SHAPESHIFT Exhibition

William Latham is well known as an early pioneer of generative art through his MUTATOR evolutionary art, created at IBM in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His work, which shows organic, often serpentine, forms, is produced using his "alternative evolutionary software system" (developed with Stephen Todd and team), which Latham uses to pick and breed 3D forms freed from the limits of the human imagination.
His work was widely shown in museums and touring shows in the UK, Germany, Australia, and Japan at that time. Latham’s work is in the permanent art collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Gulbenkian Foundation, and the Henry Moore Institute.

Claudia Hart uses simulation technologies to blur the lines between human and avatar, artificial and real, mind and body. With a background in architecture and writing, Hart emerged in the 1990s as a multimedia artist exploring identity and representation. Utilizing computing, virtual imaging, and 3D animation, Hart integrates art history, philosophy, and cultural studies to address themes of feminism, embodiment, and temporality with symbolic poetics linked to real-world politics.
Based in New York, Hart (b. 1955) earned her BA in Art History from New York University (1978) and her MS in Architecture from Columbia University (1984). She taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) from 2018 to 2022.
Recent solo exhibitions include A CHILD'S MACHIAVELLI at EXPANDED.ART in Berlin (2023), THE MEMORY THEATERS OF CLAUDIA HART at Scope.bln, Berlin (2023), MY TRAVELS IN HYPERREALITY at ANNKA KULTYS GALLERY, London (2023), DIGITAL COMBINES at bitforms gallery, San Francisco (2022), and Honor Fraser, Los Angeles (2022). Hart has received fellowships such as the Apex Arts Fellowship (2019/21) and the Technology Residency at Pioneer Works (2018), and an Honorary Fellowship at Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology (2013-2014). Her awards include the Esports Digital Art Prize, Hong Kong (2021), and the Moving Image Art Fair Acquisition Prize, NY (2017). Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery, and more.
Group exhibitions include shows at Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Vellum/LA, Feral File, Transfer Gallery, LUX, and Mozilla Hubs. Hart's work has been featured in Artnet News, BOMB Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Burlington Contemporary Journal, Hyperallergic, Right Click Save, X-TRA, Village Voice, and others.
Hart is represented by bitforms gallery, Annka Kultys Gallery, and EXPANDED.ART.

Margaret Murphy is an American artist and photographer working with cameras and prompts to create artworks that explore memories, post-photography, and image-making in the age of artificial intelligence. She released her series I Could Look at You All Day as part of the group drop TMRW together with Der Greif on Quantum, Future Pasts, Past Futures and RE: Road Trip with EXPANDED.ART, PASTICHE with Anika Meier on Foundation, and Tastebots with TranscendDao. Murphy was also part of UNSIGNED by Operator and Anika Meier.
Solo and group exhibitions featured her photography and post-photography, among others, at the Villa Heike and EXPANDED.ART in Berlin. Her work has been shown at galleries in Los Angeles, New York, London, and the Washington, DC, area. Murphy is represented by EXPANDED.ART.

Anika Meier is a writer and curator specializing in digital art building EXPANDED.ART. She lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin, Germany, and teaches at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria, Class of UBERMORGEN, Department of Digital Art.
Among others, she wrote columns for Monopol and Kunstforum, built up KÖNIG DIGITAL for KÖNIG GALERIE, worked with CIRCA and Tezos on Marina Abramović‘s first NFT Drop, and with Herbert W. Franke on his NFT Drop MATH ART on Quantum. She was on the curation board of Art Blocks and is on the advisory board of Haus der Elektronischen Künste in Basel.
She is also a concept artist who creates text-based works that critically reflect value in the post-digital age, such as TWEETS FROM TWITTER, LOST FUTURES and TALE AS OLD AS TIME. She created UNSIGNED (2022) together with Operator, a collection of 100 signatures from women and non-binary artists to reverse the current negative value of the signatures through their transformation into artworks themselves.
Her most recent curated exhibitions include LeeMullican.PCX at FeralFile, Who Is Online? Game Art in the Age of Post-NFTism at HEK Basel (Virtual), Art NFT Linz at Francisco Carolinum in Linz, and Tribute to Herbert W. Franke (co-curated with Susanne Päch).
Her exhibitions have been written about, and her writing has been published in, among others, artnet, Hyperallergic, Monopol, Kunstforum, Spiegel, Tagesschau, and Right Click Save.

In the mid-2000s, Alonerone began his artistic career at the heart of the graffiti scene.
Self-taught, he began his practice of digital image at this time.
In 2008, he joined the Mjm Art School in Strasbourg, where he graduated with honors.
He continues his career as an artist and participates in several exhibitions with artistic installations using augmented reality.
From 2013 to 2018, he taught the use of new technologies in the service of creation at the College of Advertising and Design of Brussels.

PETKO TANCHEV presents his installation Metascape - an interactive 3D simulation that interprets the social ecosystem of the new digital reality - the metauniverse. The virtual space of this metascape is created in real time, and the generative objects transform viewers into elements of their own geometry.

PETKO TANCHEV presents his installation Metascape - an interactive 3D simulation that interprets the social ecosystem of the new digital reality - the metauniverse. The virtual space of this metascape is created in real time, and the generative objects transform viewers into elements of their own geometry.

Especially for the exhibition, NextDC created the installation SHAPESHIFT, in which visitors can create or change the digital environment in real-time. Shapeshift is inspired by the transformative power inherent in each of us and allows participants to intervene in the space directly. The installation provokes anyone willing to explore the environment to create their own art.