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River Davis

artist, creative director, co-founder

From creative directing across twelve countries to co-founding ntent, River Davis, also known as Dr.Banner, the American multimedia artist and creative director based in Berlin, presents work that explores the evolution of consciousness and its impact on culture. His work spans multiple mediums, from physical prints and paintings to digital installations. He is one of the youngest artists to ever produce art for the Venet Foundation's annual summer exhibition in 2023.

Affirmations, 2022

Blue Moon was a collaborating artist on the affirmations collection, a collection of positive affirmations for the Web3 community in the new year.


pathways

Digital installation & performance piece
p5.js, video, projection mapping, & sensor systems

a 1 of 1 by ntent at the intersection of multimedia, performance, and abstract generative art. moment after combines the human side of interaction and technology with the ephemeral nature of performance + the permanence of the blockchain bringing attention to the moment after the climax in any interaction.

Scattered poetry

Digital installation & performance piece
p5.js, video, projection mapping, & sensor systems

a 1 of 1 by ntent at the intersection of multimedia, performance, and abstract generative art. moment after combines the human side of interaction and technology with the ephemeral nature of performance + the permanence of the blockchain bringing attention to the moment after the climax in any interaction.

kapital

Digital installation & performance piece
p5.js, video, projection mapping, & sensor systems

a 1 of 1 by ntent at the intersection of multimedia, performance, and abstract generative art. moment after combines the human side of interaction and technology with the ephemeral nature of performance + the permanence of the blockchain bringing attention to the moment after the climax in any interaction.

one drop

Digital installation & performance piece
p5.js, video, projection mapping, & sensor systems

a 1 of 1 by ntent at the intersection of multimedia, performance, and abstract generative art. moment after combines the human side of interaction and technology with the ephemeral nature of performance + the permanence of the blockchain bringing attention to the moment after the climax in any interaction.

MOMENT AFTER [2022]

Digital installation & performance piece
p5.js, video, projection mapping, & sensor systems

a 1 of 1 by ntent at the intersection of multimedia, performance, and abstract generative art. moment after combines the human side of interaction and technology with the ephemeral nature of performance + the permanence of the blockchain bringing attention to the moment after the climax in any interaction.

THE PETRIFICATION OF WATER

3D fluid simulation, animated, textured in 8k stone, and composited in Blender, Post produced in Adobe After Effects.

The Petrification of Water (tpow) is an audiovisual experience and poetic meditation that follows three acts, was sol, and exhibited at BOOM FESTIVAL's ENVISIONARY ART MUSEUM, in collaboration with Art Progression Now, from July 22nd - July 29th 2022

OBJEKTS_ARTIFACTS

Technical Paper
3D Surrealism, Animation
3D Scanned sculptures

OBJEKT_0

Technical PaperMint Link
3D Surrealism, Animation
Fluid simulation and visual meditation.

DISPLACED ANGER

Generative Animation, Red Felt Marker,Red Pen, & Red Crayon on 190g white paper digitally photographed on a Sony A7 series camera with a 24-70mm f/4 Carl Zeiss lens. Animated & post produced in Adobe After Effects.

Displaced Anger is a collection that features the traditional form of action painting or gestural expression. Fifty compositions were selected, photographed, and generatively processed using layered displacement maps and ntent.art's proprietary generative video technology.

Collodion Process

Technical PaperMint Link
Generative Art, 2D Expressionism
Digital photography, Animation

The collection comprises a series of professional portrait photographs captured between 2015-2020. Illustrating the historical origins of the Wet-Collodion production process.

f|or3ssence

Technical PaperMint Link
Generative Art, 2D Expressionism
Digital photography, Animation

This collection comprises a series of flower photographs captured across 12 countries between 2017-2022 selected to represent the Taoist concept of the “Golden Flower” as investigated by Carl Jung.

n3o v|ta

Technical PaperMint Link
Generative Art, 2D Expressionism
Photography, Digital collage, Animation

n30 v|ta the first ever generative animated photography NFT collection is sold out. You can purchase on the secondary market.

Untold Futures

Mint Link
Digital Collage

Untold Futures is a collection of multimedia compositions and a legacy collaboration by .jiwa & Dr.Banner. "Untold Futures" is a commentary on the global human cultural experience in the face of the 21st century's climate emergency.

EVERYTHING IS FINE KEEP SWIPING / HOW TO CAGE A WAGGING TAIL

by Davey Leavitt & ntent.art

Mint Link
Sculpture, 3D Scan, Animation

This NFT collection digitizes a few of the physical pieces from the exhibition EVERYTHING IS FINE KEEP SWIPING / HOW TO CAGE A WAGGING TAIL, 2021, created by artist Davey Leavitt. The series captures the ever increasing freedom of the emerging digital experience. When a physical chair can gallop in solid gold, and be sat upon in the metaverse, anything is possible.


Origins, Visual Rhetoric, Global Creative Design.

Prior to a full-time career in art and web3, Dr. Banner (an environmental activist) spent 8 years as an international creative director building teams and producing photo-video campaigns for global brands, with a sustainable business model, across Asia, Europe, and the United States, working to change the global business paradigm from “profit over people” to “people over profit.” Dr. Banner has also been a mental health advocate teaching meditation and consent communication practices at events and festivals across 12 countries.

Dr. Banner is a vocal voice in the Digital Fine Art & NFT communities working with artists in both the web3 and traditional spaces. He is actively featured on multiple conference stages, as a master of ceremonies, moderating and contributing to panels, podcasts, and YouTube channels, where he speaks as a public voice on art culture, sustainability, inclusion, equality, decentralization, and the expansion of smart contract-based art.

Banner is currently producing, in collaboration with Bright Moments, the Friends of the Artist [Creators Workspace] event series and the special edition Friends of the Artist [Art Experience] event series.

A few of Banner’s notable accomplishments:

SELECTED PROJECTS

SELECTED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • Master of Ceremonies NFT Berlin 2022
  • Speaker NFT Berlin 2022
  • Speaker SUGOI NFT NYC 2022
  • Speaker Decentral Conference Art Basel Miami 2021

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

  • One Drop, Into the Metaverse: Spatial, Nyc, NY 2022
  • Technique X WeDream Auction House Nyc, NY 2022
  • ENVISIONARY ART MUSEUM, Boom, Portugal 2022
  • GEKAUFTE LIEBE Vernessage Berlin Germany 2022

Speaking Links

Storytelling and Generative Art - TokenHausBerlin

Community Building Around Generative Art - TokenHausBerlin

Generative Art - Tapping into your emergent chaos - TokenHausBerlin

How to become a Generative Artist - TokenHausBerlin

NFTBERLIN 2022 Panel “Why Web3 Matters”

GOLDen MetaSessions with doc Peace Podcast “How to craft an Equitable world through Web3 ft. Dr.Banner”

Art Start Now Interview

The ntent.show episodes 1-24

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River Davis

co-founder, creative director, & Artist

From creative directing across twelve countries to co-founding ntent, River Davis, also known as Dr.Banner, the American multimedia artist and creative director based in Berlin, presents work that explores the evolution of consciousness and its impact on culture. His work spans multiple mediums, from physical prints and paintings to digital installations. He is one of the youngest artists to ever produce art for the Venet Foundation's annual summer exhibition in 2023.

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Past
Exhibitions

[Selected]

REALITY IMAGINARIUM

BERLIN 2023

PETLS [Producer]

BERLIN 2023

MOMENT AFTER

BERLIN 2022

DISPLACED ANGER

BERLIN 2022

HORSE PLAY & The Futility of Resistance [DIGITAL]

LOS ANGELES
2021