Ivan Netkachev (b. 1998, Orenburg) is a multimedia artist, publicist, and writer. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in theoretical linguistics from the Higher School of Economics and has graduated from Rodchenko Art School (Moscow); currently he is a certificate student at The New Centre of Research & Practice. He works with generative poetry, automatic generation of texts and images, video games, and video. He is interested in exploring the hidden politics behind the omnipresent algorithms which structure our society, i.e. the traumas and violence induced by the artificial intelligence. On the other hand, he investigates the emancipatory potential of AI in the hope that, finding the machine’s weaknesses, we could use them against itself.
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What Is a Procedural Essay?
The goal of this brief text is to introduce the theoretical concept of a procedural essay, which would encompass a subset of popular culture artifacts (video games, predominantly) as well as contemporary artworks, ranging from 90s net-art to post-internet art and further on. Crucially, theory here is fueled with — and intertwined with — my… Read More »