NFT.NYC EXHIBITION & EVENT
HOW THE INTERNET CHANGED MY LIFE | NICOLE RUGGIERO
UPSIDE DOWN WORLD | DAVID HENRY NOBODY JR.
NFT.NYC 2022
ON VIEW: JUNE 10 - JULY 3 2022
11 Newel Gallery, 11 Newel Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222
Curated by Coco Dolle
Exhibition Opening Event, June 10, 2022, Photos by Christos Katsiaouni
Two interactive exhibitions by Nicole Ruggiero and David Henry Nobody Jr. that invites the public to participate and play both as actors and observers. Viewers are allowed to glance into the virtual life of others and walk into immersive installations in an “upside-down-world.”
“How The Internet Changed My Life” is a participatory documentary by Nicole Ruggiero, where you encounter the elusive entity of The Internet through personal stories. Presented in a large-scale installation, this exhibition includes mixed reality portraits, VR worlds, an AR face filter, and a retro website, sharing life changing moments with The Internet as active experiences. Nicole’s VR collaborators include artist and developer, Daniel Sabio (The Glad Scientist,) and music composer Dylan Banks. This exhibition was also shown previously during Art Basel at HeK Basel in Switzer- land (2021) and at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in Germany (2021). Editioned NFTs will be dropped on Opensea for the first time for the opening of the show.
“Upside Down World” by David Henry Nobody Jr. will consist of a physical installation ‘set’ of an upside-down room, with furniture on the ceiling. The inverted room is a world turned upside down, our reality at a time of massive geopolitical changes and escalating war. A group of five newly made NFT performance art videos will be displayed, each showing ephemeral upside-down performance moments and inverted visual illusions. The set is also intended as a dark playground for the phone, the audience can take pictures of themselves immersed in the Inverted reality. An NFT drop is planned on Opensea for the videos, propelling the work into the Metaverse.
About the artists:
Nicole Ruggiero is a 3D visual artist whose work concentrates on tech and culture. She was one of the first people on Foundation in late 2020 and she spoke at NFT NYC in 2021. Her recent exhibitions are as follows: a 1/1 exhibition at LA Art Show with Super- Rare and Vellum (2021), an international billboard exhibition with König Galerie and Porsche (2021), an exhibition with Rarible during Frieze Art Week in LA (2022), an exhibition with OpenSea at SXSW (2022), and a viewing exhibition with Christie’s in the middle east during the Art Dubai (2022).
David Henry Nobody Jr. is a New York-based multimedia artist working in performance art, video art and NFTs. His work has been exhibited and performed widely at international galleries and museums including at MOCA Tucson (AZ,) Unit London (UK,) Andrew Edlin Gallery (NYC), Superchief Gallery (NYC), and Coleccion Solo (Spain).