Toco Deco is a Latin American artist focused on the space where art genres and mediums intersect. She addresses the themes of nature, human consciousness, and the fusion of emerging tech and art. Her work is often expressionist, minimalist or experimental. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Fine Art and has featured internationally in various exhibits, publications, and lectures. Toco is based in NYC, where she maintains a home studio and creates in a variety of media.
The search for beauty in language and in art has for me, now been given new life. Like a rose that has grown through the winter ice against all the freezing elements. A flame inside the seed to succeed all else on the will to live and to thrive ~ for the poetic to burst forth into the air, the ice in the garden, on the flower buds and the soil all melted under its glow. There have been stories that have have been smoldering in my dreams for decades, that now can be given life out into the world. The search for beauty unfolding before our eyes and ears. All that is intertwining with my travels and adventures around the world reimagined in these poetic cinematic fine art pieces. The fact that one of my childhood heroes in the medium of acting, and now poetry, Vincent D’Onofrio, now wishes to join me on that journey is both completely unexpected and perhaps the greatest of validations. Recently Vincent spoke to me about the Stanley Kubrick exhibit at LACMA, which toured the major museums. As he walked around the “Full Metal Jacket” installation he came across a screen on the wall, which was playing a clip of himself and Stanley rehearsing a scene from the movie on set. At that time he could not even remember it happening and yet the cinematic process being pulled apart and laid bare in the museum was both a revelation and an omen. I’ve always loved films about artists and the art world, for me it was a reality, as the art world has been synonymous with my childhood. My late father, the art critic Peter Fuller, was a vibrant and poetic philosopher. He weilded art history like a painter wields a brush or maybe more like a boxer wields his gloves. He was a notorious and uncompromising debater, with a polemic style that dated back to the Romantic era and had never been seen on television up until that point, except perhaps in his mentor John Berger. He found himself caught the midst of great change in the formation of what we now know as Contemporary Art in the late 60s, when galleries like Flowers and Kasmin were popping up all over London. One of his closest friends and peers at this time was David Hockney, who I coincidentally ended up portraying in the recent HBO series “Minx”. The two had a brilliant dynamic throughout their interviews over the years and letter correspondences. I ended up reading all of them when I worked with the TATE Museum researching the Peter Fuller Archive for the screenplay I wrote about his life called “Modern Art,” which went on to win 8 Awards for Best Screenplay. The research and development completely opened my mind to all sorts of new ways at looking at the world through the lens of art, politics, philosophy and history. That all these things could collide into a force that was a cultural movement. Peter was on the search for the eternal truths that seemed to underly the greatest paintings and sculptures of all time. Where language and art meet. It’s those truths which make life essential and the search for beauty a relentless journey to one’s own inner paradise. That’s where I came to identify with the concept of the King Of Paradise, we’re all Kings and Queens of our own inner Paradise. That is something no one can take from us, and it is a garden that grows under the rose pruners of art and poetry. Cultivation of the soul is where we find ourselves again. These things are not only trends at the whims of the market. The good, the true and the beautiful are always trending, because our humanity desires beauty and collective spiritual experiences. My own love in life was cinema and experiencing how all the arts come together. In concept, visual arts, storytelling, performance and language. I wanted to step inside a work of art and live inside paintings. To experience the journey with all my senses. The way the natural world inspired the art and poetry of the Romantics. The idea of clay beneath my fingernails, has underlined a work ethic for the arts. Also watching my mother the painter Stephanie Fuller, pursue her life as an artist and finding my first jobs in galleries and auction houses. I curated my first exhibition at the tender age of 18, at Stephanie’s gallery in Australia. It was called “500 years of European Art” and included prints by Lucian Freud, Goya, Delacroix, Leon Kossof, Kathe Kollwitz, Francis Bacon et al. The exhibition was a metaphor for my deep love of art history. The first film I acted in, I also wrote and produced. It was called Possession(s) about an art collectors obsession with a particular painting by Peter Booth, he gives up everything in his life to possess it, even as it destroys him in the end. The painting was from my private collection and I ended up selling it at auction along with the release of the film for $100k. It was fascinating to watch the intersection of art, commerce and film. That’s what funded my going to Drama School at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and the early part of my career as an actor as I auditioned and acted in fringe theatre around England. Eventually one of the plays I did called “Madness In Valencia” received a West End transfer to Trafalgar Studios. The critical reception and reviews from the play garnered me some attention in Hollywood and I was cast as a lead actor in the movie “Apostle Peter & The Last Supper” opposite Oscar-Nominated actor Robert Loggia. I loved LA also I stayed here, auditioning for the studios, making independent films like “Road To The Well” and “Paint It Red” and working on my screenplay Modern Art. During this time I decided to undergo a complete renovation of my acting process and break down everything I’d learned previously in England. By studying with some of the leading Method Acting practitioners Ivana Chubbuck, Michael Woolson and Eric Morris. I found it pushed the boundaries of my imagination and the understanding of emotional triggers which could be better controlled when finding out the secrets of one’s own subconscious. I loved playing chess with myself in this regard and discovering the secrets of the great actors, poets, writers and artists all through the interpretive art form. It was from working through emotional journaling and character backgrounds that I found a facility for poetic writing. After years of working in this I started to read some back and found that I could actually shape into prose poetry. As I went on I studied the Romantic Poets very closely and gained a greater appreciation for the classics like Shakespeare, my roots. A feeling for these values of tradition and the search for beauty were being lost in this Megavisual culture where we are bombarded with advertising, billboards and promotions on social media. There is a deep yearning for eternal truths. So I started putting these elements together by animating paintings and pairing them with spoken word poetry. At first just for the creative development like a spiritual practice, occasionally I would post them on social media. A few years later in 2021 I discovered web3 and NFTs on clubhouse. Which seemed to be the perfect vehicle for this poetic cinematic fine art I had been developing. At that time the medium was unproven so I found it really only possible through collaborations within web3 ecosystem and utilizing the talent pools of artists, poets and actors from without the ecosystem as well. To this day I’ve collaborated with around 100 artists I met through participating in web3, including; Henrik Uldalen, Tania Rivilis, David Cheifetz, Ruben Fro, Jenni Pasanen, Goldcat and Jeremy Lipking. Many of my collaborators have also come from professional backgrounds in art and film from all over the world. And about a dozen I discovered through my own life, like Johan Andersson and Simaa Jo. My solo works were initially about animated collages of classic painting paired with poetry readings, some I wrote, some I took from the classics. From around mid 2021 I started working with AI latent spaces for the visuals of my solo works, as I found it was the best way to animate traditional aesthetics. As the technology evolved the options for animation techniques really only have been limited by one’s imagination and vision. Other actor poets have joined me in these creations such as Val Kilmer ~ as well as Sarah Fergusson, Duchess Of York. Working with Vincent D’Onofrio had been a long time in the making and I initially connect with him on Twitter years ago, posting about his acting, back when my followers were 100% from film and art worlds. And he responded, at one time he posted about one of my first pieces “Garden Of Barnacles” and I wrote to him asking for a collaboration. We’ve been full steam ever since. This most recent series is bound together by the mystery of travel and adventure. A surrender to the universe, in an unspoken bond that we will be given clues as to our destination if we look deeply enough into the poetry of life ~ to hear all of life as a poem, to see all of life as a work of art that unfolds. Each piece represents a day in a new city, finding one’s own way through the labyrinth of the streets, its history and its future. Finding through their gardens what it means to know oneself and eachother. The poetry was written like journals as I stopped by cafes and park benches always with a notepad in my pocket. The people I met like characters in a novel or film. All the pieces including the organ grinder collaboration with Vincent are dealing with the advent of Modernism in our urban lives ~ recovering the lost connections to our history. The architecture of an old building may have been constructed hundreds of years ago, each ornament made by hand, and yet it stands next to a supermarket, or in Times Square. It’s beauty like a secret in plain sight, that we attempt to illuminate, like the lens of an eyeglass on the doorway of beauty.
Laguna Art Prize 2023, Venice,Italy(Finalist);Le GODMICHÉ No address Gallery, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2023); Fluido, Solo show at Galerie Molin Corvo Paris,2022/2023), France; Fiumefreddo Photo festival with Controlled Lives Series, Calabria, Italy (2022);Mia Photo Fair BEYOND PHOTOGRAPHY curated by Domenico de Chirico, Milan,Italy Ciao Tchau, Noaddress Gallery,Rio de Janeiro,Brazil, 2022; Art Site Fest, Palazzina Reale di caccia di Stupinigi, Torino, Italy; Piú Nuovo, Palazzo dei Musei Civici, Reggio Emilia, Italy 2021;General Public los Angeles 2021;HBOmax 2021;X, Galerie Palü, Zurich, Switzerland 2020; Photoumnales 17° edition, Controlled Lives, Le Quadrilatère-Beauvais, France; Seguindo uma Linha, Galerie Palü, Pontresina, Switzerland 2020; Flutua em Diálogos Ressonantes, Galeria Mamute, Porto Alegre, Brasil 2020; Beyond Seeing, Molin Corvo Gallery, Paris, France 2020; Projections Discovery Awards, Encontros da Imagem Festival, Braga, Portugal 2019; Life-framer Winners Colors By Richard Mosse 2019; Finalist on street Photography awards Lens Culture 2019; PhotoLux Festival 2019, Lucca, Italy; Art Site Fest, Royal Castle of Govone, Italy 2019; De Finibus Terrae, European Parliament, Strasburg, France 2019; Winner, Special Prize Laguna Art Prize 2019, Venice, Italy; Der Greif-Guest Room Controlled Lives by Urs Stahel 2018; Der Greif-Guest Room, Controlled Lives by Monica Allende 2018; So Far, Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona, Sweden - 2018 , Der Greif-Guest Room, Controlled Lives by Lorenza Bravetta, 2018; Der Greif-Guest Room, Controlled Lives by Diane Dufour 2018; Light Perception, No Address Gallery at Palazzo Tirelli, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2018; Laguna Art Prize Arsenale, Venice, Italy, 2018; Fake - Truth, Rotterdam Photo Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - 2018; Get Lost, TAL Projects Cascais, Portugal - 2017; Projections Discovery Awards, Encontros da Imagem Festival, Braga, Portugal - 2017; 54° Venice Biennial Arsenale, Venice, Italy - 2011; Ama+zônia - Corpos da Natureza, Centro Cultural da Justiça Federal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 2011; Performance Video, MAC - Museum of contemporary art, Niteroi, Brazil - 2005; Residencies include: Lab Verde, (Amazon, Brazil- 2018) and Art Biennial (London, UK - 2004).
Dehiscence is a Toronto based, multi-media artist whose main subject matter is the human form. Her artistic process stems from a desire to transcend the prejudices and stereotypes that are so commonly associated with our external physical traits and to highlight social factors which impact human rights, inclusion and equality. She started experimenting with AI in 2018 and has been using AI infusion since 2020 as part of her process to edit and manipulate her collages or digital sketches. Dehiscence entered the NFT space in March of 2020. Her artwork have been shown in Rome, Paris, Nice, Los Angeles, Ghent, London and at Art Basel Miami.
My style is a reverie in itself, rooted in solitude, death, despair, and a resignation to life, yet surreptitiously cradling small hopes in the realm of the subconscious, painting beautiful phantasms on the canvas of eyelids. At its core, it's a purified vision the soul yearns for, a shared imagery across my artworks. As a metaphor, children, the socially underprivileged, the working class, imaginary forests, and anthropomorphic animals often make their appearance. While my artworks may initially appear dark, I blend wit and humor to craft pieces that are simultaneously disquieting and enchanting, striving to capture the essence of the human experience.
My name is Taya and I am Ukrainian visual artist. I describe my work as magic realism with surreal, postmodern and symbolic influences. While growing up in Ukraine, surrounded by people who truly believe in a spiritual world and superstitions, I developed a huge kinship in folklore, mysticism, spirituality which are my main influences.
I am a future maker that works in 3D/XR/AI. I am exploring the human figure, environments and micro-narratives via AI assisted digital painting + moving image. Recent notable appearances of my work include the Supernova Digital Arts festival in Denver, Colorado, USA, the Denver film Festival, the Torino short film VR showcase in Turin, Italy, the New Orleans film Festival in Louisiana USA. Also NFT NYC 22, NFC Summit 23 in Lisbon, Portugal. Zeitgeist group show, and the AI Surrealism show in World Trade centre New York, USA 2023.
I am an Ai artist and prompt engineer creating 1/1 artwork. I start by crafting prompts and running them through several Ai tools to get various results, all the while finetuning and adjusting the inputs. Often, but not always, I then use Photoshop to meld the best results together. Beyond creating, I am passionate about growing the Ai art community and showing the world what Ai can do with the help of an imaginative prompt engineer. I want to see it grow and become more mainstream and dispel the misconceptions about it being "just pressing a button." I also want to see more people of color, women, nonbinary, and LGBTQ+ folks involved in the community. One of my greatest joys comes from introducing people to this medium. Everyone has the potential to create beautiful things, but not everyone has the opportunity to discover that about themselves. Ai truly unlocks the imagination.
My work today, is expressive figurative contemporary art most often based on the momentary feeling and mood. It's a reflection of a lifetime of unconscious inspiration and an ongoing creative practice. A universe of happy, dark, nonsensical and grotesque intuitions. I don't intend to deliver a specific message consciously, it is merely a reflection of a state of mind in the moment.
DeltaSauce is a 28-year-old artist based out of Dallas Texas whose specialty is AI art – though to the untrained eye, many of his works may appear to have the presence of illustrations or paintings.He began creating in early 2005, inspired by his father’s love for art and in hopes of connecting further with him. Other inspirations that have helped to shape Delta’s style include names like Jim Buckels, David Hockney, and Edward Hopper. As a full-time artist, Delta creates his works as a means of escapism – a way to decompress but also connect with others. For him, many of the pieces represent moments or objects now suspended in time passed.Common recurring themes of these works include calming liminal spaces that for some might hold nostalgic or familiar feelings – as if they were memories rediscovered.
I am Ariadna, a photographer and editor hailing from the vibrant city of Barcelona, currentyl working in the middle east countries as a documentary photographer for more than 10 years. For the past 25 years, I have immersed myself in the world of photography, capturing the beauty of both the ordinary and the extraordinary. My journey, however, has recently taken a remarkable turn as I've delved into the realm of AI art, where imagination converges with technology to create something truly extraordinary. Throughout my career as a photographer, I've developed a deep love for exploring emotions, the obsessions of real life, and the inherent beauty found in the most unusual places. But it was when I discovered the possibilities of artificial intelligence that my artistic vision truly soared. I began to experiment with AI, using them to enhance and transform my photographs into something more than just images; they became a medium through which I could paint emotions on a blank canvas. One of my greatest passions is capturing the intricate feelings of sensitive women, celebrating vulnerability as a potent power amidst the chaos of life. Themes such as womanhood, solitude, beauty in the peculiar, nostalgia, dreams, and memories have become the heart and soul of my creations. With every piece of art I create, I harmonize my photographic expertise with the essence of AI, breathing life into my visions. It's a journey that has allowed me to redefine what's possible in the realm of creativity.
I started to experiment with AI October 22, with conceptual idea of creating artwork around theme of building blocks. through blackbox, of another parallel world, inhabited by bees. What kind of world can I make AI to hallucinate? I love hallucinations as they are not hundred percent intentional in prompting, but somewhat unexpected open end output of the machine. I had tremendous fun doing it, hunting those perfect images. I built several custom models for this.
DVK the artist grew up with a passion for art, often immersed in creative endeavors from a young age. With a father who was both a traditional oil painter and an architect, DVK had a mentor by his side throughout his formative years. This influence led his to frequent exhibitions across Denmark.
Interestingly, DVK's two brothers also pursued art-related paths: one as a traditional painter and the other as an architect. However, DVK's inclination always veered towards the digital realm, with a particular fondness for working on the computer. Over the years, he mastered various software programs, ranging from the Adobe suite to 3D modeling and video editing tools.
This affinity for the digital medium steered DVK towards a career as a graphic designer. And while the profession provided a creative outlet, DVK always yearned to produce art that was truly personal, reflecting his own visions and intentions. With AI, that dream is now possible.
Irena Sophia began experimenting with AI on October 22, driven by the conceptual idea of crafting artwork centered on the theme of building blocks. She envisioned a black box that offered a glimpse into an alternate universe populated by bees. Sophia was intrigued by the possibility: What kind of world could she prompt AI to envision?
She had a particular fondness for hallucinations, as they aren't entirely intentional in their inception, but rather provide an unpredictable, open-ended output from the machine. She took immense pleasure in the process, always in search of the perfect images. To achieve this, she developed several custom models.