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The Year's Midnight, 2011 Computer, software, camera, high-resolution display, Seeing Machines face recognition 105.5 x 80 x 12 cm Ed. 3/6, 1 AP (RLH 89.3) White or black smoke bellows from the eyes of the viewer. Live and recorded eyeballs

"Autopoiesis", 2010 mirror, surveillance camera, laser projector, proximity sensor, computer running custom face-tracking algorithms 20" x 14" x 7.5" / 51 x 36 x 19 cm edition of 6, 1 AP When people look at themselves in this small mirror they see

Park View Hotel stretches between the Cesar Chavez plaza in downtown San Jose and the neighbouring Fairmont Hotel. Using specially-built pointing devices, audiences in the park can access interior hotel spaces, by "pinging" them optically. Once

A light source rotates around the visitors like a satellite, causing their shadows to rotate like a clock. The waxing and disappearing of the shadow distort their faces. Although it turns about 1440 times faster than the midnight sun at the North

The digital animation "Conquistadors" examines the tensions and conflicts that define the Russian territory in the age of privatization. The artist reflects on current modes of domination, both foreign and domestic, on the Russian territory, and

Two large, transparent plastic sheets and a device that gradually sucks the air out from between them leave the body (in this case the artist himself) vacuum-packed and vertically suspended. The transparent tube inserted between the two surfaces

Styrofoam beads are blown around in a big transparent PVC cylinder by five strong fans. Visitors can take place on the armchair in the middle of the whirlpool or observe from the outside one at a time. On the chair, in the eye of the storm it is

A matrix of nine pivoting walls forms a labyrinth whose architecture continuously changes. A sequence of different compositions creates choreography of spaces flowing into one another. It is an auto choreographic space to wander and get lost in,

A rope slowly curls around a chair, caressing it carefully. As the speed increases, the torsion builds up and the rope becomes a strangling snake approaching it's pray and eventually the chair is violently tossed around. Although a computer

For me, as an artist working with software CONSPIRE is first about encoding. As an ex-soviet, I perceive CONSPIRE in the same time like a dissident’s practice (an other way of encoding!) and like a monitoring following by manipulation – all kind of