Daata Editions – an Introduction by Lucy Chinen

Daata Editions website screen grab – image still from Hannah Perry artwork

DAATA EDITIONS SEASON ONE LAUNCH
text by Lucy Chinen

Daata Editions is a platform for collecting artists’ video, sound and web based artwork. Dedicated to supporting artwork online, Daata Editions commissions works available in editions for purchase and exhibition, while maintaining public access for research.

For the first phase, Daata Editions has commissioned 18 artists each to create six new video, sound or web based works. Each work is available for purchase in an edition of 15. Collectors are able to acquire editions of the works through the platform, where custom certificates of authenticity are provided. The percentage absorbed by Daata Editions upon purchase is used to host another phase of commissions. In addition to the editions for purchase, artists keep two editions of each work, two editions are donated to arts institutions for exhibition, and one is kept for the Daata Editions archive for continued public access.

Artists included in the first phase of commissions: Ilit Azoulay, Helen Benigson, David Blandy, Matt Copson, Ed Fornieles, Leo Gabin, Daniel Keller, Lina Lapelyte, Rachel Maclean, Florian Meisenberg, Takeshi Murata, Hannah Perry, Jon Rafman, Charles Richardson, Amalia Ulman, Stephen Vitiello, Chloe Wise.

Daata Editions aims to serve the artists working in mediums for online distribution, while supporting further production by creating a market for the medium. Amongst the plethora of galleries, art fairs and institutional entities, Daata believes in the need for a multitude of models for art distribution online. The intention of the Daata Editions project is to be artist focussed, encouraging the creation, exhibition and collecting of artwork online.

Daata Editions is led by curator David Gryn. The platform has been built in collaboration with design agency Studio Scasascia.

The Tranches …

VIDEO

For artworks within the Video tranche, each artist has developed a specific approach to moving image which falls within a line of inquiry throughout their practice. Some create characters which evoke and complicate the familiarity of TV and movie narratives; some use found footage, isolating the context and environment which produces certain images and subcultures; while others utilise a point of view enabled by digital rendering and surveillance, making use of these technologies to imagine future scenarios. Artists who have been commissioned to create video works include: Ed Fornieles, Leo Gabin, Daniel Keller & Martti Kalliala, Florian Meisenberg, Takeshi Murata, Jon Rafman, and Amalia Ulman.

SOUND

Throughout diverse approaches, artists have created works which reflect on the acoustics of spaces and conversations; investigate material evidence of digital processes, or utilise sound as a recording device for performance. Artists who have been commissioned to create sound works include: Ilit Azoulay, Matt Copson, Leo Gabin, Lina Lapelyte, Hannah Perry, and Stephen Vitiello.

WEB

This section of commissions is based on the sensibility of emergent technologies within emerging artistic practices. Amongst the diverse styles, many of the works dislocate online material from their source, digesting it and representing it as part of a collective and personal persona. Artists who have been commissioned to create works in the section of web include: Helen Benigson, David Blandy, Rachel Maclean, Hannah Perry, Charles Richardson and Chloe Wise.

Lucy Chinen http://lucychinen.com/

Daata Editions Launching May 14 – Press Release

PRESS RELEASE

Daata Editions

A new online platform for the sale of artist commissioned video sound and web art editions

Launching May 14, 2015
www.daata-editions.com

TRAILER

Launch during May art fairs in New York include a viewing area at NADA, and programming partnerships with Salon 94 and Soho House New York.

New York  (April 17, 2015) – Daata Editions is a new online platform dedicated to the support, promotion and collecting of artists’ digital moving image and sound. This new and innovative way to collect art is designed specifically to be a native platform to a new generation of artists who are working with video, sound, and web (mediums), and which are not easily exhibited in the traditional gallery context. Daata Editions is founded and directed by curator David Gryn, and developed by London based web agency Studio Scasascia. Daata was born of a need seen by Gryn via his work as a curator, noticing the concerns of galleries, institutions, and collectors interested in artists working in moving image and sound. Daata Editions is a remedy to this, a new business that commissions and empowers artists to develop new work, and creates a seamless and playful platform for collectors and viewers to access and experience this material.    

Launch Commissions 

Daata Editions will be launching by commissioning 18 artists to create six new – video, sound or web artworks each.  All of the works, each in an edition of 20, will be available online for sale and research. The website is designed to be an easy to use and aesthetically appealing interface for collectors to browse and acquire the works. The Daata Editions website is ideal for these works, as a native platform, Daata presents digital commissions for digital distribution.

The first group of artists commissioned to create new artworks for the launch of Daata Editions are: Ilit Azoulay, Helen Benigson, David Blandy, Matt Copson, Ed Fornieles, Leo Gabin, Daniel Keller & Martti Kalliala, Lina Lapelyte, Rachel Maclean, Florian Meisenberg, Takeshi Murata, Hannah Perry, Jon Rafman, Charles Richardson, Amalia Ulman, Stephen Vitiello, and Chloe Wise. In addition to the commissioned editions available for purchase, all subscribers to the platform will receive a free Jon Rafman artwork, made specifically for Daata Editions launch. Art writer and curator Lucy Chinen has written the first texts for the website. 

Launch Programs and Events

Daata Editions is launching in NY during the week of the Frieze Art Fair, May 11 to 17, 2015, with a series of events, including a collaborative viewing area at NADA New York (May 14-17) and a Frieze Art Fair brunch, hosted by renowned collector and philanthropist Anita Zabludowicz at the Neue House VIP lounge in association with the Frieze VIP program on May 16. In addition, passers by on the Lower East Side can enjoy a month long screening on the Salon 94 video wall on the Bowery, next to the New Museum, and another month long screening program will be at Soho House, New York, running from May 11 to June 15, 2015.  

About The Team

Daata Editions’ team has a strength of experience and credibility that is unique in our art meets digital world and aims to create a marketplace platform that will be a fun experience as well as educational. Daata Editions’ Director, David Gryn of Artprojx and Curator of Film, Art Basel in Miami Beach has a strong reputation worldwide in producing, curating and promoting artists’ audio visual projects and events that have consistently excited and attracted large audiences and introduced new audiences to the arts. Responsible for the design and development of the platform is London-based Studio Scasascia, who have extensive experience in cutting edge web development for international clients including Damien Hirst’s Other Criteria, Berlin Biennale, Sounds of the Universe and the Swiss Federal Office of Culture.

For more information, please visit www.daata-editions.com

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