Small Machines

An awarded performative installation that is built around a system composed of primitive devices, each equipped with a battery pack and a trace – leaving medium (markers, graphite chunks). When activated, they move in a chaotic dance creating an image echoing their action. The machines are confined by a designated space which allows the creation of a drawing on a piece of plotter paper placed underneath. Together they form an entropic system, tackling ang tugging on each other which sometimes leaves them damaged completely.

Project LEO

Initially created as my bachelor’s degree project, LEO was a drawing robot that could interpret a given image and redraw it by itself. It was built in 2017, when AI-generated images were still fairly easy to distinguish from the work of a human. Discussions about AI possibly replacing visual artists were on the rise and LEO was an attempt to reframe this idea.

Robotic Poetry

In the age of rapid development of deep learning, language seems to fade as a communication barrier for humans. How do the machines comprehend our languages, and what could their perception of them look like?

This machine interpretation of a handwritten poem tries to seek for answers.

Mycelium

The mysterious world of fungi does not cease to amaze scientists with its complexity and nuance. We are just beginning to learn about the ways of these intriguing organisms and even testing the properties of their bodies as a material for 3D printing. I was honored to take part in such studies at the Ars Electronica Biolab where we explored the implications of working with living matter during re:sources course organized by FUNKEN Academy.

The following are my findings on co-creating art with fungi.

Symbionic Affairs

Networks are ubiquitous in our modern life and their utility is becoming continuously more influential and nuanced. Their omnipresence is often unnoticed, even though our ability to perceive and experience the world around us directly relies on our own neural circuits. Different types of networks, both digital and biological have immense influence on our lives yet we are not always aware of those mutual dependencies.

This work explores networks of cooperation and exploitation between humans and nature and seeks the equilibrium between them by acknowledging the brute force behind progress while also taking a moment of appreciation for its bizarre byproduct.