Art fairs are in full swing as enthusiasts are on the hunt for the next big thing to grab their attention – and post on Instagram. This year, add digital art to the pieces that are turning heads and drawing the interest of collectors. To experience it ourselves, we checked out booth C8 at CONTEXT Art Miami, a fair that runs through Sunday in downtown Miami.
There, several screens displayed the works of local and international artists, represented by Miami-based Blackdove. The exhibition, Code and Canvas: The Digital Art Genome, is an immersive, curated selection of moving-images, generative works, and screen-based art.
“Blackdove is about identifying artists using new technologies with original voices and we enable those voices to be shared around the world,” said Miami tech entrepreneur Marc Billings, Blackdove’s founder and CEO. He said that there’s been a positive shift in the past few years of people understanding and wanting digital art.
“When we were launching digital art nine years ago, clients had so many questions that it really overshadowed the ability to understand the context and to enjoy the art,” he said. “Over those nine years it’s really been a generational shift and younger collectors, who’ve been raised in a digital world, are seeing forms that they’ve seen in other ways. They’re looking to understand ideas that are bigger than themselves and that’s really what art is about.”
The diverse roster of Blackdove’s digital artists showed how far tech has come in art spaces and in prominent art fairs. The art comes alive in the moving, changing images, drawing one to stop and contemplate their interpretation of the artist’s message.
Artist Kelly Boesch, whose background is in abstract painting and in graphic design, mixes classical inspiration with contemporary digital craft, harnessing AI to tell the story of time, memory, our existence and the weight of it all. “AI should augment human creativity rather than replace it,” Boesch said in an artist statement. “I see it as a powerful collaborator that democratizes the creative process, making it accessible to a wider range of artists.”
Japanese-born artist, Yoshi Sodeoka, who’s been living in New York City since the 90’s, used drones to capture birds’ flight patterns while mapping their geometric flight paths. “He uses technology to understand nature,” said Billings of Sodeoka’s work, which is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, among other notable museums and art institutions.
Irish digital artist Alan Bolton, whose fluid, surreal work resembles a modern-day Dali, depicts photo realistic renderings of rooms, objects and even animals. With titles like “Anxiety,” “Internal Chaos”, “Group Think” and “Delusion,” he’s able to sum up human emotions in dream-like, almost tangible form. “It looks a lot like the still life movement of the past but now it’s updated to moving images,” said Billings of Bolton’s work.
Roman, a Miami digital artist, with a studio in Wynwood, displayed a 14-minute loop of his wife, a former Russian ballerina, dressed in ballerina attire doing slow-motion arm movements with paint dripping on her. Titled, “Birth of an Angel,” she’s shown over four, connected screens. “It explores light, creation and the quiet miracles carried by women inside of a glowing cross-shaped chamber,” said the artist. “It might be the most remarkable work of digital art I’ve ever seen,” added Billings.
Meanwhile, the signature show of Miami Art Week, Art Basel Miami Beach, will also bring in digital art this year and that will now help unlock the industry’s overall social acceptance of the medium, Billings said. This first generation of digital art collectors understand that it’s within them to help build the industry, he added. “We look at artists as the scribes of history.”
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