Heat Signature
June 2022 ––One of the most important ingredients in the Digital Art renaissance is the playback platform the art lives on. Since the art is a living, breathing piece of work, the display technology becomes paramount, and has led to a lot of innovative products flooding the market in the past couple of years for collectors. Enter Dalbin, a Paris-based studio exploring the convergence of physical and digital since 2003, who connect the dots between visual arts, music, design and technology.
Dalbin reached out to Munkowitz about a curated drop introducing their Dalbin Table, an absolutely gorgeous piece of furniture design that combines screen technology, hardware and software to present digital art in the most tasteful way possible to offer the highest experience of the art.
For the drop, Munkowitz introduced new displacement and specular mapping techniques in a series of work entitled ‘Mylar’ which was essentially the art of transformation using Geologic morphology as its medium. The drop took place on SuperRare, and featured other incredible artists such as Raoul Marks, Gavin Shapiro, Michael Cina, Hannes Hummel, Espen Kluge and so many more.
Dalbin reached out to Munkowitz about a curated drop introducing their Dalbin Table, an absolutely gorgeous piece of furniture design that combines screen technology, hardware and software to present digital art in the most tasteful way possible to offer the highest experience of the art.
For the drop, Munkowitz introduced new displacement and specular mapping techniques in a series of work entitled ‘Mylar’ which was essentially the art of transformation using Geologic morphology as its medium. The drop took place on SuperRare, and featured other incredible artists such as Raoul Marks, Gavin Shapiro, Michael Cina, Hannes Hummel, Espen Kluge and so many more.
Artist: GMUNK (b. 1975)
Title: Heat Signature
Type: born-digital, single-channel digital video
00:01:03 seconds (2160 x 3840 pixels)
Auctioneer: SuperRare
Curator: Dalbin Paris
Collector: pjbraun
Price Realized: 11 ETH | $19,925
Minted May 17, 2022.
Executed in 2022. This work is unique and is accompanied by a non-fungible token.
Title: Heat Signature
Type: born-digital, single-channel digital video
00:01:03 seconds (2160 x 3840 pixels)
Auctioneer: SuperRare
Curator: Dalbin Paris
Collector: pjbraun
Price Realized: 11 ETH | $19,925
Minted May 17, 2022.
Executed in 2022. This work is unique and is accompanied by a non-fungible token.
Lot Essay
–– 02Heat Signature is a technical and intuitive process of organic world building; a terraformed site of reflection mapping and displacement. It’s embracing the art of transformation, using morphology as its medium, wielding these polymerized sheets of Mylar as musings of complexity.
The emotional byproduct of this process is a volcanic range of respiration. A series of peaks, valleys, and spires that may feel like a scuff on the earth’s crust but now, given a pulse, feels like a dance or incubation within the womb of the landscape. It’s geology redrafted as a spiritual field.
The emotional byproduct of this process is a volcanic range of respiration. A series of peaks, valleys, and spires that may feel like a scuff on the earth’s crust but now, given a pulse, feels like a dance or incubation within the womb of the landscape. It’s geology redrafted as a spiritual field.
The Process
–– 02Mylar is a technical and intuitive process of organic world building. The artist overlays their photographic images as HDR domes and illuminates the reflective surface of digital mylar, and then further manipulates and augments the polymer to give a sense of displacement. What is produced is both stalwart and fluid, blossoming with jagged edges as if something that you are positive is dormant, is very clearly…alive.
What is woven in the process is a spectral story of tectonic shifts wherein the viewer is thrust into a terraformed site of reflection mapping and displacement. The emotional byproduct of this process is a volcanic range of respiration. A series of peaks, valleys, and spires that may feel like a scuff on the earth’s crust but now, given a pulse, feels like a dance or incubation within the womb of the landscape.
What is woven in the process is a spectral story of tectonic shifts wherein the viewer is thrust into a terraformed site of reflection mapping and displacement. The emotional byproduct of this process is a volcanic range of respiration. A series of peaks, valleys, and spires that may feel like a scuff on the earth’s crust but now, given a pulse, feels like a dance or incubation within the womb of the landscape.
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Dalbin Table
–– 03Dalbin Studio is a creative direction and production agency focusing on digital installations in collaboration with artists, interior designers and luxury brands.
Dalbin envisions bringing to life projects spanning from art direction, project management and technical drawings to manufacturing, installation, and maintenance; producing and curating content as digital experiences within the context and influence of interior design.
Dalbin envisions bringing to life projects spanning from art direction, project management and technical drawings to manufacturing, installation, and maintenance; producing and curating content as digital experiences within the context and influence of interior design.
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Credit List
Digital Artist: GMUNK
Composer: Keith Ruggiero
Digital Artist: GMUNK
Composer: Keith Ruggiero