Marguerite Gruin/Coretta Meyes/Kay Partovi
Through their involvement in high-profile events such as ‘From the Ground Up’, Gruin, Meyes and Partovi – hailing from the esteemed Pear Resident Practitioner Program (P.R.P.P) – have become synonymous with the term ‘new media’. Since their mentor and young Pear art (yPa) spearhead, David Destino, pronounced the death of digital art, in August 2022, these self-christened yPas have set about building something new from its ashes.
In their recent publication The Triple-Headed Phoenix: Rising From the Syllapura of Onitsed the precocious trio challenge Destino's digital denouncement and offer an exciting way forward for art in the 21st century.
Rather than being a regressive or nostalgic statement advocating the return to a pre-digital condition, Gruin, Meyes and Partovi's manifesto pre-empts the next logical development in post-digital art: the advent of C-TAG technology. In this seminal document the artists claim the four bases of the DNA helix as their new medium, allowing for the replication of existing genomes and predicting as-yet-unseen creatures. Knowingly or not, these writings render Destino’s Pearcine, created using Pear Corp’s state-of-the-art cloning technology, the archetype of the transition to C-TAG. With such obvious links to an artist of Destino's stature at such an early stage in their career, there is little doubt that Gruin, Meyes and Partovi have a bright future. Watch this space.