De Zutter Ommery
Artist’s profile
De Zutter Ommery is a Belgian digital artist who studied engineering-architecture at the University of Ghent.
These studies in architecture made him wonder what space might look like in a digital society. How can these digital tools affect society and what does it mean for architecture itself? Through his self-employment visualizing real-estate projects, he began to experiment with these tools. At first, trying to get a grasp on them, but later on finding more and more ways on how these tools could impact society.
“The artworks unravel the possibilities provided by digital space and
researches new aesthetics within these digital tools. Condensing all this energy society creates into art as an endpoint,
Ommery decided to create a new starting point in the process. This is done through commissioned real-estate projects, demanding photorealistic images, and fulfilling economic needs. These spaces of soon-to-be buildings are then transformed into new artworks. Creating a duality between polished real-estate images and new digital aesthetics of what space can be. Between being an artist with no fixed value and being a cog in the system with economic value.
By pushing digital experimentation into the extremes he hopes people realize the broad spectrum laying in-between.”