Daria Koshkina

Daria Koshkina is a data-based artist who creates art through computer models relying on raw information. She has exhibited across Europe in Italy, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Hungary as well as the United States. Recent exhibitions include Venice Architectural Biennale, New Alliance Gallery in Somerville, Massachusetts, Gallery NAT London, BMN Kortárs and Postmasters Gallery in Budapest, Digital Culture Center in Milan, Italy, and Postmasters Gallery in New York. She has been published by Al-Tiba9 Contemporary, Northeastern News, and 360 Journal. Daria’s awards include a recognition of excellence from London Contemporary Art Review as well as a notable achievement from the Information is Beautiful Awards. 

Using data from various sources of information she collects such as locations of whale sightings or measuring the number of billionaires, Daria creates intricate computer models by entering data into her computer. The visual information often leads to creating visual effects when mapped out accordingly, sometimes resembling a vortex, a black hole in the galaxy, stars in the sky, or even an abstract work of art. Her approach to artmaking through data reveals a new method in creative image-making, one which has not fully been developed or explored. The integrative approach of converting raw data into visual imagery enhances integrative methods in art and reveals how digital applications have an authentic purpose in aesthetic and conceptual processes. 

For ages, artists have tried to combine or express scientific rules and order into works of art. Typically, most artists express science in art through metaphorical or symbolic representations. Daria Koshkina remains unique in her ability to use science and particularly mathematical graphs to create works of art which not only express a direct purpose in correlating multiple subjects at once, but also relays information to the viewer. In such a regard, Daria’s art can be described as purpose-driven conceptual art which turns data into a blended field of time and space, as if staring into the galaxy in the sky. 

Whale Story (pictured above) depicts a specific model based on tracking whale movements through a website. Although Daria is not the originator of the information, as an artist, she collects the data to process into a computer in order to create a detailed model. The piece resembles flashes of light with the blue and white spherical colors as if rockets were being flared up in the sky. 

Daria Koshkina brings together science, art, mathematics into a conceptual module of expression. Rather than cold and stiff, her data models reveal an almost divine aura of cosmos-like effects and rays of light. Too often, artists misuse digital applications in art to create unintelligible automated processes which lead to nothing useful to contemporary discourse and devoid of any conceptual relevance. What makes Daria Koshkina’s art astonishing is her boldness to give digital art a deep purpose beyond automation and into realms of combining integrative fields of study. Her work contains exciting attributes of expressing knowledge, unraveling mystery as well as giving purpose-driven art a new avenue for expression and further experimentation.

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