peep-o-rama: platonic dialogues, 2022
NFT
| ADDRESS: | 0x053dcebbefd89db4674fcb079fdd1ef6b0d8f883ec4e6d1bce62c6139b8d42f9 |
| MINTED: | PALM Network |
| RESOLUTION: | 4096 x 2160 px (4K) |
| FORMAT: | H.264 encoded VBR, 2pass, Mp4 video with sound |
| EDITION: | Unique |
Physical Asset
| SCULPTURE: | 3D carved, 30lb precision board high density |
| SIZE: | 28 x 18 x 18 in. (71.1 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm) (W x D x H) |
| MARKINGS: | Stamped |
| EDITION: | This work is unique. |
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peep-o-rama: platonic dialogues, 2022 (Full Room Installation)
NFT
| ADDRESS: | 0xd1fbcf958c8138868249e970c771d2a0f5c1cbfaa07cc5fb94ab7e37e1646a2a |
| MINTED: | PALM Network |
| RESOLUTION: | 4096 x 2160 px (4K) |
| FORMAT: | H.264 encoded VBR, 2pass, Mp4 video with sound |
Physical Asset 1
| SCULPTURE: | 3D carved, 30lb precision board high density |
| SIZE: | 28 x 18 x 18 in. (71.1 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm) (W x D x H) |
| MARKINGS: | Stamped |
| EDITION: | This work is unique. |
Physical Asset 2
| SCULPTURE: | Custom carved base |
| SIZE: | 41 1/2 x 32 x 29 in. (105.4 x 81.2 x 73.6 cm) |
| MARKINGS: | Stamped |
| EDITION: | This work is unique. |
Physical Asset 3
| SCULPTURE: | 6 custom frames tondos |
| SIZE: | 30 x 30 in. (76.2 x 76.2 cm) |
| MARKINGS: | Stamped |
| EDITION: | This work is unique. |
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peep-o-rama: platonic dialogues, 2022
“peep-o-rama: platonic dialogues” by Carla Gannis is inspired by the Dutch Baroque artist Samuel van Hoogstraten’s “A Peepshow with Views of the Interior of a Dutch House,” (circa 1655-60), the most complex and sophisticated perspective box out of six that survive today. It is on view in the National Gallery, London.
Exploring the erotics and peculiarities of peeping across the centuries, the work takes cues from the open-endedness of the interpretations that varies on van Hoogstraten’s piece. These postulations range from being an optical experiment to a brothel scene to a gift from the artist to his wife.
Reflecting a fascination with perspective and employing the same optical illusion as van Hoogstraten, the view only comes into perspective when looking through one of the two peepholes located on either side of the sculpture.
A quiet interior in muted colors is transformed into an immoderate and highly saturated scene intensified by the Baroque composer Vivaldi’s “Violin Concerto in F minor, RV 297 ‘Winterand” and a spoken word recording from the poem “Platonic Dialogues for Web3 – Between the Ghost of Samuel van Hoogstraten and his Cyborg Queen Mother” by Geoffrey P. Lewis. A cast of post-human avatars, including a robot angel, a cyborg queen, “lucky Schrödinger’s cat” and the artist’s personal avatar C.A.R.L.A. G.A.N. (Cross Platform Avatar for Recursive Life Action Generative Adversarial Network) recreated in the game engine Unity fills the room. The walls, ceilings and floors are lined with image data sets from illicit Times Square peep shows and Dutch interior paintings that the artist trains the AI. The walls, ceilings and floors are lined with patterns generated by an AI trained on image datasets from illicit Times Square peep shows and Dutch interior paintings.
A densely layered experience, the work cogitates on gender and body politics in art history and culture and their extension into digital domains today.
Carla Gannis
American transmedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Gannis produces works that consider the uncanny complications between grounded and virtual reality, nature and artifice, science and science fiction in contemporary culture. Fascinated by digital semiotics, Gannis takes a horror vacui approach to her artistic practice, culling inspiration from networked communication, art and literary history, emerging technologies and speculative design. Her work combines digital imagery with well-known works of art such as paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. She received widespread attention in 2013 for her emoji version of Hieronymus Bosch’s painting “The Garden of Earthly Delight”’.
Gannis is the recipient of several awards, including a 2016 Lumen Digital Arts Prize, Founders’ Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Grant in Computer Arts, an Emerge 7 Fellowship from the Aljira Art Center, and a Chashama AREA Visual Arts Studio Award in New York, NY. Her work has appeared in exhibitions, screenings and internet projects across the globe. Recent projects include “Portraits in Landscape,” Midnight Moment, Times Square Arts, NY and “Sunrise/Sunset,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Artport. Publications who have featured her work include The Creators Project, Wired, FastCo, Hyperallergic, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, El PaÍs and The LA Times, among others. In 2015 her speculative fiction was included in DEVOURING THE GREEN:: fear of a human planet: a cyborg / eco poetry anthology, published by Jaded Ibis Press.
Gannis have been releasing NFTs on Hic et Nunc, the Tezos NFT marketplace that had recently discontinued. She was also part of Feral Files’ NFT Exhibition ‘The Bardo: Unpacking the Real’ curated by Julie Walsh and Transfer’s gallery ‘Pieces of Me’ presented online and made available as NFTs on left gallery.
Gannis holds a BFA and MFA in Painting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Boston University, respectively. Currently, she is an Industry Professor at New York University (NYU) in the Integrated Design and Media Program, Department of Technology, Culture and Society, Tandon School of Engineering. She is also a Year 7 Alum of NEW INC, in the XR: Bodies in Space track, New York, NY.
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