Works and interactive installation for the digital art exhibition at the Arka Gallery
I made made this project in Touchdesigner. The result was a video filter that breaks the image into many small lenses, similar to old stained glass windows. Each lens independently reflects part of the overall picture. I made a copy of the output signal and got a freeze frame in .tiff format, which I then enlarged with a Gigapixel neural network.
The exhibition was conceived at the end of 2020, at the peak of pandemic anxiety and global lockdowns. People around the world could only stay in their homes and rarely go out to the store or for morning walks. All this prompted me to search for an image that would allow me to describe what is happening. And such an image came – all our limited activities reminded me of the work of an anthill, where each worker ant moves along strictly defined routes, lives in a strictly designated place and never thinks about breaking the once established order. This image is especially acute in large shopping centers and supermarkets, where people quickly run between shelves filled with colorful goods that flash in front of their eyes. In order to emphasize the relationship of this activity with ant routes, I filmed supermarket shelves and then broadcast them through a video filter that mimics the structure of an ant's eye.
In addition to printed posters and similar paintings on canvas, it is planned to install an interactive setup of a video camera, projector and the running touchdesigner effect, and thus every visitor can try it.
