Italian artists Fabio Giampietro and Alessio De Vecchi have taken absent the prime honour in 2016’s Lumen Prize – profitable the digital artwork award with a disorientating cityscape that combines standard portray and digital actuality.
‘Hyperplanes of Simultaneity’ consists of a massive canvas portray and a digital setting. Reminiscent of a scene in Christopher Nolan’s 2010 science fiction film, Inception, the portray exhibits the city tumbling in on itself. Standing in entrance of the portray, viewers can place on a Samsung Equipment VR headset to see a digital model of the scene – which appears to surround the viewer’s standpoint.
The portray was made by Fabio Giampietro, with Alessio De Vecchi developing the digital part. On the project’s internet site, artist Gianluca Ranzi connects the painted/VR cityscape to Italian Futurism and Spatialism.
“[Fabio Giampietro’s] do the job marks the liberation of painted types from the classical framework,” writes Ranzi, “enhancing a process, by now nicely set up in the course of Italian modern-day and present-day artwork, that started out with the groundbreaking theories of Futurism…and continued in the velocity of Lucio Fontana’s gesture of chopping the canvas to examine the space guiding and over and above it.”
Talking at the award ceremony, Giampietro described his venture as an instance of blended actuality artwork. “As a painter I wished to do some thing that blended standard artistic approaches with new systems, so it truly is good that blended actuality artwork is being recognised in this way.”
The Lumen Founder’s Prize went to US artist Carla Gannis, for the 12 months-prolonged venture ‘The Selfie Drawings’. Gannis designed a selection of fifty two digitally drawn self-portraits, shared in excess of social media and gathered into an augmented actuality ‘book’, working with the Blippar app. According to Gannis, “selfies contain a sort of on line performance, wherever we act out our life via a machine, and, much more importantly, wherever we are in control of framing how we want to be perceived.”