REWATCH:
CYCLE#1 CLOSING EVENT!
On Dec 17th, we concluded our first-ever Escalator cycle in an exclusive event.
In it, we showcased an ArtUp's journey — from artistic concept to proof-of-concept. The official edited version is now available on the event website
INTRODUCING
NEFT
OUR SPANKING NEW,
FREE NFT MINTING SERVICE PLATFORM!
NOMINEE 2021:
DIGITAL INNOVATION IN ART AWARD
We are excited and honored to announce that we are on the shortlist of the Digital Innovation in Art Award of 2021! We appreciate the support of the DotArt family. Check out the article on their blog!
NEWS E V E N T S
ARTUPISM – NOT JUST A “RAPID RESPONSE”
ARTUP ESCALATOR WHAT'S THAT?
Tsila Hassine
CIA Chief Industry Artist
Tsila Hassine is an artist and researcher at the Sorbonne Laboratory for art & media (under the supervision of Prof. Olga Kisseleva), and a lecturer in Shenkar College of Design, Engineering, and Art. She earned a B.Sc. in Pure Mathematics, an MFA in Media Design, and was a researcher in residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie. Her works were exhibited at the Jerusalem Science Museum, the Tel Aviv Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), the Berlin Transmediale, Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Gasworks (London), Maxxi, Venice Biennale, and more. As of 2019, She is the founder and CEO of the early stage (st)ArtUp “Shmoogle”. Search Different, Think Different.
OUR TEAM
Yoav Lifshitz
CSA Chief Strategy Artist
CSA Chief Strategy Artist
Yoav Lifshitz is a media theoretician, artivist, and a non-disciplinary artist and curator. In his work, he combines activism, culture jamming, critical engineering, and journalism. Lifshitz is the co-founder of the Captive Portal platform at the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, and the Israeli Pirate Party collective. Showcased at Athens Digital Arts Festival, Finger Lake Environmental Film Festival (jury prize recipient), Jerusalem Art Conference, Print Screen Festival, Art Meets Radical Openness, and more. Has taught art at Musrara multidisciplinary school of art and society New-Media department.
Gabriel S Moses
3XCD Chief Creative Content Development, Derailing, and Deflection
3XCD Chief Creative Content Development, Derailing, and Deflection
Gabriel S Moses is a Leipzig-based scholar and media artist with a millennial complex. In other words, he is older than he looks and he exploits it. His work has been showcased in Ars Electronica, transmediale, Lenbachhaus, and FILE. In 2014, his project, Enhancement, won 1st prize at the "Future Storytelling" contest in HKW (Berlin). Since 2018 he runs the Tel Aviv Salon for Artistic Research. He is currently a DAAD scholar and is pursuing his PhD in artistic research at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. Since 2016 he runs the desperately seeking online wellness community, together with Carmel Barnea Brezner Jonas.
April 2020 |
Over the past pandemic years, we've developed the concept of the "ArtUp". What is an ArtUp? In very general terms: an ArtUp is an artist’s startup. Where once it was assumed that one needed an MBA or an engineering degree to start a company, consumer technology paved the way for design-led companies (Airbnb, Uber, and the likes). As the human condition becomes digitized and data-field, this could be the time when artists start their own high-growth companies, on their own critical and artistic terms.
ArtUpism is not just a potential artistic action, but a direct response to the current crisis which accelerates the collapse of the cultural sector, if not the majority of the market. ArtUpism paves the way for art through a two-tiered approach: On the one hand, art can re-establish its relevance in broader fields. On the other hand, this mode of action incubates an opportunity for artists to earn an independent living from art, without giving up artistic integrity. The ArtUpist creates and produces art in which “consumer value” and “product-market fit” are a significant part of its conceptual concerns which in return guarantee its livelihood. Blurring the boundaries between art, markets, discourses, consumers, audiences, performance, and metrics into a broad, inclusive virtual entity, provides a fertile point of departure for transgressive artistic action. For who can better disrupt the market than the ones whose work is to creatively criticize it?