Coloboration with
Anna Petrova
Alexandr Terentev
Neuroplasticity primarily tells the story of a possible utopian state of empathy and new degrees of inclusion in the technologically familiar reality that surrounds us. When you reach out to household appliances, it becomes a kind of routine ritual, the reliability of which is possible only as far as manufacturers can promise. We, as performers, are deprived of awareness at the very moment of this habitual action. This is what my work is about - overcoming such situations of alienation and attempting to break the spell of the interaction process between humans and technological agents.
Before you are an analog neural network that mimics the activity of the brain during stress. When something extraordinary happens, the situation "revs up" the signals between CNS neurons almost to a kind of "burnout". A similar procedure is carried out on my boards, that is, some neurons have burned out, but they receive new ways of maneuvering in technically limited conditions. That is, in humans, neurons can build independent pathways, while such a phenomenon is not yet possible in technical environments.
Materials: plastic, acrylic, broken boards, analog perceptrons, variable resistors, LEDs, broken smartphone screens
Each button press launches a new path between excited neurons through the "stressed" circuit board. The visual plasticity of neurons in the presented process connects the breakdown with the occasion for rethinking our household difficulties and experiences. The emerging anxiety involves us in a communication of a special nature, in which the comparison of the machine and the biological launches empathy in the detailed consideration of routine actions and their reality
You can read more about this work and research in the documents below.