Press Release Annka Kultys Gallery: Marjan Moghaddam’s #ARTHACKS.
“Glitch is something that extends beyond the most literal technological mechanics,” suggests the curator and writer Legacy Russell in her 2020 publication, Glitch Feminism. Since 2016, the Iran-born digital artist Marjan Moghaddam has developed #Arthacks, a mixed-reality series expanding on the power and poetics of the glitch within the global art economy.
Presented in Annka Kultys Gallery’s phygital space, Moghaddam’s most recent series of #Arthacks—For Freedom Part I (2022), For Freedom II (2022), and The American Hush (2022)—are located within real and imagined art fairs. Within these interventions, Moghaddam’s distorted and hallucinogenic 3D CG figures, which the artist refers to as Chronometric Sculptures, take over sales booths and blackjack tables, even utilizing the polished concrete floors between gallery outposts as their own personal runway. Often set to remixes of the Persian protest song Baraye by Shervin Hajipour, Moghaddam’s #Arthacks bring the activist potential of art to the realm of mixed reality.
Opening today for the Digital Canvas Exhibition featuring #Lordess Animated Painting, #Lordess Drop Into Bars!
If you’re in New York City please join me tonight for the opening of the Digital Canvas at NFT gallery NYC, curated by @VerticalCryptoArt. I will be there in person, and its a great group exhibition of Crypto Art which opened in London earlier this year at the London NFT gallery and is now in NYC. I have my #Lordess Drop Into Bars in it.
