Pavel Checkulaev

Serialize() v1.1

Artwork 1 Details :

serialize() — function converts complex data structure in a simplified data view. Today, we can turn on panoramas on a smartphone to walk through the streets of the cities that are thousands of kilometers away. Technology immerses us in a virtual world, blurring the line between the possible and the impossible and extends our experience. A person can get an authentic experience in the digital world. The digital world becomes not just new virtuality, but an extension of reality. I look for a human-modified landscape and shoot it. Then I build a paper model, based on the motive of this landscape. I print fragments from the landscape image on the model, enlarged so that pixelation appears. Finally, I create an installation with the same landscape and shoot the result. I get two landscapes in the picture: real (physical) and transformed, which is also real. The imperfection of the model is very important for me — the texture of the paper, the roughness, the threads. These are markers of reality that inevitably appear on a virtual object when it's born in the physical world. I consider this process of converting the real world into digital to be one of the most important features of our time. In patch 1.1 I chose a panorama on google maps of the area where the gallery is located. And based on the panorama I printed the model. The panorama itself can be seen by scanning the QR code located under the hanging model.