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An Afternoon Of New Media Art In San Francisco

WHAT:
Please join NYC’s bitforms gallery, NIIO and Philips in a discussion about curating, collecting and distributing media art for the screen.

Screen-based art can have a dramatic effect in your home or corporate setting. Join us and enjoy a special 15th anniversary exhibition by bitforms featuring some of the world’s top new media artists while learning more about:

Where to discover and purchase media art?
How to manage, distribute and display media art?
The best screens for displaying media art in any home, office or public space?

WHEN:
Thursday, November 10
Minnesota Street Project
Gallery 200 (2nd floor)
1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

3pm – 5pm,
Are you a designer, architect, creative or simply interested in learning more about displaying new media art? Join us. Limited space.
RSVP: [email protected]

FEATURED IMAGE:
Jonathan Monaghan
Scroll, 2016
From the series Gotham
Computer animated film (color, silent), screen
Dimensions variable, portrait orientation
7 min, seamless loop
Edition of 3

About NIIO
Niio is the first comprehensive platform for the distribution and display of moving images and new digital art forms including 4K film, AR and VR. Niio is comprised of a cloud platform with professional tools, an ArtPlayer and Remote Control App. It is the first solution dedicated to the digital medium supporting the entire lifecycle of a digitally created work including storage and long term preservation, transfers, previews, loans and change of ownership and the professional playback of multi-format and multi-channel works on any type of screen or projector. To request an account, visit niio.com.

About bitforms gallery
Founded in 2001, New York-based bitforms gallery represents established, mid-career, and emerging artists critically engaged with new technologies. Spanning the rich history of media art through its current developments, the gallery’s program offers an incisive perspective on the fields of digital, internet, time-based, and new media art forms. bitforms is celebrating its fifteenth year with an anniversary exhibition at Minnesota Street Project. The curated presentation of works includes currently represented artists as well as those who have shaped the gallery’s identity over the years, demonstrating the program’s continued engagement with technologically informed practices. For more information please contact [email protected].

About Philips Signage Solutions
Philips Signage Solutions is operated by EPI, a subsidiary of TPV established in 2009 through a brand license agreement with Philips. EPI exclusively market and sell Philips commercial displays and Philips monitors worldwide. By combining the Philips brand promise with TPV’s manufacturing expertise in displays, EPI uses a fast and focused approach to bringing innovative products to market. EPI operate with its North American headquarters in Fremont, California. For more information email [email protected].

An Evening of Art (X) Tech @ Sotheby’s

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During the evening, which featured three incredibly talented digital artists, Ori Gersht, Ronen Sharabani and Nevet Yitzhak, Niio’s co-founder & CEO, Rob Anders, was given the opportunity to introduce Niio and to talk to the audience of collectors, curators, artists and fans of digital art about our mission and the steps we’re taking to help support, nurture and grow the digital art community globally.

By providing a dedicated, end-to-end, cloud platform with robust proprietary professional tools, including an ArtPlayer and Remote Control App, Niio is able to play a role in helping to solve many of the most vexing challenges associated with digital art – – management, distribution and display. We were thrilled to have been given the opportunity to tell our story.

Niio co-founder & CEO, Rob Anders presenting to a full house at Sotheby’s.

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NIIO Joining NEW INC.

We couldn’t be more thrilled to be a part of the newest “class” of NEW INC. the first museum-led incubator dedicated to supporting innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship across art, design and technology.

We were selected to participate in this prestigious program (’16/’17) and have joined an incredible co-hort of talented creators and entrepreneurs from around the world. We’re working out of a inspiring, light-filled space on the Bowery (NYC) which is located just next door to the New Museum.

Read more about the program and its participants.

Studio Visit: Refik Anadol

We were thrilled to be invited to the Los Angeles studio of cutting edge media and data artist Refik Anadol. Located in the Silver Lake area on the east side of LA, the studio is accessed from a small side door. Step inside and you’re immediately enveloped by a sleek white space with 20ft ceilings, desks dotted with enormous computer screens, a brand new projector and great Mid-century modern furniture.

Of course it’s hard to miss the perfect, small scale model of Frank Gehry’s Disney Music Hall, one LA’s (if not the world’s) most iconic buildings. Refik used the model to create one of his very first projects in LA.

If you’ve been to San Francisco recently, you would not have been able to miss the skyline altering Salesforce Tower whose lobby is defined by a 3-story tall, 2,500-square-foot digital canvas featuring a custom data art creation by Anadol.

Together with his collaborator Peggy Weil, Anadol created a large scale data piece for LA’s first public art biennial, Current: LA Water.

To learn more about Refik’s unique artwork check out this feature story, KCET: Big (Beautiful) Data: The Media Architecture of Refik Anadol.

Niio at Art Helsinki Art Fair

Brand New Moving Image Program

This Fall, ArtHelsinki in collaboration with Moving Image co-founders and directors Murat Orozobekov and Edward Winkleman, launched a special video and film program. Galleries were invited to submit up to 3 “moving image” works with those selected presented at the fair (Sept. 7-11, 2016).

We were thrilled to have been selected by Moving Image’s Winkleman and Orozobekov as the platform of choice for supporting open call submissions and for powering the moving image portion of the ArtHelsinki fair. Learn more about how Niio supported this entire process.

Professional Tools: The Submission Process

Cobbled Together Solution
Supporting an open call for for moving image artwork comes with many challenges. Immense file sizes and multiple rich formats make open calls challenging for curators. Often times, they receive works in many different ways (USB, Gmail, Dropbox, FTP site) making the management and review of submissions a very time consuming, non-centralized process.

Using Niio’s ArtConsole, the Moving Image team was able to easily plan and organize the show which featured a synchronized 90-minute video installation across 3 screens.

New Work Flow
Niio supports all rich file formats (4K to VR) up to 250GB thus enabling all participant to submit to a single platform enabling curators and event organizers to manage submissions from one single location. In addition, when ready they can view the submission as intended by the artist in the highest possible quality, thanks to Niio’s 4K/60fps player. Gone are the days of watching low res, compressed previews on non-intended platforms such as youtube or vimeo.

Professional Tools: Powering the Fair

New Work Flow For Display
With all of the artwork submissions neatly organized in their Niio account, the Moving Image team was able to easily plan and organize the show which featured a synchronized 90-minute video installation across 3 screens.

The Moving Image team opted to use our Niio ArtConsole (4k/60fps player) which they plugged directly into their 3 projectors. With the works pre-downloaded to the Niio ArtConsoles, they didn’t require Wifi for display. During the show, the Moving Image team was able to control the manage the show via their Niio Remote Apps.

A Conversation With Kelani Nichole of Brooklyn’s TRANSFER Gallery (Part 2)

We are big fans of Brooklyn based TRANSFER. Gallery founder/director Kelani Nichole, started the exhibition space nearly four years ago in order to support and and cultivate artists with computer-based practices. Get to know Kelani:

What are the biggest challenges you face dealing in a digital medium both as a gallerist and as a curator?

Technical details aside, I’d say the biggest challenge currently facing the market for media-based artworks is around preservation and documentation of the artists’ intent. Much of the work I deal with is software-dependent, ephemeral, or online public artwork, so preserving the larger context and supporting platforms becomes the major consideration when appreciating these works. Just as any traditional format of artwork, new forms of media require restoration and care, and have the added complexity of authentication.

What are the biggest challenges in collecting digital art?

Preservation and authentication are the two biggest challenges to growing a secondary market for these artworks. Additionally, the body of criticism is still developing – the artworld is warming up to how to talk about these works, and successful institutional displays are somewhat few and far between.

I’m very keen to explore new methods of authentication. The current standard for authentication is a signed certificate, often accompanied by a digital still, editioned media storage device/object or other accompanying physical ephemera. In the near future I believe digital transfer of ownership will become more prevalent, as new standards emerge.

How do you think a platform like Niio will affect the medium of digital art?

I think Niio has solved some of the challenges related to displaying these works. I’m particularly interested in the workflows and collaboration points of the software between collectors, curators, galleries / institutions, agents and artists and believe a method of seamless exchange is an important step to making the work more accessible.

You’ve said that this year all the shows you’re staging at TRANSFER feature only women artists. Why is a series like that important to you?

I dedicated 2016 to showing new works from the studios of women, all of them experimental in their format and looking to test new ideas from the studio at TRANSFER. Gender balance was a hot topic in the artworld last year, a group of women working with new forms of performance and media were featured in ‘Women on the Verge’ in artforum.

This article crystallized a movement I had started to engage with during ‘gURLs’ a night of performance at TRANSFER in 2013, and have been tracking ever since. I found this article inspiring, and saw a timely opportunity to deepen my own understanding of the ways in which women are pushing into new forms of performance, installation and time-based media unlocking new opportunities for technology that are emotional and deeply human.

Carla Gannis launched my 2016 program, introducing a new body of 4K video works of self portraiture, a continuation of a year-long performative drawing project. Claudia Hart’s large-scale media installation was extended through the summer at TRANSFER. Next I’ll launch Angela Washko’s first video game artwork in September, followed by a new body of work from Morehshin Allahyari in the fall.

Read Part 1 of our interview With Kelani.

Claudia Hart

Carla Gannis

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