VIDEO PROGRAM

Focused on set of bookshelves revealed to be in a semi-demolished house, the moment captured doesn’t provide direct answers to “who”, “what”, “where”, “when” nor “how” but instead probes perception to conjure from clues.

A modernized Parca (goddess of Destiny) and Themis (goddess of Justice) engage in a visual analysis of recorded global history spanning the first half of the 1960’s. Documentary footage of propaganda films, nuclear testing, earth / space races leads into the civil rights movement appealing to the highest aspirations of the human spirit.

Modern medicine completely changed the process and experience of pregnancy/birth. Ultrasound made it routine to see watch inner space. Thanks to modern technology, a sacred and intimate place — a womb — is available for observation.

Animated layers illustrate how the speed of data transmission impacts the financial viability of daily life. The Philippines are one of the biggest exporters of labor force worldwide, driving local economy through transfer of international wages back home — comprising 13.5 % of the country's GDP.

AUJIK member Mana interviews her ADI (Artificial Deep Intelligence) KIIA. Lacking a physical body, KIIA conceives its organs, explaining its limbic system and other brain organs rest on the river bed. The river functions as a nerve system and combines with the unconscious. Made with the support of the Swedish MFA Umea Art Academy.

After a TV set suddenly breaks down, a forest substitutes. Referencing philosopher Ersumra Balteseruz’s only book — space is explored as a concept, an artificial facade to a reality we cannot comprehend.

Two essences of a Russian house collide: snow outside and furnace inside. Making snowballs in a hot house is an allegory of temporal and eternal duality of these extremes.

This performance video portrays the esoteric mission of an individual to have meaning beyond biological function or social expectations. Swaying on a foot, hugging and balancing potentially being both someone´s child and someone´s mother — the artist makes a critical attempt to physically embody a role defined by one´s self.

Throughout centuries, dreams have been interpreted by many cultures as images that speak of the future. In modern times, dreams have been seen as a connection to the unconscious. Based on the myth of Perseus, Calico is looking for the key that will lead him.

A virtual character confronts its unreality, navigating codes and programs on a screen which serves as a border between two words.

Masterpiece paintings decomposed into basic colors, each with its own sonic frequency serve as starting points to soundscapes. About 600 sine wave sound generators recreate the audio image of the painting while we watch the tessera fall apart.

Using video effects in montage, an ordinary picture of the traffic streets transforms into a kaleidoscope – a moving, luminous, abstract, enchanted city of the future.

A composition comprised from train doors, sounds range depend on the chromatic degradation of the picture.

A collage of snippets from videos posted by teenage girls between age 10 and 17 to their public Vlog or YouTube channel. A collection of moments when the girls stepped off-camera, giving the audience view of their private lives for a very short time.

Drawing a parallel between the ancient Judiac legend of “Golem” and contemporary digital technologies – the video explores the importance and imperative concept of memory in the equation of cloning.

Through plastic miniatures by artists of the Butoh theater, this video work juxtaposes the scientific story of the four seasons with the biblical tale of Man to symbolize the balance sought for harmony between man and nature.

Following Aldona on her daily walk to the Gutras Park illuminates past and present. In 1986, Aldona lost vision when her ophthalmic nerves were damaged. It may have been caused by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion.

WSWC was originally made for “Sedition”, a digital art platform. It is a homage to the Russian suprematist Kazimir Malevich. Simple abstract designs fold into a square and stretch into a circle, much like kneading dough. The sound generates the moving image, and the moving image generates sound.