When Dean Kamen set out just before the turn of the millennium to monetize his brilliant invention—a wheelchair equipped with a hybrid wheel cluster for uneven terrain—he referred to the prototype in his notes as "Ginger." We would later come to know this product as the Segway. We can only speculate whether Kamen initially chose this name for its cleansing properties, intending to liberate the human race from walking and elevate it to the soaring glide of a personal transporter.
This experiment ultimately ended in tragedy, much like the concept of the hoverboard—the Segway's trivialized little brother hailing from the legendary sci-fi Back to the Future (a title that could easily serve as the subtext for this exhibition). Our sobering return to reality came by way of bicycles and scooters, augmented by the electric propulsion of marginalization and poor working conditions within the food delivery sector.
Throughout the exhibition, we observe this entire process through the prism of artificial intelligence—specifically, a humanoid. This represents yet another idealized vision of the "robot" that has failed to materialize since the 1960s, and remains far from reality today. The premise of this juxtaposition begs the question: What would an artificial intelligence make of this tangled mess? By design, the final outcome is a bewildered entity, grasping for truth and resolution in a world defined by uncertain developments and shifting trajectories.
curator: Šimon Kadlčák
Gallery Zaazrak Dornych
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The Original Night is a 16mm artist film project documenting Scotland’s waning population of wallabies by the filmaker
Located on Inchconnchan in Loch Lomond, a small colony of wallabies have resided on the uninhabited island since being introduced by the Countess of Arran in the 1940s; once part of her private collection of animals. Almost a century later however, proposals have been put forward to cull the wallabies, which has divided the local community, and raised broader questions around the perceived ecological and environmental damage caused by 'alien' species. In light of a petition launched in 2022 to “Save the wallabies of Loch Lomond”, the fate of the colony will be debated in parliament in 2023.
In view of their likely demise, The Original Night looks to create a final portrait of Europe's last wallaby population, told through three semi-fictionalised 'acts'. In doing so, the project explores humans’ longstanding fixation with the visual documentation of animals, that spans the inception of the cinematic form in Eadward Muybridge's studies of animals in motion, to France's ancient cave paintings. Not only artefact's of film's genealogy, such histories, chronicling America's wild horses, and Europe's bears and mammoths, are further bound by paralleling the decline of their subjects.
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The project aims to explore various forms of music publishing beyond the release of songs as such.
The first event took place in the Tic cinema, where a short performance took place before entering the hall where the audience could listen to songs from the May ' n' Linn in New York EP.
The term "delulu" comes from the K-pop music sphere (circa 2015), where it was used to refer to fans who adored their unattainable idols in an unhealthy way. The term has since spread on social media, where it has become a lifestyle alongside many others. In our view, today, it has transformed into mainly two spectrums - manifestation and idealization. In the manifestation sense, the delulu feels an awareness towards "reality" and merely behaves and believes the way they want their life to be, whereas with idealization, reality can be rejected and circled in the same problem with a puzzling reluctance to get out of it. This realisation is then embodied into songs.
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Net Worth is a narrative speculative documentary whose fictional story focuses on the intertwining of several characters who have different relationships with the area - they have jobs here, are sent on a research mission, and want to invest or spend their free time here. The video uses fictional and speculative narrative modes to describe the commercial and political interests affecting the shape of the territory itself, as well as the conditions for cohabitation and interspecies relations. The territory becomes a factor that influences spatial planning processes through its properties. Another level is the merging of humans with brain-computer interface technology (in the Synapse Pro video), which illustrates the deepening of profit-oriented technocratic growth.
The project was created in collaboration with Tamara Spalajković and Jakub Daněk.
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In one of the places of reverence of the attacked, there is a mysterious, little-used flash drive.
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he's trying to figure out what's this weird relationship between men and a dog all about. CATS INCLUDED (but he's more of a cat person)
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Breck Coleman 2021
Direction: Adam Smrekovský
A portrayal of a representative of Gen Z, set on the periphery of a Central European metropolis, who doesn’t want to be part of a neoliberal society. He chooses an unconventional way to gain independence from the system by returning lost dogs in exchange for reward money from people who don’t have time for them, because all their effort is given to their careers.
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