The site for mediated urbanity projects:
Digital Zoom Spying
Penetrations into innermost places are welcome and open for everyone. There are no rules in public space to protect naïve and innocent. No tracing techniques are necessary to capture hidden strategy footages. All data in public space is explicit, open for manipulations. Surveillance video material is accessible to everyone and is potentially broadcasted worldwide. All data is open. Share your privacy! Explicit your source! Your personal data is open to anyone you’ve never seen before. Your public portrait and intimate places are exposed in the exhibition, just for a showing beautiful picture or explaining a simple tactics: private is no more private in a public space.
Would you except a proposal to expose your privatescape for any else purpose anywhere and anytime? Mediated sitescapes with pixelated view captured by ordinary handy cam using digital zoom provides with a veil of secrecy which easily could be redefined into a quality image for smb’s back and black purposes.
The observer of the project is identified with a kind of deviant: the deviant Mr. Infinity for a new paradigm of our daily creative and daily technological environment with an indulgence in a perverted aesthetic sickness.
Video material captured in Paris, 2010, edited in Stockholm, 2011.
33'33'' min, loop.
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Megacity Show. Negative evidence of urban complex appeared in Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, in summer 2002. The first massive smog of fumes started out of burning peat in the city surroundings and continued sphereing for several weeks. Cityscape fell unrecognizably: all streets smogged, people were wearing masks, pollution raised, etc. The feeling of megalopolis dwelled on a small town. Transaction from a town sized city to megacity succeeded. Photography series is taken of schoolchildren from secondary art school – National M. K. Ciurlionis School of Arts, Vilnius.
Photographs Megacity Show were exhibited in art centre Intro, Vilnius.
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V.D.A.
The aim of the art project is the investigation of particular time and space with analysis of game strategies. The territory of ensemble of Vilnius Academy of Arts and St. Bernardine Church and Monastery in Vilnius: the history of two different institutions, relatively similar objectives, sacramental and spiritual worlds, phenomenology of faith and creation, feeling of eternity and transiency in chosen period are target points for Vygandas expanded project. The buildings' complex separated by Soviet judgements came together in a unit of V.D.A. project within similarity tactics of body and building. Audiovisual installation with predominant circulation strategies and documentary prospects of chosen time and space are significant aspects for expression of the artwork.
Documentary images are a common method to measure and reflect on the monumental scale of change occurring in contemporary society. These images are also highly aestheticised, making beauty even of images of the most desolate slum or industrialised landscape. As a crossover point between art and journalism, the documentary image also allows us to question the veracity of world events from multiple viewpoints, often offering multiple uncomfortable realities instead of a single, easily-digestible worldview. In an era of a massive data onslaught that individuals struggle to cope with, the documentary image continues to offer us a human face on information, sometimes elegantly summarising a complex situation.
Synchronized three channel video projection, photography series and released limited edition art DVD is the result of several years’ artistic research.
v.d.a., multichannel installation: view.
v.d.a., art dvd and package.
v.d.a., photography series.