Inside/Outside

In the project, Inside/Outside the artist addresses our inability, and potential future ability, to transfer our conscience into the digital world. As we are all consumed with how will our digital personas appear online in the form of a picture, quote or 'like', we forget to reflect on how would our inner, you might call it spiritual, life be projected digitally.

2017

Inside/Outside IX, digital 3D render

The artist tries to convey this in a series of rendered pictures and videos, obtained by 3D scanning a real human body and then transferring it into a 'computerised world'. As the posthuman view thinks of the body as the original prosthesis, the scanned body also (ironically) finds itself empty after entering the digital world. The hollow husk is looked upon from the inside to discover an ecosystem that was previously not visible to the human eye and reveals itself as an airy dimension supported by the remnants of the physical body. The supports act as a subsidiary structure for our otherworldly conscience in a world where the informational pattern is privileged over a material embodiment.

The video gives us time for introspection while making us see the embodiment of our conscience in the digital and other bodily, and time to imagine how it would look like to feel, think and empathise enclosed in a virtual world. The artist envisions this project as both a way to visualise our obsession with data and the digital and as a way to cope with our day-to-day digital frustrations and meditate upon looking at our future digital selves.

Inside/Outside, digital 3D rendered video

This project has been presented at:

The project has been presented at the group exhibition USB Shuffle, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin (2017), at the Triennial of Young Artists - Premiera at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Celje, Slovenia (2018), the Bodies in Movement group exhibition at the Millepiani gallery, Rome (2019), and the Speculum Artium Festival in Trbovlje, Slovenia (2019). As of the 14th of November 2020, the work was displayed at the first iteration of https://e.a.t.spatial.hub.earth through the Manipulations exhibition, curated by Samatha Hookway at the Institute of Contemporary Ideas and Art.

The work is currently on display as part of last year’s The Wrong Biennale (online through https://thewrong.org/SelfAsAService, 2023/24)

Inside/Outside III, digital 3D render

Inside/Outside II, digital 3D render

Inside/Outside IV, digital 3D render

Inside/Outside I, digital 3D render

This project has been presented at:

The project was presented in various news outlets as the Official website and catalogue of the Speculum Artium Festival 2019, and the Podjetniški Inkubator Kočevje.

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