The work was inspired by the fading aesthetics of outdoor advertising and is based on the light patterns of burned out billboards. These patterns can be considered as visually encrypted letters from an unknown sender to an unknown addressee.
The focus of the installation was on carrying the meaning of the message further bypassing decryption and generating new ones based on the dataset with Markov chains algorithm, in case the sender did not receive them. An audio part is based on field recordings near billboard surroundings.
The installation “to whom it may concern” was created for the exhibition “Monopoly on memory”, curated by Maria Maksimova, with the support of Goethe Institute Novosibirsk. The exhibition was part of the German Culture and Language Festival in Vladivostok within the framework of the Year of Germany in Russia 2020/2021.
Andrey Chugunov works at the turn of digital and analogue media. He combines sound art, light installation, generative graphics, technological sculpture, media performances and readymade in his practice. He researches topics of mortality, temporality, autonomy, and memory decay in his artworks from the perspective of meditative media.
Andrey got the New Faces Award in the Art division at the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2018. He was a nominee for the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award, in the categories Media Art and Science Art in 2022 and 2020 respectively. Andrey got an honorable mention in Media Art and was shortlisted for Digital Art nomination at the FutureTense Award in 2022.
The work was inspired by the fading aesthetics of outdoor advertising and is based on the light patterns of burned out billboards. These patterns can be considered as visually encrypted letters from an unknown sender to an unknown addressee.
The focus of the installation was on carrying the meaning of the message further bypassing decryption and generating new ones based on the dataset with Markov chains algorithm, in case the sender did not receive them. An audio part is based on field recordings near billboard surroundings.
The installation “to whom it may concern” was created for the exhibition “Monopoly on memory”, curated by Maria Maksimova, with the support of Goethe Institute Novosibirsk. The exhibition was part of the German Culture and Language Festival in Vladivostok within the framework of the Year of Germany in Russia 2020/2021.
Andrey Chugunov works at the turn of digital and analogue media. He combines sound art, light installation, generative graphics, technological sculpture, media performances and readymade in his practice. He researches topics of mortality, temporality, autonomy, and memory decay in his artworks from the perspective of meditative media.
Andrey got the New Faces Award in the Art division at the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2018. He was a nominee for the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award, in the categories Media Art and Science Art in 2022 and 2020 respectively. Andrey got an honorable mention in Media Art and was shortlisted for Digital Art nomination at the FutureTense Award in 2022.
