Cloud Bushes: Collective eeefff’s participative action
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Venue
Mozartova 1/261, metro and tram station Anděl, Prague 5
The artistic duo Dzina Zhuk and Nikolay Spesivtsev, concerned with the issues of surveillance, data storage and data usage, access to information and their representations in the long term, will be presented through a project based on their research into the local media space at the Fotograf Festival.
The rest will be specified on http://bushes.eeefff.org/.
Eeefff is a collaborative initiative of two people, Nicolay Spesivtsev and Dzina Zhuk, both independent artists, researchers, and facilitators. The group explores technology’s impact on humans and ways to hack the present day to find ways for alternative tomorrow. It combines artistic practices with computer science, economics, science fiction and creating software and hardware hacks and tools. It contextualises digital city infrastructure, problematises human/non-human interactions in the context of establishing complex AI autonomous systems and focuses on horizons of desires of IT-workers.
Within Festival Fotograf eeefff will present their research-based project “Cloud bushes” immersed into digital platforms, its overlapping layers, complex timing, inhuman speediness of computational processes and the fictional imaginary based on them.
“Cloud bushes” is a traffic loop that goes circle-wise, always random and in different directions, but never stopping. It is a high-way for clouds with different layers of the roads. “You’re always at the beginning and always at the end.” (Ray Brassier)
This is so to say a meta-circle that is a scheme of how the infrastructural digital processes work. Blocked in time, or visa versa, unblocked and broken in its very sense. As we know the infrastructure is becoming visible only when it’s broken. It looks like a pure scientific experiment that allows us to pose the questions: who, how and under what circumstances controls the data flows, who has the resources to store data and to mine it.
The information that is caught into the loop is not minable, from the moment it appears there it will always remain in a continuous form. It’s seems like a hell for data, but it’s not. Data do not care.
Bushes are becoming something where data can be caught in, stored in a multiple layering system, netted into as many links and connections as possible. The data can be localised, but never actually there. It’s a cloud accelerator, but not from Silicon Valley, it’s useless for a startup vision and not profitable at all.
Time collapses in these digital bushes. The clouds are interblended and platforms are interfused. The loop is becoming its own virus, but a loved one. Speed. Magnetism. Odor. Сoil. Sex in the bushes. Inhuman passion. Loop.
The rest will be specified on http://bushes.eeefff.org/.
