Expanding light upon the photographic medium Gisel develops manual & cinematic techniques through the lens of the post-digitized era. Moonlanguage “Verses of a Visual Universe” is currently two years developing as a non-literal alphabet of visual & acoustic verses. 968 Asemic gestural photos all exercising manual options within fractions of a second, reveal a conversation within this physically generative practice; a dance with my camera and moon. A fraction of these are personally enriched with “TransmissionsofLight” rarities, echos of an ongoing photographic practice that started minting in 2019 on the KnownOrigin platform. My first generative photographic collection capturing light and time in the heart of NYC; revealing energetic patterning & spatial auras unseen. Leading artistic initiatives in web3 since 2019; Gisel is exploring paths towards autonomy and creative expression for the photographic & digital arts. Based in New York, Co-founder @helloWOCA (Women of Crypto Art) & NewYorkIceCreamGallery(NYG) since 2013 with her partner NelsonX, Art Advisor to @TheVerseVerse & collector of the genesis floor room at @MuseumofCryptoArt.
Visualize the rainbow: you are counting 7 colors, right? Newton had officially affirmed it in 1704, but one of these colors has always been disputed: indigo.
It might be a futile controversy, but the choice of colors for the rainbow took on a truly political twist in the late 70s when a final version of the rainbow flag had to be determined. Indeed, it was then decided to exclude the color indigo from the flag in order to keep only 6 colors.
We wanted to put indigo back in the spotlight by erecting it as a symbol of this exhibition on inclusion and diversity. This new drop thus raises the question of humanity's ability to identify, recognize and value the infinite diversity and oddities that nature offers us. The 50 artists offer their version of inclusion through the prism of the indigo controversy.
he NFTs and crypto-currency market, which has been at half mast for more than a year, continues to plunge on the eve of the end-of-year holidays, in particular with the recent bankruptcy of the FTX company and its consequences.
Those who had entrusted their funds to this hyper-centralized actor lost big and this event is often described as the greatest financial fraud in the history of humanity, surpassing the famous Madoff affair.
As crypto skeptics seize on this painful news to predict the death of cryptocurrencies and as regulators see it as an opportunity to step up control of this new space of freedom that eludes them, it can be said: “ it smells of crypto-fir”.
Still, crypto artists have a different point of view.
The centralization of which the bankruptcy of FTX is the symbol, like the excessive regulation which is likely to result from it, are the opposite of the values which they and they defend. The burial of crypto-currencies, meanwhile, has been announced too often to be credible.
Crypto-artists therefore express a double message here: by practicing self-mockery about the deadly excesses and drifts of the space in which they and they evolve, they and they subtly criticize centralized systems and surveillance capitalism for which, indeed... “it smells of fir”!
