Digital artist Isaac Cohen’s work really stood out to me when looking through the Museum of Other Realities (MOR). I was immediately drawn in to the organic, cell like creations he had made. However, the more I looked, the more I was drawn in to the layout of his exhibition. He has truly created another reality, exploiting the lack of gravity, and where space and materials have no restrictions. MOR wrote, “IM || MATERIA was born out a desire to tell a story with a simulation, using different organic creatures.” I have always been interested in incorporating organic life and matter into my artworks, and so I was very inspired by Cohen’s work as he combines digital with life.
Kevin Mack
As seen by the difference in the two images above both depicting the same exhibition Devalaya Rupanam, Kevin Mack’s virtual sculptures shape shift and transform. Although I don’t have the skills to make my virtual sculptures animated, his art got me thinking about how my sculpture’s might move and transform if they could. How would the objects move around and interact with each other? Or how would they move in space? I really like the fluidity of Mack’s works.
His sculptures have personalities and individual behaviours, which he has cleverly thought out. They really come to life. Not only has he designed his sculptures but the gallery spaces too, building whole worlds unconstrained by the physics of our earthly reality.