With this work Michael Kutsche, an LA-based German artist known for his potent animation characters made for various film productions, pays tribute to the emergence of virtual communities that are affecting change in, as many call it, the current Renaissance period for digital art. New Renaissance is a portrait in which Kutsche attempts to capture the feeling of a rising era: the childish inquisitiveness, the vivid colors of excitement, and eye-widening wonders.

I created this piece as a tribute to the movement.

The dawn of NFTs is a paradigm shift of tremendous significance, akin to the flourishing of art created during the Renaissance, which shaped the history of art in an unprecedented way.

The inquisitive and wide eyed boy, who seems like a modern incarnation of a Renaissance portrait character but is actually an avatar in the metaverse, is used here as a symbol for the community of artists and collectors in the NFT space, watching this new age coming to life with a sense of curiosity, excitement and wonder.

The end result is a visual amalgamation of the old and new Renaissance, in a singular moving painting.

New Renaissance

Primitive agents of change

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Today, virtual communities, generative, chaotic, self-regulating networks, are the new agents of change bringing with them an idiosyncratic type of existentialism. Cyberspace has been explored as a productive ground for speculative post-human thought, bringing to the fore that which the increasing visibility of digital art has made more widely accessible: the rise of new gods, species, and relations, repositioning the place of the human in favor of positing new agencies of power and effective change. Sentiments related to those agencies have also evolved, from the sense of empowerment in existence as a collective being to diversifying the past with a peculiar digital nostalgia and anxiety. In other words, the production of affect in the digital era has been questioned, who and how affects and is affected is now an urgent matter.

New Renaissance

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