Bård Ionson

United States of America

Bård Ionson is an artist who exposes the distortions that exist between realities. By combining technique and forces of the world he captures the temporary spaces between the physical, electronic, digital and spiritual worlds. These strange visions come from an uncommon combination of tools and techniques such as artificial intelligence, GANs, VCRs, CRTs, oscilloscopes, lasers, scanners, photography, smart contracts, blockchains and sound. Ionson’s work is an uncommon collaboration between man and machine, with an output beyond the power of either alone. Here, the machine isn’t being used just as a tool for creation. Nor is it being used as a mere processing center for Ionson’s vision. Ionson, a pioneer of both crypto and generative art, uses his GAN-algorithms to help flesh out small universes across multiple mediums. The resulting multimedia experiments, spanning image and written word, are but a strange, ultra-expressive tango capitalizing on what AIs do best —generate— and what humans do: imagine.


Bård Ionson has participated in multiple shows and exhibitions internationally, including at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022, San Francisco, NFT Show Europe 2022, Next World Forum 2022, Riyadh, a projection onto a building façade in Brussels, and more. He is included in the book 'Crypto Art Begins', published by Rizzoli, and is in major digital art collections such as Museum of Crypto Art NY MOCA, Museum Of Crypto Art Paris MoCA, Museum Of Contemporary Digital Art MoCDA, and in a multitude of influential private collections.


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SAGE Anomaly Under North Bay

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In January 1964 inside an underground command center containing two nodes of the world’s largest computer began to attempt to communicate with the men sitting at the screens. This instance of the SAGE Anomaly is the most well-known despite evidence being classified and lost due to an electromagnetic distortion. Experts speculated on the cause being sabotage, mind control, project PALLADIUM, Russian nuclear attack or disinformation to simulate alien contact.



Selected for CADAF Miami 2019, contains AI art made from a model of the artists oscilloscope art as processed by Art-DCGAN by Robbie Barrat.

technique

generative art

format

landscape

duration

01:23

year

2020

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Generative art
Generative art refers to a way of creating artworks using an autonomous system. In digital art, these are usually generated from code and algorithms created by the artist, often with certain predefined parameters or systems. Although these parameters guide the final outcome of the work, generative art is generally a surprising way to create artworks, as the results are often unexpected and the number of possible outcomes can be infinite.
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3D
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Photogrammetry
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Collage
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Video
Video artworks primarily use a recording camera, but may sometimes include additional post-processing or editing to distort, modify or add additional elements to the image. Some artists use state-of-the-art recording equipment to create macro zoom-ins or time lapses, privileging fidelity to the subject matter. Others use additional softwares to significantly modify or warp the video, creating an alternative perspective on the world that surrounds us.

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