THE DAM AFTER DARK Viewing Gallery đ
THE DAM AFTER DARK â 28 spooky artworks curated by The Digital Asset Museum.
This curated collection traces the aesthetics, emotions, and collective memory embedded in the liminal hours of October 31st. The aim is to explore memory, fear, and play relating to Halloween through the lens of internet-era childhoods and contemporary digital expression.
We invited artists to present work that reflects their unique vision and command of their medium â works that resonate through technical skill, wit, and conceptual depth.
For THE DAM AFTER DARK, we were especially drawn to works that explore the eerie joy, childhood wonder, and flickering fears of October 31st through a contemporary, digitally-native lens.
We believe that the most memorable works are those that linger with the viewer: stunning the soul, or haunting it quietly in a beautiful way.
This collection is part of an ongoing Museum-led effort to preserve the artists, ideas, and aesthetics from voices in the current moment in digital art.
THE DAM AFTER DARK Overview
â 28 curated artists, each contributing one iconic artwork to the collection.
â A full-set minting opportunity on Ethereum Mainnet â all artworks are sold together in a single transaction using ERC721A for optimal gas efficiency. The collector receives a complete set of 28 individual ERC-721 tokens.
â 0.35 ETH mint price to collect the full set of 28 individually numbered ERC-721 artworks.
â The public mint closed on Halloween, October 31st at 10:00pm EST at thedam.art/after-dark â The supply for this collection is 168 (6 full sets have been minted).
â All artworks in THE DAM AFTER DARK have been added to The Digital Asset Museum's Permanent Collection.
â IRL exhibition of THE DAM AFTER DARK artworks with full artist attribution will be held during THE DAMâs Year One Programming.
â Permanent archival of all participating artists on THE DAM website, including artist bios, statements, and historical metadata.
The Digital Asset Museum Vision & Mission Article (150,000+ views):
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THE DAM AFTER DARK Artworks
"An inheritance of hunger" by Haich
Artwork Description:
Their hearts beat like prayers I will never be answered by.
Their blood singsâ
and I listen,
not to the hunger,
but to the memory of being filled.
The moon calls me by my truest name,
one only the dark remembers.
It is not monster.
It is not damned.
It is heir.
Extended Artist Statement:
Turning the unfamiliar conversant and filling the void between the already blurred lines of the digital art space.
Artist Bio:
Somewhere between nightmares and nostalgia
"Look to Windward" by Jay Toups
Artwork Description:
A photo captured of an ancient stave church in northern Norway, this photo is meant to elicit a deep, almost supernatural fear of the unknown in a way that we have all felt before. Fear can be a familiar good, keeping us safe in our moments of drawing too close to a flame. It can also inspire us to overcome and to look beyond ourselves, challenging the thoughts that bind us and giving us the necessary fuel of fight or flight that pushes us onward. Fear can be a friend, or a foe, to all of us. We can't choose what scares us, but we can learn how to respond to the ways that fear makes us feel. This church is just a building, creaking wood and crumbling shingles, but it evokes something primal in us that sends the imagination reeling with thoughts of spirits, power, good and evil, the graves around it rising up like pillars to another world that we could slip between if we dared. Fear is present, all the same, whether we choose to take the next step and explore inside or not.
Extended Artist Statement:
Jay Toups is an internationally acclaimed adventure photographer and filmmaker. At 19 he began pursuing photography and fully converted his vehicle into a home to seek inspiration while being immersed in nature. He has spent years traveling the continent and making a life of exploration and art on the road, heavily inspired by the dark and emotive nature of renaissance paintings and the way that color can tell stories.
With a goal to create captivating art from some of the wildest places on earth, Jay has dedicated his life to making the beauty of nature accessible to all through the photos he brings to life. A strong believer in the way that humans and nature are inexplicably connected, Jayâs work becomes less about the places he photographs and more about the way those places make him feel; he hopes those feelings of connection translate to your own life and emotions.
Artist Bio:
Jay Toups is an adventure photographer, filmmaker, and mountaineer who has lived on the road for the past decade capturing some of the wildest places on earth. A storyteller seeking beauty in the chaos of the mind, his images of nature aim to reflect the trials of life we all face as humans.
"Midnight Offering" by RedruM
Artwork Description:
They pray for safety, and surrender it to receive it.
RedruM - 2025
Extended Artist Statement:
RedruM (b.1993) is a digital artist based in Italy who works with AI and digital post-production to create emotionally charged, surreal compositions. After years as a criminal lawyer, he embraced visual art as a way to explore complexity, inner conflict, and dualityâbeyond the limits of language or logic.
His work often depicts symbolic, distorted figures and suspended environments that invite multiple readings. Drawing inspiration from mythology, cinema, literature, and everyday life, RedruM builds fragmented narratives that resonate on a psychological and visual level.
Red recurs throughout his work as a subtle but persistent presenceâan emotional accent, a rupture, a thread of intensity. For him, art is a universal language: a way to shape memory, alter perception, and express what words alone cannot.
Artist Bio:
RedruM (b.1993) is a digital artist based in Italy working with AI to create emotionally driven, surreal imagery. Once a criminal lawyer, he now channels his focus into exploring memory, inner conflict, and duality â with red as a constant undercurrent.
"i dreamed a memory" by lykai
Artwork Description:
sometimes i think the subconscious edits our livesthe way dreams do â trimming, merging, distorting â
until we canât tell if we lived it or longed for it.
perhaps what lingers isnât the memory itself,
but the ache of wanting to return
to a time that might never have existed.
lykai âĂ mj Ă ps, 2025.
1430âĂâ1080 px
Extended Artist Statement:
lykaiâs work explores the intersection of emotional symbolism and organic surrealism, weaving the textural sensibilities of lithography and sosaku hanga with contemporary digital techniques. Her art delves into themes of vulnerability, transformation, and the human psyche, balancing soft, tactile surfaces with red-ink lines that pulse like nerves, and bold, haunting figures suspended between physicality and abstraction.
Based in France, lykai moves fluidly between traditional and digital mediumsâfrom soft pastels to digital compositing and AI-driven processesâcrafting visual narratives that engage both the subconscious and collective memory. She has exhibited internationally in cultural capitals such as Paris, Rome, Tokyo, and New York, continually exploring the tension between fragility and strength.
Her entry into the web3 space in 2023 expanded this dialogue, forging connections that transcend the boundaries of traditional art and technology, and extending her practice into new forms of community and exchange.
Artist Bio:
lykai shapes a unique dialogue that connects vulnerability, transformation, and the human psyche.
Artwork Description:
Captured entirely in camera at a real location, a cloaked red figure stands behind a doorway in a flooded room.
Extended Artist Statement:
Sean Mundy (born 1991, Montréal, Canada) creates conceptual imagery through photography and digital manipulation. Working through self-doubt and questions of identity, Sean constructs scenes of palpable tension and uncertainty. With a subtle, minimal approach he aims to disrupt classical narrative formula to form scenarios that are reliant on subjective associations.
With his meticulously constructed and digitally manipulated images, he combines visual vocabulary from iconography, symbolism, and the surreal to probe at themes of division, isolation, and conflict in varied ways. Using human form as a stand in for emotion, psychology, and physicality, the specific subjects are rendered subservient to the conflicts arising in the works.
Artist Bio:
Sean Mundy is a photographer & digital artist from Montréal, Canada.
In his work he aims to create conceptual imagery through photography and digital manipulation that pulls from the surreal and the symbolic while remaining rooted in reality.
"October That Was Left Behind" by Laura El
Artwork Description:
Some goodbyes come without sound.The ghosts of childhood said nothing at all.
They sat in the fading amber light, unaware it was the last October of their youth,
before the quiet rush of growing up settled over everything,
and the world looked the same, yet no longer felt it.
Extended Artist Statement:
Iâve always been drawn to moments that slip quietly out of reach, the kind that linger in memory long after theyâve gone. Over time, Iâve realized that much of my work stems from a quiet grief for change itself. I mourn time without meaning to, tracing the small absences it leaves behind. My illustrations live in that space between nostalgia and the silent mourning of what used to be, where emotion hums beneath the surface and visual storytelling becomes its own language.
October That Was Left Behind reflects that feeling: the last Halloween of childhood, before everything changed. Though the world looked the same, it never felt the same after that. Life is like that to me, haunted by the gentle ghosts of change, always near, never seen until itâs too late.
Artist Bio:
Laura El is a digital illustrator whose intricate line work and layered compositions explore nostalgia, memory, and quiet emotion. Drawing each detail by hand in Procreate, she creates worlds that feel both intimate and cinematic where every character carries a story.
"Visitor at Night" by RAM
Artwork Description:
A visitor at night. Comes to embrace the young maiden. Thirst for blood that the visitor is craving. An ounce or a gallon. Turns the maidenâs nails to talons.
Extended Artist Statement:
RAM's art is a captivating fusion of surrealism, figurative, and impressionism, drawing inspiration from a diverse array of influences. With a commitment to pushing artistic boundaries, RAM continually explores new perspectives, compositions, and subject matters, enriching the world he endeavors to create with each new piece.
Artist Bio:
Ahmed Ramirez Saeed a.k.a RAM is a Punjabi Canadian artist who is painting from his own emotional landscape, RAM creates conceptual worlds within his art, inviting viewers to delve into the depths of contemplation. Through his work, he confronts inner turmoils and embraces vulnerability as a means of artistic expression.
"Gravitational Vector" by Yoshi Sodeoka
Artwork Description:
[log:gravity/false]Vector alignment corrupted. Soft bodies detected on floor plane. Loop continues until significance = 0.
Extended Artist Statement:
Yoshi Sodeokaâs practice bridges art, technology, and perception through video, print, and digital media. His work explores how systems, both organic and computational, generate rhythm, form, and meaning. Using generative processes and time-based layering, he creates compositions that hover between chaos and order, intuition and structure. Influenced by experimental music, his visuals often behave like sound: looping, evolving, and distorting over time, producing a hypnotic sense of motion and transformation.
Across immersive installations, screen-based works, and collaborations, Sodeokaâs imagery suggests how machines attempt to interpret the world while revealing their own poetry in failure. His aesthetic merges diagrammatic precision with fluid abstraction, inviting viewers into spaces where data, noise, and emotion coexist.
Artist Bio:
Yoshi Sodeoka is a New Yorkâbased artist working across video, print, and digital media whose generative works merge abstraction, systems logic, and experimental sound culture. Known for blending chaos and order through layered compositions, his pieces have appeared internationally, including in Times Squareâs *Midnight Moment* program.
"The Ring 98" by PERFECT L00P
Artwork Description:
A mashup of horror movies and pixelated classic Windows icons.
Extended Artist Statement:
PERFECT L00P explores visual rhythms with iconography from classic games and retro-computing culture.
Artist Bio:
High Contrast // High Saturation //Gif Alchemist đ§ââïž// Futurist // Maker of đ€ Loops //
"Midnight Walk on the Hollow Street" by lorenipsum
Artwork Description:
As a child, there weren't many Halloween traditions in my country, but there was a channel called Cnbc-e on television. It was the only channel broadcasting original English-language films, and there was a Halloween horror movie day. Watching these films gave me goosebumps, and I enjoyed them. I wanted to rekindle vague memories of the movies I watched as a child. I don't remember most of the stories in the films, but I wanted to relive the joy they gave me. In 'Midnight Walk on Hollow Street' I recreate a scene that seems straight out of one of those movies, alluding to the joy I felt in those times.
Extended Artist Statement:
Lorenipsum is a multimedia artist who inspired by the place holder 'lorem ipsum' a great match for philosophy behind the art âdisappearing identitiesâ. Her artistic practice is rooted in the exploration of identity, a theme that marks the inception of her art career. Through her work, she seeks to illustrate that identities are not fixed or intrinsic but are fluid and constructed, potentially becoming confining rather than liberating. The use of faceless characters in her art serves as a manifestation of this concept. Instead of delineating the specifics of who these characters are or narrating their individual stories, she conveys universal emotions that transcend their identities. Lorenipsumâs oeuvre is characterized by a fusion of techniques, including collage, digital painting, and frame animation.
Artist Bio:
multimedia artist | hyper weird realities and disappearing identities.
"DAM_SPOOKED_YA" by MACBETH
Artwork Description:
Things that go bump in the night
Extended Artist Statement:
I was influenced by my little black cat Spooky, that I rescued while living in Japan. The graveyard imagery is from my kid's obsession with the neighborhood decorations we walk by daily. My in-laws recently got some chickens, so thought I'd give it a surreal eerie twist.
Artist Bio:
I've been obsessed with horror, thriller, and bizarre visuals for as long as I can remember.
"three witches" by #1 crush
Artwork Description:
A velvet coven hums to the moon: sweet as sin, sugar-eyed and spellbound.
Their grinning faces glint with prophecy; their wicked pumpkin glows.
They whisper fate like Macbethâs kin.
Extended Artist Statement:
#1 crush explores mythologies weâre building in real time â online, on-chain â fusing internet folklore, outsider art, and pop conspiracy. Blending psychedelic color with dense symbolism, #1 crush reflects a world shaped by invisible systems â financial, digital, and divine. This is crypto-mysticism at its most chaotic, in looping GIFs that feel both timeless and deeply online â part satire, part ritual. A digital folk tale for a world thatâs glitching.
Artist Bio:
#1 crush is an anonymous digital artist known for their wild, surreal works created using AI outputs, often left open to interpretation.
#1 crush took part in plenty of crypto events such as: NFT Paris, NFT LA, NFT NYC, Crypto Art Seoul, NFT Rome etc and delivered various artworks for art shows curated by Claire Silver, Accelerate Art, SuperChief gallery, Transient Labs and MAIF collective; joined Post Photography Glimpses drop curated by Ivona Tau on Nifty Gateway and entered respectable crypto art private collections including UnderTheGAN (early AI art), Museum of Crypto Art and the Medici.
"Top 8" by Nuclear Samurai
Artwork Description:
In the early days of social media, the one thing you could always depend on was that Tom would be first in your top 8 when you started on Myspace. There was something so simple about the idea of social media back then, something much less sinister than the algorithm driven manipulation of our worst flaws to be used against us. The spectre of something darker piggy backed in with that friendly face.
While we were keeping track of our top 8 were we serving ourselves, our data up on a platter to what would become all consuming to our lives within a few short years.
Extended Artist Statement:
Nuclear Samurai began as a commercial photographer before turning their focus toward conceptual and generative art. Their early grounding in light, composition, and emotional tone evolved into a post-photographic practice that examines the blurred line between human memory and machine perception. Helium explored the fragility of youth identity within social settings, while Baptism reimagined New York submergedâa meditation on loss, rebirth, and the persistence of imagery in a post-human world.
Following this, X Figures playfully reinterpreted the work of XCOPY, transforming it into an imaginative commentary on creativity, ownership, and digital mythology. Now, with the forthcoming Echoes, Nuclear Samurai continues to push into the emotional and technological frontier, creating interactive, AI-driven works that question how memoriesâand by extension, identitiesâare constructed, preserved, and eventually forgotten.
Artist Bio:
Nuclear Samurai is a post-photographic artist exploring the intersections of technology, mythology, and human emotion through generative systems. Their work blends digital ritual, narrative architecture, and AI to create self-contained worlds that question memory, authorship, and the survival of creativity in the algorithmic age.
"Trick Trickle" by COMPUTERBLOOD
Artwork Description:
iKu:Knock knock Trick Trickle
Treating himself to your eyes
Don't open portals
2160 x 3840 Hand Manipulated Graphics Interface Exchange
Extended Artist Statement:
Seeing Red âą Milked from the Motherboard âą Kissed by ChaosPen Play til yer fingers bleed & redirect the natural order of things.
Artist Bio:
C0MPUTERBL00D is a polydimensional visual pedestrian working on a micro & macro scale. His torment is your content versa vice versa, vices. Currently shucking pixels & eating paint in the ravaged mountainous wastelands of western North Carolina.
"Apparitiones" by Jennifer Panepinto (QuantumSpirit)
Artwork Description:
This AI-generated looped video depicts ethereal apparitions hovering over a sleeping woman, blurring the boundary between waking and dreaming. The visuals evoke the sensation of a spirit visiting in the quiet, liminal space of sleep, seamlessly merging with the dreamlike atmosphere. Post-processing enhances the AI-generated imagery, creating a subtle, hauntingly beautiful effect.
Extended Artist Statement:
My work explores light as both a visual and emotional language â a way to examine how memory, perception, and consciousness intersect. Drawing from my background in photography and design, I approach each image as a study in presence and impermanence. Light becomes my primary subject and metaphor, revealing what is seen and what fades, what remains and what dissolves.
Using a hybrid process that combines AI generation with digital refinement in Photoshop, I merge the intuition of analog practice with the unpredictability of emerging technology. This dialogue between control and chance allows new forms to surface â familiar yet uncanny, structured yet fluid. Through color, texture, and distortion, I aim to capture the quiet tension between human emotion and machine vision, creating images that feel like memories half-remembered, glowing at the edge of time.
Artist Bio:
Multidisciplinary artist Jennifer Panepinto explores light as both subject and metaphor, merging her background in photography with AI and digital processes. Her work studies how light shapes memory and emotion, blending analog sensibility with machine-generated form. Through layered color, texture, and abstraction, she creates visual meditations on time, perception, and impermanence.
"The Spooky Estate" by Homer Carbone
Artwork Description:
âThe Spooky Estateâ, an exclusive 1/1 artwork submitted to THE DAM AFTER DARK, and a nod to the âLounginââ collection.
The enormous gothic window meets us at the centre of the artwork, displaying a mysterious landscape just before the dark. Below it, a long sideboard subtly resides with its signature gold bat-themed handles.
The sideboard features a pumpkin with a menacing face on the left and a glass bottle of whiskey on the right, a famous item throughout the years in my artworks, returns with a shiny glass cap shaped in the iconic ETH symbol. To the left, a tall candlestick with 4 burning candles, one snuffed out.
The luxurious armchair with a rich colour palette is placed in front of it all, featuring three skulls, nodding the three year anniversary since the first armchair artwork and lion legs in juxtaposition to the mysterious stretching cat.
This piece is entirely hand-drawn, complimented by shadows and is finished with my signature textures.
Extended Artist Statement:
"The Spooky Estate" captures a moment where gothic architecture meets Halloweenâs playful macabre. A grand window opens onto a twilight landscape, while a sideboard with gold bat handles holds a carved pumpkin and a recurring whiskey bottle, this time capped with the ETH symbol. A tall candlestick with one extinguished candle and a richly coloured armchair adorned with three skulls, symbolising the three years since my first published artwork, one skull for each year. Lion-shaped legs juxtaposed alongside a stretching black cat fill the space with tension between the familiar and the uncanny.
Every detail was hand-drawn and layered with my signature textures and complemented by shadows to create depth and atmosphere. The piece reflects a practice focused on thoughtful composition and immersive storytelling to evoke the spirit of Halloween."
Artist Bio:
Homer Carbone is a digital artist exploring a distinctive illustration approach that blends minimalistic and mysterious interiors centered around armchairs, statues, and colors, infused with hidden meanings and subtle details.
"The Mycelium Dream" by Reza Afshar
Artwork Description:
Into the sporing lands i walk, making my way past the faint whispers. Slumbering fungus sighs and lets me in, a step towards mildewăEmbraced by the last breath of whatâs hiding within Mycelium.
Extended Artist Statement:
A sci-fi-inspired world where classic Halloween themes meet a futuristic twist. The artworkâs style is inspired by nostalgic 2D games, combining retro charm with a modern digital aesthetic.
Artist Bio:
Reza Afshar is a freelance concept artist and illustrator working on game, movie and cover art since 2012.
"Where the Ghost Turns Back" by Ryan D. Anderson
Artwork Description:
A ghost drifts along a moonlit cliff where a jack oâ lantern sits quietly, holding back the dark. The piece looks toward the vast, unknowable dark with the language of childhood and reflects on the way childhood imagination meets the unknown, where we first learned to make sense of what we couldnât explain.
Extended Artist Statement:
This piece started as an image of a cliff at the edge of darkness, pumpkins glowing in the foreground and a ghost drifting above. The ghost character has always represented nostalgia for the past and how it has the ability to capture and keep you there. This time I wanted to explore the feeling of looking into the unknown, the way children do with ghosts and monsters making the dark seem almost understandable. The piece combines that childhood language with the weight of adult awareness, the sense that the abyss is real, and yet we still reach for stories to soften it. In that mix of innocence and unease exists something honest about how we experience both fear and comfort, often at the same time.
Artist Bio:
Ryan Anderson creates animated works that feel like fragments of dreams which are part memory and part reconstruction. His pieces often balance humour with a quiet longing for places that may never have existed.
"PRIMAL PEACE" by Cal, the Artist
Artwork Description:
Vector Hyperrealism â 25,636 vector shapes drawn by hand in Adobe Illustrator.Location: 36.603876° N, 118.730248° W (Sequoia National Park, California), featuring an astronomically accurate night sky with every star mapped to its true position above this location on Halloween night, October 31, 2025.
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An ancient fire glowing through the mythical night of October 31 â as it has for centuries across cultures around the world â celebrating the living and honoring the dead.
Titled PRIMAL PEACE, the work reflects on the most elemental human experience: sitting by a campfire in the heart of the forest, watching flames rise above embers and fade into a star-studded sky. Safety and warmth. A universal moment that connects us to our ancestors who shared food and stories around the light. Just enough to forget for a while about the eyes watching us from the shadows behind, waiting for the fire to surrender to the darkness, bring back the cold, and turn that primal peace into primal fear."
Extended Artist Statement:
Vector Hyperrealism was born from a desire to add something new to the pages of art history by finding a frontier and pushing it further. I found that frontier in the vector medium, and California became its landscape of exploration.
Inspired by the glazing techniques of master oil painters, I began experimenting with grained gradients to achieve depth and complexity in a medium traditionally defined by flat, minimal aesthetics. Over time, this approach evolved into Vector Hyperrealism, where each work is composed of tens of thousands of vector shapes, drawn entirely by hand in Adobe Illustrator. No autotracing. No automated vectorization. Every shadow and highlight is crafted with intent and patience.
Artist Bio:
Cal, the Artist is a California-based creative pioneering Vector Hyperrealism â an art practice that redefines the limits of the natively digital medium, reclaiming it from its utilitarian past and elevating it into the realm of fine art.
"CUCURBITA_31" by goo.vision
Artwork Description:
A morphing digital pumpkin generated with AI and reconstructed within a green, interface-like environment. The loop explores the balance between organic form, decay and machine structure, combining a subtle sense of Halloween nostalgia with the quiet tension of synthetic space.
Extended Artist Statement:
CUCURBITA_31 continues my ongoing exploration of digital surrealism, focusing on the intersection of organic and synthetic aesthetics, mixed with some spooky elements of decay.
The work was created through a generative process using AI, then refined through post-production. It captures the atmosphere of Halloween in a minimal, abstract way â combining a sense of nostalgia, decay with the artificial calm of digital environments.
The morphing pumpkin becomes a study of transformation and perception within the digital space. It reflects how forms and meanings shift when filtered through machine logic.
My broader practice revolves around the relationship between memory, technology, and visual language. The aesthetic remains intentionally detached â suspended somewhere between the human and the algorithmic.
Artist Bio:
Goo Vision is a digital artist and designer exploring the intersection between human emotion and machine aesthetics. His works often combine nostalgic, cinematic moods with sci-fi and surreal elements, creating dreamlike environments that feel both futuristic and ancient.
"Life is Erotic Because We Die" by Glam Beckett
Artwork Description:
A surreal reflection on desire, mortality, and transformation.A woman stands before a gothic mirror, revealing not just her back but her other self - the one that reminds us of deathâs presence in life. The phrase 'Life is erotic because we die' echoes through the scene, merging Eros and Thanatos - love and death.
Extended Artist Statement:
I use just two colors - black and white - to create striking and contrasting composition. My works depict sadness, ennui, nostalgia or longing for the past with dark, romantic or erotic overtones. I explore the aesthetics of melancholy, a complex emotion with both pain and pleasure. It's a dual nature, with negative and positive aspects alternating, creating a unique aesthetic dimension.
Artist Bio:
Glam Beckett â independent artist, currently working in London, UK. Glam is best known for her bold, sensitive and evocative monochrome artworks.
"Fruits for Witchcraft" by lesCogumelos
Artwork Description:
1800x1800 MP4, 15 sec, 24fps
Extended Artist Statement:
lesCogumelos is a nomadic artist, an explorer of the world and the arts. A Film graduate, over the past five years she has developed a style of mixed-media animated collages. Deeply inspired by nature and nomadism, her works explore themes of biodiversity, solitude, magic, spirituality, and her own memories. Recently, she began exploring the world of handmade sculpturesâa new step in her creative processâalso incorporating 3D scanning as a way to preserve and amplify the physical experience. Her works have been exhibited in SĂŁo Paulo, New York, BogotĂĄ, Paris, Seoul, South Africa, Australia, among other places.
Artist Bio:
lesCogumelos is a mixed-media artist from Brazil, her work is a motion collage of different mediums, experiences, feelings and memories.
"Haunted Hustle" by uyo66
Artwork Description:
They donât haunt to scare, they haunt to have fun! đđ„
Extended Artist Statement:
"Haunted Hustleâ is a playful take on spooky energy â creepy creatures vibing through the night, not to scare, but to have fun.Blending retro cartoon vibes with glitchy chaos, itâs all about celebrating the weird, wild, and joyful side of the afterlife. đđâš
Artist Bio:
Iâm Uyo66, a cartoonist inspired by the magic of 1930s vintage animation and the timeless charm of retro cartoons. My style blends old-school aesthetics with a modern twist, most notably through the âEyes of Luv,â a signature element I use to express my love for all forms of art. Each piece I create reflects both nostalgia from childhood memories of cartoons and comics, and the playful absurdity of fantasy, satire, memes, and tragedy. By flipping logic and expectations, I aim to reimagine the spirit of classic cartoons while bringing them into todayâs cultural landscape.
"La Rinconada de Los Gatos" by Vnderworld
Artwork Description:
"The Corner of the Cats". A reference to the Mexican land grant in 1840 that makes up present day Santa Clara County California. I grew up in the hills of Los Gatos, California. The valley side opposite the mountain of Santa Cruz. Prior to the major tech boom in Silicon Valley, much of the area was a time warp of Victorian houses and the sound of mountain lions and bobcats crying in the night. I lived on the San Andreas fault line in those hills, and the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 destroyed a lot of those Victorian homes.
This piece is a nostalgic tribute to that sleepy town during the 1990s, that came to life on Halloween and my very first Halloween memory in that town. We lived near a large abandoned Victorian mansion. Painted a deep dark purple, faded to a dull black. I called it the Witch House as a young boy. That Halloween would be my first and subsequent last Halloween for a few years. The surrounding homes were decorated to the nines. Hidden jump-scare scarecrows, coffins with vampires crawling with massive boa constrictor snakes. An old Cadillac Deville ratrod driven by a Mummy cruisin down the street with its mummy wrap blowing in the wind. Cackling witches and talking Jack-O-Lanterns. This piece is a snapshot of my inner-child's photographic memory. A time warp to a place that no longer exists, and the hidden horrors that lurk in the cat's corner.
Extended Artist Statement:
Vnderworld is an American artist by the name Steve Grzanowski. He has been pioneering the use of AI with creative expression since the summer of 2022. His unique approach to leveraging open source AI tools, specifically Stable Diffusion, has garnered him recognition for creating large-scale surreal maximalism with hauntingly beautiful outputs. Beyond just a mere prompt, Vnderworld utilizes a unique custom process which includes custom built AI models and upscaling techniques that inject bizarre details into every square inch of his work. What can only be described as digital murals of madness; Vnderworld's work has been shown across the globe.
From official music videos for legendary musicians such as Peter Gabriel, to the thousands of NFT pieces minted across blockchains, Vnderworld is an odyssey into the unknown, a celebration of the uncaged mind. More than a name, Vnderworld embodies a mindset. It's about fearlessly navigating the dark waters of creativity and surfacing with something hauntingly beautiful. No boundaries, no boxes, just a relentless passion for creating.
Artist Bio:
Vnderworld is an AI Alchemist Creating Visual Crack for Ocular Fiends. VNDERWORLD isnât just a person, itâs a psychic sprawl of chaos-born cathedrals where prompts become portals, nightmares flirt with beauty, and the sacred gets spit-polished into the obscene.
"Ghosts Within" by Monica Jalali
Artwork Description:
âMonsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.â
Extended Artist Statement:
Monica Jalali is an adventure landscape photographer.
She has carried a camera around with her everywhere she goes, for as long as she can remember. She has worked for years to develop her skill and style of photography. She has a passion for travel and adventure. Her work is a combination of these two worlds colliding. The photographs she captures are a way for her to immortalize memories and moments in time.
Through photography, she has been motivated to push her mental and physical limits. Each day she works to further develop herself as an artist and continues to push her limits. Through her work, she hopes to inspire more people to get out of their comfort zone and explore the world around them.
Artist Bio:
Monica Jalali is a adventure landscape photographer - she captures the world around her to immortalize memories and moments time.
"Showtime" by Eleni is bored again
Artwork Description:
It is never late to go dark
Extended Artist Statement:
Using critical (semi)autobiography, subjectivity, subjective objectivity, humour and fiction as methods, Eleni is bored again poses existential and psychosocial questions, investigates the everyday and meditations on the self.`
Eleni is bored again engages the viewer in a process of unlearning. Through re-approaching the world from the childâs psyche, the project aims to confront us to the grown-upâs neglected innocence which shifts from vulgar to raw and from raw to stupid, from stupid to erotic and from erotic to delirious, from delirious to naĂŻve and from naĂŻve to dark, from dark to needy and from needy to humorous and and and.
And life goes on.
Artist Bio:
Fake art from a real artist
"How it's going (2025)" by Gossamer Rozen
Artwork Description:
A visual diary of how I feel about the year so far in the form of a tattoo flash sheet đ«
Extended Artist Statement:
My work is driven by material affinity and the satisfying mark-making from hand-powered, meticulous & repetitive processes. I indulge in practices such as machine knitting, drawing, sewing, hand-powered tattooing, and typing.
The visual language of my work revolves around my identity and was developed from my drawing style as a teenager. I have been inspired by illustrative and interactive media like video games, anime, and comic books, as well as cultural artifacts like old world textiles, folk art, and spiritual objects.
The result is a broad selection of artworks and art objects - tangible, intangible, functional or non-functional - that share relationships not only in visual language but also in my affinity for that process and material. Together, these pieces build my world - Tigerbob - and provide multiple options to explore and participate in the work.
Artist Bio:
Gossamer Rozen is a process-driven, multidisciplinary fine artist and tattooer, publishing artwork and art products under the Tigerbob brand.
"Halloween LAN Party" by Uttermelon
Artwork Description:
Have you ever stayed up all night during a holiday, playing games with friends?Halloween LAN Party revisits that shared memory through the lens of early digital youth.
Set in a graveyard of obsolete mediaâdisk, CD, and game cartridgeâthe work portrays teenagers connected through outdated computers, immersed in a world where analog play has dissolved into digital ritual.
The familiar phrase âTrick or Treatâ reappears here as a quiet statement on how sweetness has shifted from sugar to screen: âNo Sugar, Only Pixels.â
Extended Artist Statement:
Uttermelon is an artist exploring contemporary social issues through a blend of creative visuals and cultural insight.Guided by the idea of âRektemporary Art: Where chaos meets creation,â my work examines how digital cultureâs instability can become a generative force for meaning.
In Halloween LAN Party, I revisit the teenage experience of discovery and connectionâa time when the world began to unfold through screens and shared curiosity.
The graveyard of outdated technology embodies our collective memory in decay, while âNo Sugar, Only Pixelsâ captures our transition from tangible pleasures to virtual sustenance.
Rather than mourning obsolescence, this piece embraces itâfinding beauty in the overlap between nostalgia and noise, between the chaos of digital decay and the quiet persistence of human play.
Artist Bio:
Uttermelon is an artist exploring contemporary social issues through a blend of creative visuals and cultural insight.
