statement
My artistic
practice is an ongoing visual and conceptual
experiment about the possible appearance of art in the future.
I was born in times with no personal computers, cell
phones and Internet and I have been witnessing an overwhelming
emergence of all those new things and most importantly the change in
human values and views.
Nowadays, we see the beginning of an
absolutely new era of super advanced cybernetic technologies which
will soon give birth to the General Artificial Intelligence. It will
lead to a huge shift of our status as the most influential and highly
complex creatures on this planet who always have treated themselves
as a pinnacle of evolutionary creation.
It was once said “we
can’t predict the future, but we can create it”. Therefore the
attempt to create the art of the future is one of the obvious ways to
possibly deal with an unbearable feeling of uncertainty about the
role of art in the new world with different cultural values and maybe
even with different views on beauty itself.
We can imagine what the art of the future would look like but if we don’t create it ourselves then it won’t be any. So my practice and big interest is not only to imagine and create something brand new but also to create the future itself by doing that.
My works are literally distilled and freed up from anything that is not an imaginary futuristic art. There is no intentions other than to fully abstract from my own previous visual experience and to generate some art which is totally new to me. Of course the elements used are mostly standard shapes but I try to combine them in the newest form possible.
Daniil Alikov