Aiolos
Andriy Linik je v súčasnosti jedným z najzaujímavejších a najtalentovanejších mediálnych umelcov, kurátorov a teoretikov na Ukrajine. Vzhľadom na to, že na Ukrajine neexistuje žiadne systematické štátne vzdelávanie v tejto oblasti, Andriy je – rovnako ako všetci ostatní – samouk. Napriek tomu v sebe všetky jeho diela zahŕňajú dôkladný výskum, ktorý spracovávajú vysoko umelecky.
Jeho práca Aiolos, ktorá vznikla v roku 2011, je znovu aktuálna v súčasnej situácii na Ukrajine. Ako vieme, Aiolos bol v gréckej mytológii kráľom Aiolie a vládcom vetra. Odyseovi poslal priaznivý vietor Zephyrus a vrece s nepriaznivými vetrami, ktoré Odyseovi zvedaví námorníci vypustili. Dnes môžeme nové média prirovnať k vetru, ktorého kvalita závisí od smeru, ktorým sa my uberáme. “Vietor nových médií”, ktorý sa len nedávno s utrpením oslobodil, nás teraz odnáša opačným smerom, preč od nášho cieľa. Andriyove dielo zosobňuje internet ako rizomatické médium, ktoré nás niekedy skôr mätie, než informuje. Naše súčasné nové médiá sú často prostredníkom nepriateľstva, agresie a absurdnosti, než pokusom porozumieť jeden druhému.
Ianina Prudenko
- The Aiolos show is an exhibition of one artwork00:00:13.857
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- by quite a young Ukrainian media artist, Andriy Linik.00:00:17.648
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- It was produced as the first show in this space,00:00:24.884
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- where we move to from the previous one.00:00:31.623
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- We have found this artwork perfectly fitting00:00:35.308
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- the concept of the festival, the part of which the show is.00:00:39.293
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- It is the Multiplace festival, which was held for a few days at the end of May,00:00:43.614
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- though the show is open till the middle of June.00:00:48.436
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- This year's topic of the Multiplace festival is presented00:00:51.801
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- with a subtitle "a festival for the digital survivors."00:00:57.609
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- And at this very theme aims also the Andriy Linik's artwork.00:01:04.219
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- It works with a very simple search engine,00:01:08.866
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- that can be used by the visitors of the exhibition.00:01:13.314
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- Using the words entered by the visitors00:01:17.491
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- and certain generative principle00:01:21.203
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- the search engine looks on Internet for texts and images00:01:25.049
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- associated with the submitted expression00:01:29.456
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- and compiles them in generative compositions.00:01:31.756
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- Viewer can then trace in these compositions the submitted words.00:01:37.122
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- The title refers to Aeolus, the god of antic mythology,00:01:44.497
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- who is, I believe, mentioned mostly in Homer's Odyssey.00:01:48.891
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- This god, the Keeper of the Winds, gave Odysseus00:01:55.367
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- a wind, Zephyrus, to help him sail back to Ithaca.00:02:00.629
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- The multitude of data can be seen as such a wind,00:02:10.105
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- which, if used often and properly, can be of help.00:02:14.777
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- But if it is too big a chaos of data,00:02:18.913
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- then it is dysfunctional and useless, congesting everything.00:02:22.358
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- And that's the metaphor of the artwork.00:02:28.453
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- Though created in 2011, when there wasn't still so much data as there is today,00:02:31.854
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- the metaphor works perfectly.00:02:38.170
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- This artwork works with visuality,00:02:42.349
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- that is, to a certain extent, spectacular,00:02:45.901
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- concerning the new visuality it offers.00:02:49.322
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- It works with sound, or libraries of simple sounds,00:02:53.082
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- that are generatively added to the texts appearing on the screen,00:02:58.397
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- creating thus an environment,00:03:04.708
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- which is, on one hand, beautiful, but, on the other hand,00:03:10.481
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- it inspires thinking about the metaphor.00:03:15.392