By Yura Miron
Yura Miron is a visionary artist exploring the inner and outer universes using the new media art tech, such as: VR, GAN, generative art and blockchain. Inspired by his visionary psychedelic experiences, lucid dreaming and by being constantly aware of his own presence. Working with such themes as: visionary mystical experiences, fusion of nature and technology, solarpunk, eco-speculation, science fiction, quantum and astrophysics, micro and molecular biology.
In this article I’d like to talk about some fascinating generative tools that are available to download and experiment by any artist. First I’d like to give you some of my art background.
All of my life I’ve been drawing and I’ve decided to dedicate my life to art around 9 years ago, when I was 20 y/o. For the first 4 years I’ve been only drawing all days long, generating 3-4 finished drawings every day. I’ve been learning arts very fast. I’ve been working on developing my unique style, playing with compositions, colors and technics. 6 years ago I’ve discovered the whole new fantastic world – new media art. I’ve started 3D sculpting, VJing and animating my drawings. I’ve been very productive and posted everyday new artworks on my social media blogs my artworks, and have gained lot of followers, for example on Tumblr there was 100K+ of followers. And still there was no way of me making money of my digital art.
In 2015 I’ve first tried painting in VR and my life as an artist was completely changed forever by it. Together with my friend we’ve created a mixed reality lab, where artists could explore VR and AR tech in their art practices. I’ve taught for than 1000 people how to create art/sculpture/animation/design in VR in 2016-18 years. In 2016 together with Serge Synthkey we’ve created our musical duo project called SYNXRON. We’ve been doing many live shows, mostly electronic dance music (techno/house/acid/modular/ambient/idm), did lives on opening of some cool art exhibitions, made collaborations with dancers, choreographers, media artists, laserjays and designers. Also I’ve been working with VJ Yarkus on many shows as a laserjay. Laser light is something of absolutely magnificent nature. The main point of all those collaborative live shows was the real time connection with an audience. When I’ve had all my set-up working properly, at any given moment I’ve been able to generate anything unexpected and influence its output all of the time. The main mission of our performances was to create an immersive audio-visual experiences for different people in different locations. And everybody who’s watching my visuals or listening to my music were also co-creating it with me, as it influences my outcome in real-time as well. So this is more like a controlled chaotic feedback-loop, than a predicted order.
In the late 2018 I’ve felt really burned out and decided to stop making music with Serge and teaching and laserjaing. Working on laser shows and teaching VR, while making an album, practicing for next live shows over and over again and having ongoing troubles in my personal relationship, I’ve decided to leave it all behind, being grateful for the experience, and moving further. I needed to get back to my core, to zero. I’ve felt that I need to focus on my Art again. I’ve started creating “Pure Abstractions” back then. Suddenly then I’ve discovered cryptoart. Blown away with it’s possibilities I’ve started searching for the main platforms where I could start tokenizing some of my best artworks. Luckily, I’ve been accepted as an artist on all of them. I remember one day I’ve seen ‘Latent Space of Landscape Paintings #1’ by @videodrome.