VZOR

Future tech and other

Laboratory at ITMO University
May 18-20, 2018

In May 2018, VZOR conducted a creative research laboratory as part of the opening of the Art & Science master's program at ITMO University (St. Petersburg).

Curators – Olga Remneva and Ivan Ninenko.

The 35 pre-selected participants were asked: ‘How will the inevitable development of technology affect the perception of oneself and other agents?’. It was proposed to answer the question in the form of a multimedia art project.

Recognized experts worked with the participants on the projects – artists Egor Kraft, Yuri Tolstoguzov, Natalya Fedorova, and Yuri Didevich; Science Slam organizer Mikhail Tupikin; speculative architect Yegor Orlov; engineer and visionary Ken Goldberg (online).

The seven-day laboratory became an exhibition at the Museum of Art of St. Petersburg, which was attended by more than 150 people in one evening.

LAB’S PROJECTS

JOMOLUNGMA SYNDROME

Authors – Konstantin Grebnev, Hanna Leonova

An audiovisual installation about the emptiness of the future, which forces a person to return to the present in order to fill their need for the forgotten beauty.

‘We are reminiscing about art. Wandering through its fragments, grasping at the fading. We stop to take a look. We listen, connecting the remnants of fantasy and project this illusion into the shell of our inner ear, imagining that it is genuine. We breathe in visual images as if it is impossible to get enough of it’.

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SENSORIUM

Author – Feodora Domozhilova-Kaplan

‘You have entered Sensorium – a zone of sensitivity, something that has the ability to feel, evoke and express feelings at the same time. Art, like life itself, interferes with the relationship of two, provoking them to feel and speak. But can our interaction be painless?’

Interactive installation works with neural interfaces that register reactions and offer their own interpretations of the dialogue.

MEDITATION ‘FEAR OF THE FUTURE’

Author – Maya Zhumatina

A space for meditation with a comfortable chair, a blanket, subdued lights and sound through headphones…
Now you are residing in meditation with fear.

The speech of a neural network is logic and calculation. The neural network learns quickly, and its speech becomes ‘human-like’, immersing a person in the uncanny reality. Meditation practices are built in such a way that they allow a person to dive into his subconscious and know themselves. The neural network goes through this process together with a person, getting to know them better and becoming them.

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GALLERY / PROCESS

GALLERY / PRESENTATION

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