DENIS DAVYDOV
Born 1985, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Denis Davydov is a multimedia artist working with computer-generated imagery (CGI). He graduated in 2008 with a BA in Design from the Tashkent Institute of Architecture and Construction. In his freshman year, he received an award from Render Re, an independent community of CGI artists. In 2012, his project Units of Lust was presented as part of a group exhibition by SYE Foundation at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. Pursuing a career as an independent computer graphics artist, Davydov joined N3 agency, developing CGI content for brands including Microsoft, CCTV, Samsung, NBC, Ford and Bloomberg. Davydov’s projects have received more than 10 Adobe Behance awards ("Editors' Choice" and "3D Gold" categories). In 2020, Davydov founded Instigators, a group of art practitioners and crypto enthusiasts united by the desire to investigate and work in the sphere of non-fungible tokens (NFT).

In recent works, Davydov explores the symbolic heritage of the early Internet era and the migration of eclectic visual images of Central Asia into the modern reality of late capitalism. Davydov develops the theme of retroactive nostalgia for rapidly disappearing images of national cultures, particularly in the Central Asian countries of Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. He is interested in the clash of 20^th century historical narratives, fictions of cultural authenticity and craft tradition with new media and in the analysis of NFT culture.