‘Close Technologies’: Exhibition on Digital Sensorics Opens at Tula Machine Tool Museum
Until March 16, 2025, the Machine Tool Museum, located in the Oktava creative industrial cluster, is hosting an exhibition organised by curators from the HSE Art and Design School. The exhibition explores the phenomenon of multisensoriality and features projects by the school's teachers.
The exhibition showcases interactive technological art objects that delve into the natural and technologically enhanced possibilities of perception and communication. Visitors can join the creators in exploring the interaction between humans and digital technologies in the context of developing sensory systems and even attempt to predict the future of humanity in the digital world.
Elena Demidova, curator of the ‘Close Technologies’ exhibition and a lecturer specialising in the ‘Event Design. Theatre. Performance’ track, notes: ‘The audience is ready to perceive multisensory works. Perhaps the pandemic played a role here—during that time, the world simultaneously realised the importance of sensory organs that are still difficult to digitise, unlike visual and auditory senses. Physical contact with the artwork may work in favour of multisensory projects, contrasting with digital ones. Multisensory art objects and installations allow viewers to become active participants, interacting with the artwork. This creates a sense of personal involvement and emotional engagement for the audience.’
Irina Ivannikova, an artist, performance creator, and lecturer in the ‘Event Design. Theatre. Performance’ track, presents two projects at the exhibition. One is a performative work on technological communication titled ‘Heartbeat,’ created in collaboration with sound artist Evgeny Kuzin in 2013. The other is ‘Pulse of a Distributed Body,’ a new reflection on the possibilities of communication and its technological enhancements, focusing on decoding nonverbal messages and their intersemiotic translation. This long-term technological performance has been implemented in collaboration with artist Dmitry Soshnikov, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, technical director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and instructor of the ‘Programming for Creative Disciplines’ course at the HSE Art and Design School.
‘Labyrinth. Human Code’ is an interactive installation based on a fingerprint, exploring the concept of the creator and the created. This work was co-authored with AI and presented by Stanislav Milovidov, a media artist, researcher, and Senior Lecturer at the HSE Art and Design School and Institute of Media.
Exhibition participants reflect on the processes of human interaction with themselves, society, and the world, creating futuristic concepts. For example, a cybernetic hand is enhanced with sensors, providing capabilities beyond those of a biological hand.
The project authors experiment with forms of communication, conveying messages through colour, vibration, and pulsation, and distributing sensations outside the body. The world is becoming more vividly coloured and sonically enriched, providing humans with increasing amounts of information—but does this make us more advanced or happier? Where might this lead us? Are these advancements driven by an abundance of possibilities or by a sense of our own imperfection? These and other philosophical questions are explored in the exhibition.
Artists: VALab art group, KS90, SYMETRIA, Asomnia, Julia Abzaltdinova, Nadezhda Bey, Irina Ivannikova, Ekaterina Kozlova, Evgeny Kuzin, Danila Logvinenko, Natali Lakhtina, Oleg Makarov, Stanislav Milovidov, Dmitry Pokrovsky, Nina Sibireva, Ksenia Sidorova, Dmitry Soshnikov, and KB ‘Prometheus.’
Project Partners: Geek Picnic Festival, Galeev-Prometheus Foundation, Krasnokholmskaya Gallery, and the Signal Systems project.
The exhibition runs until March 16, 2025. Address: Tula, Tsentral’nyy Pereulok, 18, Machine Tool Museum.
Hours: Daily from 12 pm to 9 pm. Tickets required for entry.
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