Ivan Svitlychnyi

Ivan Svitlychnyi’s Script is the first part of a trilogy. It follows in real time the formation of an algorithmic scenario for a future performance, and lays the foundations for its visual and audial shape. The script processes the data obtained through an analysis of low level Internet protocols by the servers located in various places around the globe. The data received is framed as a stylized mold of social connections between humans, and is visualized as virtual reality.

The script is based on in-depth analysis of human nature, including its biochemical, physical, technological, and social dimensions. The biomaterial “aspect” of mankind is emblematized by microorganismic colonies cultivated in Petri dishes. The shape of new anthropology is expressed through data analysis. Data streams, as well as transformations and developments of colonies, are visualized on screens in real time. Moving images from the colonies are processed as sounds.

The artist observes that, at its present stage, humankind is facing unpredicted challenges, and raises the question of what will come to define the status of an artwork in the future, how we will perceive our surroundings, what our priorities might become, what will define the new visuality of the future, and invites his viewers into hypervisuality with this work.