Olga Kisseleva’s works emerge from the continuous artistic confrontation with developments in digital media traversing along the reciprocal discrepancy between analogue and digital dimension. Their aim is to make the new aspects of reality an object of aesthetic practice.
Integrated components of her artistic work consist of scientific research methods comprising areas of natural, social and humanist sciences. She subjects her theoretical assumptions and analyses to reflection of both a theoretical and artistic nature.
The focus of her work is the diversity of communication and data transfer technologies that are effecting lasting change in human behaviour and our perceptions of ourselves. Her work is aimed not only at making digital technologies artistic tools, but also at observing them from a critical standpoint. Her installations thematically depict the interaction between analogue and digital spheres, but also the understanding of reality implied in each of these spheres.
+ Background: Media-based art experiments with individual media or entire media systems. The media are simultaneously the materials and the object of the artistic practice; they embody the aesthetic and artistic-innovative confrontation with the possibilities of new media, information, communication and computer technologies and/or their link with traditional media such as photography, film, performance and others. Kisseleva’s work deals with communication, interaction and also with transmission and linkage of both a technical and a symbolic nature. Special attention is given to process-based artistic works, open processes and their design.
LichtRouten Piece: IT’S Time
The initial point of the reactive installation is the tendency toward acceleration in the post-modern world. Olga Kisseleva and Sylvain Reynal use a spatial installation to focus on the tension between the subjective experience of time and its collective relativity. The visual reference point is a projected illuminated display controlled by the visitors, each of whom receives an armband measuring their heart rate. These measurement data control the text field of the digital time and comment display. The project is being developed with the support of the “Art&Science International Institute (ASII), University of Paris” and the “Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/Laboratory for Theoretical Physics and Modelling”.
LichtRouten-location: Villa Deumer I Sauerfelder Straße 28
