The Digital Entities:Adorations series is a collection of computer-generated print and time-based media art projects by Marjan Moghaddam, which explores visual forms for non-materially based identities. In the Adorations, computer-generated 3D females are reconfigured into the pictorial space of classical painting, seeking their origins as representational and Euclidean visual constructs. As female parthenogenetic entities and non-material maternal entities, they are modeled as basic and primitive humuncli with their own inherent fractal dermal pigmentation. They return our mesmerism of screen-based artificial realities with adorations of their own evolutionary origins in machines and technological cultural artifacts that defined our shift towards Post Humanism.

Process:

The Adorations series is entirely computer-generated and makes no use of scanned elements or parts that originate outside of the constructed reality of the computer. The print images are made of computer-based 3D virtual environments, with high density geometry, that are rendered at high resolutions for output to archival digital C-prints. As digital sculpture, the entities and their associative 'space' are mapped with high resolution fractals and procedural textures which define the self-similar and self-organisational patterns of their non-material informatics realm. The pixel rich resolution and miniature aesthetic of the prints surpasses that of film in further exploring the technological possibilities of resolution for 'virtual photographs' of digital bodies and spaces.