Biometric Public Art: Where Cities Become Neural Canvases
Julian Opie: A City in Motion
A Groundbreaking Digital Art Exhibition Across Los Angeles & Beyond
The Public Digital Art Fund (PDAF) is proud to present a historic moment in the cultural landscape of Los Angeles. For the first time, digital art is transforming the city on an unprecedented scale, with an expansive exhibition featuring the work of renowned British artist Julian Opie.
Launched on March 4, 2025, this city-wide exhibition activates over 12 digital media façades and presents more than 16 works by Julian Opie. From Downtown LA to West Hollywood, Ontario, and even Baltimore, Opie’s signature figures take over public spaces, turning Los Angeles into a dynamic, open-air museum.
Expanding the Boundaries of Public Art
More than an exhibition, this project is a redefinition of art’s relationship with public space. Walking, pausing, flowing—Opie’s work blurs the lines between movement and stillness, presence and absence, reshaping how we experience culture in motion.
Art is no longer confined. It’s part of the city. It finds you.
Featured Locations
Julian Opie’s digital artworks will be displayed across Los Angeles' most iconic locations, including:
Downtown LA
West Hollywood
Ontario
Kia Forum
Carson
Baltimore
Additional media façades across the city
Beyond Los Angeles, the exhibition is also featured in Baltimore, at the city’s main pedestrian plaza and Johns Hopkins University, expanding the reach of digital art beyond the West Coast.
This groundbreaking project is made possible through the vision and support of KEVANI, a company dedicated to transforming public spaces with cultural innovation. Their commitment to contemporary art has been instrumental in bringing this large-scale initiative to life.
A special thank you to Julian Opie’s team, who worked closely with us in Los Angeles to ensure the highest quality presentation of his work. Their dedication has been key in making this exhibition truly exceptional.
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The PDAF Art Commission is a curatorial and advisory body dedicated to promoting groundbreaking public art that integrates emerging media and engages diverse audiences in shared cultural spaces
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Public Digital Art Fund / AES+F / Cultural Environment / Los Angeles, CA
Date: Starting Nov 30th
Location: Courtyard Marriott L.A. Live, Los Angeles, CA – one of the largest full-motion digital facades in the city.
Artists: AES+F
Curator: Nina Mdivani
What to Expect: Experience a groundbreaking digital art exhibition that brings cultural and educational functions to the streets, making art accessible to the public in unexpected and dynamic ways. This global digital exhibition will feature media facades and innovative presentations.
About the Foundation: The Public Digital Art Fund is dedicated to integrating digital art into urban environments worldwide through a dynamic and evolving program. Launched in January 2021, the PDAF aims to create a global cultural impact by acquiring and showcasing digital artworks as NFTs.
AES+F / Cultural Environment / Public Digital Art Fund
AES+F, Inverso Mundus
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Los Angeles May 2021 Cultural Environment
“Butterfly Birth Bed” and “Honey Moon” is now part of Public Digital Art Museum, Public Digital Art Fund, based on blockchain and accessible to any software (already created/or to be created in the future) offering original video-arts on NFTs.
HONEY MOON, 4k Digital video, 2019.
HONEY MOON is a serene, sensorial, and silent film about the uncanny flow of time. Coyly literal, the film depicts the artist's hand cradling a small moon as honey sensually streams into a dark void beyond. HONEY MOON was performed, produced, and edited by VLM, and filmed by the artist in a single, 170-second take within a miniature film-set made from black mirror planes. The work itself is surreal yet straightforward, documenting a real-time, solo performance with simple materials that conjures contemplation. HONEY MOON was originally commissioned for the Midnight Moment public art program by the Times Square Arts Alliance of New York, NY in 2019.
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To further this mission, we are building Public Digital Art Museum, as a part of Public Digital Art Fund, based on blockchain and accessible to any software (already created/or to be created in the future) offering original video-arts on NFTs.
Renana Neuman is a Brooklyn-based, Israeli born visual artist, organizer, and educator. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at places such as Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland, The Zimmerli Art Museum (NJ), Abrons Art Center (NY), Kunstraum LLC, NY, Soho Gallery (Austria), and Hanina Gallery (Israel). Renana earned an MFA at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and a BFA at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, where she specialized in video and new media. She also attended the Academy of Fine Art in Vienna and studied philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Renana received support through various residencies, prizes, and institutions such as the Yotzrim grant, Vermont Studio Center artist grant, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, and Barbur B&B. Renana makes multi-media installations that mash together eras, continents, and modes of consciousness. She combines video, animation, and text to describe the emotion-driven political ambiguities of our contemporary moment.
Artist Renana Neuman
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Eli Cortiñas
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Eli Cortiñas born 1979 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, lives and works in Berlin. A large part of Cortiñas’ practice revolves around the idea of challenging cinematic memory through analysing and re-editing pre-existing footage, or her own material. Disrupting and re-structuring narrative flows, she creates shifts of meaning (No Place Like Home, 2006). This method of ‘editing as writing’ generates a mixed feeling of both identification and alienation. In her videos, as well as in her collages and object arrangements, Eli Cortiñas creates an ambiguous and affirmative transparency – unveiling the role plays of a generation vaunted in the media as ‘lost’.
Eli Cortiñas studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and at the European Film College Ebeltoft, Denmark. Selected solo exhibitions include Free Circulation = Free Copulation at Soy Capitán (2019), Berlin, Always bite the hand that feeds you at Convent Space for Contemporary Art, Ghent (2018), Remixers never die, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2018), Five Easy Pieces and Some Words of Wisdom at Soy Capitán, Berlin (2015), Awkward Studies and a Decent Take on Serious Matters at Rokeby, London (2013), Love Is Worn Around The Neck, curated by Veit Loers at Kunstraum Innsbruck (2012). Her work was part of several group exhibitions, such as Fotografie Heute: Resistant Faces, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2020), MASKE. Kunst der Verwandlung, Kunstmuseum Bonn (2019), Büro komplex – Die Kunst der Artothek im politischen Raum, Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen (2018), Film Footage Fotografie. Bildnerische Augenblicke mit filmischen Bezügen, Museum for Photographie Braunschweig (2017), 10 Emerging Artists. Contemporary Experimental Films and Video Art from Germany, Goethe Institute Canada (2017), Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2017), Les Rencontres Internationales at Centre Pompidou, Paris (2011). Eli Cortiñas has been awarded with grants and fellowships from Fundación Botín (2018), Berliner Senat (2017), Villa Sträuli (2017), Villa Massimo Rome (2014), Marianna Ingenwerth-Stiftung grant for residency at the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo La Regenta (2013), Shortlist Award for young Film Art, Freunde der Neuen Nationalgalerie und Deutscher Filmakademie (2011).
Download part of museum video art to your mobile device.
Eli Cortiñas
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2015, single channel video, 8‘30‘‘ HD, colour, no dialog
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Public WiFi networking with over 30 millions viewers monthly
International Museum Art on the screen of a mobile device, as part of the global mission of the Public Digital Art Fund.
By acquiring Public Digital Art tokens, you gain access to a share of the Public Digital Art Fund’s curated collection, which is expected to appreciate in value over time. Our primary goal is to build a collection of museum-quality video artworks, presenting them as NFTs for global exhibition within the Public Digital Art Fund. These artworks will be preserved in the public domain for future generations and will not be available for sale