Fakewhale presents SYNTHETIC PROGRAM on SuperRare
Launching exclusively on premier digital art platform SuperRare on November 27th, 2024, Fakewhale presents SYNTHETIC PROGRAM, featuring Kevin Abosch, Olga Fedorova and Scerbo.
Reflective of the semiotics of new realities through AI Language & Video, SYNTHETIC PROGRAM positions artists as trendsetters across art, fashion, design, and cinema, highlighting how new media drives cultural evolution.
AI as a Co-Creator: Transforming Artistic Collaboration
SYNTHETIC PROGRAM is a deep exploration into how AI reshapes and elevates digital art by integrating human intuition with the computational power of machine-driven processes.
AI rather than a tool, is a creative partner: one that opens doors to new facets of artistic possibility. There is a tangible shift from merely using technology to genuinely collaborating with it.
By bridging the conceptual with the computational, artists articulate abstract ideas in ways previously unattainable, transforming them into dynamic, engaging forms that expand the visual language of art, presenting a radical perspective on the limitless nature of synthetic creativity.
On November 20th, there was a private viewing of the works ahead of the official release date at the Valuart Gallery in Lugano, Switzerland, where attendees had the opportunity to have a preview firsthand.
The Artists & Their Works
Kevin Abosch
Kevin Abosch (born 1969) is an Irish conceptual artist who works across traditional mediums as well as with generative methods including machine learning and blockchain technology. Abosch’s work addresses the nature of identity and value by posing ontological questions and responding to sociological dilemmas. Abosch’s 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.
We are living in a unique moment in time, where longer-format AI videos are carving out an increasingly distinct point of contact between the fusion of creative power and cinema.
Kevin Abosch’s work “Moo” serves as a prime, historical example of this transformative shift. While this film can certainly be viewed as one of the pioneering instances of an AI short movie, it also retains elements of visual poetry and artistic expression, enriching its narrative depth.
The layer of surreal parody further amplifies the experimental nature and radical eclecticism of this project, showcasing a bold exploration of new artistic frontiers.
“Moo” will be available exclusively as a 1/1 edition.
Olga Fedorova
Olga Fedorova (born 1980) is a Russian contemporary artist living and working in Brussels, Belgium. Transitioning from traditional painting to digital media in 2015, Fedorova employs 3D graphics and lenticular printing to explore the complexities of modern life and human interaction. Her work reflects everyday events infused with irony and drama, often incorporating her own scanned image to blur the lines between artist and subject, reality and virtuality. Fedorova’s work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Tatjana Pieters in Ghent, Watermans Arts Centre in London, OJ Art Space in Istanbul, Palazzo San Giuseppe in Polignano a Mare, Art4Museum in Moscow, and Annka Kultys Gallery in London. She has participated in group exhibitions at institutions such as Mudel in Deinze, Safari Studio in Kortrijk, Biënnale van België in Ghent, Electromuseum in Moscow, and Future Gallery in Berlin, as well as virtual exhibitions like The Wrong Biennale, DaDa Club Online, and Felt Zine.
For the SYNTHETIC PROGRAM release, Olga presents 6 works part of the “Asteroid God of Chaos” series.
“Asteroid God of Chaos,”, also known as Apophis, is an actual space object, an asteroid around 370 meters (1,200 feet) in diameter. This asteroid captured headlines due to its initial estimated potential to come alarmingly close to Earth in 2029, 2036, and 2068, although updated calculations have ruled out a collision in the foreseeable future.
In this AI-generated series, Olga, a pioneer in integrating artificial intelligence with language techniques, navigates an entropic relationship. She imagines a hypothetical scenario where Apophis is actually on a collision course with Earth.
In doing so, her work disrupts conventional linguistic structures, unveiling a sophisticated interplay between order and chaos that expands the conventional understanding of language and its creative possibilities.
Available as a series, this collection comprises 7 unique works, each available as a 1/1 piece.
Scerbo
Scerbo is an Italian contemporary artist currently living and working in Biella (Italy), whose practice explores the contradictions between human history and nature. Following a path of programming and philosophical studies, Scerbo’s artistic path arose from an internal quest to find a form of expression that could concretize his reflections on existence while conveying a message of pure and unadulterated reflection of the present. A series of experiments with drawing, painting, abstract sculptures, and videos followed, culminating in 2019 with the discovery of photography and digital painting as the most poetic and intimate means of exploring the relationship between the body and the new. Scerbo, in fact, views photography as the means to absorb and impart tangible meaning to abstract, indeterminate and existential conditions stored within light — The basis of his research, leading to his first minted work on SuperRare, “Photogravity” (March 2022). An intuitive approach to the image that strives for a perceptive dissociation that separates seeing from hearing, transcending photography into the realm of abstract painting, which embodies a rhythmic vibration on a more subtle, essential level.
Scerbo’s work also connects with a cinematic intent through the use of a longer-format AI video, yet it transcends traditional filmmaking to reveal a kind of living sculpture in perpetual metamorphosis; a continuous, installation-like flow where brutalism and surrealism merge to create a disconcerting and impactful result.
Likewise, the subtle critique of the art world and the expressed metaphors, representing the relationship between the artist, creation, and consumption, enhance an experience that is suspended in subliminal yet effective irrationality.
“In this period, the need to delimit the observation time in my pieces is becoming palpable for. Especially when I use AI to create, I feel that time is slipping away from us, I feel that participation in the digital work is too often overwhelmed by interest in the tool. Extending the duration of my videos forces attention towards the piece once the frenzy of speculative attraction towards the medium with which I created it has been overcome.” __ Scerbo
For the SYNTHETIC PROGRAM release, each of these pieces, “Top way apart” and “Far grow halved,” will be available as 1/1s.
The Impact of AI on the Future of Art
SYNTHETIC PROGRAM is about revealing the potential of AI to amplify, rather than replace, human creativity. It raises essential questions: How does creativity evolve when machines are genuine partners in the process? What new aesthetics and forms emerge when human intuition merges with machine logic?
This release is just the beginning, future releases will continue to build upon the concepts introduced here, evolving in tandem with advancements in AI technology and artistic practice.
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Founded in 2021, Fakewhale advocates the digital art market's evolution. Viewing NFT technology as a container for art, and leveraging the expansive scope of digital culture, Fakewhale strives to shape a new ecosystem in which art and technology become the starting point, rather than the final destination.
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