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Mad Dog Jones

Michah Dowbak (aka Mad Dog Jones) is a multidisciplinary artist from Thunder Bay, Ontario. Through his innovative uses of technology, he conceptually and visually negotiates the boundaries of digital art, drawing inspiration from cyberpunk aesthetics, dystopian settings, and his love of the outdoors. The digital realities he creates articulate an alternate realm in which the viewer experiences a surreal path: simultaneously uncannily familiar and otherworldly.

Dowbak’s previous works include a race-winning 2021 Silverstone helmet for 7-Time F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton and race liveries for the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team for the 2022 F1 Miami GP. He has also had a profound and groundbreaking role in NFTs. Selling his Replicator artwork for $4.1M at auction as well as his Crash + Burn drop in 2021, Dowbak has proven to be an innovator. With the dynamic use of smart contracts and mechanics, he has shown the true potential of art in the digital realm.

Dave Krugman

Dave Krugman is a New York-based photographer, crypto-artist and writer. He is the founder of ALLSHIPS, a creative community based on the idea that a rising tide raises all ships. His photography is an ode to cyberpunk inspirations and he works to reveal the beauty at confluences of circumstance.

Random International and Danil Krivoruchko

Random International is a post-digital art group exploring the impact of technological development on the human condition. Best known for its large-scale interactive installations, the group works across an array of media, including sculpture, light, kinetics, video, print, and sound. Established in 2005 and led by founders Hannes Koch (b. 1975, Germany) and Florian Ortkrass (b. 1975, Germany), the group has a studio in London and comprises a global team of complementary talent. Random International’s work has been shown worldwide and can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Victoria & Albert Museum in London; the Yuz Foundation in Shanghai; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

‍Danil Krivoruchko is a Ukrainian-born, New York-based multidisciplinary digital artist and art director whose clients include names like Apple, Nike, Intel, and Boeing. Krivoruchko’s work has won a variety of festival awards. He was nominated for a 2022 Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design as part of the creative team for the television series Foundation. He is also the creator of the renowned One Thousand Ksoids NFT collection and co-creator of the OG:Crystals project.

Masahiro Hiramoto was born in Tokyo, and studied at Tokyo University of the Arts, School of Music. Masahiro’s career debut as a composer was with contemporary dance company Noism in Paris and Budapest. He has provided his music to European dance companies Provisional Danza, Göteborg ballet, and Wiesbaden ballet, among others, and joined contemporary dance mix bill MOMENTUM lost & found held by Fabula Collective at Sadler’s Wells in London in 2022. He has been composing for various artists, including Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama and Japanese theatre director Yukio Ninagawa. In terms of films, his first soundtrack work The Ravine of Goodbye (Dir. Tatsushi Omori, 2013) won a Special Jury Prize of 35th Moscow International Film Festival.

Andres Serrano

Often described as ‘infamous’, Andres Serrano is an American artist who was at the crossroads of the 1989 cultural wars when his photograph Piss Christ (1987) became the subject of a national debate on freedom of artistic expression and the public funding of controversial art. The original artwork depicts a crucifix submerged in a glass tank of the artist’s urine. It has been a victim of iconoclasm on multiple occasions and has long been recognized as one of the most iconic works in contemporary art history.

On 18 May 1989, after a widespread campaign against Piss Christ and its funding from the National Endowment for Arts, Senator Alfonse D’Amato ripped the catalogue displaying Piss Christ on the senate floor, calling it ‘a deplorable, despicable display of vulgarity’.

In early October of 1997, Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne George Pell’s injunction to remove Piss Christ from an exhibition about to open at the National Gallery of Victoria was dismissed by Australia’s Supreme Court. Nevertheless, the Archbishop urged his followers to protest and conduct candlelight vigils in front of the National Gallery before the exhibition opened. On 12 October, two teenagers, one armed with a hammer, attacked and destroyed Piss Christ.

On 17 April 2011, following a demonstration of some 800 protesters the day before, two people went into The Collection Lambert in Avignon with paint spray and a chisel in their jackets. As a guard was removing the items, a third person took a hammer to Piss Christ and destroyed it.

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Rhymezlikedimez

Rhymezlikedimez, aka Robin Velghe (b. 1994), is an interdisciplinary visual artist from Belgium whose work spans across digital and physical mediums.

Born with a passion for drawing, Velghe has always loved fusing the feeling of listening to music with the visual layer of his illustrations. What started as a hobby and love of music turned into a full-time profession. Over six years, Rhymez has become a globally recognized visual creator.

Rhymez is highly sought-after by major record labels, collaborating and creating visuals for music icons such as Lil Uzi Vert, Dua Lipa, Wiz Khalifa and Anderson .Paak, as well as brands like Apple, Tidal and Beats by Dre. Rhymez continues to develop his work across multiple mediums and industries, including fine art, fashion and NFTs.

Cory Van Lew

Painter and NFT artist Cory Van Lew’s work serves as a tool to invoke positive energy in the viewer through his signature, bright pastel color palette. Exploring everything from figurative, scenic and abstract art, Van Lew portrays his life experiences on canvas through people and environments of inspiration. Pulling from moments of his life, he uses his ‘Theory of Transmission’ to translate his inner truth and captivate viewers with unique characters immersed in a vibrant colorful universe.

Ayla El-Moussa

Ayla El-Moussa is a surreal artist who utilizes film and photography to blend nature, her female form and the ocean into visual philosophy. She invites the viewer to examine the intimate workings of the mind while simultaneously contemplating their place in the universe.

Her work, which combines expansive drone footage and sensual self-portraiture, bends the artist-muse relationship back on itself to create a visual and conceptual ethos in which each inspires the other. Dubbed the ‘Queen of Waves’ by her following for the way she incorporates the movement and the poetic power of water into her pieces, El-Moussa’s artistry plays with the psychology of the unconscious mind and mythical storytelling to create dreamlike environments where perspective is pliable, and self-reflection reigns supreme.

Mad Dog Jones

Dave Krugman

Random International and Danil Krivoruchko

Andres Serrano

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30 Nov - 7 Dec

Next Wave: The Miami Edit

Christie’s 3.0 presents Next Wave: The Miami Edit, featuring NFT works by the next generation of digital artists. Coinciding with Art Basel Miami, the auction includes exceptional pieces by the likes of Luis Ponce and Cath Simard, with estimates starting from just 4–6 ETH.

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28 Sep - 11 Oct

Diana Sinclair

Diana Sinclair: Phases

For our first auction, Christie’s 3.0 partners with 18-year-old visual artist Diana Sinclair. Browse and bid on nine new NFT works that explore the artist’s poignant relationship with time.

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