GEN CARDANO
​Marjan Moghaddam is a renowned, award-winning, pioneering, and widely exhibited Digital and Computer Artist since the 1980s.
Her art has been featured in major exhibitions, including Art Dubai Digital and Art Basel 2024, and is the only female artist in the BBC documentary 'When Art Goes Digital', featured between Beeple and XCopy. She has exhibited AR art at the Smithsonian and other museums and made Forbes’ Best of AR Art.
Glitching Cardano with Cardano
“Inspired by the Italian mathematician Gerolamo Cardano, after whom the blockchain is named, this Chronometric Sculpture not only honors his genius but also celebrates it by using his mathematical equations to explore artistic and glitched variations of his likeness in digital form.
I first converted a historical etching of Cardano into a 3D mesh using generative 3D AI. Further research into 3D CG techniques led me to discover that many of my signature aesthetic approaches, such as morphs, B-splines for motion paths, and generative procedurals, are based on his cubic equations.
Cardano, known for his combative and difficult nature, often found himself at odds with his peers, but his brilliance and complexity were undeniable. This animation captures and celebrates that intensity by incorporating glitch and other dynamic elements to evoke his fiery intellect.”
1/1, 3d CG Animation with Music:
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ABOUT MARJAN
Marjan Moghaddam was Adobe’s Artist-in-Residence and is the only female artist featured in the BBC documentary 'When Art Goes Digital', showcased between Beeple and XCopy.
Since 2020, her Crypto and NFT art has been acquired by private collectors, held in institutional and DAO collections, and exhibited in the first NFT museum show. Her 'Quantum' NFT drop of 20 animations sold out in under a minute.
Recently, Marjan won the inaugural NFT Art Prize from Arab Bank Switzerland at NFC Lisbon, and her decades-long digital art career was spotlighted in a full episode of Art TV with Felicity. Her commissioned digital art projects include NFT collections for UNHCR, a permanent sculpture and AR installation at Royal Hillsborough Castle Park in the UK, and a 30-foot inflatable #GlitchGoddess with AR in Downtown Seattle.
Her work has been exhibited at Art Dubai Digital (where her piece was among the "most talked about") and in a solo show at the Digital Art Mile during Art Basel 2024. Marjan is represented by leading galleries like The Unit London, Annka Kultys Gallery, Vellum LA, NFT Factory Paris, and Larsen Warner.