Boy Wonder
2025, Digital format , Surrealism, Contemporary, Magical realistic, Nonconformism, Futurism, Avant-garde, Cyberpunk
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Boy Wonder continues my ongoing #arthack practice of intervening on exhibitions and digital spaces as Net Art with my animated figures and critical discourse, a series I began in 2016. Many of these #arthacks have been widely profiled in the press, gone viral online, won major art awards, sold as NFTs into top collections, and been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide.
In an unexpected twist, Boy Wonder turns that spirit of intervention toward AI itself. Starting from a 2D AI-generated portrait, I used AI tools to reconstruct a 3D mesh from the data, which I then reworked through sculpting, procedural, and generative 3D animation techniques. The background, used generative AI video, that I then further altered, recolored, reanimated, and voxelized within the 3D scene. I created the music going back and forth while animating, to build the right soundscape.
What began as a simple 2D AI image evolved into a Chronometric Sculpture and an animated painting. This work, though born from AI processes, is ultimately a human-made #arthack of a 3D AI mesh, as an artistic intervention asserting that human creativity, agency, and intentionality remain vital, even in the age of Synthetic Art and visual automation.
- Country United States
- Year 2025
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- Physical canvas 27cm x 48cm
Renowned, pioneering, influential, and widely exhibited digital artist and OG NFT artist known for her unique and original style of Post Digital & Glitch figuration/animation and a critical discourse. Considered a true Auteur of Digital Art since the 1980s with a highly active and prolific art career, she is the recipient of top awards in Digital Art/animation, was a pioneering digital artist of Internet 1.0 era, has exhibited commissioned digital art at Smithsonian & other museums, was Adobe Artist-In-Resident, Forbes’ Best of AR Art, exhibited with the Unit London, Annka Kultys gallery and at Art Basel Digital Art Mile (solo show). Marjan has created commissioned digital art for the UN/WEF, UNHCR, and for the Royal Hillsborough Castle Park (permanent sculpture). Her works are held in private, institutional, NFT DAO, & private NFT art collections and she has created public art commissions, internationally.
She has over 100 Ethereum in NFT sales, and her Glitch Gods collection of 20 animations sold out in under 1 minute. Hailed as “trailblazer in digital art” and “her style is instantly recognizable … the definition of Digital Art” by the press, she has gone viral numerous times with her #arthacks and is the only female artist featured in the BBC documentary "When Art Goes Digital. Most recently she won the 1st NFT Art Prize from ABS at NFC Summit and created the most talked about piece at Art Dubai Digital according to Design Boom. She is profiled on a full episode of Art TV with Felicity S01 Episode 8, in international cable distribution and on Tubi TV.
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