Dear Visitor,
My name is Valia Fetisov . I’m a media artist and software engineer interested in the intersection of social psychology and technology. More specifically, my passion is constructing artificial situations to explore people’s reactions. If you don’t want to read further, here is an old video that introduces my work.
Currently I’m working on a tiny exhibition space called Space in transition as an artist and a curator. Recent works include User flow – a research-based project conducted on Social Credit System and Call to action.
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Space in transition is a small exhibition space for solitary visits. It is an experiment on how art infrastructure may be changed under COVID-19 restrictions and beyond them. The project consists of a tiny space and a specifically developed web interface for booking and accessing the room.
The exhibition space provides a different way of accessing art: instead of coming directly, visitors should book a personal viewing appointment on a specific date and time to see the exhibited project. At the time of the booking the door of the space could be opened via the same web page where the booking was done. Therefore visitors will not encounter any other person in order to experience the work presented in the room.
The project proposes to analyse and facilitate newly established practices emerging as side effects of the current situation. Space in transition is a room where artists can present works that address the shift and play with restricted conditions.
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More information about the space and the actual booking can be done on the website: spaceintransition.com.
But the key work for understanding the origins of my interests is still the Installation of experience (2011). It is a room with an automatic door at the entrance, which closes each time someone comes in, so people are trapped there for an unknown amount of time with no instructions for how to get out.
Some of my other works include: a voicemail community Diane (2017); an online-activity tracker of my friends Be my friend (2016); a way of entering into a video surveillance system Control yourself (2012); and Paranoiapp (2015), a tool for the social psychology experiment in the form of a mobile application.
List of the previous events can be found here.
Write me if you have any questions.
Thank you for reading,
Valia