Eingetaucht in die Tiefen von Web3 habe ich eine Reise der digitalen Kunsterkundung begonnen, um Erfahrungen und Emotionen auszudrücken – ich navigiere durch das Labyrinth meiner Gedanken und Gefühle, ohne den Wunsch, aus diesen Tiefen wieder aufzutauchen. KI dient mir dabei als Verlängerung meines kreativen Arms und setzt konzeptuelle Welten in die Wirklichkeit um.
Ich sehe mich eher als Beobachter und Philosoph denn als traditioneller Künstler. Neugier und das Streben nach Wissen treiben mein künstlerisches Schaffen an. In Anlehnung an die KI-Künstlerin Claire Silver, die KI als Leitkanal der eigenen Vorstellungskraft beschreibt, übernehme ich diese Perspektive zunehmend. Ein agiles Mindset ist für Kunstschaffende essenziell – ständiges Anpassen an den sich fortwährend entwickelnden kreativen Prozess. Letztlich spiegeln unsere künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen unsere eigene Natur wider, geprägt von Eindrücken und Erfahrungen der Vergangenheit. Durch das tägliche Schaffen zeigt sich unser wahres Selbst.
Mein bisheriger Weg als Künstler:
Seit 2022: I’ve been experimenting with AI tools like Midjourney and DALL-E to bring my imagination to life through digital art.
Sommer 2023: I reconnected with some old and new friends, and together we set up a pop-up gallery, “Die Galerie,” in our hometown of Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria. There, I revealed my genesis collection, Pannonia Arrival 👽🛸, alongside several smaller editions. For two months, we introduced visitors to the world of digital art—AI art, pixel art, digital design, crypto art—and engaged in discussions about blockchain, NFTs, and the evolving metaverse, onboarding several into the web3 space. 💪
Autumn 2023: We launched the art collective “The Pannonians,” based at the Pannonian Laboratories in Eisenstadt. Collaborating with other artists, including the renowned digital art collective Cryptowiener, we started expanding our digital art mission.
November / Dezember 2023: “The Everyday Sessions” began—a daily project where The Pannonians generated fresh art based on changing themes. I also held a virtual exhibition at the metaverse gallery Landesgalerie Andromeda 🖼️.
Dezember 2023: A milestone moment—Stoney, a fellow Pannonian, became the first Austrian artist selected for the Beeple Community Showcase during Crypto Winter Wonderland, and I had the pleasure of joining him for an unforgettable experience in Charleston. 😊
März 2024: We opened The Pannonians’ exhibit “Beyond Pixels” at Eisenstadt’s Townhall Gallery, where I debuted two new collections: Alice in Palace Park Wonderland – A Virtual Fairytale and The Willingness to Suspend the Disbelief, which incorporated AR elements thanks to my Meta Spark AR experiments. I also unveiled “Magging Lisa,” a work by my alter ego AI Art Faker 😉. Around the same time, I received news that two of my pieces had been selected for the Beeple Studios Community Showcase during the first Digital Art Deathmatch in May—and I was invited to compete!
April 2024: Challenge accepted ✊! I began my Blender sessions to prep for my participation in the Digital Art Deathmatch.
Mai 2024: I celebrated the exhibition of my two works Men At Work and hope ZZZ at Beeple Studios. During the competition, I had a rookie mishap—I crashed the system with a geometric function and a high-poly model in Blender during the first 15-minute round 😅. Despite the knockout, it was an amazing experience in Charleston!
Also in May, my work was featured in the Dimension exhibition at Frame It—the New Media Arts House in Vienna—where I showcased previous collections alongside Mindset Mints on Optimism, my entry for the Optimism Open Call.
Juni 2024:
AI Art Faker’s Magging Lisa made its way to Melbourne, featured in the Oshi Gallery’s Warpedcast Exhibition. The Aussies’ passion for crypto art is contagious! 🍻
Juli 2024: HANZZZEL hits big screen… Superchief Gallery’s first “Time Square Open Call”… After the work Fear and Loathing in AI was selected by Ledger… It was shown every hour for one week on one of the biggest screens on Time Square. This it’s one of the greatest and craziest moments in my life!
September 2024: As one the remote controls NYC winners the work Fear and Loathing in AI was also shown at the Lumen Studios during the Subjective Art Festival, New York, as part of Superchief Gallery curation.
Oktober 2024: My Alien goes to Vegas! – My signature piece of the Genesis collection “Pannonia Arrival” is shown during The Hug Exhibition ‘AI AS COLLABORATOR’ at JRNY Gallery in Las Vegas.
November 2024: My Artwork was featured at the Beeple Studios for the second time during the Election Night Event. What a great honor to see my “Oooh Yeah” pic on the big screens of the studio’s walls!
And we did it again…
März 2025: Together with my Pannonians friends Chris Rawk and Stoney our artworks are shown during the Select Start Event at Beeple Studios.
As for what’s next? My friends at The Pannonians and I are hard at work exploring new frontiers. So get a ticket and take the ride!!!
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