Video Games: The Youngest Art
essay by Erik Ilmuratov

“Games as an interactive medium and artistic method are used in contemporary art works. [...] The exhibition space can be designed as resembling a video game, like the GARAGE Museum of Contemporary Art and Novoe Architecture Bureau did at the exhibition ‘Assuming Distance: Speculations, Fakes, and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene’ in 2021.

The viewers were invited to follow a route along special trails and a floor surface that was made of luminous squares and connected the museum halls. The very process of exploring the exhibition space was transformed into a gamified process reminiscent of arcade video games, questionnaires and scanwords.”

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Mass Makeup: Freckles
by The Rodina | Tereza Ruller & Vit Rulller
 
Inspired by Korean standards of beauty, makeup trends, and facial plastic surgery, artists examine beauty as a socially constructed category. During the Mass Makeup performance, Tereza’s face was restaged into a canvas — a surface where action can take place. This act questions the involvement of society in how natural assemblages of muscles and skin are transformed into cultural artefacts.
 
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AAMU SONG AND JOHAN OLIN
Secrets of Russia
 
Back in 2012, Aamu Song and Johan Olin, the two Finnish designers, travelled from Moscow to the Urals, into Siberia, and to the Caucasus in search of authentic crafts techniques and skilled masters.
 
These expeditions started the project called Secrets of Russia, where traditional technologies are lovingly used in making new products.
 
DAFES PROJECTOR🔦 outlined the main conclusions drawn from Aamu’s and Johan’s experiences exploring a different culture without knowledge of language and being mentored by the traditional masters → read here