Aniko Berman

aesthetics & technology | @AOTMgallery | MBA @chicagobooth

[Aniko Berman @anikojay]

When artworks go to particularly perfect, loving homes...

@PERFECTL00P 🙏 @musicalnetta

[Lanett Bennett Grant @musicalnetta]

I minted 𝙲𝙾𝚁𝚁𝚄𝙿𝚃𝙴𝙳 in 2024 and since then, I'd been patiently waiting for my second @PERFECTL00P piece, maybe not SO patiently since @CozomoMedici has been been sharing their work and it's been hard to not have some FOMO. On the 27th, they posted a piece and I squealed!

[Lanett Bennett Grant @musicalnetta]

I minted 𝙲𝙾𝚁𝚁𝚄𝙿𝚃𝙴𝙳 in 2024 and since then, I'd been patiently waiting for my second @PERFECTL00P piece, maybe not SO patiently since @CozomoMedici has been been sharing their work and it's been hard to not have some FOMO. On the 27th, they posted a piece and I squealed!

[Aniko Berman @anikojay]

https://t.co/138CNS91m6

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Aniko Berman @anikojay]

GM

Jasper Johns, Three Flags, 1958

@whitneymuseum

[Aniko Berman @anikojay]

@RJ16848519 @aldover_eth @absurdeity congrats all!

[Aniko Berman @anikojay]

@Jediwolf @lm_netwebs WE LOVE LORNA

[Aniko Berman @anikojay]

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Bruce Nauman, Self-Portrait as a Fountain, 1966-67

Tongue-in-cheek, semiotic & viscerally suggestive riff on the Artist as a wellspring of prolific creativity, referencing as well Duchamp's own deadpan take on the matter

[Aniko Berman @anikojay]

@zak_krevitt @gillpedroso genius connection here @zak_krevitt

[Zak Krevitt @zak_krevitt]

In 1979, artist Sophie Calle met a man at a party. When she learned he was traveling to Venice, she secretly followed him there, photographing his movements and documenting his routine without his knowledge. The result became Suite Vénitienne, an extremely influential work of conceptual art.

[Aniko Berman @anikojay]

@dave_krugman @DemAzuki @austin_hurwitz What a lovely idea!

[Oveck @oveck]

ANTARCTICA 🐋

“The last great wilderness”

Live today at 1 PM ET.

•24 one of one photographs.
•13 pieces sold during presale.
•11 remain available for public
•0.15 ETH each.

•On Transient Labs 🔗 👇

[Aniko Berman @anikojay]

Super proud of @deekaymotion & my team @AOTMgallery for this one 🙏

The ideal outcome of an art fair: tangibly reaching new audiences, and bringing visibility and recognition to artists (institutional, financial, and otherwise)

[AOTM @AOTMgallery]

Invisible Stories by @deekaymotion has been acquired by Heredium, the leading multicultural space in Daejeon, S. Korea

Originally created for Zero 10 at @ArtBasel Hong Kong, the artwork is now part of an esteemed public collection, and currently on view

More info👇

[Aniko Berman @anikojay]

Notes from AiR VII

Halfway through the residency term w/ @0xVestica @ivonatau @desultor

In the last few weeks, we had our first special guest @ronentanchum

He shared about his journey from film visual effects, to freelance client work, and now full-time artist creating large-scale interactive installations, collaborating with AI, creating art and meaning out of complex systems

We touched on the the different art worlds he occupies, from projects with Art Blocks and in web3, to his fortuitious relationship with the World Economic Forum and projects at Davos
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Of note here was a discussion about the fine line between an immersive, interactive “attraction” and an immersive, interactive “artwork”

The difference between art and entertainment, art and spectacle - an interesting nuance, when art can also employ those concepts to great effect, but still transcend them, do more than simply entertain or “wow”

Should all art have “something to say”? Does it suffice to (merely?) induce feeling?

And how might this be related to what motivates an artist to create an artwork in the first place?

Thank you for joining us @ronentanchum!
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The artists are also starting to incubate their final collections, which will be revealed and offered in September

In addition to developing coherent, cohesive concepts, we are navigating how to use this residency opportunity to work on something different or new, or to explore a medium or subject that has been of interest but not yet fully embraced

As always, it is a question too of taking creative risks vs. creating for a specific audience in mind - not necessarily always mutually exclusive, but often potentially at odds

In the next half of the term, we will do regular workshops to refine the collections

And we will focus on a few larger themes, including: market strategy and pricing, collector interaction, professional collateral and strategies for sharing art practices in multiple ways, and to different audiences (an expansion of the messaging theme we have already covered)…

@AOTMgallery

[AOTM @AOTMgallery]

The I WANNA RUN pair of editions by @deekaymotion

Acquired by @Jediwolf for 6 ETH total

Each from an edition 10

Originally created for Zero 10 at @ArtBasel Hong Kong

Currently on view at Heredium, Daejeon, S. Korea

Link to collection: https://t.co/CjIWmRoUpC

[Aniko Berman @anikojay]

GM

David Hockney, A Bigger Splash, 1967

RIP

[Jediwolf @Jediwolf]

Art that makes you a better human being... just by looking and listening.

Please turn the sound on.

I Wanna Run! by @deekaymotion

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Hercules and Nessus, by Giambologna, 1599

[Aniko Berman @anikojay]

Notes from AOTM AiR VII

Learning how to meaningfully convey complex ideas succinctly is useful in art and in life
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We have finished initial “studio visits”

thoughtful and in-depth presentations of the artists' practices either using decks, or more informally sharing screens and walking us through folders of source images to final artworks
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Artists working digitally -

especially those working on long-form, narrative-driven projects whose meaning is particularly enhanced by the viewer’s understanding of the artist’s (often nonlinear, complex, and multi-media) -

arrive at a particular challenge:

how to meaningfully explain your art practice in a distilled way?

(What is your “pitch”?)
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This week our focus is refining / paring down messaging when it comes to artistic practice

Each of the artists will contribute their own brief 1-2 sentence description of each other’s practices (I will too)

We will review these together and see what kind of useful insights are gleaned
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@0xVestica @desultor @ivonatau @AOTMgallery

[Aniko Berman @anikojay]

@lovidlovid @ScreenSlate @outland_art Happy happy birthday!