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Niio Editorial<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we reach the end of 2022, we look back at a very busy year, and forward to an even more intense 2023. In this series of posts, we have selected some of our favorite artcasts, artists, artworks, articles, and interviews. They outline an overview of what has happened in Niio over the last months and highlight the work of artists and galleries with whom we are proud to collaborate. However, there is much more than what fits in this page! We invite you to browse our app and discover our curated art program, as well as our editorial section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Five interviews from 2022<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Interviews are an important part of our Editorial content, because we believe that artists, gallerists, and curators have important things to say, and we want their words to reach our readers. We are privileged to live in a time when it is possible to connect with people around the world and have a conversation with them, learn from their experience and get a first person account of their creative process. This year we have spoken to wonderful and generous art professionals who have spent time with us explaining their work and their views on digital art, sometimes at a distance, and other times visiting their studios. These conversations are certainly worth reading for anyone who wishes to understand how art is created nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have chosen five interviews from almost 40 conversations published in our Editorial section this year. Click on the titles to read each article<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steven Sacks, founder of bitforms gallery<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Steve Sacks<\/strong> founded bitforms<\/strong><\/a> in New York in November 2001, at a time when digital art was getting attention among the contemporary art institutions in the USA as well as Europe. Major exhibitions held that same year, such as Bitstreams<\/em> and Data Dynamics<\/em> at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and 010101: Art in Technological Times<\/em> at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art were particularly inspirational for him.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Photo: Joanna Holloway<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Over two decades, bitforms has achieved an influential position in the contemporary art market as a gallery devoted to digital art, participating in major art fairs and representing some of the most recognized artists in this field, such as Manfred Mohr, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Casey Reas, Quayola, Auriea Harvey, Refik Anadol, Gary Hill, Claudia Hart, Beryl Korot, Marina Zurkow, Daniel Canogar, Daniel Rozin, Siebren Versteeg and many others. On the occasion of the third series of Niio Commissions, which was curated by Sacks, we sat down with the gallerist to discuss his views on the development of the contemporary art market and the role that digital art is now playing in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNiio gives my artists more exposure and it\u2019s much easier for collectors to view and manage their artworks\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Steven Sacks<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Marina Zurkow, artist<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Marina Zurkow<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s work explores the relationship between nature, culture, and society, focusing on what she describes as \u201cwicked problems,\u201d those issues that reveal our abusive interactions with the natural environment and our difficulty to understand it beyond our human-centric, capitalist-driven views of the world around us.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A transdisciplinary artist, she works with experts from different fields to create a wide range of artistic practices that includes video art, installations, and public participatory projects. Currently, she is working on the tensions between maritime ecology and the ocean\u2019s primary human use as a capitalist Pangea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the release of two new artworks commissioned by Niio<\/strong><\/a>, we spoke with the artist about her latest work and her commitment to raise environmental concerns through her art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are many roles that artists occupy in terms of addressing environmental atrocities. I don’t feel like any one tactic is any better than any other. It’s all crucial.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Marina Zurkow<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Daniel Canogar, artist<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The leading artist in the Spanish media art scene, Daniel Canogar<\/a><\/strong>‘s influential work spans almost four decades and a wide range of media from video art installations to generative software art. On the occasion of his solo artcast Liquid Data<\/a><\/strong>, our Senior Curator Pau Waelder interviewed him in his studio in Madrid.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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