Zero City 2018
“Zero City” is an installation consisting of a number of elevator shafts of different length. Their spatial structure resembles a city where the role of each building is to move in a vertical direction. All the elevators are programmed the same way and act as a pack carrying out the general task despite the absence of a single control center. An elevator that gets incoming data from the outside (by reacting to an emerging spectator) transmits them by sending an empty platform to the floor chosen by the program. The elevator's doors open on the chosen floor. The elevator of the closest shaft receives the signal and then goes to the same floor and opens the doors across from the doors of the first elevator. Thus, we see the signal transfer as the transfer of emptiness throughout the city of the free-running elevators. A signal received in one place can move throughout the whole number of elevators or can subside completely if one of the elevator shafts gets lower than a sending link. “Zero City” is a metaphor that describes human consciousness that left its body and dispersed in the world of digital hierarchies where elevators can carry only emptiness reacting to an outer impulse or standing still in its absence.
photos of Grigory Skvortsov
photos of Grigory Skvortsov
creating code installation : Nikolaj Chetverkin