Unhuman Composition
Damjanski
Unhuman Composition, 2022
https://unhuman.xyz/
Mobile is becoming increasingly important in Web3, and Damjanski's work, Unhuman composition, highlights one of the early mobile-only pieces in Web3, while building on it with new installations.
Unhuman Compositions, 2022 is a collection of 777 participatory generative photographic NFTs by Damjanski, each generated when you take a photo with your smartphone camera. Each NFT is fully stored and rendered on-chain. Each captured photo is translated into a geometric arrangement of vibrant colours on black. These compositions are based on an algorithm that detects objects in the photo. The reduction of information in the images creates an abstraction that reveals a synthetic structure underlying our natural environment.
How does it work?
Open https://unhuman.xyz/ your mobile. Take a photo. An object detection algorithm analyses the image. The detected objects become the backbone for a generated composition. Once you find a composition you like, you can press mint, and confirm it in your mobile wallet, to start the process of minting your Unhuman Composition NFT.
The cost to mint is 0.1 ETH.
https://unhuman.xyz/
Additionally there are a selection of Unhuman Composition wall works produced – prints behind acrylic and mounted on Aluminium.
For the motifs the artist has taken photos with the app himself picking up situations with specific objects in it that have then been converted with the artistic DApp (decentralised App).
Damjanski
Calm River Reflection, 2023
Print, Acryl
40 x 40 cm
Unique
4.200,00 EUR (incl. VAT)
Damjanski
Nightswimming, 2023
Print, Acryl
40 x 40 cm
Unique
4.200,00 EUR (incl. VAT)
About Damjanski
Damjanski is an artist living in a browser.
Concerned with themes of power, poetry and participation, he explores the concept of apps as artworks.
His work has appeared internationally at the ZKM Karlsruhe, Centre Pompidou, NRW-Forum, Postmasters, Roehrs & Boetsch, Pioneer Works, König Galerie, MoCDA, Tropez, Import Projects. Currently Damjanski resides and works in New York.
2023
Matter. Non-Matter. Anti-Matter., Centre Pompidou Paris, FR
Napster, Postmasters, New York, USA
Machine Violence, Postmasters, New York, USA
El centro ha muerto, viva el centro, Goethe- Institut, Buenos Aires,
2022
Matter. Non-Matter. Anti-Matter., ZKM Karlsruhe, DE
Internet Pavilion, Circolo Ufficiali Marina Militare, Venice, IT
2021
AR Biennial, NRW Forum Düsseldorf, DE
Additional Works
Never Not There (2022)
Never Not There (2022)
Augmented Reality, App, Sculpture
A smartphone camera app reveals a web of interwoven cables, servers, and electrical devices that extend through the entire environment. This overlapping layer is automatically generated from images found on the internet. Here a dimension of the supposedly immaterial digital space is brought to the surface that would otherwise remain hidden in high performance data centers or server farms – a gigantic volume of hardware without which digitality or a augmented reality could not be perceived, let alone thought of.
Download the Never Not There app here:
https://beyondmatter.eu/antimatter/233
'Never Not There' was part of the 'Matter. Non-Matter. Anti- Matter.' exhibition by Beyond Matter and was on view at the ZKM Karlsruhe and the Centre Pompidou in Paris – curated by Livia Nolasco-Rozsas, Marcella Lista, Felix Koberstein, Julie Champion and Philippe Bettinelli.
Nude Studies (2019–)
Nude Studies (2019–)
Ai Photography,
Diasec on Dibond,
40×25cm
In Nude studies, I am exploring possible futures in a world deprived of people yet bearing the weight of a past civilization. Using the Bye Bye Camera application as an artistic tool, I am observing my surroundings while erasing people's presence. But beyond appearances, people are neither here nor gone. My presence is tangible as I act for capturing these augmented photographs. Likewise, the AI tool detects body shapes but keeps human traces like the shadows. I compares these visual traces to surreal artifacts of a speculative scenario that is post-human. The result is a digitally- enhanced reality where humans stand at the verge of presence and absence, somewhere between the physical and the immaterial.
Download the Bye Bye Camera app here: http://byebye.camera
Post human dogs (2020–)
Post human dogs (2020–)
Augmented Photography
Diasec on Dibond
40×25cm
It’s series that I started during the COVID phase in New York. Every day I tried to make 5k steps to stay healthy and sane. During my walks I realized that the almost deserted city resembles my Bye Bye Camera (www.byebye.camera) pictures that I have started taking the year before – no humans on the streets. During my walks I came across dog owners. The application uses neural networks to erase humans from the picture but the camera keeps the human traces as well as the dogs. I compare these visual traces to surreal artifacts of a speculative scenario that is post-human.
More photographs here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAIZguIFyX0/
