artists
Ines
Alpha
Ines Alpha is an internationally renowned digital artist based in Paris. She began experimenting with new media while working in the beauty industry as an art director. Eager to expand her creative toolkit, she taught herself 3D modeling, spending countless hours exploring tutorials to hone her skills. By collaborating on various projects, she deepened her exploration, merging makeup and technology through an avant-garde approach that has become her signature medium: 3D makeup. Through this practice, Ines questions self-empowerment in the internet age by developing augmented reality works that deconstruct preconceived notions of beauty.
𝕽𝖊𝖋𝖑𝖊𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓, 2024
𝕽𝖊𝖋𝖑𝖊𝖈𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 is a collaboration with artist Anais Borie. Anais Borie is a french designer, she created the glass structure. In the opulent mirror AUTOMATED DIVINE REFLECTION, the viewer is not confronted with their own image, but with a computer- generated face. The encounter in the mirror is intended to make the contact between human existence and technical progress tangible.
Ethereal encounter, 2023
In this piece created exclusively for DigitARt, Ines Alpha combined two of her iconic 3D makeup creations, "Oyster Moisture" and "𝖇𝖑𝖚𝖊," to transport viewers into a surreal AR encounter. These ethereal compositions feature floating faces, each inspired by distinct elements of nature and fantastical worlds: "Oyster Moisture" captures the pure allure and luster of pearls and underwater mollusks, while "Blue" evokes the fluidity and grace of dancing flames, creating a hypnotic interplay of shapes and movements. Unlike her previous works, which required a human canvas, Ines now invites viewers to experience these colossal, floating masterpieces directly on their smartphones, hoping that "Ethereal Encounter" will challenge their perceptions of beauty, art, and aesthetics.
Curated by Braw Haus
Mona
Birkás
Mona Birkás was born in 1992 and is currently an assistant lecturer at the Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, in the Institute of Media and Design. She earned her degree in media art from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2017 and is currently a student at the Doctoral School of Art at the University of Pécs. Her research area is "The Artistic Use of Augmented Reality." She has been involved in digital art, 3D modeling, and virtual, augmented, and mixed reality for over ten years. Her works explore the relationship between the digital and sensory worlds, drawing on her own experiences to thematize how technology affects human emotions, the body, and relationships. Her medium-analytic works seek answers to how humans change in the new digital environment and what happens to their identity. They explore how memory, presence, relationships, and existence—and perhaps even non-existence—are redefined. Her works are regularly exhibited in New York, Miami, Paris, Berlin, and Budapest, among other places.
Lost connection
My creation Lost connection is an augmented reality application that is freely available to anyone via Instagram. The starting point of my work was the game Chrome Dino, which becomes available when the browser application cannot connect to the Internet. The work deals with the question of whether there is actually such a thing as offline? Is it possible to remove ourselves, even partially, from the world of bits and bytes? To create the work, in addition to 3D techniques and programming, I also used artificial intelligence to generate the textures (patterns).
Hermine Bourdin
Hermine Bourdin is a sculptress known for her abstract sculptures and digital work. Represented in France by the Galerie Julie Caredda. Hermine Bourdin’s artistic practice is inspired by the Paleolithic and Neolithic period. Her favorite material, clay, is a direct reference to the feminine matrix.
Many of Bourdin’s works feature organic circles, an ancient symbol of feminine strength. The circle is unbroken and unbreakable, paying tribute to the resilience of women.
Bourdin also uses digital tools as a new material for exploration and creation, allowing her to defy the laws of the physical universe through new technologies, liberating her of the static and gravity constraint of material work.
Woman Life Freedom, 2023
This work is an augmented reality piece that was born from a 3D scan of one of my physical sculptures. The sculpture was digitally remodeled to include a poem by Simin Behbahani, a celebrated Iranian poetess who championed women's rights. The poem has been carefully engraved in gold, lending it the appearance of a precious skin jewel or a second skin that unfurls in a spiral, symbolizing the cosmic origin from which inner strength emerges.
This glb was created to commemorate International Women’s Rights Day 2023, and to honor the remarkable courage of Iranian women and their rallying cry Woman Life Freedom. It was made as a filter, meant to be used on social media platforms, allowing it to be brandished anywhere in the world in augmented reality, spreading the message of empowerment far and wide.
Curated by Galerie Julie Caredda
Louis-Paul Caron
Louis-Paul Caron (born in 1995), contemporary French artist, dedicates himself to engaged artistic creation centered around climate issues. His works invite the public to explore landscapes altered by heat and to feel the impact of climat on our lives and those around us. Employing both digital creation and canvas painting, his work presents itself as an exploration of the future through fiction. Through visual staging, he questions our attitudes towards environmental challenges, providing a critical perspective on our society and our future on Earth.
Chasse à courre, 2024
Installed in the middle of the city opposite the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, this digital work questions our relationship with nature in the context of the climate crisis.
The theme of hunting, a recurrent theme in classical painting, is revisited in a contemporary context: a burnt-out world, empty of animals and perhaps of everything that might have lived there. This work invites us to question the possible end of a world, in the hope of creating new narratives and finally being able to commune fully with nature.
Pompidou en été, 2023
Curated by Galerie Charlot
A scene frozen in a sweltering Paris, with breathless tourists and a city drenched in sweat. This tableau serves as a reminder to the art world of the necessity to engage with ecological debates and become a spokesperson for a sustainable future. Artists, as witnesses of their time, must awaken consciences, inspire the future, and denounce the present.
With the play of shadows and light from the sun, the museum becomes an unsettling actor in the scene. It stretches across the background, proudly displaying its industrial nature: staircases, pipes, and ventilation systems are exposed like colorful entrails. The museum, mirroring society, then transforms into an overwhelming modern machine—mechanical and chimerical.
Diane Drubay
Diane Drubay is a visual artist who transforms natural landscapes into micro-narratives, interpreting stories of possible futures. Her creations are inspired by the aesthetics of social science fiction literature, the psychology of colors, and today's scientific discoveries. Her artistic and ecological journey began in 2012, documenting the allure of nature in Monet's garden at Giverny. Her practice includes photography, video art, and digital sculptures.
Her work has been exhibited at the Gothenburg Art Sound Festival in Sweden, Bacalart Festival in Mexico, Galerie Dièse 22 in Paris, TRESOR Berlin, Urban Spree, Factory Berlin, Alte Münze, and SPEKTRUM Berlin.
Et le nuage respire
"And the Cloud Breathes" unveils an animated AR sculpture that embodies the climatic importance and ephemeral beauty of clouds. Through fluid choreography and emotionally charged hues, it synchronizes the appearance of clouds with human breaths, encouraging eco-empathy. Inspired by the research of Sandrine Bony and the EUREC4A project (2022), it celebrates the unique nature of a cloud while highlighting their crucial role in Earth's delicate balance.
Concept & Art: Diane Drubay.
Technical Direction: somaticbits.