Andrey Rylov
Maxim Mezentsev
Manifesto
About the Item
The Manifesto artwork is a digital graphic series of sentences created by the StyleGAN neural network. The artists taught it the letters of different alphabets, including Old Russian and Arabic, thus creating the letters of a new, non-existent language. It is impossible to determine the meaning of these phrases, since they are created by the neural network only on the basis of the external outline of the letters. This work refers to the practices of Russian futurists who used zaum language in poetry (Velimir Khlebnikov, Aleksei Kruchenykh, and others), as well as to the poetic experiments of Moscow conceptualists (Lev Rubinstein, Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov, Andrei Monastyrski, and others).
About the Artist
Andrey Rylov is a new media artist who works in a field of sound sculptures and installations using materials from hardware stores and DIY electronics. He performs with experimental music, creates video works using neural networks, as well. Andrey Rylov is a graduate of the New Media Laboratory, participant of multiple collective exhibitions and festivals: NUR festival (Kazan, 2021), Prepared Surroundings festival (Moscow, 2020 and 2021), Blazar fair (Moscow, 2021), Morpho festival (St. Petersburg, 2021), Adaf.gr (Greece, 2019), Ars Electronica (Austria, 2019), Pixels festival (Yekaterinburg, 2019).
Maxim Mezentsev is a graphic gesigner, visual artist and VJ from Izhevsk, Russia. He works with interfaces, fonts, animation and makes video for experimental theater. He constantly collaborates with the Center for Contemporary Dramaturgy and Directing in Izhevsk, Russia. Maxim Mezentsev participated at the Pixels festival (Yekaterinburg, 2019), Intervals festival (Nizhny Novgorod, 2019 and 2021), Night of Light festival (Gatchina, 2019), Adaf (Athens, 2020), METAXIS festival (St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yerevan, 2022).
