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As part of the launch of our inaugural curated NFT exhibition, Digital Baroque: History Meets Algorithm, 18-31 January 2022 that will debut the 4ART marketplace, we have selected a few participating artists that are making unique 1/1 NFTs with a physical counterpart to interview and we have chosen you as one of them.
  • Question 1: Could you tell us a little more about your practice and your emoji version of Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights that gained widespread attention in 2013?
  • Question 2: When did you started releasing NFTs and what was your genesis NFT?
  • Question 3: As you have appeared in numerous exhibitions, screenings and internet projects across the globe, could you tell us about this interesting contemporary remix you did of Giuseppe Archimboldo’s 16th century portraits?
  • Question 4: As a transmedia artist, we understand you have experimented with AR, AI and 3D scanning. Could you speak on some of your works that have used these technologies?
  • Question 5: Lastly to end this interview, could you give us a sneak peak into your upcoming drop for our inaugural curated NFT exhibition Digital Baroque: History meets Algorithm on 4ART marketplace?
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    Petra Tomljanovic
    Curator
    Petra Tomljanovic (1985) graduated as a Professor of Art History and Croatian Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. During her studies, she started curating small scale exhibitions with designers and artists. After the graduation, she worked as a journalist in the field of art, design and architecture.

    This environment introduced her to the leaders of Croatian and international art/design scene. Besides editing and writing, she was also involved with the organization of cultural events, exhibitions, and lectures, promoting young Croatian talents. During the same period, she also collaborated with award winning, self-initiated and competitive projects lead by a group of young architects.

    She started a blog dedicated to a cultural analysis of fashion and identity, and was continually writing for several Croatian web sites about design and art. She lived and worked in Germany, Singapore, and currently she is running Kulturfolger, a curatorial platform in Zürich.
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    Carla Gannis
    Artist
    An American transmedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York.
    Gannis produces works that consider the uncanny complications between grounded and virtual reality, nature and artifice, science and science fiction in contemporary culture. Fascinated by digital semiotics, Gannis takes a horror vacui approach to her artistic practice, culling inspiration from networked communication, art and literary history, emerging technologies and speculative design. Her work combines digital imagery with well-known works of art such as paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. She received widespread attention in 2013 for her emoji version of Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights.
    Gannis is the recipient of several awards, including a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Grant in Computer Arts, an Emerge 7 Fellowship from the Aljira Art Center, and a Chashama AREA Visual Arts Studio Award in New York, NY. Her work has appeared in exhibitions, screenings and internet projects across the globe. Recent projects include “Portraits in Landscape,” Midnight Moment, Times Square Arts, NY and “Sunrise/Sunset,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Artport. Publications who have featured her work include The Creators Project, Wired, FastCo, Hyperallergic, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, El PaÍs and The LA Times, among others. In 2015 her speculative fiction was included in DEVOURING THE GREEN:: fear of a human planet: a cyborg / eco poetry anthology, published by Jaded Ibis Press.

    Gannis have been releasing NFTs on Hic et Nunc, the Tezos NFT marketplace. She was also part of Feral Files’ NFT Exhibition ‘The Bardo: Unpacking the Real’ curated by Julie Walsh and Transfer’s gallery ‘Pieces of Me’ presented online and made available as NFTs on left.Gallery.

    Gannis holds a BFA and MFA in Painting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Boston University, respectively. Currently, she is an Industry Professor at New York University (NYU) in the Integrated Design and Media Program, Department of Technology, Culture and Society, Tandon School of Engineering.