

Memento Minti
Memento Minti is a group show curated by Filippo Lorenzin featuring works by Nicolas Sassoon, Sasha Stiles, Jisu Choe, Silvio Lorusso and Dancevatar, artists who have been exploring the thin line between self-promotion and survival strategy concerning the online presence of artists and creatives making and releasing digital art.
Composed of five rooms and displayed in Decentraland, Memento Minti addresses the psychological and physical toll of narrating your life as if it were an online brand. The works propose an informed perspective on how marketing strategies have changed the way creatives promote and sell works online, inviting artists who have been active before and after the popularisation of NFTs.
“The works propose an informed perspective on how marketing strategies have changed the way creatives promote and sell works online, inviting artists who have been active before and after the popularisation of NFTs.“
(Filippo Lorenzin, curator)
Location
Curator
Filippo Lorenzin
Marie Chatel
Partners
Decentraland University
Decentraland
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Memento Minti is a group show curated by Filippo Lorenzin featuring works by Nicolas Sassoon, Sasha Stiles, Jisu Choe, Silvio Lorusso and Dancevatar, artists who have been exploring the thin line between self-promotion and survival strategy concerning the online presence of artists and creatives making and releasing digital art.
Composed of five rooms and displayed in Decentraland, Memento Minti addresses the psychological and physical toll of narrating your life as if it were an online brand. The works propose an informed perspective on how marketing strategies have changed the way creatives promote and sell works online, inviting artists who have been active before and after the popularisation of NFTs.
“The works propose an informed perspective on how marketing strategies have changed the way creatives promote and sell works online, inviting artists who have been active before and after the popularisation of NFTs.“
(Filippo Lorenzin, curator)
Location
Curator
Filippo Lorenzin
Marie Chatel
Partners
Decentraland University
Decentraland
Purchase
In Pose Sittings, the bodies of seventeen people from various ages, body types and professions adopt seven bodybuilding postures. The series examines the act of posing and the obsession with self-image promoted within certain digital culture communities. The need for uniformity, the ideal model and the obsession with the personal view that we have of ourselves seems to be the main goal that gets adopted within digital communities to pump up popularity and likes. Danceavatar questions the concept of “normality” while suggesting that such ordinariness can be an uncomfortable image that is forced upon users.
2020
Photo/Sound Installation, Video
Year:
"Fusing binary code with scrawling handwritten script, Cursive Binary is a proposed language invented by poet and artist Sasha Stiles, offered as a mode of transhuman connection and communication here at the dawn of the Novacene era.
This piece was created for "MEMENTO MINTI - If you stop contributing, you will be forgotten," a 2022 group show at the Museum of Contemporary Digital Art. Curated by Filippo Lorenzin and Marie Chatel, this exhibition explores the thin line between self-promotion and survival strategy in the making and sharing of digital art." (Sasha Stiles)
2021
Oil pastel on paper, rendered as hi-res jpeg
Year:
851px x 315px is a performance that took place from 12th September to 1st November 2012. The work consisted in collecting a series of images that accidentally fit exactly the dimensions of the Facebook cover (851px x 315px) by looking at a period before the advent of the Facebook timeline.
Lorusso highlights the boundaries that the interfaces of social media platforms impose on users and how these dimensions shape one’s expression, as if it were an advertising banner. Additionally, the performance reflects upon the construction of identity that takes place on dominant forms of social media, through a rejection of any personal expression which is substituted by a set of rules such as picture dimensions and time.
2021
Digital Images, Performance
Year:
Jisu Choe’s triptych explores the restlessness of engaging online all the time. The three works are colourful and visually attractive. It is only after they have gone beyond their pop appearance that viewers notice the dramatic tone underlying the artist’s comic style.
The bright colours in these illustrations are reminiscent of those the public sees on the backlit screens of their digital devices. Psychological pressure can take shape using aesthetics that are as funny as they are oppressive. In Anxiety, a female character is burned out, covered with emojis and social media logos that form a communicative entropy that does not give the possibility of self-expression.
2021
Digital Illustration
Year:
Jisu Choe’s triptych explores the restlessness of engaging online all the time. The three works are colourful and visually attractive. It is only after they have gone beyond their pop appearance that viewers notice the dramatic tone underlying the artist’s comic style.
The bright colours in these illustrations are reminiscent of those the public sees on the backlit screens of their digital devices. Psychological pressure can take shape using aesthetics that are as funny as they are oppressive. In Anxiety, a female character is burned out, covered with emojis and social media logos that form a communicative entropy that does not give the possibility of self-expression.
2021
Digital Illustration
Year:
Jisu Choe’s triptych explores the restlessness of engaging online all the time. The three works are colourful and visually attractive. It is only after they have gone beyond their pop appearance that viewers notice the dramatic tone underlying the artist’s comic style.
The bright colours in these illustrations are reminiscent of those the public sees on the backlit screens of their digital devices. Psychological pressure can take shape using aesthetics that are as funny as they are oppressive. In Anxiety, a female character is burned out, covered with emojis and social media logos that form a communicative entropy that does not give the possibility of self-expression.
2021
Digital Illustration
Year:
Sasha Stiles proposes a language for transhuman communication, merging the human and the machine through a seamless “transbinary” font. Cursive Binary is shorthand for the desire to transcend simplistic, reductive systems in favour of infinite possibility, and reflects a deep urge to connect. The 0s and 1s written by Stiles create elegant and complex patterns that require the viewer’s intellect to decipher; the artist’s handwriting explores the possibility of engaging an intimate relationship with technology, where numbers and the logic of the binary code are mediated by human sensitivity.
2021
AI generative text in translation and colored pencil on paper, rendered as hi-res jpeg
Year:
Sasha Stiles proposes a language for transhuman communication, merging the human and the machine through a seamless “transbinary” font. Cursive Binary is shorthand for the desire to transcend simplistic, reductive systems in favour of infinite possibility, and reflects a deep urge to connect. The 0s and 1s written by Stiles create elegant and complex patterns that require the viewer’s intellect to decipher; the artist’s handwriting explores the possibility of engaging an intimate relationship with technology, where numbers and the logic of the binary code are mediated by human sensitivity.
2021
Original poetry in translation and colored pencil on paper, rendered as hi-res jpeg
Year:
Composed of digital animations of zig-zagging black bands moving across patterned fields, the OUT MY WINDOWS series by Nicolas Sassoon explores the effects of the persistent presence of electronic technology on our visual experience of the outside world. The windows the artist refers to are both those on his computer screen and the ones from which he sees the world outside his studio. The patterns are geometric but the movements are so smooth that they look like sea waves reflecting the sunlight. The artist suggests a communion of binary grammar and human emotion with elegant and hypnotic animations that get fixed in the viewer’s retina.
2022
GIF
Year:
Composed of digital animations of zig-zagging black bands moving across patterned fields, the OUT MY WINDOWS series by Nicolas Sassoon explores the effects of the persistent presence of electronic technology on our visual experience of the outside world. The windows the artist refers to are both those on his computer screen and the ones from which he sees the world outside his studio. The patterns are geometric but the movements are so smooth that they look like sea waves reflecting the sunlight. The artist suggests a communion of binary grammar and human emotion with elegant and hypnotic animations that get fixed in the viewer’s retina.
2022
GIF
Year:
Composed of digital animations of zig-zagging black bands moving across patterned fields, the OUT MY WINDOWS series by Nicolas Sassoon explores the effects of the persistent presence of electronic technology on our visual experience of the outside world. The windows the artist refers to are both those on his computer screen and the ones from which he sees the world outside his studio. The patterns are geometric but the movements are so smooth that they look like sea waves reflecting the sunlight. The artist suggests a communion of binary grammar and human emotion with elegant and hypnotic animations that get fixed in the viewer’s retina.
2022
GIF
Year:
Composed of digital animations of zig-zagging black bands moving across patterned fields, the OUT MY WINDOWS series by Nicolas Sassoon explores the effects of the persistent presence of electronic technology on our visual experience of the outside world. The windows the artist refers to are both those on his computer screen and the ones from which he sees the world outside his studio. The patterns are geometric but the movements are so smooth that they look like sea waves reflecting the sunlight. The artist suggests a communion of binary grammar and human emotion with elegant and hypnotic animations that get fixed in the viewer’s retina.
2022
GIF
Year:
Composed of digital animations of zig-zagging black bands moving across patterned fields, the OUT MY WINDOWS series by Nicolas Sassoon explores the effects of the persistent presence of electronic technology on our visual experience of the outside world. The windows the artist refers to are both those on his computer screen and the ones from which he sees the world outside his studio. The patterns are geometric but the movements are so smooth that they look like sea waves reflecting the sunlight. The artist suggests a communion of binary grammar and human emotion with elegant and hypnotic animations that get fixed in the viewer’s retina.
2022
Video
Year:
Featured Artworks
Memento Minti
7 January 2022 at 23:00:00
Memento Minti is a group show curated by Filippo Lorenzin featuring works by Nicolas Sassoon, Sasha Stiles, Jisu Choe, Silvio Lorusso and Dancevatar, artists who have been exploring the thin line between self-promotion and survival strategy concerning the online presence of artists and creatives making and releasing digital art.
Composed of five rooms and displayed in Decentraland, Memento Minti addresses the psychological and physical toll of narrating your life as if it were an online brand. The works propose an informed perspective on how marketing strategies have changed the way creatives promote and sell works online, inviting artists who have been active before and after the popularisation of NFTs.
“The works propose an informed perspective on how marketing strategies have changed the way creatives promote and sell works online, inviting artists who have been active before and after the popularisation of NFTs.“
(Filippo Lorenzin, curator)

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