D.L.A.

YEAR: 2021
TYPE: Audiovisual installation
LOCATIONS: Universum Space, Sevcable Port, Saint-Petersburg
NUR Festival, Kazan
 The creative potential of LED screens represents a compelling frontier in contemporary art, a medium that remains underexplored in its defining characteristics. Many works utilizing this technology often overlook its most distinctive feature: its intrinsic LED-ness.

Unlike the seamless displays of smartphones or laptops, where pixels blend into a unified image, LED screens embrace their granularity. Each diode exists as a discrete, visible unit—its physicality pronounced, particularly when viewed up close. This quality—the pixel as a tangible, individual entity—becomes the focal point of artistic exploration.

Rather than obscuring this pixelated structure, the work amplifies it, transforming the screen’s modularity into a central artistic element. Each of the 1.6 million LEDs functions as a simulated particle, embodying dynamic systems found in nature: the intricate growth of crystals, the branching of electrical currents, the fluid motion of gases and liquids. Through algorithmic design, the result is an audiovisual tableau—a generative, digital organism—capable of infinite variation, mimicking and reimagining these organic processes in a continual state of emergence.