D.L.A.

YEAR: 2021
TYPE: Audiovisual installation
LOCATIONS: Universum Space, Sevcable Port, Saint-Petersburg
NUR Festival, Kazan
 The creative potential of LED screens marks an intriguing frontier in contemporary art—a medium still in the process of defining its unique language. Many artworks employing this technology tend to disregard its most essential quality: its inherent LED nature.

Unlike the smooth, seamless surfaces of smartphones or laptop displays, LED screens reveal their structure openly. Each diode stands as a distinct, visible point of light—its material presence unmistakable, especially at close range. This physicality, the individuality of each pixel, becomes a subject worthy of artistic focus.

Instead of concealing this pixelated anatomy, the work accentuates it, turning the screen’s modular composition into a defining aesthetic principle. Each of the 1.6 million LEDs operates as a simulated particle within a dynamic system, evoking natural phenomena such as crystal formation, electrical branching, and the movement of gases and fluids. Through algorithmic composition, the piece evolves into an audiovisual ecosystem—a generative digital organism—endlessly transforming, echoing, and reinventing the organic processes it emulates.

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