Pattern 1223

Pattern 1408

Pattern 1398

The Target 

_Nuoro_ (2018) is a still life of figs on a table in the city of Nuoro in Sardinia. The image was made in place of a portrait of a refugee from Nigeria by way of Libya I interviewed for my project _Soggiorno_ who wished to not be photographed. He was staying in a home provided by the organization Nuoro Migrantes, a non profit who advocates for refugee and asylum seekers in the region and offers them aid, opportunities and more. 

Nuoro

_Mary Ange Sibi_ (2018), depicts the choreographer during her warm-up ritual while on residency at Decoratelier in Brussels, Belgium. Mary Ange, a woman of Ivorian descent, was born in Italy yet, at the age of 18, due to _Jus sanguinis_ laws, was deemed not Italian and thus, became an asylum seeker. Due to her status and Belgium's policy on refugee and asylum seekers, Mary Ange came to the country of 11 million, becoming a fixture in the arts community through her collaboration and interaction with organizations and spaces such as Globe Aroma and the Beursschouwburg. 

Mary Ange Sibi

First in a series of pieces depicting locations on Macinaw Island, Mi.

Craig Mawr

Observation

Lifeline

A true exploration of personal creativity drawn over 5 years.

La Facade'

The Lost Picture CD of Slim Aarons. Joseph Ayerle Cycle (2016) Slim Aarons was an American photographer, a célèbre photographer and photographer of the celebrities. Slim Aarons died in 2006, one and a half year before the beginning of the big American financial and real estate crisis. This crisis started exactly where Aarons created some of his most iconic works: in the Villas, and at the swimming pools of Palm Springs. Joseph Ayerle created a cycle about the idea: What was, if Slim Aarons still made pictures in 2006? Perhaps we will find one day a Kodak CD full of the last pictures of Slim Aarons, images never intended for publishing. In the meantime we can enjoy Joseph Ayerles photo cycle. His wonderful pictures seem both erotic and earnest, comic and depressed. He is developing a distinctive Pop-Surrealist style, with a sense of the absurd, as well as respect regarding the oevre of Slim Aarons and the beauty of the desert town Palm Springs, the Amalfi coast and other places where Slim Aarons shooted his photos. text by Anne Wegner 

cycle: The Lost Picture CD of Slim Aarons (2016)

Text by Giulia Lombardi Spada
A book, a photo, a memento: a stranger in a foreign country breaks through the isolation of the new place by placing something from his personal life nearby. But what if there was nothing? No picture, no book, no memento? Identity and memory are essential for our well-being. In addition to the known basic human needs, such as eating, drinking, sexuality and warmth, there are also less known needs, such as the need for identity. Anyone who has a working identity will not suspect that having an identity could be important. Identity is not what is described in the passport. If you lose a passport, you have not lost your identity. But what happens if you lose your identity?
In 2017 the artist Joseph Ayerle was invited to the Italian city of Florence as finalist and participant of the of the Concorso Nazionale di Arte Attuale and Biennal of the Academies of Firenze and Carrara. Ayerle continued to work in Italy, and his 2018/2019 cycle PARATEMPOREALIS was strongly influenced by the omnipresence of Renaissance art and Barock art in the streets of Firenze, Bologna, Milano and Bergamo. And during the project Ayerle returned to the Renaissance city of Poznan, where ancestors of him once lived. The project PARATEMPOREALIS is an approach to explore very personal and biographical facets, but once again the theme of the loss of identity, explored by time-travels, stayed in the focus of the artist. Contrary to expectations after his multi-awarded glitch-electronic projects “Un’emozione per sempre 2.0” and “The Art of Surviving One Day on Planet Earth” the cycle PARATEMPOREALIS takes up the visual language of Renaissance paintings, but once again the artist distorts in his project the coordinates of time, space and conventions in order to create its very own scope. .

Joseph Ayerle cycle PARATEMPOREALIS (2018-20)

I styled Davido for Cover Star, A household name across Africa and various parts of the world with a plethora of chart topping hits, accolades and a global fan base.

DAVIDO : VIEWS FROM THE TOP 

The Agony of Mary Magdalene 

An Apartment Scene

The Joy of Drawing

Anatomy

Amusement Park 

Bathhouse

Something to help make learning the periodic table more interesting

Periodic Table 

The King's Leg 

Snakes and Ladders

Ye Olde Cathode Ray Tube

Joseph Ayerle's art project depicts the invasion of a superior military power in Europe through a series of lens-based photographs shot in Gdansk (Poland) and Milan and Bergamo (Italy) in 2017\. The photos look like captured via surveillance cameras, provide a haunting insight into the invasion, with the use of digital tools and glitch techniques giving them an eerie, artifact-like appearance. The artist captures the silent and surreal nature of war for civilians, with conveying the fear and uncertainty of the people under attack. Joseph Ayerle’s avant-garde approach to digital art, combined with the use of photography, creates a visual impact that is both moving and thought-provoking. The projected started with lens-based works and ended up 2020 with surreal striking pictures and with an awarded video art, which was excepted for instance by the curators of the California Museum of Photography and the University of California Riverside for the exhibition [Audiovisual Frontiers](https://audiovisualmusic.ucr.edu/audiovisual-frontiers-all/the-purple-prophecy/) (2021), as well for the [IN OUT Festival](https://kultura.trojmiasto.pl/15-In-Out-Festival-2022-imp528513.html) of the CSW Laznia Contemporary Art Museum in Gdansk (2022). The title of the video art is “Surviving the Purple Prophecy”, the title of the photographic cycle is “The Art of Surviving one Day on Planet Earth in 2017”. Some weeks ago this photographic cycle won the experimental photography contest ExperimentoBio 2022 of the [MEM festival of experimental Art in Bilbao](http://www.musicaexmachina.com/).

<https://youtu.be/I6krWteILG0>

<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26953235/>

Videoart: Surviving The Purple Prophecy

What was the idea of the cycle “Un'emozione per sempre 2.0” ? Movies have always been a great source of inspiration for artists. Today we see that the classic European cinematography disappeared. Who was the most iconic figure of the European cinema? For Joseph Ayerle it was without doubt the Italian actress Ornella Muti.  Today’s youngsters are followers of Kendall Jenner. But what, if Ornella Muti was young again? What, if she could time-travel from 1978 into the world of today, the world of Instagram, Youtubers and Influencers? Is there a kind of eternal beauty? Which role plays the style? Which role plays media made hype? What about time-related roles and generational identity? This thoughts were explored by a series of artworks, all about the question: What, if the Ornella would appear in our time? For Joseph, time travels are possible.
One part of the projetc is the video art “Un’emozione per sempre”. It was finalist of the “Concorso Nazionale di Arte Attuale” in Florence, Italy, 2017. You find the exhibition catalogue here: https://www.eneganart.it/collezione/2017/EneganArt%202017_Rinascita.pdf
The genesis of the project idea lead to the a version with an AI-generated version of Ornella Muti. With the help of this AI-cast, the time travel became reality: “Un’emozione per sempre 2.0”, which was reviewed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the study „Collective Wisdom“, became the world’s first movie with an AI-born actress. The new technology appeared exactly at the time, when it was needed. At the exhibition of the “Concorso Nazionale di Arte Attuale” a video without AI was shown. Some weeks later Joseph published a new version, with an AI-born Ornella Muti. 
https://youtu.be/PLb4sg0R78A
Wikipedia: https://t1p.de/3ajb 
MIT
https://wip.mitpress.mit.edu/collectivewisdom
https://immerse.news/can-humans-co-create-with-algorithms-7b24f27f56b8
https://www.lasicilia.it/news/cultura/118566/ornella-muti-in-cortometraggio-a-firenze.html


2017: Cycle "Un'emozione per sempre 2.0"

[DanceCubesII](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26998032/) is a videoart piece that combines algorithm-based images of 80’s filmstar Ornella Muti, created by the selfcoded software Code9, and a half-visible dance performance of a young Italian actress from a Spanish B movie published in 1974\. The resulting artwork showcases an unseen visual language, with radical colors and unusual aesthetics. Ayerle's main idea was the human part of the piece. The co-creation software added a layer of unpredictability and chance to the work. The combination of the two image streams creates a unique and surreal viewing experience.

Juried Show CHANGE, in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Oct 2021 (Premiere)

2022 JUNE screening at the 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art (2022)

2021: Rombak, the Faculty of Cinematic Arts of the MMU Malaysia 2022,

NOV\_ 4th edition of the IDKF Internationales Digitalkunst Festival Stuttgart, supported by the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg (2022)

2022, NOV, Streaming Festival ON SCREEN (2022), supported by the Ministry of Culture of Austria,

2022, NOV, video art festival "Digital Superstars 8" (Serbia)

2021: DanceCubesII - Video Art, Made with AI and Co-Creation software

"Abundance / Nurturing"

A gestural abstract painting + monoprint on paper. 
Intuitive, evolving composition working wet-on-wet with gouache and oil pastels and layers of monoprint. Study of inner dialogues -- where do we source our energy and how to maintain an increasing horizon that grows even in struggle. 

Abundance / Nurturing

"Spirit of Youth"

Study of intuitive composition, working wet-on-wet with multiple media. Restlessness and tension and harmony and memory all interacting. 

Spirit of Youth

"The Space Between My Words"

Plays with the cavity of what is instinctive and expressed, and what is layered over. There's a tension in how to accurately process the world and events around us and synthesizing a response. There's also a gentleness in resting in the flow: what is enough, what is of benefit, what is our voice.

The Space Between My Words

Intuitive gestural exploration of doubts, memories, and reconciling trauma.

The Questions Don't Have To Go Away

"An Analogy For Vulnerability"

This painting reveals turning points in inner-conversations; how I see and interpret and abide in the physical world. Bringing methodical meditation and loosened child-like mark making together, the creation is a call-and-response practice: no judgement in the forming of shape and direction of line, guided by reflection and distanced observation throughout the process. 

An Analogy For Vulnerability

E se ... potessimo viaggiare nel tempo? Una giovane e bella attrice (Ornella Muti) ottiene 1978 questa opzione, offerta da un misterioso uomo dei Tarocchi (Roger Moore). Ornella Muti, una volta la donna più sexy viva e star del cinema italiano dei primi anni '80, appare nel nostro mondo di oggi, dove ogni starlet possiede un account Instagram, dove ogni movimento è filmato da iPhone. Il "gioco italiano" gioca con il linguaggio visivo della fine degli anni '70 e dei primi anni '80 e l'estetica della generazione di instagram - e ci dice qualcosa su ... noi stessi.
MAKING OF: Albert Einstein ha detto che i viaggi nel tempo sono possibili ... Ma come?

L'artista Joseph Ayerle, FINALISTA del Concorso Nazionale di Arte Attuale e la Biennale dell'Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze e Carrara 2017 ha utilizzato per questo progetto una tecnologia completamente nuova: l'intelligenza artificiale. Una rete neurale artificiale (Google Tensorflow / Deepfake) ha analizzato più di 2000 immagini originali della star del cinema Ornella Muti, ha analizzato il suo viso e ha ricreato la megastar degli anni '80. La doppietta della nuova Ornella Muti è stata la modella americana e star di Instagram Kendall Jenner. Quindi questa nuova tecnologia ha creato una "attrice AI", un cast, creato dall'intelligenza artificiale.

AI actress Ornella Muti: Un'emozione per sempre 2.0

Joseph Ayerle's 2019 photo cycle "Tutto Bene - The Day Before Deutsche Bank Died" is portrait of our society today exactly one day before the Deutsche Bank died...

Where there was meaning are now optimized bodies, voyeuristic Instagram pictures, and showing off our unrealistic possessions...

This photo cycle is not a wake-up call or a call to rebellion: it confronts us with our own complicity this downfall. The first version of this photo cycle was published in 2017\. After the reaction of the public Joseph understood, that his idea must be transformed into more radical pictures, and he created the new version of the cycle with the pictures you see today.

2019/11/03: Cycle: Tutto bene: The Day Before Deutsche Bank died

In February I was luckily enough to join the tour bus with Berlin based artist Wallis Bird as she continued her extensive live shows, playing over 70 dates across Europe, Australia and Asia. 

I hoped on the tour bus on the German leg as she played her new album 'Home' to what has become her home over the years. This year not only was Wallis nominated for the RTE Choice awards in Ireland but even more incredibly is she also nominated for Deutscher Musikautorenpreis. 

The film captures the atmosphere on and off stage, I had the camera with me 24 hours and was luckily enough the band didn't throw it out of the window, they are a nice bunch and their chemistry is obvious to anyone who spends some time with them. The audio is the track 'Leads The Way' and was taken live from the show in Vienna. 

Wallis Bird Tour Film

My newest film is premiering over at Wonderland Magazine. 

A new music video for Irish electronic artist Ryan Vail and folk singer Jealous Of The Birds new collaboration. 

"Opening with a spoken word recitation, the Donnie Darko inspired video captures the unpredictable nature of love, personifying it as a crow-like figure. The track then veers into splintered electronics with soft, lustrous vocal harmonies on top.

“The crow became a symbol. A visual manifestation of the problems a couple find themselves in. It is always present looming over the couple, slowly becoming more influential on their actions,” explains London-born-Berlin-based director Joseph Wright."

Photo by Valentina Culley Foster

Directed/Edited By
Joseph Wright

Production Company
Grin & Bear Films

Commissioned By
Lyndon Stephens 

1st AD/Art Director
Valentina Culley-Foster

2nd AD
Timo Kranzusch

Stylist/MUA
Mandy Klimt

Cast 
Alexa Maithe Henry
Micha Viol
Valentina Culley-Foster

RYAN VAIL AND JEALOUS OF THE BIRDS – ‘LOVE IS A CROW’

Aidan from Floatinghome performed a live session for us in Wedding, Berlin. This song is taken from his latest album following the exploits of a time travelling prostitute Thaias. 

Thaias Kept is taken from the album "Dreams for Dreamers", now available on vinyl, tee-shirt and digital download.
Visit www.floatinghome.org for further details.

Video by Joseph Wright (Grin & Bear Films)
Audio be Aidan Floatinghome
Thanks to Peter and all at Cafe Pförtner :)


FLOATINGHOME - Thaias Kept (LIVE)

I am proud to show you my newest release. A video for "Momentary Continual", from our new album "Nine thoughts for one word" by Chat Noire. Shot in Berlin. 
Directed by Joseph Wright
Model: Valentina Culley-Foster
Produced by: Grin & Bear Films
Music by Chat Noir
Michele Cavallari – keyboards
Luca Fogagnolo – bass
J. Peter Schwalm – electronics
Daniel Calvi – electric guitar
Lyrics and vocals by Alessandro Tomaselli

Chat Noir//Momentary Continual

Directed by Joseph Wright
Produced by Joseph Wright & Valentina Culley-Foster
Video commissioned by Armada Music
Make-Up by Mandy Klimt
Staring
Johanna Edler
Valentina Culley-Foster
Virginia Holdegel
Production Company Grin & Bear Films
Thanks to 25p Cine Support

Any artists, labels or brands in need of visuals. Feel free to contact me info@grinandbearfilms.com 

Thank you for watching

Joe

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