A stage for the unexplored, Encounters unlocks the boundless potential of creativity
Encounters launches in 2023 with a summer art program, In Resonance. Contemporary artists will come together with Scorpios musicians, to engage with our community around digital art. With a series of live performances, special collaborations with musicians, and opportunities to collect exclusive artwork from leading contemporary artists, Scorpios will take you into the heart of the digital art movement.
Arising out of curiosity about the creative interplay between art and music, we are exploring new territory after having long championed emerging and established musicians with the evolution of the Scorpios sound. Embracing a spirit of collaboration between artists and the community, Scorpios investigates our relationship with the natural world through artists and musicians who resonate together. Curated in collaboration with HOFA gallery and M.Stahl.
Award-winning media artist, Refik Anadol and the Yawanawá community, indigenous to the Brazilian Amazon, are co-creating an exclusive piece (available as an edition consisting of three), as well as a collection of digital artworks that reflects the Yawanawá’s connection with the forest and responds to real-time data from the Amazon rainforest. The artwork will be revealed at a special event on July 13th, and will be available to purchase for a limited time only, as part of a fundraising initiative to support the Yawanawá community in protecting their natural and cultural heritage.
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On July 14th Yawanawá chiefs Nixiwaka and Isku Kua will lead a prayer and musical performance together with their family Ninunihu and Ykashahu. The celebrations will be accompanied by a panel discussion curated by Impact One to provide a glimpse into the creation process of the artwork series and its objectives, featuring Nixiwaka Yawanawá, Isku Kua, Refik Anadol and Scorpios founder Thomas Heyne. A conversation moderated by Mikolaj Sekutowicz on Indigenous-led pathways for global sustainability, examining the creation of the collaborative artwork and use of Web3 as a driver for the stewardship of natural ecosystems.
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Leading AI artist, Dr. Ivona Tau, and musician Jean Claude Ades’ collaborative artwork, Island Illusions: Aegan Echoes, is inspired by Mykonos. Combining Jean Claude’s eclectic beats and Ivona’s generative AI art, the work explores the dance between the sea and the coast, as the water sculpts the topography of the shoreline. Their two unique artworks and edition of digital collectible artworks will be revealed on July 23d. They will be available to purchase for a limited time.
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Visual artist Hugo Johnson collaborates with music duo Bedouin, on Storms. This collection of artworks reimagines storms as human beings with unique identities, offering a glimpse into their souls with striking 3d compositions. The star of the portrait series Is Zorbas, the first cyclone to hit the Mediterranean. Two unique artworks and an edition of digital collectible artworks will be revealed on July 25th, and are only available for a select amount of time.
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Pioneering media artist, Orkhan, and Scorpios’ very own Lannka, reveal their collaboration on three pieces of art and an edition of digital collectible art for purchase starting on August 4th, for a limited amount of time. With Lanka’s distinctive take on ancient rhythms and folkloric sounds, and Orkhan’s AI-driven artworks that look to Middle Eastern cultural heritage, the two tread new ground while keeping deep roots in the past.
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On August 10th, artist Jason Sims and musician Satori will unveil their co-created immersive artwork inspired by natural systems, consisting of one unique art piece and an edition of digital collectable artworks. Satori’s signature groove-laden electronica and live instrumentals are fitting for Jason’s sublime, meditative take on space and form, and together they promise a unique collaboration.
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Multidisciplinary artist and DJ, Agoria, reveals an artwork on the 24th of August that is a tribute to our agora, exploring data of the sunsets captured from Scorpios Mykonos. Our community has a chance to engage with Agoria’s unusual artistic juxtaposition of generative algorithms, web3, AI, and biological systems, applied to the epic views from Paraga beach.
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Refik Anadol is collaborating with the Yawanawá community, indigenous to the Brazilian Amazon, on a data sculpture triptych and collection of digital artworks. The artwork reflects the Yawanawa’s connection with the forest and responds to real-time data from the Amazon rainforest. Refik will waive his full share of creator’s share of the profits of the sale, which will be given to the Yawanawá community for natural and cultural heritage protection. This co-created artwork will explore the connection between nature and human consciousness, bringing together the collective memory of the Yawanawá with live data to create a remarkable multisensory experience.
Refik Anadol is an award-winning media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence and in digital art collectibles. Refik “paints” with data to create mesmerizing, large-scale digital artworks that address what it means to be a human in the age of AI. His work occupies the intersection of art, science, and technology.
Across his 3D data sculptures and paintings, live audio/visual performances, and immersive installations, Refik takes what was once invisible to the human eye, and renders it visible — whether that consists of buildings coming to life and disappearing into infinity, or breathtaking aesthetics that take shape from large swaths of data. Refik’s work has been shown across the world at major art museums and festivals, including MoMA and the Venice Architecture Biennale, as well as in permanent public art installations around the world, from Mumbai to San Francisco.
Guardians of the Forest
The Yawanawá communities of Aldeia Sagrada and Nova Esperança, indigenous to the Brazilian Amazon, are Refik Anadol’s creative collaborators on his exclusive artwork and the accompanying digital art collectible release, commissioned by Impact One for Scorpios.
Proceeds from sale of the artworks will go directly to the community. The funds will be used by the Yawanawá chiefs Nixiwaka, Putanny and Isku Kua, to support long-term initiatives for the protection of the Yawanawá lands and cultural heritage.
With a population of over 1200, the Yawanawá people live in villages nestled along the banks of the Gregório river in the Brazilian state of Acre, where they are guardians of thousands of acres of rainforest. The Yawanawá culture holds a deep connection to the natural world through the community’s ancestral wisdom, plant medicine and environmental stewardship.
The Yawanawá people's history is believed to go back millenia, with the first contact made with the western world only a little over a century ago. Despite the influence of external forces and continuous challenges from outsiders, the Yawanawá have managed to maintain their traditional way of life and preserve their culture.
Agoria is a multidisciplinary artist and DJ. His work connects art, music, and science, with a focus on biological generative art.
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Hugo Johnson is an Irish 3D artist and art director whose work leverages experimental 3D practices to create visually striking designs, and intricate, hypnotic visual narratives.
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Ivona Tau is an award-winning generative A.I. artist who works with experimental photography and motion painting — she is one of the most prominent artists on the digital collectible art scene.
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Artist Jason Sims uses light and reflection to create sculptural works, large-scale installations and public art that creates illusions of space and form.
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Orkhan is a pioneering media artist who reflects on rapid and chaotic global technological changes, by rethinking Middle Eastern art and cultural heritage.
Read MoreHOFA Gallery (House of Fine Art) specializes in contemporary art by established and emerging international artists. Founded by Elio D'Anna and Simonida Pavicevic in 2012, HOFA now represents painters, sculptors, photographers and multidisciplinary artists from all over the world at its locations in London, Los Angeles and Mykonos. Using new technologies and digital innovations, HOFA pledges an accessible entry point to the market, and inclusivity to art collectors on all levels. In Resonance is curated in collaboration with HOFA gallery and M.Stahl.
“Scorpios Encounters is a stage for the unexplored. We want to give young talented artists a platform to create.”
Thomas Heyne, SCORPIOS FOUNDER
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