A strong start: January 2024
A strong start: January 2024
With 2024 already in full swing, Feral File kicked off the year with a jam-packed January. Here’s a recap, including the latest on the Feral File app, Mementos by Refik Anadol and Sofia Crespo, and exciting news from exhibiting artists & curators including Auriea Harvey, Nancy Baker Cahill, and Cibelle Cavalli Bastos. Plus, we are delighted to announce our first show of the year, curated by MoMA.
Let's jump in!
The Feral File app
At the start of the year, we announced the merge of our Autonomy app with Feral File. Now known as the Feral File app, it contains all the same features—plus the added ability to:
- Visit Feral File exhibitions, starting with +GRAPH
- Organize your collection of digital art
- Display artwork on any compatible screen or computer
Overall, Feral File’s goal is to enhance the ways people can experience and collect digital art. This is just Phase 1, and more features are coming soon. Try out the Feral File app today on any mobile device and let us know what you think! Send feedback to support@feralfile.com, or through the app by navigating to Help.
Mementos
DATALAND: Rainforest – WEF 2024 Memento by Refik Anadol
NFT minted during 54th Annual Meeting 15 - 19 January 2024 in Davos, Switzerland.
This year, the World Economic Forum invited Refik Anadol to present his Large Nature Model, an open-source, generative AI model that uses nature as its dataset. Attendees in Davos could commemorate the experience with “DATALAND: Rainforest – WEF 2024 Memento,” and over 200 people claimed the Memento on the Feral File app.
This is Refik’s second Memento with Feral File. The first was a special-edition Memento available at MoMA during the installation of Unsupervised, a work which began with his solo exhibition on Feral File. Mementos are one of the ways we’re making web3 more accessible to larger audiences.
To see Refik’s latest Memento, head over to OpenSea.
A Memento commemorating "Structures of Being" by Sofia Crespo, mapped and performed on Casa Batlló on January 27 & 28
Last weekend, Sofia Crespo debuted “Structures of Being” on the facade of Barcelona’s historic Casa Batlló. Thousands gathered to witness the spectacular show, and Casa Batlló called it “a work that carries Gaudí’s legacy into the future by merging AI with the natural forms of the house.”
Sofia Crespo’s work explores biology and the evolution of organic life through AI. “This event is more than an exhibition; it’s a pivotal showcase of how digital art can captivate and inspire on a global scale,” said digital art patron Pablo Fraile, who runs the RFC Art Collection with his wife Desiree Casoni.
Attendees could collect a digital poster commemorating the experience through the Feral File app. If you were there and scanned the QR, keep an eye on your inbox for next steps to collect your Memento.
To learn more about the spectacular event, head over to the Casa Batlló's site.
News about Feral File artists
We are so proud of the work and accomplishments of Feral File artists. This year we’ve already seen Ana María Caballero sell CORD, the first poem ever sold at Sotheby’s. We also loved seeing the deep and honest look into the life, work, and motivation of Kim Asendorf in Right Click Save. Additionally, Anna Carreras successfully defended her doctoral thesis on Generative Art at BAU College of Arts & Design Barcelona.
In terms of events, February 1 in New York City is action packed.
My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard, the first major survey of Auriea Harvey’s net art and sculpture, opens at the Museum of Moving Image on February 1. Organized by Associate Curator of Media Arts Regina Harsanyi, the exhibition features more than 40 of Auriea’s works produced over the last few decades, and will be open until July 7. Read more here.
On February 1, Nancy Baker Cahill will be the guest of honor at The Whitney’s annual Walter Annenberg Lecture, and will sit down with Museum Director Scott Rothkopf to give the series’ first-ever talk focused on digital art.
6:30PM – 7:30PM / RSVP here
Christiane Paul, Curator of Digital Art at The Whitney has organized Harold Cohen: AARON, an exhibition tracing the evolution of Harold Cohen’s AARON, the earliest artificial intelligence (AI) program for artmaking. The show opens to the public on February 3 and runs through May 2024. Learn more here.
In March, Cibelle Cavalli Bastos will exhibit "A Picture Can't Take Me" at SXSW. The first iteration of their work, “A Picture Can’t Take My Elan Vital” was exhibited in I KNOW – On the aesthetic of truth, curated for Feral File by Giorgio Vitale of synthesis gallery.
Visit the SXSW site to see how you can see Cibelle’s work and more.
MoMA on Feral File
The upcoming MoMA Exhibition on Feral File will feature sound art by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, 0xDEAFBEEF, American Artist and Tommy Martinez, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, and Yoko Ono.
The show opens on February 22, and collecting will begin on February 29 with a 24-hour, highest-bid auction. Keep an eye on your inbox for more details.
That’s it for now! Keep an eye on your inbox for announcements about our upcoming shows – you won’t want to miss them. Thanks for reading the Feral File Newsletter. More soon!