Viktor Timofeev

A split-screen self-playing game surrounding two sets of characters. the characters, a group of humanoids and a flutter of butterflies, exist across two parallel realities in which their roles in a "cat and mouse" type of pursuit are reversed. They perform a generative, screen-specific, choreography in ten minute cycles, moving in tandem with their parallel world counterparts. The virtual camera orbiting the scene is also drawn into the performance, mimicking an omni-present surveillance device whose flight patterns and impulsive zooms are mirrored across the worlds. The path and outcome of each cycle is generally unique.



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A split-screen self-playing game surrounding four characters enacting a choreography of pedestrian movements both dependent and independent of each other. One side displays the characters coexisting from an objective third-person view while the other displays their subjective first-person realities.

This split illustrates the cause and effect relationships at work in these two worlds: what looks like random walking from one perspective is revealed to be a response to invisible environmental triggers from another. Each character starts at the same point, a blue-skied empty landscape, before slowly degenerating into their own personal abyss, reset only once they are able to meet another at random intervals. This cycle marks the start and end of the choreography, usually takes about eight to twelve minutes and is generally unique. the virtual camera pans from character to character approximately every thirty seconds.

This piece was directly influenced by a profound experience I had witnessing Yvonne Rainer's 'Trio A' being performed at Raven Row in London and attempting to grasp the logic that runs it.

Four characters in search of a random exit

Each one of the twenty-six letters of the Roman alphabet, individually arranged in a seamless loop, sixty-four permutations per letter, one second at a time. 

This is the core mechanic underpinning the “unsteady” writing system Timofeev developed and used in this [recent exhibition DOG](https://viktortimofeev.com/dog/) at Interstate Projects, New York. Each letter is divided up into four quadrants, which rotate and swap around in a choreographic manner divided in pairs – tops and bottoms. Horizontal symmetry is preserved in order to maximize the potential for “accidental” imagery to emerge. 
This system generates sixty-four glyphs per letter, creating the illusion of an asemic writing system that is in fact, generated from itself.

each video is 2:11, 1920×1080, 60 fps, mp4 with sound

Each one of the twenty-six letters of the Roman alphabet, individually arranged in a seamless loop, sixty-four permutations per letter, one second at a time. 

This is the core mechanic underpinning the “unsteady” writing system Timofeev developed and used in this [recent exhibition DOG](https://viktortimofeev.com/dog/) at Interstate Projects, New York. Each letter is divided up into four quadrants, which rotate and swap around in a choreographic manner divided in pairs – tops and bottoms. Horizontal symmetry is preserved in order to maximize the potential for “accidental” imagery to emerge. 
This system generates sixty-four glyphs per letter, creating the illusion of an asemic writing system that is in fact, generated from itself.

each video is 2:11, 1920×1080, 60 fps, mp4 with ticking clock sound

[see minted letters on OpenSea](https://opensea.io/assets?search[query]=Human%20Abecedary)

Human Abecedary: Intra-Letters

We are proud to present [a series of 5 videos](/brody-condon) by artist [Brody Condon](/brody-condon), recorded in 2014. 

The Berlin based artist (b. Mexico 1974) often facilitates and documents game-like group encounters that experientially probe dissociative phenomena. His work is best known for its early influence on re-purposing computer games and LARP techniques ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brody_Condon)).

Condon's work has been widely exhibited internationally, and been acquired by public collections such as the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Albright-Knox Gallery, and the Kadist Foundation.

The 5 video works are each available in an edition of [3 non-fungible Ethereum tokens](https://left.gallery/work/evp-amie). These tokens are progressively priced: respectively 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 ether, and sold on a [first-come, first-served basis](https://left.gallery/work/possession-janet) (no auction).

We like to thank our friends at [Folia](https://www.folia.app/) and Alberto Granzotto for their support.

Possessed High-Poly NFTs

Read our co-founder Harm van den Dorpel's text [Tokenizing Sustainability](https://harm.work/news/tokenizing-sustainability) about his position on NFTs and the direction left gallery is taking.

Harm van den Dorpel on NFTs

Each one of the twenty-six letters of the Roman alphabet, individually arranged in a seamless loop, sixty-four permutations per letter, one second at a time. 
This is the core mechanic underpinning the “unsteady” writing system Timofeev developed and used in this <a href="https://viktortimofeev.com/dog/">recent exhibition DOG</a> at Interstate Projects, New York. Each letter is divided up into four quadrants, which rotate and swap around in a choreographic manner divided in pairs – tops and bottoms. Horizontal symmetry is preserved in order to maximize the potential for “accidental” imagery to emerge. 
This system generates sixty-four glyphs per letter, creating the illusion of an asemic writing system that is in fact, generated from itself.
each video is 2:11, 1920×1080, 60 fps, mp4 with ticking clock sound
<a href="https://opensea.io/assets?search%5Bquery%5D=Human%20Abecedary">see minted letters on OpenSea</a>

Human Abecedary: Intra-Letters .mp4

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