Come join us for an opening auction party for Softimage Poetics, an auction and exhibition hosted by Foundation.app, installed in-person at Seker Factory in downtown Los Angeles. Softimage Poetics is an auction to support X-TRA, Los Angeles’ longest running contemporary art journal of artists’ writing and criticism on its 25th anniversary. The works are listed for collection as NFTs on Foundation’s new Worlds Platform.

While we might not always know the specifics of how a softimage is made (whether through machine learning and neural networks, generative software, simulation, or graphic editing), we can recognize one when we see it: morphing, gooey, lush, emergent, evolving and adaptive, an image ever in-between one state and the next. The softimage refuses stability; it feels alive. The artists gathered reflect on the significance of softimages, a concept coined and theorized by Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie, which dominate the algorithmically-generated image landscape we navigate online. Each work foregrounds the artistic narratives and stories of generative images, the field of frenzied political and social activity around them, and their strange poetics. 

Softimage Poetics
Saturday, February 18th
7pm until midnight

Seker Factory
836 S Los Angeles St,
Los Angeles, CA 90014

Curated by Nora N. Khan, Executive Director, X-TRA + Project X Foundation. Significant Support by Ian Stanton, Board of Directors, Project X Foundation.