DIGITAL ART COLLABORATION :: Refik Anadol (2022)

 

 An AI digital artwork collaboration with Refik Anadol exploring the scientific research on the adverse effects of Space upon the human body, a challenge that presents unrivalled hindrances to both the exploration and furthering our understanding of this new frontier.  

 

5,200+ ARTWORKS SOLD | 2000+ COLLECTORS

$1.5M USD SUCCESSFULLY RAISED FOR ST JUDE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL


Refik Anadol is a Turkish-American award-winning media artist and designer currently on the faculty at the Media Arts School at UCLA and founder of Refik Anadol Studio, a design practice creating immersive and physical art installations.

  • Refik is a director and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. His body of work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. In taking the data that flows around us as the primary material and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol paints with a thinking brush, offering us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expanding the possibilities of architecture, narrative, and the body in motion.

    Anadol’s site-specific AI data sculptures, live audio/visual performances, and immersive installations take many forms, while encouraging us to rethink our engagement with the physical world, its temporal and spatial dimensions, and the creative potential of machines. 

:: As the first initiative of its kind, J.Harry Edmiston collaborated with celebrated media-artist and designer Refik Anadol utilizing data from the first all-civilian space flight (SpaceX’s Inspiration4) to create interpretations of flight and experiment data aimed at challenging what it means to be human in the new era of space research for the good of all mankind.

NASA-funded research institute TRISH (Translational Research Institute for Space Health) partnered with //CreativeWorkStudios. to collaborate with some of the world’s most inspiring artistic minds in bringing about an awareness of these challenges and solutions to the problems the human body faces both in space and here on Earth. Refik Anadol applied a unique approach through his work to help bring further awareness to these challenges.

As a partner to NASA’s Human Research Program, the institute is charged with mitigating the health and performance challenges for human deep space exploration by finding and funding new, innovative, and disruptive technologies. The goal: to reduce health risks for astronauts and uncover advances for terrestrial healthcare. 

TRISH has launched a research platform to study human health in space with private astronauts across many different flights and carriers. TRISH’s EXPAND (Enhancing eXploration Platforms and Analog Definition) program collects pre-flight, post-flight and in-flight health data from multiple space flights and house it in a centralized research database. EXPAND research addresses a wide range of challenges humans may face on long-duration space missions, but also could help solve some challenges on Earth: early detection of medical conditions, mental health, team dynamics and more.


DIGITAL ART COLLABORATION :: Kevin Abosch (2022)

:: Kevin Abosch, born in 1969 in Los Angeles, is an Irish conceptual artist and pioneer in cryptoart known for his works in photography, blockchain, sculpture, installation, AI and film. Abosch's work addresses the nature of identity and value by posing ontological questions and responding to sociological dilemmas. 

  • His work has been exhibited throughout the world, often in civic spaces, including The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, The National Museum of China, The National Gallery of Ireland, Jeu de Paume ( Paris), The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, The Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien) and Dublin Airport. text goes here

:: Celebrating a crossroads of both tradition and technology, Irish contemporary artist Kevin Abosch has partnered with CreativeWorkStudios and premium Japanese sake producer AsahiShuzo. In a unique collaboration, creating a series NFT artworks, collectors will be given an opportunity to claim bottles of a limited, exclusive and premium Dassai product.

For this collaboration, Kevin Abosch has create a collection of 777 unique and original 1of1 digital artworks, the result of the artist’s engagement with millions of data-points related to both the Dassai sake brewing process and Asahi Shuzo’s values. Inspired by Abosch’s art, AsahiShuzo will in turn create a limited, corresponding run of this specially brewed premium sake. Previous limited editions from the brand have been highly sought after, one bottle fetching 843,750 yen ($8,026) at auction in Hong Kong.

As a renowned contemporary artist, Kevin Abosch is both a pioneer in digital art and heavily involved in the NFT space since 2016. His body of work embraces both traditional and generative methods, particularly AI and blockchain, and has been exhibited in many of the world’s most important museums, galleries and art institutions.

Embracing innovation, for this initiative AsahiShuzo have combined the highest level of traditional craft with detailed technological insights, enabling them to brew sake of unprecedented refinement. By using complex, precision data, in tandem with the extraordinary skill and experience of their workforce, they manage and monitor the development of their sake at every stage of the brewing process to create a truly best-in-class product.

Artworks holders were given a window in which to claim these limited-edition physical bottles that were then shipped to collectors worldwide.