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History & Heritage

This selection of artworks demonstrates how digital artists treat the topics of history and heritage in different ways, utilising diverse techniques to achieve their intended messages. An overarching interrogation point for many of these artists is: how can history be reconsidered, reappropriated, or rewritten through the biais of new technologies?

For artists such as the French collective Obvious, or Japanese artist Saeko Ehara, for example, using AI technology is a means to revisit the past and reinterpret it through visual co-creations with the machine. Elsewhere, Joelle McTigue creates abstracted works based on her own photography of various architectural and botanical subject matter where she lives in Montenegro, and in so doing recounts the economic, political and colonial histories of this location. Other artists such as Marine Bléhaut or Rafafans utilise video or animated collage from historical film archives or artworks to provide a contemporary spin on old source material, touching upon themes of memory, nostalgia, or timelessness.

Artistes

Saeko Ehara

Crossover

Saeko Ehara

People Love People

Saeko Ehara

Pastel Blue Girls with the ...

Saeko Ehara

Classical Ladies

Obvious

Lighthouse of Alexandria

Obvious

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

Obvious

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

Obvious

Pyramid of Giza

Obvious

Temple of Artemis at Ephesu...

Joelle McTigue

Mimosa, Origin Australia. P...

Joelle McTigue

Bitter Orange, Origin South...

Joelle McTigue

Crimson Bottlebrush, Origin...

Marine Bléhaut

Song of Glass I

Marine Bléhaut

Song of Glass II

Marine Bléhaut

Epiphany

Marine Bléhaut

Red Song

Rafafans

William Adolphe Bouguereau ...

Rafafans

Adam Kruseman

Rafafans

Gerald Brockhurst Tribute

Stuart Ward

Venus

Stuart Ward

Neptune

Stuart Ward

Transformation at the Gates...

Stuart Ward

Artemis