MADE IN CYLAND
ALEXANDRA DEMENTIEVA
ORBIS QUARTUS / FOURTH WORLD
Interactive Video Installation, 2015
Max/MSP;
projectors, camera, two speakers, LED stripe, stand;
dark space
Engineers: Sergei Komarov, Alexey Grachev
Co-production of Cyland MediaArtLab, la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Adem vzw (BE)
On the wall is projected video, presenting an earth and is filming from the air. One can see the different climatic zones; forests, fields, towns, villages. Above the earth’s landscape an object resembling a ziggurat in its design slowly floats. In its surface as a mirror reflects the land.
The work is based on face recognition technology, in this case the expressions on the faces of spectators. If they are not friendly and frowned, more frighteningly the object is approaching to the earth from outer space, darkening all over the black shadow, in which buildings begin to break down the, emptying the valley, burning forests. If a visitor is calm and smiling – ziggurat moves away, the disaster recedes.







