Urgently! infosculpture. 2007

ARTIST

Aristarkh Chernyshev

YEAR

2007

COUNTRY

Russia

MEDIA

Networked Electronic Object

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Urgently! is an info-sculpture that explores such phenomena as information overload, Web 2.0 and information aesthetics. News coming from the Internet in real time, is thrown right away into a giant recycle bin in order to be updated at the next moment. A snake-like LED display coming in and out the bin shows the RSS feeds from various news channels. Urgently! metaphorically represents digital data - an endless flow of information that is updated every second and gets obsolete and trashed immediately after that. The piece is wirelessly connected to a computer network in order to retrieve the data. A user can select news channels and control update period.

Supported by National Center for Contemporary Arts and XL gallery.

Biography

Born in Voroshilovgrad, USSR, in 1968. Graduated from The Moscow State Technical University in 1991.
He has been working in-between new media and contemporary art since early 90’s.
From 1996 to 2005 he produced several interactive installations together with Vladislav Efimov. Installation “Genetic Gymnastics” (co-author Vl. Efimov, 2000) was exhibited at Milano Europe – 2000 (La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy), and video from “Genetic Gymnastics” was awarded a Grand Prix at the ESF (extra short film) festival. “Project of a Monument to A. Schwarzenegger as Terminator T-800” (co-author Vl. Efimov, 2002) realized with the help of the grant given by Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria had deep resonance in mass media and was shown many times in Russia, Austria and the USA. Installation “Bubbles” (co-author Vl. Efimov, 2004) was exhibited at the International Biennial of Contemporary Art - IBCA 2005 (National Gallery in Prague, Czechia). Interactive installations “Bubbles” (co-author Vl. Efimov, 2004) and “CoMutation” (co-author Vl. Efimov, 2005) were purchased by Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
From 2000 to 2004 he was running Media Lab at the National Center for Contemporary Arts in Moscow.
This activity developed into a number of various multimedia CD ROMs about the NCCA activities as well as a DVD ROM “5 Hours of Contemporary Art”.
In 2004 he and Alexei Shulgin co-founded “Electroboutique” gallery in Moscow. At this time his works appear on major International art fairs. The works from “Electroboutique” gallery were successfully exhibited at Fotobiennial 2006 (Moscow, Russia), “I Believe” (special project of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2007), Transmediale 2008 (Berlin, Germany).
Lives and works in Moscow.