City Edges

Bringing together five digital artists from around the world, City Edges captures the tension, rhythm, and poetry of urban life — revealing how we adapt, inhabit, rebuild, and reimagine cities.

 

In today’s dense and shifting metropolises, we navigate spaces built from concrete, code, and contradiction, where the climate crisis and technological acceleration coexist uneasily. Nature fades into the background, and even breathing can feel like resistance.

 

From Brooklyn, Kirk Finkel (aka untitled, xyz) reimagines Lisbon’s tiled façades as modular, immersive structures in the metaverse. The Portuguese duo Boris Chimp 504 translates the rhythm of Marvila through real-time coding, turning data into fragmented audiovisual landscapes.

 

Yang Yongliang, a Shanghai-born artist in New York, blends Chinese ink traditions with digital animation to explore cycles of demolition and renewal. His digital mountains echo Khaled Makhshoush’s imagined Riyadh skylines, reflecting on the transformation from nomadic horizons to vertical megacities.

 

Stijn Stragier, a Belgian architect and artist, prints pseudo-photographs on recycled solar panels — merging urban imagery with technology that once captured light.
At the intersection of concrete and code, City Edges reveals the fragile balance between transformation and survival.