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https://buffaloakg.org/events/peer-peer%E2%80%94launch-party Join the Buffalo AKG Art Museum during Miami Art Week to celebrate the launch of Peer to Peer, a groundbreaking exhibition and benefit sale of works by the leading artists engaged with blockchain technology. Enjoy a one-night-only pop-up installation of these extraordinary artworks, curated by Buffalo AKG Curator Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan with Sofia Garcia of ARTXCODE. Proceeds benefit the Buffalo AKG Art Museum as it prepares to welcome you to a newly restored campus in 2023, including a state-of-the-art gallery dedicated to media art and a hands-on digital technology lab. Space is limited. Purchase your VIP tickets today. For questions regarding tickets or sponsorship packages, please contact Katie Homer at [email protected] or 585.746.6937 (mobile). For questions regarding event logistics and program, please contact the Buffalo AKG Events Team at [email protected]. Can’t make it to Miami Beach? No problem! You can still support the Buffalo AKG Art Museum by purchasing one of these historic artworks on Feral File between Tuesday, November 29 at 5 pm EST and Friday, December 2 at 5 pm EST.

https://www.faenaart.org/programs/miami-art-week-2022 EFFETS DE SOIR QUAYOLA LANDSCAPE PAINTING, CLASSICAL SCULPTURE AND ICONOGRAPHY ARE SOME OF THE HISTORICAL AESTHETICS THAT SERVE AS A POINT OF DEPARTURE FOR QUAYOLA’S HYBRID COMPOSITIONS. Faena Art Project Room November 29th,2022 - December 7th, 2023 Quayola employs technology as a lens to explore the tensions and equilibriums between seemingly opposing forces: the real and artificial, the figurative and the abstract, the old and the new. Constructing immersive installations, he engages with and re-imagines canonical imagery through contemporary technology. Displayed in the Faena Project Room, the video series Effets de Soir will continue the artists’ ongoing focus on nature, pictorial traditions and new technological apparatuses. The title references the natural phenomena visible at dusk and dawn, when lights and shadows, warm and cold tones, fade into one another — an impression many artists, from Monet to Van Gogh, have attempted to transpose on canvas. At the core of Effets de Soir are ultra-high-resolution photographs of flowers from the lush gardens of Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, a 10th-century French Castle, shot at night under artificial spotlights. Quayola uses these raw materials to create a computational painting that manifests as audiovisual scores that experiment with evolving compositions and rhythms. The artist offers a distorted reality of the natural world through software specially programmed to decompose and analyze its components, approaching a new form of digitalized Impressionism.

https://www.eventbrite.it/e/apollo-belvedere-goes-to-miami-art-basel-visionnaire-nft-cocktail-tickets-443760388267 Launched in April 2022, Apollo Belvedere - the first VISIONNAIRE NFT project - explores innovative art and design languages in the era of Web3. The synergy between the Visionnaire’s expertise and the artist Jonathan Monaghan’s aesthetics has created a strong bond between craftsmanship traditions and the digital age. Imagination is the key element in Visionnaire’s act of transformation of precious materials into products for unique environments. This project expresses the brand’s ongoing relationship and dialogue with the Avant-garde. Apollo Belvedere is both a marble sculpture and animation, uniquely bound together with NFT+ technology. The work will be exhibited at Visionnaire’s Miami Embassy from November 28th to December 4th, 2022. Apollo Belvedere Goes To Miami Art Basel / Visionnaire NFT Cocktail image The project is an immersive installation in Visionnaire's showroom, where meta-luxury and metaverse meet. Visionnaire’s Miami Embassy hosted The Garden of Beauty during Art Basel Miami 2019 in collaboration with Marc Ange, an ode to the romantic and enchanting beauty of the peacock: Il Pavone. Apollo Belvedere represents a dialogue between physical and digital worlds, demonstrating how the relationship between the two environments can bring new experiences to spectators and collectors. The installation is presented in an unique setting intertwining physical and digital experiences. Apollo Belvedere Goes To Miami Art Basel / Visionnaire NFT Cocktail image The first three NFT “teasers” dropped on March 28, 2022 on the Foundation Marketplace, one of the most important digital platforms for artists, curators and collectors in the new creative industries. Monaghan worked with Visionnaire to chose Apollo, the Greek holy archer, as a symbol of aesthetic perfection and vitality for the future. On the occasion of the 60th edition of Salone del Mobile in Milan, Visionnaire featured the ‘Apollo Belvedere’ sculpture on June at the Visionnaire showroom gallery Wunderkammer. Jonathan Monaghan unveiled an exquisite Carrara marble bust accompanied by a one-of- a-kind 1/1 NFT. The vision for the final drop was to create unique artworks that defy the ever-evolving, huge reproducible space of NFT art. Apollo Belvedere represents a dialogue between physical and digital worlds, demonstrating how the relationship between the two environments can bring new experiences to spectators and collectors. The physical bust was made from marble sourced from Carrara, where stone has been sourced since the Roman Empire. Pieces of marble that were brought to northern Italy were cut, sculpted, and carved by Italian artisans. It took months of manual labor to achieve the idealistic vision of texture, detail and ethereal softness envisioned by Visionnaire and Monaghan. Combined with the marble sculpture, Monaghan created a surreal 3D animation of an alien spaceship revealing a sculpture in a baroque setting. “The bust faces the fiery red panther, a symbol associated with the ancient Greek god Dionysus and the concept of chaos." Minted on the sustainable side-chain of Ethereum, Palm Network, with near-zero carbon emission, “Apollo Belvedere” will be auctioned off on the 4ART NFT + marketplace. As a Benefit Company, Visionnaire’s top concern is to reduce the environmental impact in developing every project. Visionnaire partnered with Palm NFT Studio for its lower gas fees, fast transaction finality, and a 99.99% + reduction in energy consumption when compared to Proof of Work Systems. Ethereum mainnet is infamous for being carbon-intensive due to its “Proof of Work” consensus mechanism which requires a large amount of computing power for transactions. The Palm network’s “Proof of Authority” (iBFT2) consensus mechanism requires significantly less computing power. The amount of energy required to mint on the Palm network is equal to sending three emails. Moreover, Visionnaire partnered again with Rete Clima to cover the CO2 emissions caused by energy consumption. By overviewing the entire design and production process, from the 3D rendering to the transportation of the finalized statue, the total amount of the energy consumed was accounted for by taking part in the project “Allain Duhangan Hydropower Plant in India”, which aims to reduce Southern India’s fossil fuel dependency. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Jonathan Monaghan is an American visual artist who works on the relationship between physical sculptures and 3D animation. Drawing on a variety of sources like art history and video game subculture, Jonathan is an early adopter of NFTs, and he has been using the bitcoin blockchain to authenticate his digital artworks as early as 2013. His works have been exhibited at The Sundance Film Festival and the Palais de Tokyo. He is represented by bitforms gallery in New York.