Presentations

August 26, 2015

In 2015, I created a video work, The Rites of Power, which was presented later in the year at the 3AM event in Berlin. "Back in the 3797AD, as pre~dicted, humans left a lot of things behind. Some of the more impressive visible structures were the electric power trans~mission lines that used to distribute energy across surface. Survivors of Terra developed a cargo cult, completely self-aware and totally meta-stable, to worship the remnants of those networked structures. They meditated on the magical process of creating magnetically-charged circular movement within the turbines of power stations, producing a motion of electrons through alternating the current, and then transferring them to the most remote destinations to be later converted into light, heat, terabytes of data, and – in some cases – back into fire and movement, again." ...

May 20, 2015

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Way to Russia Guidance @ Motto Books | 05/2015

Nonlinear narrative presentation at Motto Berlin. ...

January 26, 2015

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Local Prophets @ Flutgraben | 01/2015

On the 18th of January 2015, myself and Colin Johnco hosted the very first edition of the Local Prophets — a music / dance event that combined the format of an open jam session with a party. Our idea was to invite a bunch of musicians and have them set up their gear before the event begins. There was a fixed program, but we kept it open: the participants could join somebody else's set if they felt like it. The focus was to not only make music but to also play music and to create an environment where people felt free to share their practices. The event went through several iterations over the period of 3 years. During this time we hosted many artists from Berlin and beyond and — to our pleasure — many of them continued to collaborate after. We always made sure to invite dancers who loved Local...

December 31, 2014

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Divinatorium @ 3AM | 12/2014

In December 2014, we organized the first 3AM event — a regular gathering dedicated to art, performance, contemporary dance, and music. During this first event, myself and Colin Johnco presented a divination system that we developed as well as the theoretical foundations behind it. During our research, we discovered that most divination narratives have a common structure. The elements of the narrative are usually related in such a way, that they form separate clusters, which are distinct from one another and yet are connected globally. This allows the reader to read through the whole structure very quickly and efficiently in only a few iterations. Moreover, no matter where one begins, the structure will be traversed in a very similar way. The final narrative comes across as coherent and relevant because it will always mention several important, but very different topics in a way that makes sense. Based on this approach, we created...

November 15, 2013

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Interviews with Artificial AI @ Beursschouwburg | 10/2013

Interviews with Artificial Artificial Intelligence is a project where I interviewed Amazon's recommender system asking it to provide me with responses to the images I submit. In October 2013, I presented this work as a video installation at Beursschouwburg in Brussels, Belgium. The way the system works is that it receives an image from the customers and sends them a recommended product based on that image. It is powered by algorithms and when the algorithms fail it outsources this task to humans, who are mainly low-paid workers from India and China. On the left are the pictures that were sent, on the right are the products that were received. Over time certain logic emerges, which has a lot to say about the modern capitalism, absence of censorship, and the constant drive towards improvement and growth. Recommender systems, the basic building block of any website today, determine the news we see, the posts we...

July 25, 2013

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Polysingularity Framework @ LIP6 Lab, Paris VI | 06/2013

In June 2013, I was invited to present my work at the LIP6 laboratory of computer science at Paris VI university. I took this opportunity to present the Polysingularity framework that I've been developing for 2 years prior to that, which encompasses the ideas from network sciences and complex systems theory to propose a kind of heuristics that allows for several truths to co-exist at every point of time. During the presentation, I demonstrated how this framework, which was developed as an artistic and philosophical project first, was then implemented into many real-world projects. From text analysis software Textexture, to body practices that we used in performative settings. It was especially interesting to present this work in a scientific context, to the people who work in academia, as it was not the kind of content that was usually presented at Lip6 lab events. However, I was pleasantly surprised with the openness of the...

May 15, 2013

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The Humping Pact @ Mousonturm | 05/2013

The Humping Pact. Live performance by Dmitry Paranyushkin and Diego Agulló. Presented at Mousonturm theater in Frankfurt in May 2013. In this performance, we were exploring the connection between the spectacle, space, technology, and the body. Most theater performances rely on stage design, lights, and sound, creating an atmosphere to carry the audience into an imaginary world. We investigate the processes of setting up a stage for a performance and preparing a space for a happening, revealing its meditative and ceremonial nature as well as a bond and sensuality that emerge in a collective work. The process of setting up a space is akin to creating a new form of life. Bodies form into shapes, shapes create patterns, a language emerges. The inevitable end of this construction and its simulated nature make it futile from the very beginning, but it is this very futility that makes sense through the traces it leaves...

March 28, 2013

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OK Performance @ Kunsthalle Charlottenborg | 03/2013

In March 2013, I was invited to present the OK Performance at Kunsthalle Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Denmark. OK Performance was born from my practice of exploring polysingularity of meaning in language that emerges from repetition. In this performance, I repeat "OK" for 20 minutes changing the voice, the intent, the context, the circumstances. While it is common knowledge that repetition helps to remember things, it can also be used to disassociate signifiers from signified. As a result, there is a space opening up for multiple interpretations, which is particularly interesting to explore in a performative context. Suddenly, a simple "OK" can be perceived as an expectation or a proposal. This reveals the hidden potential of language and communication that exists at every moment of time if only we take a longer moment to pause and question our perception of reality. ...

March 15, 2013

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Transnomia & The Humping Pact @ Brut | 03/2013

A live performance and video installation, together with Diego Agulló....

October 27, 2012

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Polysingularity Letters @ Kunstfabrik | 10/2012

In October 2012, I presented my new book Polysingularity, volume 3, at the Kunstfabrik Am Flutgraben in Berlin. This book was part of a fictional collection of research works on the concept of polysingularity that I was developing since 2010. The book features texts and artworks created between 2009 and 2012. Each work is an exploration of polysingularity methodology in the context of a certain practice. The most interesting part of the research to me, at the time, was the ability of the human mind to interpret the same phenomenon in multiple ways, to conceive of the different causes that may lead to the same event, or to imagine several different perspectives on the same situation. So I was interested in creating works and texts that could make sense in a variety of different ways and that could be placed in completely different contexts. Their relational nature revealed something very crucial about...

Presentations

The Rites of Power @ 3AM | 08/2015

Way to Russia Guidance @ Motto Books | 05/2015

Local Prophets @ Flutgraben | 01/2015

Divinatorium @ 3AM | 12/2014

Interviews with Artificial AI @ Beursschouwburg | 10/2013

Polysingularity Framework @ LIP6 Lab, Paris VI | 06/2013

The Humping Pact @ Mousonturm | 05/2013

OK Performance @ Kunsthalle Charlottenborg | 03/2013

Transnomia & The Humping Pact @ Brut | 03/2013

Polysingularity Letters @ Kunstfabrik | 10/2012

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