Foundation.
Read MoreFor MORROW collective’s exhibition All-Seeing Eye, the following Q&A is part of a series of short artist interviews. The showcase was on September 28, 2023 at the exhibition’s partner space Seeing Things on Alserkal Avenue, is paired with a drop on Foundation.
Read MoreMariah (Veštica) is a contemporary artist from Belgrade, Serbia. Her style is often characterized as a digital and traditional avant-garde experiment with indication of surreal, magic realism and post-expressionistic elements. Using the diverse approaches within a formally divergent field of media, from physical painting to processing art, she is confronting new and traditional techniques while questioning the position of art in technological society.
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