Digital Art Catalogue

The MGXS Cosmogony

Cosmogonies reveal a profound need to delve deeper into the essence of existence, a search for the origins, myths, and symbols that define. They are concerned with explaining how the universe, or the cosmos, came into existence and how it has evolved. Formulated by scientists as well as traditional cultures, cosmogonies explore the understanding of the fundamental forces and laws that govern the cosmos. Using owned techniques to depict or imagine cosmogonies, MGXS sits between two distinct cosmos, in the boundaries that, rather than separate, connect humans and machines.

Human Cosmogony

Human Cosmogony

MGXS's human cosmogony revolves around an intellectual and artistic journey to explore the origins and nature of human existence, while simultaneously reimagining the dynamics between humans and machines —leading to the creation of a new way of explaining our cosmogony, or simply reinventing one.

Our Human Bodies

Our Human Minds

How we see them

Machine Cosmogony

Machine Cosmogony

MGXS's machine cosmogony looks into the canvas, traveling through dimensions, and reimagines the nature of creations and the very creatures on the other side. Artificial beings may reflect nature, the human condition and our struggle for identity —while being part of and living in their own cosmogony.

Our Machine Bodies

Our Machine Minds

How they see us

Our Human Bodies

What do shapes,  structure, and geometries tell about the human body and what it holds?

Urucu (2021)

Fernando’s country, Brazil is home to various indigenous peoples and also shares many ties with Japan, including the fact it is home to the largest Japanese community outside Japan. URUCU, a name that pays tribute to the ethnic groups and their spices used to paint/protect bodies, combines Japan’s tokusatsu-like Samurai Warriors and Indigenous Persons to explore similarities between them and fit the references together. The artistic creations on the surface are a platform to scratch deeper for historical and anthropological factors, question genetics and linguistic roots, and travel through mythological and religious traditions.

Our Machine Bodies

What codes and meanings lie behind symmetries and asymmetries of the body?

GNSS (2022)

The result of MGXS’s obsession with the alliance of beauty and machines, an aesthetic Fernando has been developing for many years, GNSS is an attempt to recreate Nature — a nature from a different timeline, playing with matter and its evolution path. Generated from the nil, they come to life as singular beings, made from a fusion of advanced technology and art. Like you, each one is unique. Each GNSS is created from scratch, born from unique seeds, each sprout is authentic, each GNSS is singular. Once one is created, you can never create the same being again. Every decision matters. There are many different species covering a good range of interconnection and interdependence, giving a sense of families, connections, clans, and conflicts. Previously created alone, we now invite you to play god. In the reveal, you’ll discover the species and shape the GNSS story. 

P0RT_TR41T UNKNOWN SERIES (2022)

A series of abstract portraits from unknown entities living on the other side of the canvas, challenging the viewing of nature and artificiality as opposites. Who are they and what are these portraits telling us about these new beings? What can we learn from them through their graphic representations? Instead of individual 3x4 or 4x6 or 5x7 portraits taken manually, here MGXS again designed an algorithm that generates portraits of these android-like beings and automatically produces countless images based on that algorithm.

Human Project Alpha (2021)

Visual explorations which preceded GNSS and gave rise to many of the themes, aesthetics and techniques of the project, Human Project Alpha is what MGXS is about: exploring and asking questions. It tells us a bit more about the genesis of GNSS — it's the prequel that preceded the final project, in the path of exploring the relationship between nature and artificiality.

Our Human Minds

If perceiving reality is dependent on our senses, how do we activate them?

Mixed Feelings (2021)

As part of the wider explorations as paint as a digital medium, Mixed Feelings takes the material and makes it sculptural, going beyond the canvas. Determination, Passion, Ambition… Are all men created in the image of God? If so, are all our feelings divine? Mixed Feelings is about movement, the movement of what and how we feel, and the movement of the space. It’s about the questions, one’s mixed feelings, and about visually expressing feelings we felt but remained unknown because unnamed.

Lambogen (2018)

The beginning. Lambogen marks MGXS’ departing experiments with generative art and the sense of an abundance of unique things. As a visual exploration around the aesthetics of cars — particularly shapes, lights, paint texture — this embryonic part of GNSS offers a journey of generative exploration, finding forms while facing depictions of the human aspects behind the conception of things. Cars, after all, embody so many symbolisms of complex societies from their utilitarian functionality, to their meaning as individual freedom or as threat to the shared environment, to their economic significance and marker of class and gender divides, to their artistic representations, to — in particular in this experimental journey — their design, their engineering, and their visual appeal anchored on all of these human aspects.

Our Machine Minds

To which extent are dreams, memories, ideas a product of oneself as opposed to shared experiences?

MEMs: Machine Embedded Memories (2023)

Humans build machines to assist them in their activities, machines that sometimes resemble them, serving as substitutes that accompany them in their daily lives. And what if these machines could finally think, and possess a soul? MEMs is an interactive experience where participants reflect on the power of memory and help build an inner experience for the androids. A unique artistic process that combines beauty, machines, and technology — a testament to the power of collective creativity. 

Watch the video of MEM at the NFC 2023

How we see them

How can one express/describe the relationship between nature, machines and humans?

Assemble Us (2023)

« Assemble Us » is a series comprising 49 artworks. It explores the relationship between nature, machines and humans. Here, the canvas becomes a mirror — reflecting part humans, part machines, designed and assembled to fit perfectly. This perfection though, is elusive, as these two forces try to interact and assimilate with each other.

How they see us

How will people, things and environments be reinterpreted as nature and artificiality come together?

They Imagine Us (2020)

The vision of machines; the vision of the world by machines, like GNSS. Capturing and reinterpreting the 3D essence of individuals, objects, and environments, this process-journey raises intriguing questions about whether the machines' visual interpretation reflects our reality as perceived by them, offering a potentially blurred or altered view of our ordinary existence. Could this be how the machines see us? Is this our reality through their eyes? A blurred interpretation of our daily lives, “They Imagine Us” adds layers to the understanding of how different entities or dimensions perceive the shared reality, thereby contributing to the formation of a cosmogony that includes both human and machine perspectives in shaping the concept of existence and reality.