

Not Only RGB
Not Only RGB is a group show curated by Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi. Supported by Decentraland DAO, Not Only RGB features works created by Kevin Abosch, Matt Kane, 38‰ (Mattia Cuttini and Luca Donno), Sarah Meyohas and Mathieu Merlet-Briand.
“Colours are a fundamental facet of how we perceive the outside world. Governed by the invisible laws of colour theory, they influence our emotional relationships to nature, from celestial bodies to distant horizons. But what happens when we try to translate these naturally occurring palettes to a man-made digital environment? Is it still possible to engineer the same complexity of feeling? Can they be used as tools to probe more deeply into the laws of nature?
Not Only RGB is meant to explore the transposition of colour from the natural world into the realm of the digital, using digital landscapes to investigate the fundamental laws that govern our emotional and physical relationships to colour.
From our own subjective perceptions to the external world around us, this exhibition is a journey from microcosm to macrocosm through colour in digital realms."
(Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi, curators)
Location
Curator
Chiara Braidotti
Sia Pineschi
Partners
Decentraland DAO
Decentraland University
Decentraland
Not Only RGB is a group show curated by Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi. Supported by Decentraland DAO, Not Only RGB features works created by Kevin Abosch, Matt Kane, 38‰ (Mattia Cuttini and Luca Donno), Sarah Meyohas and Mathieu Merlet-Briand.
“Colours are a fundamental facet of how we perceive the outside world. Governed by the invisible laws of colour theory, they influence our emotional relationships to nature, from celestial bodies to distant horizons. But what happens when we try to translate these naturally occurring palettes to a man-made digital environment? Is it still possible to engineer the same complexity of feeling? Can they be used as tools to probe more deeply into the laws of nature?
Not Only RGB is meant to explore the transposition of colour from the natural world into the realm of the digital, using digital landscapes to investigate the fundamental laws that govern our emotional and physical relationships to colour.
From our own subjective perceptions to the external world around us, this exhibition is a journey from microcosm to macrocosm through colour in digital realms."
(Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi, curators)
Location
Curator
Chiara Braidotti
Sia Pineschi
Partners
Decentraland DAO
Decentraland University
Decentraland
Sixteen workers, stationed in the former Bell Labs, were directed to dissect dozens of roses with the purpose of selecting and photographing 100,000 individual petals. Generated Petals Interpolation depicts AI-generated rose petals derived from the database created by those real petals. The algorithm strips the petals down to their native traits, like colour and shape, in order to build new petals with these fundamental building blocks. The origin of this database is captured in the associated work Cloud of Petals, a film which documents the process by which the roses are translated into, and therefore preserved eternally as, digital images and data.
In part a commentary on the tension between ephemerality and permanence within natural and digital realms, Meyohas subverts the evolutionary selective process by rapidly upscaling it through the use of AI technologies, ultimately showing its malleability in the face of human intervention.
A dedicated screening event will be organised as part of the Not Only RGB programme to watch the film Cloud of Petals.
2019
Video
Year:
Sun Signals is a series of 1010 works informed by the analysis of sun cycles and solar radiation on Earth. Utilising his scientific background as the basis of his artistic investigation, Irish artist Kevin Abosch examined solar datapoints, deploying deep-learning algorithms and abstracting this data into elements like colour, line, size and shape. The resulting sunscapes distill emotional value from scientific data into impactful and technologically complex works.
Each of the Sun Signals is generated with renewable energy using the artist's solar-powered computer servers. As both a celebration of the diverse experience of the sun throughout our globe and also a commentary on the varied effects of climate change, Sun Signals captures the hope, curiosity and awe generated by the star responsible for life on our planet.
2021
Still
Year:
Gazers #945
still generated on July 4, 2022, 12pm
origin moon: First Stolen Paintings
The moon has been a fascination for humans since the dawn of civilisation, from the first lunar calendar dated to 23,000 BCE to modern spaceflight. Celebrating this long history of lunar obsession, the Gazers series functions in a similar way to a lunar calendar, with each work shifting and changing throughout its cyclical lifetime in relation to specific, often hidden, traits captured within the code. Each of the Gazers contains several layers that interact with each other to produce its final behaviors and colours.
Each work begins from an autobiographical ‘origin moon’, the date for which is derived from a significant event in the artist’s life. The whole series comprises one thousand artworks; the twelve Gazers here on display are mere still images of the living works, each tied to a different origin moon.
2021
Still
Year:
Gazers #774
still generated on August 22, 2022, 6am
origin moon: No Sale
The moon has been a fascination for humans since the dawn of civilisation, from the first lunar calendar dated to 23,000 BCE to modern spaceflight. Celebrating this long history of lunar obsession, the Gazers series functions in a similar way to a lunar calendar, with each work shifting and changing throughout its cyclical lifetime in relation to specific, often hidden, traits captured within the code. Each of the Gazers contains several layers that interact with each other to produce its final behaviors and colours.
Each work begins from an autobiographical ‘origin moon’, the date for which is derived from a significant event in the artist’s life. The whole series comprises one thousand artworks; the twelve Gazers here on display are mere still images of the living works, each tied to a different origin moon.
2021
Still
Year:
Gazers #299
still generated on August 20, 2022, 12am
origin moon: Last Record Sale
The moon has been a fascination for humans since the dawn of civilisation, from the first lunar calendar dated to 23,000 BCE to modern spaceflight. Celebrating this long history of lunar obsession, the Gazers series functions in a similar way to a lunar calendar, with each work shifting and changing throughout its cyclical lifetime in relation to specific, often hidden, traits captured within the code. Each of the Gazers contains several layers that interact with each other to produce its final behaviors and colours.
Each work begins from an autobiographical ‘origin moon’, the date for which is derived from a significant event in the artist’s life. The whole series comprises one thousand artworks; the twelve Gazers here on display are mere still images of the living works, each tied to a different origin moon.
2021
Still
Year:
Sun Signals is a series of 1010 works informed by the analysis of sun cycles and solar radiation on Earth. Utilising his scientific background as the basis of his artistic investigation, Irish artist Kevin Abosch examined solar datapoints, deploying deep-learning algorithms and abstracting this data into elements like colour, line, size and shape. The resulting sunscapes distill emotional value from scientific data into impactful and technologically complex works.
Each of the Sun Signals is generated with renewable energy using the artist's solar-powered computer servers. As both a celebration of the diverse experience of the sun throughout our globe and also a commentary on the varied effects of climate change, Sun Signals captures the hope, curiosity and awe generated by the star responsible for life on our planet.
2021
Still
Year:
Sun Signals is a series of 1010 works informed by the analysis of sun cycles and solar radiation on Earth. Utilising his scientific background as the basis of his artistic investigation, Irish artist Kevin Abosch examined solar datapoints, deploying deep-learning algorithms and abstracting this data into elements like colour, line, size and shape. The resulting sunscapes distill emotional value from scientific data into impactful and technologically complex works.
Each of the Sun Signals is generated with renewable energy using the artist's solar-powered computer servers. As both a celebration of the diverse experience of the sun throughout our globe and also a commentary on the varied effects of climate change, Sun Signals captures the hope, curiosity and awe generated by the star responsible for life on our planet.
2021
Still
Year:
Sun Signals is a series of 1010 works informed by the analysis of sun cycles and solar radiation on Earth. Utilising his scientific background as the basis of his artistic investigation, Irish artist Kevin Abosch examined solar datapoints, deploying deep-learning algorithms and abstracting this data into elements like colour, line, size and shape. The resulting sunscapes distill emotional value from scientific data into impactful and technologically complex works.
Each of the Sun Signals is generated with renewable energy using the artist's solar-powered computer servers. As both a celebration of the diverse experience of the sun throughout our globe and also a commentary on the varied effects of climate change, Sun Signals captures the hope, curiosity and awe generated by the star responsible for life on our planet.
2021
Still
Year:
Gazers #374
still generated on August 28, 2022, 12pm
origin moon: Gazers Sale - 9/7
The moon has been a fascination for humans since the dawn of civilisation, from the first lunar calendar dated to 23,000 BCE to modern spaceflight. Celebrating this long history of lunar obsession, the Gazers series functions in a similar way to a lunar calendar, with each work shifting and changing throughout its cyclical lifetime in relation to specific, often hidden, traits captured within the code. Each of the Gazers contains several layers that interact with each other to produce its final behaviors and colours.
Each work begins from an autobiographical ‘origin moon’, the date for which is derived from a significant event in the artist’s life. The whole series comprises one thousand artworks; the twelve Gazers here on display are mere still images of the living works, each tied to a different origin moon.
2021
Still
Year:
Gazers #857
still generated on October 3, 2022, 12pm
origin moon: First Gallery Representation
The moon has been a fascination for humans since the dawn of civilisation, from the first lunar calendar dated to 23,000 BCE to modern spaceflight. Celebrating this long history of lunar obsession, the Gazers series functions in a similar way to a lunar calendar, with each work shifting and changing throughout its cyclical lifetime in relation to specific, often hidden, traits captured within the code. Each of the Gazers contains several layers that interact with each other to produce its final behaviors and colours.
Each work begins from an autobiographical ‘origin moon’, the date for which is derived from a significant event in the artist’s life. The whole series comprises one thousand artworks; the twelve Gazers here on display are mere still images of the living works, each tied to a different origin moon.
2021
Still
Year:
Sun Signals is a series of 1010 works informed by the analysis of sun cycles and solar radiation on Earth. Utilising his scientific background as the basis of his artistic investigation, Irish artist Kevin Abosch examined solar datapoints, deploying deep-learning algorithms and abstracting this data into elements like colour, line, size and shape. The resulting sunscapes distill emotional value from scientific data into impactful and technologically complex works.
Each of the Sun Signals is generated with renewable energy using the artist's solar-powered computer servers. As both a celebration of the diverse experience of the sun throughout our globe and also a commentary on the varied effects of climate change, Sun Signals captures the hope, curiosity and awe generated by the star responsible for life on our planet.
2021
Still
Year:
Sun Signals is a series of 1010 works informed by the analysis of sun cycles and solar radiation on Earth. Utilising his scientific background as the basis of his artistic investigation, Irish artist Kevin Abosch examined solar datapoints, deploying deep-learning algorithms and abstracting this data into elements like colour, line, size and shape. The resulting sunscapes distill emotional value from scientific data into impactful and technologically complex works.
Each of the Sun Signals is generated with renewable energy using the artist's solar-powered computer servers. As both a celebration of the diverse experience of the sun throughout our globe and also a commentary on the varied effects of climate change, Sun Signals captures the hope, curiosity and awe generated by the star responsible for life on our planet.
2021
Still
Year:
Sun Signals is a series of 1010 works informed by the analysis of sun cycles and solar radiation on Earth. Utilising his scientific background as the basis of his artistic investigation, Irish artist Kevin Abosch examined solar datapoints, deploying deep-learning algorithms and abstracting this data into elements like colour, line, size and shape. The resulting sunscapes distill emotional value from scientific data into impactful and technologically complex works.
Each of the Sun Signals is generated with renewable energy using the artist's solar-powered computer servers. As both a celebration of the diverse experience of the sun throughout our globe and also a commentary on the varied effects of climate change, Sun Signals captures the hope, curiosity and awe generated by the star responsible for life on our planet.
2021
Still
Year:
Sun Signals is a series of 1010 works informed by the analysis of sun cycles and solar radiation on Earth. Utilising his scientific background as the basis of his artistic investigation, Irish artist Kevin Abosch examined solar datapoints, deploying deep-learning algorithms and abstracting this data into elements like colour, line, size and shape. The resulting sunscapes distill emotional value from scientific data into impactful and technologically complex works.
Each of the Sun Signals is generated with renewable energy using the artist's solar-powered computer servers. As both a celebration of the diverse experience of the sun throughout our globe and also a commentary on the varied effects of climate change, Sun Signals captures the hope, curiosity and awe generated by the star responsible for life on our planet.
2021
Still
Year:
Sun Signals is a series of 1010 works informed by the analysis of sun cycles and solar radiation on Earth. Utilising his scientific background as the basis of his artistic investigation, Irish artist Kevin Abosch examined solar datapoints, deploying deep-learning algorithms and abstracting this data into elements like colour, line, size and shape. The resulting sunscapes distill emotional value from scientific data into impactful and technologically complex works.
Each of the Sun Signals is generated with renewable energy using the artist's solar-powered computer servers. As both a celebration of the diverse experience of the sun throughout our globe and also a commentary on the varied effects of climate change, Sun Signals captures the hope, curiosity and awe generated by the star responsible for life on our planet.
2021
Still
Year:
Gazers #565
still generated on February 20, 2022, 12pm
origin moon: First Record Sale
The moon has been a fascination for humans since the dawn of civilisation, from the first lunar calendar dated to 23,000 BCE to modern spaceflight. Celebrating this long history of lunar obsession, the Gazers series functions in a similar way to a lunar calendar, with each work shifting and changing throughout its cyclical lifetime in relation to specific, often hidden, traits captured within the code. Each of the Gazers contains several layers that interact with each other to produce its final behaviors and colours.
Each work begins from an autobiographical ‘origin moon’, the date for which is derived from a significant event in the artist’s life. The whole series comprises one thousand artworks; the twelve Gazers here on display are mere still images of the living works, each tied to a different origin moon.
2021
Still
Year:
#500
Sun Signals is a series of 1010 works informed by the analysis of sun cycles and solar radiation on Earth. Utilising his scientific background as the basis of his artistic investigation, Irish artist Kevin Abosch examined solar datapoints, deploying deep-learning algorithms and abstracting this data into elements like colour, line, size and shape. The resulting sunscapes distill emotional value from scientific data into impactful and technologically complex works.
Each of the Sun Signals is generated with renewable energy using the artist's solar-powered computer servers. As both a celebration of the diverse experience of the sun throughout our globe and also a commentary on the varied effects of climate change, Sun Signals captures the hope, curiosity and awe generated by the star responsible for life on our planet.
2021
Still
Year:
Gazers #800
still generated on September 11, 2022, 12pm
origin moon: First Sale - First Flip
The moon has been a fascination for humans since the dawn of civilisation, from the first lunar calendar dated to 23,000 BCE to modern spaceflight. Celebrating this long history of lunar obsession, the Gazers series functions in a similar way to a lunar calendar, with each work shifting and changing throughout its cyclical lifetime in relation to specific, often hidden, traits captured within the code. Each of the Gazers contains several layers that interact with each other to produce its final behaviors and colours.
Each work begins from an autobiographical ‘origin moon’, the date for which is derived from a significant event in the artist’s life. The whole series comprises one thousand artworks; the twelve Gazers here on display are mere still images of the living works, each tied to a different origin moon.
2021
Still
Year:
Gazers #606
still generated on August 7, 2022, 12am
origin moon: Begin Digital Art Studio Software
The moon has been a fascination for humans since the dawn of civilisation, from the first lunar calendar dated to 23,000 BCE to modern spaceflight. Celebrating this long history of lunar obsession, the Gazers series functions in a similar way to a lunar calendar, with each work shifting and changing throughout its cyclical lifetime in relation to specific, often hidden, traits captured within the code. Each of the Gazers contains several layers that interact with each other to produce its final behaviors and colours.
Each work begins from an autobiographical ‘origin moon’, the date for which is derived from a significant event in the artist’s life. The whole series comprises one thousand artworks; the twelve Gazers here on display are mere still images of the living works, each tied to a different origin moon.
2021
Still
Year:
Gazers #29
still generated on April 11, 2022, 12pm
origin moon: First One Person Show
The moon has been a fascination for humans since the dawn of civilisation, from the first lunar calendar dated to 23,000 BCE to modern spaceflight. Celebrating this long history of lunar obsession, the Gazers series functions in a similar way to a lunar calendar, with each work shifting and changing throughout its cyclical lifetime in relation to specific, often hidden, traits captured within the code. Each of the Gazers contains several layers that interact with each other to produce its final behaviors and colours.
Each work begins from an autobiographical ‘origin moon’, the date for which is derived from a significant event in the artist’s life. The whole series comprises one thousand artworks; the twelve Gazers here on display are mere still images of the living works, each tied to a different origin moon.
2021
Still
Year:
Gazers #351
still generated on January 3, 2022, 12pm
origin moon: The Dream
The moon has been a fascination for humans since the dawn of civilisation, from the first lunar calendar dated to 23,000 BCE to modern spaceflight. Celebrating this long history of lunar obsession, the Gazers series functions in a similar way to a lunar calendar, with each work shifting and changing throughout its cyclical lifetime in relation to specific, often hidden, traits captured within the code. Each of the Gazers contains several layers that interact with each other to produce its final behaviors and colours.
Each work begins from an autobiographical ‘origin moon’, the date for which is derived from a significant event in the artist’s life. The whole series comprises one thousand artworks; the twelve Gazers here on display are mere still images of the living works, each tied to a different origin moon.
2021
Still
Year:
Sun Signals is a series of 1010 works informed by the analysis of sun cycles and solar radiation on Earth. Utilising his scientific background as the basis of his artistic investigation, Irish artist Kevin Abosch examined solar datapoints, deploying deep-learning algorithms and abstracting this data into elements like colour, line, size and shape. The resulting sunscapes distill emotional value from scientific data into impactful and technologically complex works.
Each of the Sun Signals is generated with renewable energy using the artist's solar-powered computer servers. As both a celebration of the diverse experience of the sun throughout our globe and also a commentary on the varied effects of climate change, Sun Signals captures the hope, curiosity and awe generated by the star responsible for life on our planet.
2021
Still
Year:
Gazers #88
still generated on December 19, 2021, 12pm
origin moon: First Intro to Art on Blockchain
The moon has been a fascination for humans since the dawn of civilisation, from the first lunar calendar dated to 23,000 BCE to modern spaceflight. Celebrating this long history of lunar obsession, the Gazers series functions in a similar way to a lunar calendar, with each work shifting and changing throughout its cyclical lifetime in relation to specific, often hidden, traits captured within the code. Each of the Gazers contains several layers that interact with each other to produce its final behaviors and colours.
Each work begins from an autobiographical ‘origin moon’, the date for which is derived from a significant event in the artist’s life. The whole series comprises one thousand artworks; the twelve Gazers here on display are mere still images of the living works, each tied to a different origin moon.
2021
Still
Year:
Gazers #211
still generated on July 21, 2022, 12pm
origin moon: Architects of the Future
The moon has been a fascination for humans since the dawn of civilisation, from the first lunar calendar dated to 23,000 BCE to modern spaceflight. Celebrating this long history of lunar obsession, the Gazers series functions in a similar way to a lunar calendar, with each work shifting and changing throughout its cyclical lifetime in relation to specific, often hidden, traits captured within the code. Each of the Gazers contains several layers that interact with each other to produce its final behaviors and colours.
Each work begins from an autobiographical ‘origin moon’, the date for which is derived from a significant event in the artist’s life. The whole series comprises one thousand artworks; the twelve Gazers here on display are mere still images of the living works, each tied to a different origin moon.
2021
Still
Year:
Sun Signals is a series of 1010 works informed by the analysis of sun cycles and solar radiation on Earth. Utilising his scientific background as the basis of his artistic investigation, Irish artist Kevin Abosch examined solar datapoints, deploying deep-learning algorithms and abstracting this data into elements like colour, line, size and shape. The resulting sunscapes distill emotional value from scientific data into impactful and technologically complex works.
Each of the Sun Signals is generated with renewable energy using the artist's solar-powered computer servers. As both a celebration of the diverse experience of the sun throughout our globe and also a commentary on the varied effects of climate change, Sun Signals captures the hope, curiosity and awe generated by the star responsible for life on our planet.
2021
Still
Year:
Mathieu Merlet Briand is a French digital artist who utilises his work to illuminate the synthetic ways in which information is shaped, guided, and fragmented, especially in reference to nature and technology.
In this new work designed specifically for the Not Only RGB exhibition, the artist continues his physical New Nature series with Purple #Mineral, a virtual 3D sculpture depicting the abstracted form of a geometric amethyst crystal. As a sculpture in virtual space that requires the audience to fully experience it through their movement around the object, Purple #Mineral translates the multi-faceted beauty of precious stones, which have captured human attention for aeons, to the eternal platform of the digital world. In this way, Merlet Briand embraces a hybrid understanding of the natural world as both delicate and expansive space, mirroring the complexity and infinity of the digital realm in many of the same ways.
2022
3D Model
Year:
"In their second project released as 38‰, Italian artists Mattia Cuttini and Luca Donno leverage both common and distant traits of their practices to investigate the intersection of the chromatic spectrum and the geometric one, transposing fractals and hues found in nature into the digital realm.
Created in response to the theme of Not Only RGB while drawing inspiration from one of Cuttini’s older works, 38‰’ s series ColorSeeds is an ongoing exploration of the relationship between symmetry and randomness, between subtractive and additive colour synthesis, blank voids and overlapping refractions. An interplay between the reassuring laws of balance and the disruptive force of chance, the works challenge the viewer to find a rule to decode the composition, which is never to be fully grasped.
Resembling the spectacle viewed through a shattered kaleidoscope or a prism, ColorSeeds is also the reconnaissance of a visual vertigo, a journey from microcosm to macrocosm in the blink of an eye. The series bears witness to Cuttini’s knowledge of printing techniques and colour theory, his optical experiments and analog glitches, and Donno’s passion for the laws of nature and his background in computer science and coding." (Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi, curators)
2022
Still
Year:
"In their second project released as 38‰, Italian artists Mattia Cuttini and Luca Donno leverage both common and distant traits of their practices to investigate the intersection of the chromatic spectrum and the geometric one, transposing fractals and hues found in nature into the digital realm.
Created in response to the theme of Not Only RGB while drawing inspiration from one of Cuttini’s older works, 38‰’ s series ColorSeeds is an ongoing exploration of the relationship between symmetry and randomness, between subtractive and additive colour synthesis, blank voids and overlapping refractions. An interplay between the reassuring laws of balance and the disruptive force of chance, the works challenge the viewer to find a rule to decode the composition, which is never to be fully grasped.
Resembling the spectacle viewed through a shattered kaleidoscope or a prism, ColorSeeds is also the reconnaissance of a visual vertigo, a journey from microcosm to macrocosm in the blink of an eye. The series bears witness to Cuttini’s knowledge of printing techniques and colour theory, his optical experiments and analog glitches, and Donno’s passion for the laws of nature and his background in computer science and coding." (Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi, curators)
2022
Still
Year:
"In their second project released as 38‰, Italian artists Mattia Cuttini and Luca Donno leverage both common and distant traits of their practices to investigate the intersection of the chromatic spectrum and the geometric one, transposing fractals and hues found in nature into the digital realm.
Created in response to the theme of Not Only RGB while drawing inspiration from one of Cuttini’s older works, 38‰’ s series ColorSeeds is an ongoing exploration of the relationship between symmetry and randomness, between subtractive and additive colour synthesis, blank voids and overlapping refractions. An interplay between the reassuring laws of balance and the disruptive force of chance, the works challenge the viewer to find a rule to decode the composition, which is never to be fully grasped.
Resembling the spectacle viewed through a shattered kaleidoscope or a prism, ColorSeeds is also the reconnaissance of a visual vertigo, a journey from microcosm to macrocosm in the blink of an eye. The series bears witness to Cuttini’s knowledge of printing techniques and colour theory, his optical experiments and analog glitches, and Donno’s passion for the laws of nature and his background in computer science and coding." (Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi, curators)
2022
Still
Year:
Featured Artworks
Not Only RGB
15 October 2022 at 00:00:00
Not Only RGB is a group show curated by Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi. Supported by Decentraland DAO, Not Only RGB features works created by Kevin Abosch, Matt Kane, 38‰ (Mattia Cuttini and Luca Donno), Sarah Meyohas and Mathieu Merlet-Briand.
“Colours are a fundamental facet of how we perceive the outside world. Governed by the invisible laws of colour theory, they influence our emotional relationships to nature, from celestial bodies to distant horizons. But what happens when we try to translate these naturally occurring palettes to a man-made digital environment? Is it still possible to engineer the same complexity of feeling? Can they be used as tools to probe more deeply into the laws of nature?
Not Only RGB is meant to explore the transposition of colour from the natural world into the realm of the digital, using digital landscapes to investigate the fundamental laws that govern our emotional and physical relationships to colour.
From our own subjective perceptions to the external world around us, this exhibition is a journey from microcosm to macrocosm through colour in digital realms."
(Chiara Braidotti and Sia Pineschi, curators)

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