THIS WAS PRESENCE
In physical space, I am a performer: I make vessels for others to experience themselves, and I disappear. It is a death, a chaos, a harrowing of the ground. No one would choose what they find there, it can only be allowed to emerge. Here, in latent space, I am performed: the act of disappearance becomes a shadow cast on a screen.
These are memento mori for the things we would never choose, the shadows cast by the light of presence.
If experience is mediated by algorithms that are perfectly tailored to one's preferences and expectations, what becomes of the things one cannot create with intention, the difficult and cathartic things that emerge only despite oneself? What will become of presence?
This Was Presence on Verse
POLY. a fluid show
KINDL - Center For Contemporary Art, Berlin. Part of POLY. A fluid show curated by Solvej Ovesen. September 2023 - February 2024. Opening held during Berlin Art Week 2023.
Works shown include the entire collection of Mikey’s AI Fashion collection ‘LATENT COUTURE’, his SuperRare genesis ‘I am you you am I’, as well as ‘The Queen Painting’, ‘PAINTED #1 & #4’, ‘Queensland’, ‘Lunaria’ along with many of his costumes designed by Don Aretino.
Mikey performed an immersive solo concert on the opening night during BAW, intertwining a set design of physical paintings & digital art made in collaboration with AI.
photos: Jens Ziehe & Marlene Burz
LATENT COUTURE
LATENT COUTURE takes a stand about what it means to make a fashion statement in collaboration with AI. 555 AI fashion statements generated from photographs of Woodbridge's years of experience as a performer, painter, designer, and nightlife icon.
A look is a meme, a communicative unit that encapsulates a belief about what a human being can be. Each of these fashion statements says, ‘This person is possible.’ Making these statements on blockchain, they each become a token that serves as a vessel for the cultural currency of a possible person. I view generative AI fashion as the opposite of the deepfake – it reaches into the latent space to find the deepreal, the force of possibility that enables us to break the cycles of cultural reproduction. Unfashion the patterns. Take a walk down the runway of the latent space.
22 pieces from Latent Couture currently exhibiting at Vitra Design Museum - part of Science Fiction Design: From Space Age to Metaverse exhibition.
DJ SETS
HÖR Berlin - https://hoer.live/
111 OtherFaces -
Genesis NFT Collection
by MIKEY. Woodbridge
The I hungers to be seen through the eyes of the Other.
These are the faces I wore on nights when I crossed through the portal and looked back at this world.
IT’S TIME TO MAKE THE WORLD AGAIN
PAINTED
Mikey's canvases come to life in a digital form without losing the power of their physical presence. We created interactions between the canvas and the body to transform the two-dimensional image into a place. We paint a world for ourselves - a canvas to wear, a face to look out from and a digital image to invite the others in. The PAINTED Collection - Available on FOUNDATION
ALL DRESSED UP & NOWHERE TO GO
Livestreams - this project creates a Place where people can celebrate their creativity – where we can capture the reality of these strange times and learn to see the perfection in what we might see as setbacks or flaws. A Place of Perpetual Potential - a space where we can unfold into what we are.
CULTURE OF ( I )
Cave Paintings - Ink on paper
Large - 200 x 110
Square - 110 x 110
All art works AVAILABLE at The Ballery Online Shop
PRESS & COLLABS
ConsenSys Blog - Pride Social Connection Commission - ‘BRIDGE’
Playful Mag feature + interview Photography Francesco Cascavilla
OtherFaces Feature - FOMA Mag Issue #7
Interview Magazine Germany
Buhne Berlin - Featured alongside Wolfgang Tilmans, Honey Dijon, Stefano Pilati, Serhat Isik among others. Photography by Benjamin Alexander Huseby
Depeche Mode x Anton Corbin - ‘Walking In My Shoes’
Film for The Global Spirit Tour
Hand painted ‘PUSSY’ Print for Rihanna. Commissioned collaboration with Adam Selman
TMRW TV INTERVIEW
MUSIC VIDEOS
MUSIC
TRANCEFORMER EP
PEARL EP
PATHS EP
LIVESTREAM
TRANCEFORMER SHOW
Show costumes - Fashion collaboration with designer Don AretinoPhotography by Tomey Eyzaguirre
