dystopia – Ivana Tkalčić

Today in the ever-changing world of quick shifting realities, the comprehension of what we think we know about the world is changing rapidly. In the past ten years the development of technology speed up exponentially. Did this change been for easier and better for living? Or is technology changing and reshaping our consciousness and ways of thinking which cannot yet be imagined?

Our perception and an experience of the world undoubtedly changed. Just look at our daily online communication. Nowadays it’s not only happening through text but also through images, videos, GIFs, twitter posts, blogs, games, Skype and group chats. Even if we’re far away from our friends and relatives we can still connect instantly and vividly as almost being physically present. But all that information is leaving a digital footprint that can be followed to the source and potentially misused.

We are transiting into a post-information and post-human age that is radical transformation our way and nature of living, being and understanding the world that surrounds us. Furthermore, on a personal scale, the boundary between online and offline life has disappeared. The most intimate part of our lives have become slice of virtual world that draws the strength from the media. How has the everyday online – offline interaction changed the experience of the world around us and influenced our daily visual perception?

Twilight zone, snapchat, camera, text to speech (2018) from Ivana on Vimeo.

This project was realized as part of the Summer Sessions Talent Development Network and is a coproduction of Metamedia Association and V2_Institute for unstable media.

2018. Summer Sessions 2018 (Kunstavond XL), V2_ Lab, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2020. 27. SLAVONSKI BIENNALE, Osijek, Croatia

technical description
year: 2018
video, loop, 3’11’

The term hyper-reality marks a new concurrence of circumstances in which disappears every tension between reality and illusion, between reality as it is and as it could be.

Time and space, drastically compressed by the computer, have become interchangeable. Time is compressed in that once everything has been reduced to ‘bits’ of information, it becomes simultaneously accessible. Space is compressed in that once everything has been reduced to ‘bits’ of information, it can be conveyed from A to B with the speed of light. As a result of digitization, everything is in the here and now. The information on whole world is on internet and salvation is just a WIFI away.

Do we look at the world with the same eyes as our ancestors? How has the way we see reality changed due to technology, media and screens?How is our relationship with technology? Do we live through technology? Did we find the long-awaited utopia in virtual reality or does the virtual reality amplify society’s hysteria and schizophrenia, lowering focus and awareness?

The notion of “the real” continues to be hotly debated in an era when the internet, virtual reality, cyber theory, and bioethics challenge the very nature of “reality”.

videos_ 01 , 02 , 03 , 04

Paradise now_, gallery Izidor Kršnjavi, School of Applied Art and Design, Zagreb, Croatia
Paradise now_ _twilight zone, snapchat, camera, text to speech, Gallery Kazamat, Osijek, Croatia

📷 Ivana Škvorčević

technical description
installations and video installations, which include:
digital print on silk, 400 x 500 cm
4 x digital print on satin, 115 x 170 each
video, loop, 4’46”
video, loop, 6’17”
video, loop, 3’29”
video, loop, 5’20”