Information
Where Dogs Run >
»Tryalogue«, 2013
Co-Workers & Funding:
Project was realized with the support of Dynasty Foundation (Moscow) and the Ural Branch ofNational Center of Contemporary Art
Curator
Svetlana Usoltseva
Programming
Denis Perevalov
Scientific Advisers
Viktor Orlov,
Saint-Petersburg State University, physics
Vladimir Surdin,
The Sternberg Astronomical Institute (Moscow), physics
Computer simulation of three-body problem
Eugene Butikov,
Saint-Petersburg State University, physics
Music
created on the notes depicted at "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by
Hieronymus Bosch
played by "Vox Vulgaris" (disk "The shape of medieval music to come", 2003)
Voice Over
Petr Vinokurov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm3xy0Ty5gY
Technology
Descriptions & Essays
Where dogs run 02-06-2020
Three white balls in the field of snow. The balls are robots capable of autonomous and coordinated movements. They are exchanging information about their reciprocal positions and
are using as a motion equation the law which is qualitatively analogous to the gravity law. The
balls are attracted and repulsed depending on the space between them and their mass. They are
moving not as point masses ready to turn in any moment, but as vectored points. This is a
mathematical model of three-body system. It is impossible to predict their trajectories over the
long period of time. To a purely mathematical model we are adding its physical embodiment; as
a result, we have a multitude of not accounted for and non-foreseeable parameters, such as field
irregularities, patches of clinging snow, mechanical control imprecisions etc. These new
parameters make it impossible to predict the robots’ movements even one minute ahead.
We can only watch developments and sudden changes in relationships between them.
Through video, we are capturing the process of incessant calculations which is chaotically
changing mutual trajectories of the balls. Having created the system, we cannot control it. We
can only serve
as physical inaccuracies influencing the current mathematical operation; at the same time we
don’t know how exactly we are influencing these calculations. We renounce control and accept
the impossibility of control. This is an autistic system, close-looped to endlessly calculate itself.
Where dogs run: Tryalogue, 02-06-2020, in: Archive of Digital Art Three white balls in the field of snow. The balls are robots capable of autonomous and coordinated movements. They are exchanging information about their reciprocal positions and
are using as a motion equation the law which is qualitatively analogous to the gravity law. The
balls are attracted and repulsed depending on the space between them and their mass. They are
moving not as point masses ready to turn in any moment, but as vectored points. This is a
mathematical model of three-body system. It is impossible to predict their trajectories over the
long period of time. To a purely mathematical model we are adding its physical embodiment; as
a result, we have a multitude of not accounted for and non-foreseeable parameters, such as field
irregularities, patches of clinging snow, mechanical control imprecisions etc. These new
parameters make it impossible to predict the robots’ movements even one minute ahead.
We can only watch developments and sudden changes in relationships between them.
Through video, we are capturing the process of incessant calculations which is chaotically
changing mutual trajectories of the balls. Having created the system, we cannot control it. We
can only serve
as physical inaccuracies influencing the current mathematical operation; at the same time we
don’t know how exactly we are influencing these calculations. We renounce control and accept
the impossibility of control. This is an autistic system, close-looped to endlessly calculate itself.
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Exhibitions & Events
2013
Exhibition :