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MADE IN CYLAND

ELENA GUBANOVA & IVAN GOVORKOV

FILTRATION OF WHITE NOISE

Video Installation, 2011


Video engineer: Viktor Ryukhin

Computer programming, assembly by Sergey Komarov, Alexey Grachev

In this installation, the image is interactively connected with the viewer’s movements. By entering the room, a person “startles” the peace and emptiness of the space by filling it with the movement. She or he brings reality and the reflection of reality “to life” and turns “nothing” into “something”. As the viewer moves, the space fills with fluorescent flying white images-birds—with the troubled movement of black and white that, ultimately, “pulverizes” into the “white noise”. The artists use video not as a finished artistic image, but rather as an artistic material. Most likely, the only important thing here is the light that, forcing its way through darkness, assumes the shape of soaring birds, fills the space with itself and disappears when the viewer leaves. The beholder is gone—light is gone—shadow is gone—the world is gone.

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