Zero-G Playgrounds and other news
Hello Internet!
I’ve been off the radar for a while, fully immersed in my creative lab—deep in conceptual research and crafting new collections. Now, after months of intense development, I’m excited to share the next evolution of the AvantGarden series—fresh images and audiovisual worlds.
Inspired by the optimism of the Flower Power and early rave movements, my ongoing fascination with gaming worlds, and my admiration for anthropomorphized figurines—from ancient idols to contemporary collectibles—these new works are here to bring bliss, excitement, and joy. They celebrate art, creativity, and the energy of music-sharing.
As always, I’ve been working across DAZ 3D, Unity, generative techniques, Ableton Live, and traditional sketching, painting, and sculpting to shape these digital realms.
New Works:
🦄 Zero-G Playgrounds – A gravity-defying realm of floating entities—hybrid figures shaped by internet nostalgia, gaming aesthetics, and hyper-polished digital environments. Suspended in luminous skyscapes and neon cityscapes, these beings drift through a synthetic limbo where plastic, glass, and chrome seamlessly merge. A surreal, weightless ecosystem oscillating between the playful and the enigmatic.
🌸 FlowerPower Station – A semi-abstract, ever-changing environment with hyper-realistic details, exploring futuristic world-building through an organic-mechanical fusion.
🛸 Observers – A continuation of my decade-long series of virtual characters meditating in front of artworks, contemplating the shifting landscapes of digital existence.
🍭 Perpetual Dream Machine – A self-assembling virtual assemblage of 3D objects, evolving and transforming in real-time—an expansion of my previous work Kbana.
I hope you enjoy these new collections as much as I do. More soon!
holiday greetings!
Holiday greetings!
Here’s to many more hybrids in 2025!
Thank you for your support!
SynthPets (Ultramono Lab) is a poetic exploration of robotics and artificial intelligence within a virtual reality landscape, continuing my deep dive into our entanglement with electronic pets and devices that shape our lives.
My recent projects, RoboSense and SynthPets, explore humanity’s evolving relationship with automation, AI, and the possibilities of a transhumanist future. These works bring synthetic digital creatures and hybrid beings to life, navigating poetic virtual environments and blurring the lines where humans and machines merge into new forms of existence.
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RoboSense/SynthPets
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As 2024 wraps up, I’m thrilled to share that my latest Ultramono Lab: AvantGarden works are currently on display in two exciting exhibitions: EMERGE 2024: Ethics of AI Alignment, organized by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at Forum and Neon Gallery, and ON ARCHITECTURE 2024: Shaping the City through Architecture, which explores innovative perspectives on urban design. I’m also celebrating a fantastic milestone: my digital audiovisual works have garnered an incredible 40K new views on YouTube. It's inspiring to see these pieces resonate with a wider audience.
As someone who has long embraced the internet as a platform to present virtual worlds, soundscapes, and the concept of an endless work of art, each space—whether physical or digital—offers a unique way to create immersive and empowering experiences. From guided or unguided tours of virtual realms to embedded audio-visual compositions, my aim is always to spark a journey through contemplation, excitement, and pure joy.
These neo-surreal computer art assemblages embody the influences that drive me: internet subcultures, mythology, our evolving relationship with technology, and a sense of playful exploration. More than a garden, the Avant-Garden is a space for rethinking, deep listening, reflection—and even dancing. Emerging from the cloud of mythology, these works invite audiences into mythical places and arcadian gardens where sci-fi (proto) machines, ultra-human and ultra-natural synthetic fractals, and a sense of endlessness and playfulness converge.
Floating in semi-abstract digital ecosystems are thought-forms: beings that merge the robotic with the organic, imagined as companions and building blocks of synthetic life. These installations, created within the Ultramono Lab, serve as exploratory playgrounds. They invite freedom of interpretation, often leading to profound feedback from audiences who connect deeply with the digital sculptures, ambient techno soundscapes, and interactive ecosystems.
It’s always humbling to hear how these works inspire others to think, feel, and imagine anew. Thank you for being part of this journey.
RoboSense and SynthPets
Endless meditations. Algorithmic poetry. Surreal beings from fractal glitches.
In RoboSense, humanity and machine blur into fluid, alien life forms, driven by emotion and rhythm. In SynthPets, everyday tech becomes whimsical companions—like my robotic vacuum cleaner, evolving into cybernetic beings.
Thank you for watching and for your support!
Full description: https://www.tanjav.art/work/synthpets
RoboSense at the KIBLIX 2024 Festival
Tomorrow night: The KIBLIX 2024 Festival kicks off with an inspiring panel discussion featuring curator Maja Ćirić, artists Ziyang Wu, Mark Ramos, Second Life creator Nikola Popović, and myself, exploring art, technology, and connection. My audio-visual artwork RoboSense will also be presented at the venue. Huge thanks to the incredible Kibla team for making it all happen—can’t wait to see you there!
