Marjan Moghaddam

United States of America

Marjan Moghaddam is a renowned, pioneering, influential and widely exhibited digital artist known for her unique and original style of Posthuman figuration/animation and a critical discourse. She is the recipient of top awards in Digital Art and animation, received grants from the likes of Rockefeller Fund, was a pioneering digital artist of the Internet 1.0 era, has exhibited commissioned digital art at the Smithsonian & other museums, was an Adobe Artist-In-Resident, and Forbes’ Best of AR Art. Marjan has had a prolific gallery exhibition history as a digital artist, and her works are held in private, institutional, NFT DAO, & private NFT art collections. 


Marjan has also created high profile public art commissions in Europe, Canada, and the US. Hailed as “trailblazer in digital art”, “the definition of Digital art” and a “Digital Hijacker” by the international art press, she has gone viral numerous times with her #arthacks on the internet and was featured in the BBC documentary When Art Goes Digital. Her NFT art is sold out on top platforms such as Superrare and Quantum and was selected for Meta/Facebook’s Digital collectibles rollout. She is a tenured full professor of Digital Art at LIU/Brooklyn. 


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Gaia of the Metaverse

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 Marjan created this commissioned piece for Davos World Economic Forum, World of Women and Code Green charity auction. Using figural ideas from her #GlitchGoddess, this animation embodies the Gaia Hypothesis that the Earth and its biological systems behave as a single entity. #GlitchGoddess was born in her viral Internet #arthack in 2018, and glitches existing art historic conventions of depicting the female form as singular, by switching from slender, heavy, pregnant, and stylized to abstract. Code Green’s wall of green in Africa is represented through the animated greenery of broad leaves, thin wild grasses, and seed to plant states. For the sound she blended electronic tones, sound FX, and melodic processed guitar with indigenous music from Africa. Gaia’s rainbow colors and multiple states represent inclusiveness, the plurality of women all over the world and the spectrum of light. As Gaia in the Metaverse, she connects both the physical and digital realms as a celebration of womanhood, the environment, and the brave new digital world of the Metaverse and the 21st century. 

technique

3d

format

portrait

duration

03:16

year

2022

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