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- Angelina Voskopoulos "Behind This Page but not Disappearing " Year: 2015 | 16 min 40 sec
“The technological progress of recent years has strengthened the ties between humanity and technology, machines and artificial intellect, and made the interaction between organic and synthetic life more intimate.
People and machines learn from each other with the help of neural networks. People’s consciousness undergoes certain changes. They develop a different outlook on the notions of life and death, moral problems of scientific experiments, territorial and virtual boundaries, tracking systems and total digital control. Personalities surrounded by a mirror cube of social networks hide behind their avatars and continue to exist in their accounts even after death. If you are absent from social networks, does it mean that no one knows about your existence, or is it a way of avoiding media control? The preservation of memory and transfer of information onto a digital database, and the fast development of artificial intellect and its humanization makes us face the inevitable question of personality identification. Who are we? What is our future going to be like? This program is dedicated to a contemplation of these problems by modern artists”.
(Victoria Ilyushkina)
Artists
Laika was the first dog which the Russians successfully sent into the Earth’s orbit. One of the many Soviet space-dogs, the first astronauts, who paid with their lives for humankind conquering Space. This film is a letter from the dead dog. Its haunted spirit re-tells the story of her heroic deeds and martyrdom. The letter is not a call for a revenge or restitution, it’s rather a document of a life, one of many lives that were considered “disposable” by the well-known human strategies of conquest and domination.
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