“Each age finds its own technique”.

– Jackson Pollock

techspressionism

/tek-spresh-uh-niz-uh m/

  1. An artistic approach in which technology is utilized as a means to express emotional experience. (Wikipedia)
  2. A 21st century artistic and social movement (WIRED)

ROOT WORDS  (source: Oxford Dictionaries):

expressionism: A style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.
technology :The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry.

INTRODUCING TECHSPRESSIONISM

In 1928, ruminating on the rapid pace and profound nature of change in the twentieth century, the French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry wrote: “We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art.” This prediction so impressed the cultural critic Walter Benjamin that he used it as the epigraph of his famous 1935 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility” (as it was originally titled). These writers and others were pondering the same issues that face the artists who now, nearly a century later, self-identify as Techspressionists.

Thanks to digital technologies and the Internet, works of art have become, in Valéry’s formulation, ubiquitous; as he foresaw, “We shall only have to summon them and there they will be.” This level of accessibility requires us to adopt and accept new attitudes toward creative expression. As Benjamin observed, the debate regarding the artistic validity of new media, begun with photography and cinema in the late nineteenth century, centers on the so-called aura of the singular work of art. And the aura of uniqueness remains powerful. Yet a digitally-generated artwork is not a reproduction in the conventional sense—that is, a copy of something else—though it can be, and often is, reproduced in multiples that are indistinguishable one from another.

Hand-made versus mechanical. One-off versus duplication. Such binaries ultimately resolve in light of the works of art themselves. By whatever technique it’s created, Techspressionist imagery generates its own aura, deriving its authenticity from the artist’s intention. Expression is paramount; technology is merely the delivery system. Jackson Pollock faced a similar concern. Frustrated by the focus on his materials and methods rather than the content of his paintings, he insisted, “It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something is being said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.”

Helen A. Harrison
Director, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center
June 2022

Photo ©2022 Rob Rich/SocietyAllure.com

Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond opening reception at Southampton Arts Center, April 23, 2022.
Pictured artists (left to right): Diane Marsella, Carter Hodgkin, Renata Janiszewska (on iPad), Darcy Gerbarg, Mary Boochever, Tommy Mintz, Verneda Lights, Tom Dunn (SAC Executive Director), Nina Sobell, Roy Nicholson, Nina Yankowitz, Roz Dimon, Colin Goldberg, ScoJo, Steve Miller, Patrick Lichty, Tali Hinkis (kneeling), Christine Sciulli (kneeling), John Zieman (back row), Kyle Lapidus, Mary Ann Strandell, Holly Gordon, Michael Rees (back row) Dalton Portella (kneeling), Joe Diamond (SAC General Manager), Dan Welden, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, Anne Spalter, Gregory Little. Artworks behind group by Frank Gillette. Photo ©2022 Rob Rich/SocietyAllure.com

RECENT VIDEOS

CURATORS IN CONVERSATION

Techspressionism: Curators in Conversation with Christiane Paul and Helen A. Harrison is the first of a series of Roundtable Discussions created by Techspressionist artists. This conversation is a discussion focusing of Techspressionism as it relates to art-historical movements of the past as well as to digital art at large.

Christiane Paul is Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School, as well as Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation’s 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, and her books are A Companion to Digital Art (Blackwell-Wiley, May 2016); Digital Art (Thames and Hudson, 2003, 2008, 2015, 2023); Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (Intellect, 2011; Chinese edition, 2012); and New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (UC Press, 2008). At the Whitney Museum she curated exhibitions including Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art 1965 – 2018 (2018/19), Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (2011) and Profiling (2007), and is responsible for artport, the museum’s portal to Internet art.

Helen A. Harrison, a former New York Times art critic and NPR arts commentator, is the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, New York. A specialist in modern American art, she has been the curator of the Parrrish Art Museum and Guild Hall Museum and a guest curator at the Queens Museum. Her books include Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach, monographs on Jackson Pollock and Larry Rivers, and three mystery novels set in the New York art world.

Bronx-born artist Colin Goldberg’s work explores the relationship between technology and personal expression. His studio practice bridges multiple disciplines, notably painting and digital media. Goldberg first used the term Techspressionism as the title for a solo exhibition in Southampton NY in 2011, and curated the first large-scale group exhibition of Techspressionist works, Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond at Southampton Arts Center (Southampton NY, 2022).

Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond at Southampton Arts Center

Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond

TECHSPRESSIONISM – Digital & Beyond presented innovative work in a broad range of styles, reflecting the expressive potential of electronic media. The exhibition included the works of more than 90 artists working with technology from more than 20 countries around the world including Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Canary Islands, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Italy, Netherlands, Peru, Puerto Rico, Russia, Taiwan, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine and the United States.

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TECHSPRESSIONIST ARTWORKS

Curated by Renata Janiszewska

Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Clive Holden
Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦

@cliveholden

Clive Holden (b. 1959) is from Vancouver Island.
He has lived in Winnipeg and Montreal, and now lives in Toronto with his wife, novelist Alissa York.
 
His moving image electronic artworks often include algorithmic chance procedures, and complete themselves ‘live’.
His work is made with a hybrid blend of analog and digital materials and tools.

#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Clive Holden
Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦

@cliveholden

Clive Holden (b. 1959) is from Vancouver Island.
He has lived in Winnipeg and Montreal, and now lives in Toronto with his wife, novelist Alissa York.
 
His moving image electronic artworks often include algorithmic chance procedures, and complete themselves ‘live’.
His work is made with a hybrid blend of analog and digital materials and tools.

#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Clive Holden
Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦

@cliveholden

Clive Holden (b. 1959) is from Vancouver Island.
He has lived in Winnipeg and Montreal, and now lives in Toronto with his wife, novelist Alissa York.
 
His moving image electronic artworks often include algorithmic chance procedures, and complete themselves ‘live’.
His work is made with a hybrid blend of analog and digital materials and tools.

#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Deann Stein Hasinoff
Edmonton, Canada 🇨🇦

@deann_stein_hasinoff_art

Deann Stein Hasinoff is an Alberta based artist using apps and photography to create her work. Her art centres on making the invisible visible, originally influenced by her work with adults with brain injury and then by her own experiences with chronic illness and anxiety. Automatic drawing is an integral part of the process; a bridge between the unconscious and conscious self. Stein Hasinoff seeks to bring to the fore subjects not often a part of conversation, and to find art in the everyday.

#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Deann Stein Hasinoff
Edmonton, Canada 🇨🇦

@deann_stein_hasinoff_art

Deann Stein Hasinoff is an Alberta based artist using apps and photography to create her work. Her art centres on making the invisible visible, originally influenced by her work with adults with brain injury and then by her own experiences with chronic illness and anxiety. Automatic drawing is an integral part of the process; a bridge between the unconscious and conscious self. Stein Hasinoff seeks to bring to the fore subjects not often a part of conversation, and to find art in the everyday.

#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Deann Stein Hasinoff
Edmonton, Canada 🇨🇦

@deann_stein_hasinoff_art

Deann Stein Hasinoff is an Alberta based artist using apps and photography to create her work. Her art centres on making the invisible visible, originally influenced by her work with adults with brain injury and then by her own experiences with chronic illness and anxiety. Automatic drawing is an integral part of the process; a bridge between the unconscious and conscious self. Stein Hasinoff seeks to bring to the fore subjects not often a part of conversation, and to find art in the everyday.

#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Jack Fishburn
North Battleford, Canada 🇨🇦
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@jfishburnartworks

I'm a digital artist/photographer living in Saskatchewan, Canada. I enjoy unraveling the mysteries of nature and the universe. I try to experiment with different mediums but making trippy space art is my favourite.

#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Jack Fishburn
North Battleford, Canada 🇨🇦
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@jfishburnartworks

I'm a digital artist/photographer living in Saskatchewan, Canada. I enjoy unraveling the mysteries of nature and the universe. I try to experiment with different mediums but making trippy space art is my favourite.

#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Jack Fishburn
North Battleford, Canada 🇨🇦
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@jfishburnartworks

I'm a digital artist/photographer living in Saskatchewan, Canada. I enjoy unraveling the mysteries of nature and the universe. I try to experiment with different mediums but making trippy space art is my favourite.

#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
DJ Monetise
Pemberton, Canada 🇨🇦
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@dj.monetise

Mixed media artist practicing on the unceded traditional territory of the Lil’wat Nation. Utilizing technologies from traditional media to photography, cellphone apps to VR modeling to respond to and reflect on internal conditions, describe narratives and/or interrogate, experiment and generate via experimental workflows. Exploring grief, complexity, quantum physics, ways of being and connection with place. 

#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
DJ Monetise
Pemberton, Canada 🇨🇦
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@dj.monetise

Mixed media artist practicing on the unceded traditional territory of the Lil’wat Nation. Utilizing technologies from traditional media to photography, cellphone apps to VR modeling to respond to and reflect on internal conditions, describe narratives and/or interrogate, experiment and generate via experimental workflows. Exploring grief, complexity, quantum physics, ways of being and connection with place. 

#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
DJ Monetise
Pemberton, Canada 🇨🇦
.
@dj.monetise

Mixed media artist practicing on the unceded traditional territory of the Lil’wat Nation. Utilizing technologies from traditional media to photography, cellphone apps to VR modeling to respond to and reflect on internal conditions, describe narratives and/or interrogate, experiment and generate via experimental workflows. Exploring grief, complexity, quantum physics, ways of being and connection with place. 

#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Asal Bassir
Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
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@asal.bassir

Asal Bassir is a Tehran/ Toronto based visual artist and art director who is currently a student at York University, Canada.

#techspressionism
@techspressionism.ir
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Asal Bassir
Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
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@asal.bassir

Asal Bassir is a Tehran/ Toronto based visual artist and art director who is currently a student at York University, Canada.

#techspressionism
@techspressionism.ir
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Asal Bassir
Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
.
@asal.bassir

Asal Bassir is a Tehran/ Toronto based visual artist and art director who is currently a student at York University, Canada.

#techspressionism
@techspressionism.ir
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Diego Navarro
Minas Gerais, Brazil 🇧🇷
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@belohorizonte

Visual Artist and Product Designer

His aesthetic research focuses on the field of Art-Technology and his production transits through web art, cyberculture, glitch art, generative art and 3DArt.
You can see more of his work on the website diogonavarro.com.br

#techspressionism
@techspressionism_br
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Diego Navarro
Minas Gerais, Brazil 🇧🇷
.
@belohorizonte

Visual Artist and Product Designer

His aesthetic research focuses on the field of Art-Technology and his production transits through web art, cyberculture, glitch art, generative art and 3DArt.
You can see more of his work on the website diogonavarro.com.br

#techspressionism
@techspressionism_br
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Diego Navarro
Minas Gerais, Brazil 🇧🇷
.
@belohorizonte

Visual Artist and Product Designer

His aesthetic research focuses on the field of Art-Technology and his production transits through web art, cyberculture, glitch art, generative art and 3DArt.
You can see more of his work on the website diogonavarro.com.br

#techspressionism
@techspressionism_br
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Rafael Draga
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷
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@rafaeldraga
Rafael Draga is a graffiti artist, visual artist and graduated as a fashion designer. Working as a graffiti artist and visual artist since 2012, Draga held six individual exhibitions (one of them in Mar del Plata/AR), was approved for two art calls and participated in three group exhibitions (one of them in the US with the TMFA, international art collective). He is currently one of the co-creators of BeCo Pro, where he works as an illustrator, visual
artist, develops audiovisual projects and a PFP NFT project on the DeSo blockchain. Rafael is also part of the Gambiarra NEAR Gallery.

#techspressionism
@techspressionism_br
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Rafael Draga
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷
.
@rafaeldraga
Rafael Draga is a graffiti artist, visual artist and graduated as a fashion designer. Working as a graffiti artist and visual artist since 2012, Draga held six individual exhibitions (one of them in Mar del Plata/AR), was approved for two art calls and participated in three group exhibitions (one of them in the US with the TMFA, international art collective). He is currently one of the co-creators of BeCo Pro, where he works as an illustrator, visual
artist, develops audiovisual projects and a PFP NFT project on the DeSo blockchain. Rafael is also part of the Gambiarra NEAR Gallery.

#techspressionism
@techspressionism_br
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Rafael Draga
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 🇧🇷
.
@rafaeldraga
Rafael Draga is a graffiti artist, visual artist and graduated as a fashion designer. Working as a graffiti artist and visual artist since 2012, Draga held six individual exhibitions (one of them in Mar del Plata/AR), was approved for two art calls and participated in three group exhibitions (one of them in the US with the TMFA, international art collective). He is currently one of the co-creators of BeCo Pro, where he works as an illustrator, visual
artist, develops audiovisual projects and a PFP NFT project on the DeSo blockchain. Rafael is also part of the Gambiarra NEAR Gallery.

#techspressionism
@techspressionism_br
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Max Dali Kamilla Kumova
London, England 🇬🇧
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@maxdali_kamillakulova

I'm an Italian non-binary multidisciplinary artist, a representative of Techspressionism world art movement, and an activist for LGBTQIA+ rights. I spent the last 15 years in Brazil: 5 of them inside a favela, now I'm back in London where I was a prior resident. My artistic double name, both masculine/feminine, was chosen to highlight the need for tolerance and inclusion still needed in our society. I express myself by digital drawing and painting, photograpy, AI, Glitch Art, video and sound editing, collages etc. etc.

#techspressionism
@techspressionism_br
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Max Dali Kamilla Kumova
London, England 🇬🇧
.
@maxdali_kamillakulova

I'm an Italian non-binary multidisciplinary artist, a representative of Techspressionism world art movement, and an activist for LGBTQIA+ rights. I spent the last 15 years in Brazil: 5 of them inside a favela, now I'm back in London where I was a prior resident. My artistic double name, both masculine/feminine, was chosen to highlight the need for tolerance and inclusion still needed in our society. I express myself by digital drawing and painting, photograpy, AI, Glitch Art, video and sound editing, collages etc. etc.

#techspressionism
@techspressionism_br
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Max Dali Kamilla Kumova
London, England 🇬🇧
.
@maxdali_kamillakulova

I'm an Italian non-binary multidisciplinary artist, a representative of Techspressionism world art movement, and an activist for LGBTQIA+ rights. I spent the last 15 years in Brazil: 5 of them inside a favela, now I'm back in London where I was a prior resident. My artistic double name, both masculine/feminine, was chosen to highlight the need for tolerance and inclusion still needed in our society. I express myself by digital drawing and painting, photograpy, AI, Glitch Art, video and sound editing, collages etc. etc.

#techspressionism
@techspressionism_br
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Tomaz Favilla
São Paolo, Brazil 🇧🇷
London, England 🇬🇧
.
@tomaz.favilla

I'm a Brazilian artist, raised in London and Brighton, now residing in São Paulo.
I take photographs and edit them digitally to create my work.
The end result at times, has no resemblance to the original photograph, and can end up being an abstract image. Most times, they have an element of glitch and can be somewhat lysergic.

Urban landscapes and cityscapes are also a common theme.
Furthermore, I try to emulate the feeling of hand-painted images, but all done digitally.
This works particularly well on canvas prints.

This is my life, my savior, my tormentor. Life without this would seem empty, devoid of my truth and how I see the world and experience this reality.
It is an expression of fine art through digital means.
It is the outside world being transformed by my inner world, then poured back in the form of these images.
I hope you enjoy them.
I hope they give you pleasure and sometimes hope.
For without hope and beauty, we would be surely lost.

#techspressionism
@techspressionism_br
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Tomaz Favilla
São Paolo, Brazil 🇧🇷
London, England 🇬🇧
.
@tomaz.favilla

I'm a Brazilian artist, raised in London and Brighton, now residing in São Paulo.
I take photographs and edit them digitally to create my work.
The end result at times, has no resemblance to the original photograph, and can end up being an abstract image. Most times, they have an element of glitch and can be somewhat lysergic.

Urban landscapes and cityscapes are also a common theme.
Furthermore, I try to emulate the feeling of hand-painted images, but all done digitally.
This works particularly well on canvas prints.

This is my life, my savior, my tormentor. Life without this would seem empty, devoid of my truth and how I see the world and experience this reality.
It is an expression of fine art through digital means.
It is the outside world being transformed by my inner world, then poured back in the form of these images.
I hope you enjoy them.
I hope they give you pleasure and sometimes hope.
For without hope and beauty, we would be surely lost.

#techspressionism
@techspressionism_br
...

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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Tomaz Favilla
São Paolo, Brazil 🇧🇷
London, England 🇬🇧
.
@tomaz.favilla

I'm a Brazilian artist, raised in London and Brighton, now residing in São Paulo.
I take photographs and edit them digitally to create my work.
The end result at times, has no resemblance to the original photograph, and can end up being an abstract image. Most times, they have an element of glitch and can be somewhat lysergic.

Urban landscapes and cityscapes are also a common theme.
Furthermore, I try to emulate the feeling of hand-painted images, but all done digitally.
This works particularly well on canvas prints.

This is my life, my savior, my tormentor. Life without this would seem empty, devoid of my truth and how I see the world and experience this reality.
It is an expression of fine art through digital means.
It is the outside world being transformed by my inner world, then poured back in the form of these images.
I hope you enjoy them.
I hope they give you pleasure and sometimes hope.
For without hope and beauty, we would be surely lost.

#techspressionism
@techspressionism_br
...

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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Nima Nilian
Leuven, Belgium 🇧🇪
.
@nimanilian

In my work I make intensive use of the latest digital media, HD computer generated images and digital editing. I have been fascinated by digital techniques for some time, and I make 3D animations and sculptures primarily. When creating 3D computer generated images you have complete control. I like that. People are always central to my work. Through a virtual world I try to ask existential questions about feelings such as loneliness, pain and death, but also joy and humor. About how feelings are experienced within the abstraction of the digital world. Also about the impact that the 'hyper real', virtual world has on the tangible reality of the viewer. This 'new' reality generates just as much, or sometimes even better, emotions, feelings, questions, ideas... that's the beauty of art. For me, the computer is the obvious tool to challenge existing ideas and current issues.

#techspressionism
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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Nima Nilian
Leuven, Belgium 🇧🇪
.
@nimanilian

In my work I make intensive use of the latest digital media, HD computer generated images and digital editing. I have been fascinated by digital techniques for some time, and I make 3D animations and sculptures primarily. When creating 3D computer generated images you have complete control. I like that. People are always central to my work. Through a virtual world I try to ask existential questions about feelings such as loneliness, pain and death, but also joy and humor. About how feelings are experienced within the abstraction of the digital world. Also about the impact that the 'hyper real', virtual world has on the tangible reality of the viewer. This 'new' reality generates just as much, or sometimes even better, emotions, feelings, questions, ideas... that's the beauty of art. For me, the computer is the obvious tool to challenge existing ideas and current issues.

#techspressionism
...

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Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Nima Nilian
Leuven, Belgium 🇧🇪
.
@nimanilian

In my work I make intensive use of the latest digital media, HD computer generated images and digital editing. I have been fascinated by digital techniques for some time, and I make 3D animations and sculptures primarily. When creating 3D computer generated images you have complete control. I like that. People are always central to my work. Through a virtual world I try to ask existential questions about feelings such as loneliness, pain and death, but also joy and humor. About how feelings are experienced within the abstraction of the digital world. Also about the impact that the 'hyper real', virtual world has on the tangible reality of the viewer. This 'new' reality generates just as much, or sometimes even better, emotions, feelings, questions, ideas... that's the beauty of art. For me, the computer is the obvious tool to challenge existing ideas and current issues.

#techspressionism
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