Vol. I – 2021
Digital artworks are on their way to revolutionizing the market. As an artist and digital designer, Vinya Cameron moves in the constant field of tension between analog and digital creative processes. Haptics and virtuality are therefore an important part of her approach to art. But how haptic can digital art be? And can analog art be transposed into the dimension of the digital world? Vinya Cameron addresses this question with the works on the theme HAPTIK VS DIGITAL.
Through the mobile phone/tablet app Artivive, which is to be directed at the original work, the work is brought to life. The resulting augmented reality opens up a new dimension of the artistic creative process for the viewer.
Vinya Cameron is a freelance artist with German-American roots. She studied for a year at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome and later at the Académie Charpentier in Paris.The figurative paintings of her early creative period bear witness to the influences of the artistic teachings of great Italian and French masters.
For many years, Cameron’s interest has increasingly shifted toward abstract and experimental works, in which she continues to explore new techniques. She has increasingly devoted herself to the layering of various materials (mixed media), such as champagne chalk, paper, wax, coffee, tar on wood. With the help of these, Vinya Cameron creates abstract and detailed works in which she focuses on surfaces, the details of objects, nature and matter.
Her versatile oeuvre reflects the inexhaustible joy of experimentation of the painter and digital designer. From 2005 to 2010, for example, she created digital fashion creations for the game Secondlife, which revolutionized the world of computer games and found great media resonance in France. Her artist name in the digital scene: Vindi Vindaloo.
Cameron has exhibited her work in solo and group shows in Paris, Berlin, Cologne and elsewhere.
One original includes approximately 50 views through the Artivive app upon purchase. Additional calls can be purchased at a later date.
You also want to invest in NFT’s? The animations for the works can be purchased on the digital art market in the cryptocurrency ETH.
Contact the artist.
Contact Vinya Cameron: 0177/6661309 | mail@vinya-cameron.com
A few examples from the exhibition can be found below.
scanne den QR Code un die Artivive App zu installieren
scan the code to install the Artivive application
Als fine Art Print erhältlich 140 € zzgl. Versand / available as fine art print 140 € plus shipment
NFT Angebote und Käufe einiger Werke können jetzt bei Opensea.io getätigt werden.
Nft offers and sales are now possible at Opensea.io
Nachklang Ausstellung / Exhibition Echo
Where art and reality merge
First artist in Cologne combines haptic art with augmented reality
The exhibition haptik vs digital Vol. I opened up a whole new dimension of viewing for visitors to the Cologne Co/Atelier: Equipped with a cell phone app, they approached the works of Vinya Cameron. Cameron was the first artist in Cologne to show how art and modern AR technology can complement each other.
The app works like an augmented eye. Pointing your phone at the exhibit, augmented reality takes visitors into a new dimension. When the app captures the exhibit, objects emerge, seeming to break out of the image and make their way into reality. Sometimes in a dramatic way, then quietly and melancholically. For the artist has animated her works not only with movement, but also with music.
Playing with one’s own associations
For the animation of her haptic works, Vinya Cameron has played with her own associations. For example, her association with the universe is visualized for the viewer as the individual elements begin to flow and the viewer becomes part of the universe.
A piece on which the artist has applied a sweater with champagne chalk is experienced by visitors through animation as a tribute to her son. A black-and-white video seemingly makes its way through the work’s layers of material to the viewer’s eye, for whom the exhibit’s story becomes tangible.
Works leave their two-dimensionality via app
This is what is special about the artist’s works: she does not use a display as a medium for her digitized works. In the show, she mainly showed works from a series from 2018 – those abstract and detailed works for which the artist is known.
The haptic artworks, with their variously layered materials such as champagne chalk, paper, wax, or tar, step out of their two-dimensionality when viewed via app, thereby opening up new narrative spaces and a wealth of new interpretive possibilities for the viewer.
About Vinya Cameron
As an artist and digital designer, Vinya Cameron moves in the constant field of tension between analog and digital creative processes. Haptics and virtuality are therefore an important part of her approach to art. But how haptic can digital art be? And can analog art be transposed into the dimension of the digital world?
Cameron addresses this question with her works on the theme of haptics vs digital.
Her versatile oeuvre reflects the inexhaustible joy of experimentation of the painter and digital designer. From 2005 to 2010, for example, she created digital fashion creations for the game Secondlife, which revolutionized the world of computer games and found great media resonance in France. Her artist name in the digital scene: Vindi Vindaloo. Cameron has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions in Paris, Berlin and Cologne, among other places.
Interested parties can purchase the animations for the works on the digital art market in the cryptocurrency ETH. The artist will answer questions about this.
Anyone who would like to view the works after the exhibition can visit Vinya Cameron on request at CO/Atelier Artspace in Cologne-Nippes. Appointment arrangement under 0177/6661309 or to mail@vinya-cameron.com.
Article by Nadja Hinz
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