Today’s digitality means the abandonment of the world of representation and thus projection, and its replacement by computer-generated reality. A program
produces reality in real time – a digital photo is not an interpretation, like a sketch, but the concretisation of a code. The notion of time and space has to be reconsidered, since there is no longer any ontological difference between the form and matter, but rather an always reversible passage – a porosity.
The installation “A Romance of Many Dimensions” focus on a highly mediated physical space where objects are only simulations and time is measured by notification messages. The overflow of information and symbols draws a new dimension of meaning that operate on the boundaries between illusion, the mise-en-scène and notions of presence and absence.
The installation consists of three objects: a projection of a spinning gun, a projected ray of light and an anamorphic table. By looking at the surface of the table you can see a rectangular anamorphic form, that can be transformed trough the gaze into a common table by standing at the right position that creates an illusion of
perspective. The 3D gun projection carries a mirrored reflection of the gallery space that is visible on the shiny surface of it. The barrel of the gun never sets a target. It points out to the space. The projected light that imitates a possible daylight/moonlight ray merges boundaries between presence and simulated nowness.
Installation “The Romance of Many Dimensions” draws traces from simulacra theory, where simulacra are copies that depict things that either had no reality to begin with, or that no longer have an original.
Tomas Sinkevičius (1991) is now studying in Konstfak, Sweden. Viltė Bražiūnaitė (1991) continues studies in Vilnius Academy of Arts. The installation “A Romance of Many Dimensions” is a result of a bachelor degree project that started in 2013 while both Tomas & Vilte were studying in Photography and Media Art Department, Vilnius Academy of Arts.
