With the rise of NFTs, many artists decided to try their luck in the digital realm, moving their creative visions from other mediums to this new digital format. Damien Hirst, for example, transformed his dotted images into digital art but also preserved the physical copies for those still more inclined to keep artworks in tangible mediums.

The latest NFT announcement comes from Feral File, a digital art space dedicated to exhibiting and promoting digital art. The platform will revive the artworks of the late modern artist Lee Mullican in a digital format. Mullican experimented with visual forms using computers in 1987, at the age of 67, while participating in UCLA’s Advanced Design Research Center Program for Technology in the Arts. His output is now transformed into 23 NFTs, titled LeeMullican.PCX , curated by Anika Meier.

Surrealist Approach to Digital Art

While working at UCLA, Lee Mullican experimented with computers applying his Surrealist style and method of working to the new medium. Inspired by the early Surrealists, Mullican created works that relied on automatism, using a palette knife and other tools. However, during the UCLA program, he decided to replace his tools with a computer mouse and stylus, founding similarities between his painting style and the matrixes produced by the computer.

It was the first opportunity for the artist to expand his work into the digital realm and to merge his Surrealist automatic method with computer-generated markings.

“I found that beyond what one thought, the computer as being hard-lined, analytical, and predictable, it was indeed a medium fueled with the automatic, enabled by chance, and accident, the discovery of new ways of making imagery,” he stated afterwards.

Now, several decades later, his pieces are reimagined as NFTs and presented by Feral File.

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