PROGRAM RESULTS
The Garage Digital grant program supports projects, art, and research driven by an interest in new media and technology. The launch grant, entitled New Research Practices, focuses on the impact of technology on the methods and subject of artistic research. Applications were accepted between November 26, 2019 and February 10, 2020. Five winners were selected from among 96 applicants, based on the clarity of their idea and its artistic realization, compliance with this year’s theme, and the possibility of publishing the project on the Garage Digital platform.
Each winner will receive a grant of 60,000 rubles plus funding for the production of their projects.
THE JURY OF THE 2019/2020 GARAGE DIGITAL GRANT PROGRAM ARE:
Projects of the Winners of the Grant Program “New Research Practices”
All Dungeons Will Fall
Aleksei Taruts
Aleksei Taruts will produce the project All Dungeons Will Fall, which uses the gamified alleged remains of Noah’s Ark, discovered in Chechnya in 2017, to problematize the link between instant communication and the production of irrational, historical, and chance knowledge.
Google Maps screenshot showing the location of the alleged remains of Noah’s Ark, discovered in Chechnya. Preparatory material for the project All Dungeons Will Fall, 2020
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Valentin Golev
Valentin Golev will produce an interactive research project on digital visual art and 3D-rendering.
Melencolia I, 2019 (Digital image)
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Outsourcing Paradise
eeefff group
eeefff group will produce the project Outsourcing Paradise, which is focused on the development of parasitic interfaces that reveal themselves in the gaps between the user’s activity and create glitches or add-ons to existing online ecologies.
Outsourcing Paradise, 2020 (Digital collage)
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Machinic Infrastructures of Truth
Anna Engelhardt
Anna Engelhardt will produce the project Machinic Infrastructures of Truth, which invites the viewer to analyze the process of production of truths and envisage it as a material system of information flow arteries, where traffic is regulated by taught algorithms.
Machinic Infrastructures of Truth, 2020 (Digital image)
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Sara Culmann
Sara Culmann will produce a project exploring software and game engines as broad and open tools that can be used outside of the gaming world.
Agency of NOWHERE, 2020 (Video still)
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Авторы
Aleksei Taruts
(b. 1984) is a transmedia artist whose practice embraces primarily performative and situational works as well as mixed media installations. The key issue probed by the artist’s research is the problematization of the notions “event”, “presence”, and “testimony” as units of symbolic exchange. Taruts interprets the modes of presence and distance in relation to event, formed by the affects of cultural industry of the late capitalist era. The artist’s scope of interests also includes irrational manifestations invoked by the technologies of instant representation and attention dispersal, as well as the type of memory generated by unstable connections. Aleksei lives and works in Moscow.
Valentin Golev
(b. 1992, Moscow) is an artist and researcher interested in computer graphics, corporate software, and mathematics, who has published several articles on these subjects. He studied at St. Petersburg State University (2016–2018) and the online platform New Centre for Research & Practice (2018–2019). He lives and works in Berlin.
Anna Engelhardt
(b. 1994, Kostroma) is a digital artist. She has a master’s degree in Research Architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London (2019). Recent projects include the video essay Ornament, the project Adversarial Infrastructure, and the platform Intermodal Terminal. She lives and works in London.
eeefff group
eeefff group was founded in 2013 by writer and artist Dzina Zhuk and artist and computer scientist Niсolay Spesivtsev. Group exhibitions include: Which with its Waves, Electro Zavod, Moscow (2019); Digital Landscapes, Havremagasinet, Boden, Sweden (2018–2019); Ambient Revolts, ZK/U Berlin (2018); GLOBALE: New Sensorium, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2016); and Politics of Fragility, Na Shabolovke Gallery, Moscow (2016). They are based between Minsk and Moscow.
Sara Culmann
(b. 1981, Kirovsk, Murmansk Oblast) is an artist who works with CGI and animation and is currently resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. She studied at Oryol Art College, Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry and Rodchenko Art School in Moscow. Solo exhibitions include: Pleasure Machine, Vadim Sidur Museum, Moscow (2019); C.A.R.R.I.E., Kazan Art School (2017); and Cargocento, IssMag Gallery, Moscow (2015). Group exhibitions include: Extemporary: Art out of Time, Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod; PERMM, Perm (2019–2020); IAM, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2018); Hosting the Inhuman, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2017); Pink Flamingoes, BLEEK, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium (2017); and Expanding Space, GES-2, Moscow (2015). She took part in ESF (Extra Short Film) Festival (Moscow, 2013). She lives and works in Amsterdam.