CURATED: CLAUDIA HART

Claudia Hart emerged as part of a generation of intermedia artists in the 1990s in the "identity art" niche. She still examines issues of identity, now focusing on how technology is affecting cultural constructions of gender identities and issues of the body, perception, and nature collapsing into technology and then back again.

Hart was an early adopter of virtual imaging, using 3D animation to create media installations and projections. Later, as they were invented, other forms of VR, AR, and objects using computer-driven production machines, all based on the same computer models. She works with digital trompe l'oeil as a medium, directing experimental theater and dance, as well as making media objects of all kinds using Rapid Prototyping, CNC routing, virtual-reality immersive environments, and augmented-reality custom apps.

Hart’s work is symbolist, poetic, vaguely narrative, mesmerizing, hypnotic and formalist. Bodies or natural forms like flowers always appear in them. Hart calls her work "post-photography" and has created 

a body of theoretical writings and exhibitions 

At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 2007, she developed a pedagogic program based on the concept of Experimental 3D, the first art-school curriculum teaching simulation technologies–the post-photographic–in the context of the contemporary art world.

Hart’s works are exhibited and collected by galleries and museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum, the New Museum, and the Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology, where she was an honorary fellow in 2013-14, Pioneer Works, NY, where she a technology resident in 2018, and currently, a 2019 fellow of the Center for New Music and Audio Technology, UC California, Berkeley and a Resident of the Anderson Ranch Center in Aspen, CO. in 2019. 

Hart lives in New York and Chicago, where she is a tenured professor at the School of the Art Institute, in the Department of Film Video, New Media and Animation.

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EXHIBITION

SHORT SEASON by Claudia Hart is the NFT of her artwork, THE SEASONS. THE SEASONS portrays a room in which a slowly evolving sculptural figure gradually transforms. In this animated loop, a variety of visual, temporal, and conceptual cycles are offset and overlaid so that their movement is obscured. All is in flux, but time seems to stand still, as in life. In THE SEASONS, a seated woman in a pose of erotic abandon cycles clockwise on a rotating pedestal. As she cycles, she decomposes, a vine of roses surrounding her, blooming and then fading away. The room also revolves, though counterclockwise, while the animation camera pans back and forth. These movements function in counterpoint, appearing only on the edge of perception. The sound for the piece is crumpling paper. The color scheme is white on white. ABOUT THE NFT Contract address: <a href="https://etherscan.io/address/0x1837ca3e3d6239148551e9716c57c985161dca9b">0x1837ca3e3d6239148551e9716c57c985161dca9b</a> Blockchain: Ethereum Token standard: ERC-721 Metadata: Frozen and decentralized

Short Season

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MORTIFICATIONS are a series of heavy plastic figurines output from a Rapid Prototype machine. Individual 3D computer models are produced via a process normal to industrial manufacturing. In the MORTIFICATIONS, a realistic model of a nude is digitally "mutilated" and subjected to irregular and apparently organic deformations. By creating forms that evoke decay out of non-biodegradable ABS plastic using a process intended to produce prototypes for mass production, the MORTIFICATIONS propose a digital Baroque. Related to the intentions of the historical Baroque, the emotionally expressive, personal style of this imagery is intended to breathe irregularity and life into a conformist techno/consumer culture.
 
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Kryptonite Mortification 01

EXPANDED.ART presents the group exhibition A BEATING HEART. FEMALE PIONEERS OF DIGITAL ART curated by Anika Meier on view at the gallery in Berlin. The exhibition explores how female artists at the forefront of digital art approach the male-dominated field in a variety of mediums such as AI, AR, video, poetry, and sculpture.

FEMALE PIONEERS OF DIGITAL ART

A BEATING HEART | BERLIN

EXPANDED.ART is pleased to present A CHILD’S MACHIAVELLI, the first solo exhibition by Claudia Hart at the gallery in Berlin. On view will be drawings and digital artworks from Hart’s iconic book of the same title in an immersive environment. 