KURENIVKA
In 2018 Ukraine's Ministry of Information Policy offered small grants for projects at Burning Man. Kurenivka put forward artist Oleksandra Stepanenko, who had painted the camp's domes the year before, and a group of artists with an idea about artificial intelligence, years before everyone was talking about it.
The year's theme was I, Robot. AI.TLants imagined the Earth of the future resting on the shoulders of robots and powered by artificial intelligence, with a dynamic projection inside a sphere showing how the AI works and how people can interact with it.
The plan was to cast the figures in polymer on site. The molds didn't fit the suitcases, then they did, then the cast wouldn't release. On the playa the team changed course and welded the Atlantes from metal, with Oleksii Tronchuk doing most of the welding, alongside Slava Gudenok. Kurenivka produced the project and brought it to Black Rock City with the camp.
Seven years later Tronchuk came back to the playa with Kurenivka again, as the engineer of Merman.
Were you there? We are still looking for photographs of AI.TLants.
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- Vitalii Stetsiuk
- Oleksii Tronchuk
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- Ella Vasilevskaya
- Yaroslav Korets
- Oleksii Tronchuk, Slava Gudenok
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1 Sept 2018