Introduce Artist
Dmitry Kemell
@lustre
Dmitry Kemell was born in Kyiv, Ukraine and is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary artist and professor of multimedia arts at Loyola Marymount University’s Department of Art and Art History. He holds an M.F.A. in Design|Media Arts from University of California, Los Angeles.
Dmitry’s diverse media art practice engages surface, form and space to create transportive poetic experiences that explore the fusion of myth, memory, and cultural constructs. His creations span video art installations and environmental projections, concert visuals, 3D graphic art, music videos, animated digital films, and musical compositions.
Dmitry Kemell's artworks have been featured in numerous publications and art reviews as well as in Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly and CNN, and has been exhibited widely at venues such as: Art Platform, Art Basel, Glow-Santa Monica, Boston Jewish Music Festival, Autumn Lights, Athens Digital Art Festival, ISEA, FILE, 404 Festival of Art and Technology, Optronica,Digital Graffiti, Nanjing Institute of Visual Arts Museum, The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Archaeological Museum of Messenia, Bell-Roberts Contemporary Art Gallery, OCCCA, e4c media gallery, Gallery 825, Ford Theatre, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Grand erformances, Los Angeles Theater Center.
Artwork
The Glass Menagerie, 2024 / The Glass Menagerie (Multimedia Installation), 2024 / Building Blocks, 2024
1. The Glass Menagerie, 2024
Single-Channel, HD video, 2:50 min
Url link to view video: https://vimeo.com/1026300268
The Glass Menagerie is a 3D animation video artwork that muses on the notion of "humanity on display" in a world that is increasingly polarized and fractured. The virtual (simulated) representation of glass takes on the uncanny and serves as further estrangement from the physicality of existence where glass connotes reflection, refraction, filtration, and mediation of outside worlds, especially with the proliferation of ubiquitous screens. Rather than a typical collection of animals, this menagerie exhibits the captivity of human creatures, both at home and at odds with their environment, inhabitants, consumers and products of their own desires and imaginative constructs.
2. The Glass Menagerie (Multimedia Installation), 2024
Multi-Channel, HD video, 3D Prints
Url link to view installation video: https://vimeo.com/1026355259
The Glass Menagerie is a multimedia installation that consists of 3D animated scenarios across multiple monitors, custom fabricated frames, original musical score, as well as 3D Prints. The project was originally exhibited along with digital acrylic prints. The proposed version would include only framed video monitors with 3D prints.
The project muses on the notion of "humanity on display" in a world that is increasingly polarized and fractured. The virtual (simulated) representation of glass takes on the uncanny and serves as further estrangement from the physicality of existence where glass connotes reflection, refraction, filtration, and mediation of outside worlds, especially with the proliferation of ubiquitous screens. Rather than a typical collection of animals, this menagerie exhibits the captivity of human creatures, both at home and at odds with their environment; inhabitants, consumers and products of their own desires and imaginative constructs. This multi-channel version of the artwork explores the multi-faceted notion of glass with simultaneity of multiple perspectives.
3. . Building Blocks, 2024
18 x 24” digital print. 300dpi.
“Building Blocks” is a digital print created with Cinema 4D derived from the “Glass
Menagerie”, 3d animated video that reflects upon the ironic process of creation and
consumerism reminiscent of the Tower of Babel.
