AORIST RETURNS TO MIAMI ART WEEK,

AORIST RETURNS TO MIAMI ART WEEK WITH A NEWLY COMMISSIONED LARGE-SCALE IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION LIVING ROOM BY RANDOM INTERNATIONAL PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FAENA ART Building upon the success of their iconic Rain Room, Random International’s new immersive light-based installation Living Room marks a shift in how blockchain technology can revolutionize how visitors experience and collect art  Aorist and Faena Art also co-present Quayola’s Effets de Soir in the Faena Project Room. The video series continues the artist’s ongoing focus on nature, pictorial traditions, and new technology-centered artistic practices Random International, Living Room, 2022. Render of immersive light-installation. Commissioned by Aorist. Courtesy of Random International, Aorist, and Faena Art.  Aorist, the cultural institution supporting artists creating at the edge of art and technology, returns to Miami Beach with a new commission titled Living Room by globally acclaimed art group Random International, pioneers of immersive art. Following the success of last year’s launch in Miami Beach with Refik Anadol’s Machine Hallucinations: Coral and the first-ever indoor drone performance by DRIFT during the Venice Biennale 2022, Aorist premieres Random International’s Living Room on November 29 in a purpose-built pavilion at Faena Beach, on the occasion of Miami Art Week 2022. Aorist and Faena Art also co-present Effets de Soir by multimedia artist Quayola for the first time in the United States. The video series is on view from November 29 to January 8 in the Faena Project Room, Faena Art's dedicated space in Miami Beach for artistic experimentation and the development of innovative ideas. Random International’s never-before-seen installation continues their exploration of the impact of technological development on the human condition, utilizing Web3 to expand the boundaries of immersive and experiential art. Living Room explores the idea of space as a living entity. Visitors are invited to enter a fluctuating architectural domain, in which shifting lights, fog, and sound respond to the audience's movements in unpredictable ways. As visitors navigate through the installation, their movement inside Living Room is tracked and recorded by an array of motion sensors. Every individual’s unique data can be visualized and compressed as a looped video, which visitors can collect as an NFT on Aorist’s marketplace by utilizing their entry ticket’s unique ID. The data that Living Room is gathering will accumulate throughout the lifespan of the artwork, creating a visual archive of the installation’s ‘life’ that will be minted as an NFT, making it the first archive of an immersive artwork to be stored on the blockchain.  Hannes Koch, Co-Founder of Random International, describes, “In Living Room, we explore the artwork as a spatial life form that uses its materials and components to express itself and to interact with those who inhabit it. We get to enter it and capture our experience within. Such captured data can be minted as individual artworks in their own right, thus bridging immersive art and blockchain technology for the first time through a process of physical co-creation.” Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile, Founder and Chairman of Aorist, comments, “This body of work sets a new precedent in how the digital and the physical can come together to redefine how visitors experience and collect art. A true evolution in Random International's work and experiential practice as a genre, this piece marks the first time that data from a participative experience will be used to co-create a generative work of personalized art.” Ximena Caminos, Co-founder and Chief Cultural Strategist of Aorist, continues, “I have always been drawn to new forms of art that blur the boundaries of a wide spectrum of disciplines. Living Room is just that, an exercise of artistic co-creation with the machine, where the input is the interaction with the physical installation and the output is the unique data on the blockchain. By creating this type of cross-disciplinary experience, Aorist champions artists to explore new territories while building new models to experience art and ignite imagination.” Following its premiere during Miami Art Week 2022, Living Room will embark on a world tour with museums and institutions worldwide. General entry and VIP tickets with NFT are available for pre-sale at tickets.aorist.art.  Clockwise from top left: Still from Effets de Soir #H011_T1, Still from Effets de Soir #H011_T3, Still from Effets de Soir #H011_T2, and Still from Effets de Soir #H011_T4. Courtesy of Quayola, Aorist, and Faena Art. Aorist and Faena Art will co-present Quayola’s Effets de Soir during Miami Art Week. The title references the natural phenomena visible at dusk and dawn, when lights and shadows, warm and cold tones, fade into one another – an impression many artists, from Monet to Van Gogh, have attempted to transpose on canvas. Quayola engages with this heritage by combining natural and artificial stimuli, presenting his own effets de soir. At the core of Effets de Soir are ultra-high-resolution photographs of flowers from the lush gardens of Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire, a 10th-century French Castle, shot at night under artificial spotlights. The captured botanical compositions become raw data for Quayola’s computational paintings, audio-visual scores that experiment with different evolving compositions and rhythms. The artist offers hybrid visions of the natural world, through software specially programmed to analyze and re-synthesize its components, approaching a new form of algorithmic Impressionism. A percentage of the proceeds from both projects will be donated to The ReefLine, a 7-mile underwater public sculpture park and artificial reef which will provide a critical habitat for endangered reef organisms, promoting biodiversity and enhancing coastal resilience.   NOTES TO EDITORS About Aorist https://aorist.art/ Aorist is a next generation cultural institution commissioning artists creating at the edge of art and technology. Through a global program, with a climate-forward commitment, we build new models to experience art and ignite imagination. Aorist offers a cross-disciplinary program of artist commissions, international exhibitions and partnerships that bridge the digital and physical domains, while supporting experimentation, co-creation and innovation. Aorist leverages Web3 technology to offer advanced and revolutionary tools for artists to push the limits of their practice. Powered by Algorand, the first Proof of Stake blockchain and one of the world’s first carbon negative public blockchains. Follow Aorist on Instagram and Twitter. #Aorist #AoristArt About Faena Art https://www.faenaart.org/ Faena Art is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that commissions, produces, and houses cross-disciplinary artistic experiences. A catalyst for innovative, site-specific, and immersive practices, Faena Art bridges the popular and the experimental, making art accessible to all. Faena Art fosters new models for social interaction transcending the traditional boundaries of art, science, philosophy, and social practice. Follow Faena Art on Instagram and Facebook. #FaenaArt #FaenaArtProjectRoom Faena Art Project Room 3420 Collins Ave Miami Beach, FL 33140 Faena Art's dedicated space in Miami Beach for artistic experimentation and the development of innovative ideas About Random International https://www.random-international.com/ Established in 2005, Random International is a post-digital art group exploring the impact of technological development on the human condition. Best known for their large-scale interactive installations, the group works across an array of media including sculpture, light, kinetics, video, print, and sound. Led by founders Hannes Koch (b.1975, Germany) and Florian Ortkrass (b.1975, Germany), the group has a studio in London and comprises a global team of complementary talent. Experimental by nature, Random International’s practice is fueled by research and scientific discovery. The group aims to broaden the question of what it is to be alive today by experimenting with how we connect — to different kinds of life, to different views of the world, and to one another. Follow Random International on Instagram. #RandomInternational About Quayola https://quayola.com/ Quayola employs technology as lenses to explore the tensions and equilibriums between seemingly opposing forces: the real and artificial, figurative and abstract, old and new. Constructing immersive installations, often at historically significant architectural sites, he engages with and re-imagines canonical imagery through contemporary technology. Hellenistic sculpture, Old Master painting, and Baroque architecture are some of the historical aesthetics that serve as a point of departure for Quayola’s abstract compositions. His varied practice, all deriving from custom computer software, also includes audiovisual performance, video, sculpture, and works on paper. Past exhibitions of his work of work include V&A Museum, London; Park Avenue Armory, New York; Bozar, Brussels; National Art Center, Tokyo; UCCA, Beijing; How Art Museum, Shanghai; SeMA, Seoul; Bienal, São Paulo; Triennale, Milan; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona; British Film Institute, London; Cité de la Musique, Paris; Grand Theatre, Bordeaux; Ars Electronica, Linz; Elektra Festival, Montreal; Sonar Festival, Barcelona and Sundance Film Festival. Also a frequent collaborator on musical projects, Quayola has worked with composers, orchestras and musicians including London Contemporary Orchestra, National Orchestra of Bordeaux, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Vanessa Wagner, Jamie XX, Mira Calix, Plaid and Tale Of Us. In 2013, Quayola was awarded the Golden Nica at Ars Electronica. #quayolaartmaiami#firneatmagazine#fineartmaimifun