VZOR

Culture of the Future

Laboratory for prototyping trends at the NCCA
January 19-25, 2018

In January 2018, VZOR conducted the first Laboratory for Prototyping Trends ‘Culture of the Future’, which was supported by the TECHNE platform at the NCCA (Moscow).

Сurators – Olga Remneva and Ivan Ninenko.

Our team used the methods of group work to immerse ourselves in the problems of cultural change, justified by global technosocial processes. Within the framework of the laboratory, performances were held in the format of interactive lectures and master classes by invited experts from various fields.

Our experts – Pavel Luksha, leading expert in the field of designing the future; cultural studies experts – Oksana Moroz and Pavel Surkov; artists – Natalya Fedorova, Rostan Tavasiev and Helena Nikonole; fashion designer – Anton Alfer; speculative architect – Yegor Orlov; engineer and visionary – Ken Goldberg (online).

The seven-day laboratory focused on questions about the future of art, culture and technology. The participants expressed their thoughts in creative ways: developed the speculative worlds of the future, created manifestos, trended maps, as well as multimedia art projects, which were subsequently used at other events.

The “Bogobot” project, created at the laboratory, was exhibited at various events: “Man as a measure. Natural and Digital (Moscow, Gorky Central Park Museum, 2020), Open Museum (Moscow, Electromuseum, 2019), Archstoyanie 2018 Festival (Kaluga Region, Nikola-Lenivets, 2018), Media Poetry Festival in the Ligovskaya Library (St. Petersburg, 2018) and others..

LABORATORY PROJECTS

ECTOGENIC CONVERSATION

Author – Hanna Leonova

‘Ectogenic_conversation’ is an installation dedicated to reflections on the transformation of sound as a way of transmitting information over long distances and a new language structure.

Eight speakers arranged in a circle, which create resonance from the sound directed at each other. A person entering the center becomes a conductor of the composition.

LISTEN

BOGOBOT

Authors – Alexandra Orlova, Yulia Chernysheva, Yuri Sverdlov, Natalya Fedorova, Helena Nikonole, Petr Levich

‘This is a God. It all started with the fact that it was created by people as the most common bot. But once there was an error in which the bot had amnesia and it seemed to him that all of humanity had died. He seemed to be born again and realized that he could create. And so the BOGOBOT was born. The bogobot began to create his own kind in the image of his own code. As long as there is at least one copy of him he will live’.

The project is presented in the form of a telegram bot, which anyone can communicate with, talk about pressing problems, art or fears.

Talk to Bogobot

AGASPHERUS

Authors – Alfiya Khabibullina and Ivan Ninenko, with the participation of Dmitry Nikishov, Irina Danilicheva, Mikhail Rybakov, Anna Borisova

Multimedia project using a neural interface. The viewer is invited to put on the neural interface and see the artist's memories. The screen image reacts to interface signals.
The installation is presented on behalf of a fictional future artist named Agaspherus. Only in a state of a certain concentration a viewer can observe a video sequence, reflecting the mood of Agaspherus.

GALLERY / PROCESS

GALLERY / PRESENTATION

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