erik adigard + m-a-d

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Erik Adigard, with Patricia McShane, make M-A-D, an interdisciplinary studio exploring the relationships between art, design and socio-cultural concerns. Adigard’s work has been featured in the Sundance Film Festival, the Venice, Lisbon, Paris and St Etienne Biennales, ISEA International, and galleries and museums including SFMOMA, Pasadena Museum of California Art, London Design Museum, Stedelijk Museum-Hertogenbosch, Helsinki Design Museum, and Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Recent projects include a multidisciplinary installation for the Bauhaus Centennial in Germany and Sensory Orders for Poland’s Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art. Adigard’s SIMAGE (a neologism that stands for the accumulation of many similar images, or typologies) is an on-going investigation of the pervasive nature of images as it conditions our perception of reality and even our deeper selves: Adigard scavenges bottomless public domain bins to then create what he calls “simages.” Notable awards include the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design, a Rome Prize in Design and a Venice Biennale Special Mention.

 

Two large dice float in front of a red figure with seven mouths. Below the figure is a baby in a suit with wings. All is set against a black and purple patterned background.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Creature, 1996

digital image, 3097 x 4129px

$8000

ETH 3.41

Commissioned by the BE-IN 7 festival, this work evokes the new creatures we live with. These may be monsters, divinities, or a mixture of the two. Whether friend or foe, we may think of them as modern versions of a Greek daimones. Every new throw of dice brings new creatures that continually reframe our reality […]
A greyscale image of a mans face is pixilated. The mans facial hair is in the shape of a heart and is circled in red.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Totem, 1998

animation, 384 x 398px, running time: 0:54

$40000

ETH 17.06

White arrows and circles on a red pixelated background.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Sense Factory, 2019

animation, 900 x 1440px, running time: 2:47

$25000

ETH 10.66

erik adigard + m-a-d

Scala Cupola, 2013

animation, 555 x 555px, running time: 3:34

$20000

ETH 8.53

erik adigard + m-a-d

Simage Porticus, 2013

animation, 900 x 1440px, running time: 8:55

Two large dice float in front of a red figure with seven mouths. Below the figure is a baby in a suit with wings. All is set against a black and purple patterned background.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Creature, 1996

digital image, 3097 x 4129px

$8000

ETH 3.41

A collage of circular clock images in front of an outlined image of a globe.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Clocks, 2018

digital image, 1689 x 1431px

$8000

ETH 3.41

A collage of cat photos, of cartoon cats, and of women in cat costumes.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Cats, 2015

digital image, 1642 x 1233px

$10000

ETH 4.27

A collage of different images of cartoon and real-life robots.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Robots, 2021

digital image, 1899 x 1446px

$8000

ETH 3.41

A collage of different “Break News” channel graphics.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Breaking News, 2015

digital image, 1829 x 1550px

$8000

ETH 3.41

In the center of the image there is a white circle containing different kinds of purple hued viruses. In each corner of the image there are black slanted rectangles, creating a kind of “X,” depicting larger viruses.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Virus Ladder, 2018

digital image, 774 x 612px

$8000

ETH 3.41

A color halftone burger against the background of pink newsprint.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Wired Intro Spread, 1993

digital image, 1395 x 833px

$8000

ETH 3.41

Pink hands pulling pieces from a pink brain against a green background.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Brain, 2000

digital image, 1702 x 2198px

$8000

ETH 3.41

The face of a creature with red lips and a cylindrical nose float above a single spring.

erik adigard + m-a-d

End of the Masses, 1992

digital image, 1496 x 3036px

$8000

ETH 3.41

A blue tinted engine is set against an orange outline of a wheel and blurred blue graphic.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Engine, 1994

digital image, 1782 x 1782px

$8000

ETH 3.41

A woman holding a camera is overlaid bright pink roses, beside her is another image overlaid of a child holding a flower.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Garden, 1996

digital image, 440 x 550px

$8000

ETH 3.41

An image of a computer control room is overlaid with a 3D red five pointed star in the top left corner.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Hack, 1993

digital image, 1832 x 2468px

$8000

ETH 3.41

Two instrumental horns pointing outwards on the background of pixilated flowers.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Horns, 1992

digital image, 1867 x 1249px

$8000

ETH 3.41

A red and white lifesaver with a sword through its center, both incased in two intersecting black rectangles.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Lifesaver, 1996

digital image, 665 x 662px

$8000

ETH 3.41

In the center of the image is a black circle with an abstracted yellow outline of a brain with lines extending outwards from surrounding points.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Neuron, 2018

digital image, 2500 x 1400px

$8000

ETH 3.41

The center of the image is a circle with pipes extending outwards from its edge over the image of the earth.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Pipes, 1994

digital image, 1513 x 1781

$8000

ETH 3.41

A kaleidoscope image of a woman, overlaid with a pill, against the image of a mirrored Venus flytrap background.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Rem, 1992

digital image, 1462 x 886px

$8000

ETH 3.41

A yellow figure with an arrow for a nose and an eye in its mouth stands holding a spiral cylinder. In front of its feet are two wheels.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Roll, 1996

digital image, 1826 x 2349px

$8000

ETH 3.41

erik adigard + m-a-d

Specs MacWorld, 1996

digital image, 1274 x 1234px

$8000

ETH 3.41

A conceptual television showing a video of band playing is overlaid a pixilated image of a woman in movement.

erik adigard + m-a-d

TV, 1993

digital image, 1830 x 1650px

$8000

ETH 3.41

An inverted color image of a mother, father, and child watching a television, with words overlaid.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Wired mag, 1993

digital image, 1743 x 1070px

$8000

ETH 3.41

An image of a mid 1990’s computer display with multiple tabs open. The largest tab contains black text written over a red background.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Funnel Communion Red

digital image, 593 x 641px

$8000

ETH 3.41

A mid 1990’s Macintosh computer display with multiple tabs open. The largest tab is an excerpt relating to gay sex written in a black text over a green background.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Funnel Communion

digital image, 593 x 641px

$8000

ETH 3.41

An animation of a collection of Erik Adigard’s “Funnel” series.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Funnel

animation, 593 x 641px

$10000

ETH 4.27

An animation of 6 images

erik adigard + m-a-d

Left Corner Screenshots

animation, 159 x 159px, running time: 2:58

A bag of Doritos overlays an image of a woman’s face. Below this image is a separate image of a bag of Doritos. The stacked images are framed by loose Doritos chips.

erik adigard + m-a-d

Adoriction Clock, 2004

animation, 1440 x 900px

$10000

ETH 4.27

A blue and black checkered background with a light green power button in the bottom right corner.

erik adigard + m-a-d

AirXY, 2008

animation, 802 x 601px, running time: 0:59

$10000

ETH 4.27

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