Daata Editions 3rd Artwork Released on 12 Oct

Takeshi Murata, Plant Whisperer (2015). Courtesy the artist and Daata Editions.

Daata Editions, the online platform for the sale of commissioned artist video, sound and web editions, is pleased to announce the third artwork release for Season One. The artworks will be available at http://daata-editions.com from 5pm on Monday 12 October with a special release event at the Daata Editions Lounge at the Zabludowicz Collection. The release coincides with the Jon Rafman and Charles Richardson shows opening at the Zabludowicz Collection.

Daata Editions was developed to enable audiences to view contemporary artists who are working in digital mediums, showing artworks made for, and therefore best viewable on, laptops, iPads, iPhones, screens and even cinemas. This new and innovative way to collect art is designed specifically to be a native platform to a new generation of artists who work with moving image and sound, and to empower artists, audiences and the marketplace in an area of artistic practice that remains underrepresented within traditional art market models.

For Season One, Daata Editions has commissioned 18 artists to create six new artworks each in editions of 20, with 15 going on sale to the public via the website and five others automatically put aside for philanthropy. All artworks last no longer than approximately three minutes and are made in ways that challenge traditional modes of exhibition, reception and, therefore, of collecting as well. Daata Editions artists commissioned for the Season One 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, Chloe Wise.

David Gryn, Director of Daata Editions, said: “It is important that while we continue to find new artists whose work pushes the definition of contemporary art, we also develop formats through which such work can be best accessed and understood. We also need far more competition from similar platforms that commission, show and sell digitally made art online to empower artists, audiences and the marketplace alike.”

In addition to the commissions available for purchase, all subscribers to the platform receive a free Jon Rafman artwork, made specifically for Daata Editions.

To watch the trailer for the third artwork release, please click here.

Event

Daata Editions 3rd Artwork Release Launch
Monday 12 October, 5 – 6pm
Daata Editions Lounge @ the Zabludowicz Collection
176 Prince of Wales Road
London NW5 3PT
RSVP to hannah@suttonpr.com

Artworks in Daata Editions 3rd Release (Season One)

Video
Ed Fornieles – Climbing
Leo Gabin – Ain’t Gon Do It
Daniel Keller & Martti Kalliala – Exitscape 3
Florian Meisenberg – hihihihihihihihih
Takeshi Murata – Plant Whisperer
Amalia Ulman – White Flag Emoji 3

Sound
Ilit Azoulay – Object #3
Matt Copson – Booty Call
Leo Gabin – Aliens
Lina Lapelyte – Hunky Bluff Act 3
Hannah Perry – sick off smoke
Stephen Vitiello – In The Woods (after Tana French)

Web
Helen Benigson – Cluck, Cluck, Cluck 3
David Blandy – Mist
Rachel Maclean – Let It Go Part 3
Hannah Perry – the worse you feel the better I look
Charles Richardson – Extra
Chloe Wise – should i add an emoji

(All works are 2015)

Press Information

Hannah Gompertz, SUTTON
+44 (0)207 813 3577 | hannah@suttonpr.com

Making it rain ! Selected works from Daata Editions Season One at TIFF

Takeshi Murata, Making It Rain (2015). Courtesy the artist and Daata Editions

Toronto International Film Festival: Wavelengths

September 10-19, 2015

Making it rain !

Selected works from Daata Editions Season One

Featuring selected Daata Editions artists: Jon Rafman, David Blandy, Ed Fornieles, Leo Gabin, Daniel Keller & Martti Kalliala, Rachel Maclean, Florian Meisenberg, Takeshi Murata, Hannah Perry, Charles Richardson, Chloe Wise. 

Selected by David Gryn, Director of Daata Editions and Curator of Film, Art Basel in Miami Beach.

For TIFF’s 2015 offsite program, the Drake is thrilled to collaborate with Daata Editions to present a program of digital works by 12 international artists. This program is designed to invite viewers to consider the moving image outside of formal exhibition spaces and bring new media more directly into our environments.

The program will be screened at the Queen West Hotel on screens throughout and nightly on the façade of hotel’s downtown location, Drake One Fifty. In addition, the entire programme will be screened with sound in the Hotel’s private dining room, on September 12 and 13, noon-5pm offering a more cinematic experience.

Making it rain ! 

List of Daata Editions artworks

Jon Rafman – Oh the humanity
David Blandy – Ice
Ed Fornieles – Bathing
Leo Gabin – Girlhood
Daniel Keller and Martti Kalliala – Exitscape 1
Rachel Maclean – Let It Go – Part 1
Florian Meisenberg – the_tacit_one
Takeshi Murata – OM Making It Rain
Hannah Perry – aahhhhhh
Charles Richardson – Carramesh
Chloe Wise – she’s so talented
David Blandy – Ruin
Ed Fornieles – Falling
Leo Gabin – Write your name
Daniel Keller and Martti Kalliala – Exitscape 2
Rachel Maclean – Let It Go – Part 2
Florian Meisenberg – somewhere_sideways
Takeshi Murata – OM Passenger
Hannah Perry – Useless
Charles Richardson – 27th March
Chloe Wise – do you really think he fingered her

Location:

Drake Hotel

1150 Queen Street West

Toronto, ON M6J 1J3

&

Drake One Fifty

150 York St

Toronto, ON M5H 3S5

More information:

daata-editions.com

thedrakehotel.ca

tiff.net

Rachel Maclean – Let It Go – Inverness Museum and Art Gallery – July 2015

Rachel Maclean

Let It Go !

Inverness Museum & Art Gallery

11 July – 22 August 2015

Rachel Maclean‘s works for Daata Editions collectively titled Let It Go ! will form part of the artist’s solo show at Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, UK.

Using green screen technology, Rachel Maclean constructs fantasy narratives set in computer-generated landscapes. Maclean plays each of the characters in her films donning outlandish self-made costumes and thick make-up. Comprised of six videos, Let it Go, explores themes of class, aspiration and childhood as 6 wide-eyed pauper characters mime to dialogue sourced from YouTube. These segments are spliced together with passionate confessions of hunger, rage, suffering and insecurity.

More information: highlifehighland.com

Rachel Maclean limited editions available at http://daata-editions.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

Media Contact

Molly Rowe / Andrew Huff
Third Eye
molly@hellothirdeye.com / andrew@hellothirdeye.com
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