CryptoArt Week Asia (CAWA)

One is immediately drawn to Rubahitam’s artworks. His art tells stories of how technology has melted into our being. His use of bright fun colour, feels simultaneously full of J-Pop optimism and something like a commentary on techno overindulgence.

As a child he’d always wanted his own phone and one night he dreamed he owned a transparent Siem*ns Digimon Digivice. This is the device from the dream – The SIEm3nz 310.

Transparent Gardens is a multimedia artist and the world’s first cryptoart floral atelier, allowing us to peer inside each aquatic tanks of transparent plants. Transparent Gerbera Daisies mesmerizes in their beauty, merging bio-engineering studies of tissue morphogenesis with traditional practices of aquascaping, creating a supernatural hyper-reality.

Born in Italy, living and working in Japan, with over 120 thousand followers on Instagram, Alessio de Vecchi’s beautiful and often witty creations have earned the attention of Vogue, ID Magazine and The Creators Project and more.

The Drop takes on the style of strategy games like Age of Empires, to make a wry comment on the big NFT drops we are seeing today, that sell out in seconds. It reminds me of lemmings jumping off the cliff, jumping because the lemming before it jumped. Here the mini ancient warriors jump with blind and dedicated fervour and mission into the hole in the ground, the swallows them. 

In the age of Covid-19 and germaphobia, de Vecchi’s ‘The Seed’ plays on our darkest fears of others. A beautifully disturbing piece that you can’t turn away from. 

Izzy is self-taught CG artist with a background in film from indonesia. She keeps a book  filled with all her nightmares, 3am thoughts and reflections that drives her creations.

A sculpture of the end of the world. The image of the International Space Station falling from the orbit is perhaps the perfect embodiment of Izzy’s nightmare of witnessing the fall of our civilization during our lifetime. Perhaps, this simplistic yet beautiful almost architectural model-like artwork, embodies all of our denials. 

Mera Takeru turns the analogue world into digital abstraction infused with wit and Japanese psychedelia… Takeru is also an active musician and his pieces feel like they have a musical quality to them –  an fascination he picked up as a young child in seeing painting as a kind of music.