ArtSect Gallery

31/03/2025

ArtSect presents Andy Lomas RETROSPECTIVE with music and compositions by the legendary Max Cooper and Andrew Beaton. Andy is a computational artist,his art work explores how the complex nature of form can be created emergently by simulating growth processes.

He has exhibited internationally, including at the Pompidou Centre, V&A, Royal Society, Science Museum, SIGGRAPH, Japan Media Arts Festival, Ars Electronica Festival, Kinetica, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Watermans, and the ZKM. His work is in the collections at the V&A, the Computer Arts Society and the D’Arcy Thompson Art Fund Collection. In 2014 his work Cellular Forms won The Lumen Prize Gold Award.

We look forward to welcoming you to this prestigious evening.

£8 entry 6-11pm
With a 3D visual discussion at 7:15 in art’otels beautiful auditorium.

18/12/2024

13/06/2024

The second of 3 'Masqueradead' mood pieces created in collaboration with Miss Fortune, this instalment representing 'Desire' and featuring verses from the po...

26/04/2024

Reminiscing on the creative energy at the DIY workshop! ✨ Stay tuned for more artistry and community connections.

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06/03/2024

Our next pop-up is coming up on the 23.03!!
Were going to be partying in the evening at in Hackney Wick E3 2NR from 4pm-9pm with live djs, art installations and of course all your favourite sellers ✨

The lineup is going to be released soon so keep your eyes peeled! We’re also going to be booking for tattoos and lots of other fun stuff soon so don’t sleep on this one!

Can’t wait to see you all there 🤍
With love from the bisoux team 💋

22/02/2024

Join us for our Dare2Disrupt launch at ArtSect Gallery on the Friday 23rd of Feb 7-9PM.

Our free workshops based in Hackney Wick, East London provide a unique space to create and socialize. We supply all the tools, equipment and guidance necessary for creative protest.

What 2 expect:

Screen Printing
Upcycling
Patchwork
Crochet
Stenciling
Collage
and more!
We host different workshops every month. Keep an eye out for our IG stories where you can vote for your favourite workshop. Most popular workshop will take place.

21/02/2024

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19/02/2024

Join us for ‘WE RISE BY LIFTING OTHERS’ 🤲☁️🫶 a group exhibition of limited artist print editions 📄 join the community & support your creative friends as we platform affordable and accessible art-buying

Thursday 29th feb 5-11pm at free RSVP link in .curates bio 🔗

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19/02/2024

‘Misplaced and Displaced, But Never Out of Place‘ by Babak Ahteshamipour

“Growing up as a marginalised Iranian immigrant kid who couldn’t fit in within the social structures of Greek meatspace — physical reality —, I found refuge within cyberspace and the internet. Cyberspace and the internet were my safe place, a timeless shelter, a library and access point to a multiversal discourse. I learned things that were not taught in school, hung out online with people from other parts of the globe, and cultivated my creative thinking while playing video games. Watching cyberspace’s popularity transform into something more essential to everyday life got me thinking that digital presence is taking the shape of a substantial exoskeleton for social and professional existence. Concerts, lectures, discussions, and games are casually streamed on Twitch, Discord, and Instagram, virtual and web exhibitions thrive, remote working is a thing, posting on forums might find a solution to a problem, psychotherapy sessions or meetings take place on Zoom, you can pretty much learn anything with tutorials provided on YouTube, and you can enjoy your home cinema via streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Disney+. Cyberspace has become a place of gathering, a tool for expression, and an archive of documented reality on an established and popular level. Common electronic devices like smartphones, TVs, tablets, and computers function as portals that lead to these multiversal and unending digital explorations and narratives. This essay explores the nature, use, and symbolism of portals via one of the most common grounds of all – video games – and examines the recurring interest in escaping through fantasy and sci-fi themed narratives.“

Images created in the context of the essay Misplaced and Displaced, But Never Out of Place, commissioned for CTM 2023 — Portals on CTM Magazine (Berlin, Germany)

17/02/2024

launches its manifesto amidst the hustle and bustle of London Fashion Week Feb 18th, 2024.

After three years of postpandemic community rebuilding we seek a global voice on social issues, fashion, technology and the evolutionary process of our culture

Join us celebrate a new era of fashion and collective practice at our decentralised space Artsect Gallery in Hackney Wick.
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12/02/2024

‘In Defence of the Undead’ by Babak Ahteshamipour is a digital collage interrogating the festishization and hypersexualization found in Otaku culture which has penetrated into gaming and online subcultures through the machine’s gaze.

Made out of glitchy low resolution images generated by AI, the digital image explores the convergence between anime-inspired characters from Otaku culture and cyborg bodies reminiscent of the machinic bodies found in 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴 and 𝘎𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘮.

The low qualities of the images contrast and visualize the perfectionist male-dominated tech industry, which often perpetuates and reinforces biased gazes in its models. These cyborgs — which serve as the machine’s gaze and are representations of the inhuman or unhuman or undead — are trained and sculpted based on biases and are thus haunted by anthropocentric discourses and fetishized aesthetics unable to assert their own voice or identity.

In this context, the assemblage of these varied elements within the collage functions as glitchy interruptions, questioning and contemplating the entanglement of hypersexualization, Otaku culture, cyberspace, and the constraints of male-dominated technological frameworks.

Exhibited at Artsect NFT Gallery for ‘Digital Daydream’, curated by Nina Wong.

08/02/2024

Details from ‘Skin and Bones’ by Song Xin .xin and Rosie Muhan Yuan .6rd.