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The First Virtual Chernobyl Exhibition Presented During the COVID-19

The First Virtual Chernobyl Exhibition Presented During the COVID-19 Pandemic

ARTEFACT: CHOrnobyl is the first in the world virtual exhibition dedicated to the Chernobyl accident that was created for an online experience and in VR headsets, presented on the biggest festival of digital and audiovisual art in Spain MADATAC XI with the support of the Cultural Foundation of Ukraine.

The exhibits of ARTEFACT:CHOrnobyl are very diverse works. Among them are the artworks of famous Ukrainian artists: The Chornobyl series by Maria Prymachenko, who lived on the edge of the Exclusion Zone, a series of prophetic paintings by Ivan Marchuk, a 3D photo by Arsen Savadov, as well as the artworks of young artists, whose names are new in Ukrainian media art.

VIDEO: https://youtu.be/oS7NA6WND80

More than 100 Ukrainian artists have been working on creating ARTEFACT: CHOrnobyl, so that more than 50 new artworks could be seen by the whole world online and completely free from the PC. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine restrictions this year the festival MADATAC is held online, the so the exhibits are presented in virtual space of Chernobyl on the web page artefact.live. (http://artefact.live)

The artists could learn to work in virtual spaces and to immerse themselves in the topic of the Chernobyl’s accident during the unique educational art residence by ARTEFACT, where most of the participants created their exhibits. The virtual space also includes the best works of the exhibition ARTEFACT:Chernobyl33, which were shown in Kyiv, in 2019. The artworks were created with VR and AR technologies, laser and video installations, neurointerface technology and parametric architecture and also have been completely transferred to cyberspace. The full list of artists and their exhibits is still being updated.

Svitlana Korshunova, the coordinator of the ARTEFACT project: “The first virtual exhibition dedicated to Chernobyl during the COVID-19 pandemic became a milestone event and a great challenge for us at the same time. For the first time, all artists presented their works virtually, creating numerous virtual worlds for their exhibits. Art is just starting to take over these areas, but it seems that they are created just for it. And for the viewer, everything is familiar and natural there, because we already spend most of our time online. Therefore, thanks to such technologies, art becomes closer to people. It’s getting closer to modern times and, as always, reflects its era better than anything”.

The closed preview of the exhibition took place in the digital gallery ART AREA in Kyiv, where visitors could get into the virtual exhibits on huge screens and in VR headsets. Thanks to modern technologies of virtual cyberspace, each artist was able to create their own world with its special atmosphere and feelings. Once the quarantine restrictions are over, the exhibition can be presented offline in galleries around the world.

Full list of exhibitors: https://cutt.ly/KgPhHrS

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The founder of the MADATAC festival, Iury Lech, already goes ahead of world trends and is ready for a full virtualization of his festival.

Iury Lech tells about the ARTEFACT project and its role in Ukrainian media art:

“Ukrainians are a very talented nation. Through such social and cultural projects, through a modern rethinking of the past, you can tell the world who you really are.

I hope that ARTEFACT will be an exponent of the emerging avant-garde Ukrainian art, and the world can understand what the real Ukraine is. Also, the project can help to reorganize Ukrainian society around the concept of homogeneous, but at the same time opened society to the new international trends, so Ukraine could again be the great country as it used to, but due to the unfavorable circumstances was deprived of its cultural identity and freedom”.

ARTEFACT is an innovative Ukrainian social and cultural project that with the new technologies of contemporary art draws attention to important issues, based on the example of the Chernobyl accident. The artists invite us to rethink the tragedy of our past. The ARTEFACT project considers the disaster of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant not only as a man-made, but as an informational catastrophe, full of disinformation, fake news and propaganda with the purpose to cover the real dimensions of the disaster. The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is an example of the informational catastrophe within one state that can have consequences for the whole world.

The project is implemented with the support of the Cultural Foundation of Ukraine, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, the Ukrainian State Agency for the Management of Exclusion Zones, the National Chernobyl Museum, the European Chernobyl Institute and the Center PRYPYAT.com.

MADATAC is the biggest media art festival in Spain for the last 10 years, which received 3 EFFE Awards – 2015-2016, 2017-2018 and 2019-2020. It’s held annually in Madrid. The goal of the festival is to engage the audience around audiovisual art, video art, art of digital and new media. The idea of the festival is to unite artists in a collective laboratory. In fact, this is one of the largest media art gatherings, where Ukrainian works are shown for the first time this year.

Ukrainian Cultural Foundation is a state institution created in 2017 as a new competition-based model of state funding and promotion of initiatives in the field of culture and creative industries. The Foundation’s activities, according to current legislation, are an integral part of the policy and priorities determined by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine.

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What: Virtual exhibition ARTEFACT: CHOrnobyl

Online: http://artefact.live/ or https://madatac.es/artefact-chornobil-33

When: starting from October 26

We are open to answer all your questions, give comment and event information, as well as give you post-release with images and video.

ARTEFACT: CHOrnobyl explanation of the artworks:

1- “Genus. Chernobyl. Code depressurization” by Tetyana Zubchenko.

A symbol of femininity and connection with ancestors, where the video demonstrates how anxiety in the voice distorts the space and provides more information than all the media of that time.

2- “White Souls” by Iryna Vorona. The installation is dedicated to the pure and white souls of those who have gone to eternity. It is a microcosm of your own existence, hundreds of options of events with its knots and points of contact, followed by a new round of events, relationships and emotions.

3-Mimosa/Multifaced by Serhii Nizhinskiy y Volodymyr Kovbasa.

Mimosa is a new goddess of media quazi-reality and information warfare. Her name translates from Greek as the one who has many faces, which is synonymous with hypocritical, faceless and ugly. Instead of a head, the goddess has a cube that continuously broadcasts fakes that can be destroyed with the neurointerface.

4- Fakemet by Oleg Kharch.

Every day we receive a lot of new information, but not always we verify it, we cannot always be sure that it is true. We are used to trusting everything we are told, sometimes we ourselves are carriers of fakes. The installation offers us two options: believe what we are told to or verify the information.

5- Reactor Rods by Oksana Buzyak, Yaroslav Kostenko (VJ Yarkus) and Denys Voloshyn. The installation symbolizes the rods of the nuclear reactor and the process of their operation at the time of the disaster in Chernobyl in 1986. This is a visualization of processes that no one can see with the naked eye.

6- Radiation by Yaroslav Kostenko.

The light and laser performance tells us about the stages of the Chernobyl catastrophe, accompanied by the track of Denys Voloshyn and the play of actors immerses you in a special atmosphere that allows you to reconsider the perception of the disaster.

7- Atom Reaction/ Interactive Map by Eugen Vashchenko.

This infographic audiovisual installation symbolizes the behavior pattern of the uranium atom in the initial stages of the fission and the map of the spread of radioactive waste contamination.

8- Emission by Valeriy Korshunov and Astian Rey.

In the hospital bed lies a "man" who emits light. The exhibition is dedicated to the moment of emission of inner energy of a person. It is an example of a survivor of the Chernobyl accident suffering from radiation disease, which shows us that surviving an accident like this does not mean being able to carry on with a life as before.

9- A Landscape that No One Will See by Volodimyr Gulich.

The roof of the reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is like the other side of the moon, a place that no one will be able to see. There is no life there because of the highest level of radiation contamination. It became so because of human irresponsibility.

10- The Ashes of the Nuclear Age by Valeriy Korshunov and Astian Rey.

The installation is a reflection on the topic of heroism and sacrifice of people who were involved in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident.

11- Video 360º and VR of the ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33

Here you can experience the last year exhibition ARTEFACT: Chernobyl 33 in a 360º video or a VR headset.

12- Chernobyl Lights by Valeriy Korshunov.

The largest digital sculpture Chernobyl Lights at the Duga radar, which is also the largest laser and light installation in Ukraine on October 23 2019. The record is registered by the Book of Records of Ukraine.

13- The Flags of More than 40 Countries Lighted on the Chernobyl Arch. Valeriy Korshunov.

The flags of more than 40 countries were projected on the world's biggest movable structure, the New Safe Confinement, also known as the Arch, erected over the destroyed reactor of Unit 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The artist dedicated the action to the Ukrainian Flag Day and the Independence Day of Ukraine, which was celebrated on 23 and 24 of August 2020.

14- ARTEFACT Prometheus by Valeriy Korshunov.

It is a digital sculpture presented during the last Burning Man 2020 that was held virtually. The project demonstrates the hand of the mythical god Prometheus who once brought fire to the people, but in this case the hand holds the artifact, as a symbol of awakening.

15- Verity (“Pravda”) by Olesya ( Shambur) Geraschenko

A selection of issues of the newspaper "Pravda" during the Chernobyl accident in video format 360º. When did the All-Union newspaper report such a serious accident with a radiation leak? Only on the 12th day and not on the first page, but with a small article inside.

16- Be Ready! by Oleg Kharch.

The name of the artwork refers to a motto of the Soviet pioneers, represented by 500 red pioneer ties. On May 1, 1986, everyone demonstrated in Kyiv for Workers' Day, although the capital was heavily contaminated with radiation. No one was ready or prepared for that.

17- Sarcophagus / Piano-Camera-Obscura by Waldemart Klyuzko and Igor Belsky.

This is a mutation of a musical instrument that turns into a camera obscura. Inside you can see how the camera obscura works, in which the world is turning upside down. It is a symbol of an upside down world after the Chernobyl accident.

18- Exodus by Dmytro Radushynskiy and Igor Bondarchuk.

In the virtual room you are at the end of a queue. There are a lot of people and it is not clear what is happening ahead and only when you go out from the line, you can see the whole picture: “the queue of evolution". This installation focuses on human evolution, and not on the catastrophe itself. The catastrophe here is just a bitter step leading to the growth.

19- HPA (Hope Problem Action) by Dmytro Aranchii and Angelina Gladushevska.

The authors draw attention to excessive energy consumption, which provokes more energy production in dangerous ways, including nuclear energy production. The installation symbolizes the reflection and trace of humans on Earth – the better the reflection you leave behind you, the longer the life of the universe will be.

20- "Expanse" by Vartan Markarian.

The artwork "Expanse" is a metaphorical view of the ecological catastrophe, a call to conscious consumption of resources. The remnants of human civilization of the city of Pripyat are gradually dissolving, nature is gaining space back, houses are sprouted with trees, creating landscapes of the post-humanity world. Nature quietly dissolves the whole environment, humanity has not been able to coexist in harmony with the world.

21- Narrative of Catastrophe by Tim Voronkin.

Media reports about the Chernobyl accident starting from 1986 create a multi-layered information collage for the world community: here you will find both – sources of information and as well as sources of disinformation. And only critical thinking and new technologies will help to analyze the whole narrative about the Chernobyl catastrophe, which was formed over the time.

22- Radiotroph by Volt Agapeyev.

For some time after the Chernobyl disaster, it was believed that the existence of any life at the site of the explosion was impossible. However, in 1991 microbiologists discovered colonies of mushrooms on the wreckage of the reactor, which learned not only to live in the middle of radiation, but also to convert it into energy for themselves. Internally displaced people from Pripyat, like most Ukrainians, are similar to that mushrooms with a phenomenal ability to survive and form new connections.

23- Chernobyl – the City of Future by Oleksandra Tumyk and Oleksandra Stupakovska.

The project combines the present of Chernobyl and its possible future, which is located on the other side of the bridge. The news of the new Chernobyl shows what humanity aspires to: "There is no more dangerous nuclear waste left in the world".

24- Chernobyl Story by Alis La Luna.

It is a conceptual art project where modernity is paralleled with the past events, using GIFs to show how Chernobyl continues to exist in different forms like Youtube videos or patients with thyroid problems. We live a “normal” and modern lives today and we can perceive the disaster and all the (dis)information about the past, entangled with emotional dissonance, only from today’s point of view.

25- Genesis by Oksana Chepelyk.

The project reveals the topic of the nation's reproduction and demonstrates the ultrasound of the fetus in the body of a pregnant woman. A ball, which hangs over the woman, changes the images of babies every 1.5 minutes, when a new baby is born in Ukraine. Genesis conveys anxiety and shows the limitations of human impact on radiation.

26- Meta-Physical Space-Time by Oksana Chepelyk.

In the Moebius tape, an algorithmic society, quantum physics, consciousness and history are combined with 360º videos from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and its cooling pond. Through spatial ideas, the project turns to the search for understanding of the universe through quantum physics and human consciousness in the era of algorithmic society.

27- “Trace of Chernobyl” by Iván Dzis.

This art installation depicts and tries to draw attention to children with oncologic diseases,

associated with the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Some studies suggest that the Chernobyl accident may have caused about 1,000 cases of thyroid cancer and 4,000 cases of other cancers in Europe. The exact health consequences of this radiation exposure are still being assessed.

28- Obscurity by Ivan Dzis.

Events on the night of April 26 1986, in Chernobyl are seen through the eyes of an ordinary family. Here’s also raised the issue of disinformation in Soviet mass media about the tragic explosion. As well as the famous ballet Swan Lake by Piotr Tchaikovsky was used by Soviet media to show in times of crisis – either when a disaster happens or the leader died. That way to suppress the information.

29- Voice of Pripyat by Margo Reznik.

With the help of sounds there is a strong emotional immersion in Pripyat. It's a different mix of sounds and voices for each part of the city. For example, for the music school of Pripyat, these are the sounds of piano playing, children's laughter, popular songs of that time, the sound of a dosimeter, the noise of wind, the sounds of crickets and nature.

30- “Arc Chornobyl” by Denis Kopylov.

A gallery of the photos of the different parts of the world: Antarctica, the Arctic, Kenya, Uganda, Congo, Brazil, Papua. Exotic animals in their natural habitats, incredible landscapes and genuine emotions. All of this is reflected in the thousands of photos by traveller and photographer Denis Kopylov to show that the world is diverse and homogeneous, far and near, and incredibly beautiful at the same time.

31- Neutron flux by Viktor Arefiev.

Neutron flux is a phenomenon that occurs in a running reactor. This time he got out of control and went into the sky with a crimson light. The neutron flux is dangerous to all living things on Earth, but the light pillar that pierces the space and other galaxies, is a warning message to other extraterrestrial civilizations.

32- “Khodylymyporaiu” (We Were Walking in Heaven) by Yan Bespalko.

The world of illusion and the world of reality are connected in space. Only one moment was enough for them to collide, but the truth about the accident collapsed for the monumental and, at first glance, humanistic system. The price of illusion turned out to be too high.

33- Follow the Landscapes by Tetiana Korneieva.

The project is dedicated to the investigation of the Chernobyl tragedy through the prism of personal stories and the creation of a virtual map for rethinking danger zones and objects of forced museification.

34- Transformation. Kupava (Nadiia Chernenko).

The transformation of the traditional view on Chernobyl as a tragedy into an alternative feeling, depicted in light drawings. It all starts with real pictures from Chernobyl, which change through the associations and imagination of the author.

35- Earth by Valentina Biero.

The virtual monumental sculpture "Earth" has glass parts which allow to see the Exclusion Zone from the inside. And with the help of a teleportation capsule you can see the restored natural area. The main theme is the influence of the people on nature and environment.

36- Beautiful View by Kostiantyn Militynskii.

On May 1, 1986, the elite of the Soviet communist party received the parade from the tribune of Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum, and at the same moment blue and red lights were coming out with 30,000 roentgen from the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear reactor, which also happened to be named after Lenin.

37- The Snow City by Maria Pavlenko.

The Snow City is an utopian project about a new source of energy and the civilization that has formed around it. The search for new energy sources and the use of atomic energy provoked a large number of theories and myths. The Snow City focuses on the myth of nuclear winter.

38- Memory Board by Inna Sorochynska.

In front of you is a Memory Board, a place where you can learn many different stories. Maybe it will help to find something lost or to find someone who stayed in that past life before the Chernobyl disaster.

39- Homo Inside Out by Kostyantyn Shkurpela.

The Soviet scientific progress became a great international tragedy. The Soviet machine was a bureaucratic system. An idea in the head of a superior leader out of ignorance drove to the fatal actions of his subordinates, only to break a record that costs thousands of lives and lasts hundreds of years.

40- Hidden Threat by Yuri Gurin.

In the fight against old problems, the new generations face other invisible threats. Life shows that humanity is often unprepared for such disasters. The purpose of this project is to connect and at the same time to contrast the understanding of the conscious and true perception of modern problems in the context of the mistakes of the past.

41- Invisible Consequences by Khrystyna Khmil.

Human's actions change the human and the world around us, it depends on us what the world will be like. However, we often depend on other people's choices and actions. Here works another molecular world, invisible to our eyes, which interacts with us and becomes a part of us.

42- ZOO by Veronika Vo (CHEREDNYCHENKO).

The abstract sculptures symbolize the adaptability of a living organism. The example of the Chernobyl tragedy clearly shows how fragile the human being is, on the contrary: nature is invulnerable. What is a catastrophe for one species can be an incentive for the emergence, reproduction and development of thousands of other species.

43- Sunrise Energy. IllumiNation Team.

The central image of the installation is a divided atom, which hides a popular and used object – an incandescent lamp. The installation encourages a different look at the electric bulb, which, like 34 years ago, is powered primarily by nuclear power plants, which produce more than 50% of Ukraine's electricity, and coal-fired power plants, which poison the air. Instead, the authors offer to consider alternative energy sources.

44- “Error: Memory Cannot be read”. Vera DG.

3D sculpture in the style of calligraffiti is created in the form of a calligraphic circle, similar to the continuous movement of the sun, wind, energy, it symbolically consists of 1986 elements. Each element is an element of Iranian calligraphy, which means the word love for the millions affected by the Chernobyl tragedy.

45- ASH TRAIL by Taya Kabaeva.

ASH TRAIL is a digital installation dedicated to the Chernobyl disaster, created in TiltBrush. This is a 3D photo collage of images of victims of the tragedy, which has become a digital island of memory in VR. The author herself comes from the nuclear city of Energodar, which, in her opinion, is very similar to Pripyat.

46- Memories about Pripyat. Rita Gasanova.

This is a virtual journey to the collective memory of the inhabitants of Pripyat until 1986. On April 27, 1986, they left their homes for only three days, they thought, and, as it turned out, forever.

47- Revival of the Chernobyl Pulse. Olga Borysenko.

The parade for Workers' Day on May 1, 1986. The people are walking, and there is silence on the radio. The plane cuts their heads, because information about the Chernobyl accident is still unknown.

48- Forced Evolution by Natalia Fedoryshyn.

The Chernobyl explosion affected not only people, but also animals. Magic graphite stick, because graphite is a symbol of the highest concentration of radioactive parts, turns realistic animals into naive, distorted and mutated.

49- Maze of Progress. Lesia Strelbitska, Taya Kabaeva, Ivan Say, Igor Ishchuk.

The viewer can observe and feel from the inside the physics of the reactor processes at the time of the accident. When entering the room the person, like a neutron, sets off a chain reaction and then goes through all the key stages of the reactor’s work. And there comes the explosion, the first one and then the second one.

50- Jammer by Daniil Galkin.

For several months, the author was interfering in the radio signals of people who were not aware of that and were finding themselves within the range of his jammer. Such blocking provoked outrage in people, when the signal was interrupted. However, in the USSR the practice of blocking the radio signal was common, so it was not possible to freely receive or disseminate any information. These practices are directly related to the consequences of the silencing the Chernobyl accident.

51- Dream of Pierre Michelli or Memorial of the Victory of Saprobionts. Ksenia Gnylytska.

The beautiful world of microorganisms can be seen under a microscope. They live two hundred million years longer than human beings, pierce us, kill us or save us, and they will exist long after us. They will survive everywhere from the poles to the equator, deserts, geysers, rocks or the deep sea, despite heat or cold, high pressure or even radiation.

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