Marjan Moghaddam
Marjan Moghaddam is a renowned, award-winning, and pioneering Digital Artist/Animator, known for her unique style of figuration/animation in 3dCG and critical discourse. She is recipient of top awards/grants from the likes of Rockefeller Fund, selected for top festivals such as Siggraph (4 times), and has exhibited her AR art at Smithsonian. Her prolific exhibition history with computer art goes back to the 1980s, and she was the featured artist for the launch of the first NYC commercial Internet art gallery in 1996 sponsored by Prodigy Inc. Hailed as “trailblazer in digital art and the “Digital Hijacker” by the press for her influential #arthacks which made Forbes’ Best of AR list, she was Adobe’s Artist-in-Resident for Aero and was featured in a BBC documentary When Art Goes Digital. Her Crypto Art sells for high prices in the primary and secondary crypto market, are held in public and private collections, and she continues to create public art commissions in the US and Europe, with AR and lifesize permanent installation at Hillsborough Castle Park in the UK. She will be in the History of NFT Art museum exhibition in Linz, Austria this June.
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The Foundry
Opening of Digital Embodiments And Interventions
08/06/21
Decentraland
Opening event of “Digital Embodiments And Interventions”, a solo show presenting a selection of works by pioneering artist Marjan Moghaddam
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Digital Embodiments And Interventions, The Sculptural World of Marjan Moghaddam presented a selection of works by pioneering artist Marjan Moghaddam. Working in the field of digital-based art since the 1980s, Moghaddam explored the creative potential of 3D Computer Graphics, motion capture, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, just to name a few, with works that foreseen changes in style and philosophical approach to digital tools and culture.
Composed of three rooms and hosted in MoCDA - Museum of Contemporary Art’s virtual venue in Decentraland, the exhibition featured some of Moghaddam’s most groundbreaking works, covering a period that goes from the 1980s to 2021. While focusing on the research of Moghaddam, the project offers an insight into the theoretical and technical changes that happened over the last 30 years in art and digital culture, changes that Moghaddam often foreseen in her works.
One of the main themes explored is the interest of Moghaddam in digital modelling, a technique that the artist explored and experimented with to the point of reaching new forms of abstraction in recent years. The first room of the exhibition, titled “Embodiments”, is dedicated to the digital illustrations and videos Moghaddam created in her first phase, roughly from the 1980s to 2010, tracing her ongoing aim at challenging any given sanitised understanding of the nature of digital bodies through works that reclaim a central role for liquid identities in art and society. By exploring traditional themes of Western art history, Moghaddam questions the male gaze and its persistent influence on the representation of not-male bodies in the digital realm.
A further aspect investigated is the disruptive approach with which Moghaddam placed some of her digital sculptures next to physical artworks in IRL commercial galleries and art fairs with the aid of Augmented Reality technology, following a tradition of disruptive artists that goes back to the early 20th century. The last room, titled “Interventions”, features a selection of these digital works installed in the environment of the MoCDA virtual building next to video documentations of the interventions Moghaddam did over the years in a way that both preserves their original site-specificity.
Digital Embodiments And Interventions follows the curatorial aims of MoCDA, a platform that exhibits digital artworks for the purpose of documenting, collecting and advancing the position of digital art. The exhibition provided a theoretical and technical framework to better understand Marjan Moghaddam’s seminal career.