Videos & Films

26 May 2022

/ Vulnerability: Us and AI /

While the fish as a living system is out of normal in the error condition, it can also demonstrate amazing resistance. When glass breaks, the resulting crystals retain some kinetic energy and continue moving for some time, then, due to inertia, this movement fades to zero.

During a highly challenging vulnerability reliability test:
Оn the “Alive” side there is a sense of fragility with so many possibilities for destruction of the complex’s system. But alongside the vulnerability there is also a super-ability for restoration, recovery and even development.
On the artificial side, in contrast, we are left with a diminishing kinetic impulse.
On the “Alive” side there is super-effort of restoration, recovery and even development, and on the artificial side, a diminishing kinetic impulse.

According to Searle’s “Chinese Room” theory, we can call our vulnerability sensory semantic, and AI’s (non?)vulnerability syntactic.
We see on the “alive” side the elasticity and flexibility of “semantics” and on the other side boundless but predeterminеd possibilities of “syntax”.
Should we pose “semantic”, ethical, legal and psychological questions-to ask to AI?
Shall we expect deep answers from AI, as for now, our semantic, human grounding filters are necessary and inevitable since “semantic” values ultimately determine development, creativity, discovery.
Do we desire the emergence in the near future of an equivalent consciousness in AI?
Do we still retain control over this dimension?
Shall we increasingly prize our different vulnerabilities especially the creative ones, cultivate and test them more and more?

Videos –   / Untitled n 1.. /

A video-investigation of trivial objects and substances transformations into abstractions and the fact that sound can completely change the image. Hypothetically, sound is stronger than image.

Observation of image/sound contrasts: shadow of water on transparencies/Kodo drums; “Rotation” of grass seen from a car window/experimental jazz; flickering images/rain drops sound; glare of flowing water/recitation of Japanese poetry.‘ ‘Listen to the beating heart through a simple ice cube.  ‘Lamps swinging in the wind, throwing red eyes in a puddle.. foam cocktail structure…  magic mouvement of  car internal mechanism displaied in showroom … surface’s secrets. No special effects: a closer shot. It is not a fictional world. There is a diversion of the world. Motion combines organic and non-organic worlds. Movement forms are deformed by sound. The association is between the contrast image-sound. We are taken away by the time, the speed and the rhythm’ V.Mazin

“The collective unconscious exerts overwhelming influence on the minds of individuals. These effects of course vary widely since they involve virtually every emotion and situation” Our emotions alike bursting bubbles – are they personally ours? »

/ SOAP RE-SOUND: a Practical Guide /

Video for The Pushkin Museum project “100 Ways to Live a Minute”.2020

Soap is one of the quarantine heroes. It acts as an image. In this video research, as in many others, I swap image with sound, that turns out to be more powerful than image. Wind is a very fitting metaphor for the human mind: it is invisible, yet its actions are obvious. Their combination — a new substance — a filter, protection, soap, mask shielding from information flow. This is a very focused choice of one’s own sound preferences, interests, emotions. This choice is unlimited even in isolation. It is inside us, so we can re-sound everything, any reality. We ourselves sound and vibrate through our bodies on a certain frequency. Research has proven, that high positive frequencies enhance body defense, and perhaps get rid of some problems, and perhaps add some high frequencies to our collective background noise. Soap sounds like wind. And now I suggest you seeing my previous experiments of this kind.

To see video, please click on the link bellow:

100 ways to live a minute at the Pushkin museum

Film “PuzzleParis” 35 min

A PUZZLE is an enigma-game: interlaced mysterious particles fitting into a big picture. Our entire world is a PUZZLE whose details, even the tiniest, are full of inner secrets. Hidden dimensions await discovery. “PuzzleParis” invites us to construct an idea of the city with given (sometimes odd) closeups. Even the usual elements of Paris imagery appear to be seen through the eyes of a visitor from another planet. Suddenly, with no special effects, the elevator of the Eiffel Tower becomes a gigantic insect. Like a kaleidoscope of Japanese prints, the images of “PuzzleParis” capture the colors, characters, scents, tastes, fragrances and textures of the City of Lights.