Organised by Dr Pia Gottschaller (The Courtauld). Over the past decade, Martin has developed an unmistakable aesthetic combining abstract movement with figurative stenciled compositions. He is a contributing editor to Artforum. Among his most recent project are the VR exhibition Electric (Frieze New York, 2019) and the AR exhibitions Mirage (2020) at Beijing’s UCCA and The Looking Glass (with Emma Enderby) at New York’s The Shed and The High Line (2021). Martin Whatson (b.1984) is a Norwegian street artist best known for his calligraphic scribbles in grayscale voids. In 2008 he organized 50 Moons of Saturn in Torino and in 2009 he was director of the 53rd Venice Biennial. He was co-curator of the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), the 1st Moscow Biennial (2005), Airs de Paris (with Christine Macel) at the Centre Pompidou (2007), the 2nd Yokohama Triennial (2008), and Zero at Martin Gropius Bau (2015). Between 20 he was the director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm. He has been a member of the board of directors of Frankfurt’s Institut für Sozialforschung as well as of Nobel Media, which organizes all events and productions surrounding the Nobel prizes. From 2000 to 2010 he was rector of the Städelschule in Frankfurt and director of its Portikus gallery. He is professor of philosophy at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and the author of numerous books on art and critical theory. He is director of London’s Acute Art, a laboratory exploring art and technology. Professor Daniel Birnbaum is a curator and writer. The first large AR show I staged was Unreal City. They were also installed on Cork Street in October. These works are triggered by the QR the codes in the journal Catalogue. Our most recent AR projects were launched in London: Koo Jeong A’s OLO, Precious Okyomon’s Ultra Light Beams of Love, and Lune by Julie Curtiss. Soon we moved on to augmented reality works that have been displayed across the world, from Beijing to Buenos Aires. It started with VR works by Marina Abramović, Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons and Ai Weiwei. Art institutions will be transformed and collectors of art have discovered the world of unique digital objects, so-called NFTs.Įxactly how will today’s visual media - AR, VR and Mixed Reality - expand the ways we experience art? Will the virtual turn change art itself, just like photographic techniques and mass distribution once altered our understanding of what an artwork can be? Walter Benjamin’s influential 1935 essay on mechanical reproduction opens with a quote from French poet Paul Valéry: ‘We must expect great innovations to transform entire techniques of the arts, thereby affecting artistic innovation itself and perhaps even bringing about amazing change in our very notion of art.’Ī little more than two years ago, I left my job as head of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, an institution with a strong art and technology legacy, to join Acute Art, a London initiative exploring new immersive media in collaboration with some of today’s key artists. This balance has come to define his creative approach.New technologies are taking over the planet. The evolution moved him closer to a simple yet effective aesthetic he believed could bridge the gap between the passion and spontaneity Graffiti held for him, with the fragility and transience of nature. In the early 2000s, this interest in layers became more literal with the introduction of stencils into his work. The physical architecture of the city was a constant inspiration. ![]() Growing up in Oslo Norway, Martin was an active part of the emerging graffiti scene of the early 90’s which at the time maintained zero tolerance. His works can be seen to mirror the rise and fall of the streets, as he symbolically recreates the urban environment, then vandalises it to reveal his vibrant transformations. Over the past decade, Martin has developed an unmistakable aesthetic combining abstract movement with figurative stencilled compositions. Martin Whatson is a Norwegian street artist best known for his calligraphic scribbles in grayscale voids.
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