Black Box
intermedia installation by Dorijan Šiško & Sara Bezovšek
About the exhibition
Black Box is a manifestation of total algorithmically driven curation, encapsulated in the form of a video game. The intermedia installation codes between the physical and virtual realm, tasking players with exploring the inner workings of a deconstructed recommender system that forms, facilitates and amplifies online identities. In a political environment where the overton window is drastically shifting, the complex relations of different ideologies and identity positions can be difficult to fully grasp. The player will navigate this dense memetic landscape by feeding themselves to different filter bubbles and interacting with diverging pills, creating an aesthetic representation of their internet-mediated belief system.
- Lea Sande
Artists
Sara Bezovšek is a visual artist working in the fields of internet art, experimental film and graphic design. Her artistic practice is characterized by reappropriation of online and pop cultural materials. Using a dense visual language of references, she taps into the collective imaginarium and constructs engaging narratives that are both a critique and a celebration of the highly saturated online media landscapes we navigate daily.
Dorijan Šiško is an intermedia artist and graphic designer whose practice spans the fields of video games, experimental interfaces, spatial installations, 3D graphics, and digital art. In his practice he explores speculative, post-digital, post-internet, experimental, and critical aspects of art and design. By creating virtual visual-theoretical worlds, his works explore themes such as fringe digital culture, parallel realities, the dark side of the internet, alternative futures of humanity, and post-truth.
Development:Esben Holk
Music and sound design: ascyth
Additional 3D design:Jaka Juhant