Ascending Order

2015

Single-channel video installation; movement sensor, PC; duration: 1'35"

As the viewer approaches the video installation consisting of a computer standing on a typical office desk, the screen turns on and starts playing the video: the viewer sees the computer’s desktop, with the folder called ‘the sense of existence', the cursor moves to the folder and opens it up, a new window opens with another few folders of sub-categories... video continues ...’ A question of vital importance to humanity is lost in ordered labyrinths of virtual spaces.

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Each new mouse click only takes us further away from solving an issue, similar to how progressing mass media distracts us from grasping reality. Such action turns into a situationist spectacle, in which the choice of particular media as a means of understanding substitutes any effort to grasp reality and the meaning of existence within it.