Philipp Guzeev

Philipp Guzeev (b. 1992 Russia).
Software engineer, media artist and musician whose artistic interest lies in composing for multi-channel audio systems, creating audio-visual installations and exploring the capabilities of VR\AR technologies in the context of art and theatre.
Education:
2009-2014 – Saint-Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, Specialist in Computer Science (Russia).
2017 – New Media Lab, Audio visual technologies and design (Russia, Saint-Petersburg, The new stage of Alexandrinsky theatre).

Interactive installation “Space-time” (2017).

Modern science discovered a profound connection between space and time that proved the existence of the single entity known as space-time, where space and time individually play the roles of projections.
This installation is comprised of 8.1 sound system, a short throw projector and an infrared camera. The speakers are set up in a circle and represent a clock face. The sound sources inside the audial-zone match the position of the clock arrows in the real world. The projector is mounted on the ceiling and casts a projection onto the floor. The infrared camera captures motion inside the projection and triggers various visual and audial effects.
The sound in this installation represents the “projection of time”, connecting the vibration of the speakers’ membranes with time intervals. The visualisation that is casted on the floor represents the “projection of space” and reacts to changes in the sound volume and the position. Space and time are interconnected and continuously affect each other. The visitor imitates the change in “space” by entering the installation area which leads to corresponding changes in “time”.
The image of the clock illustrates the human perception of time: discrete and lacking its natural continuity.

“Extra” (2017).

“Extra” is inspired by the average employees in an IT-company, where they spend most of their time doing routine work, getting stuck in their comfort-zones while postponing life-changing decisions. “Extra” explores the border-line existence of an office worker: the image of the human self becomes gradually replaced with the image of a restless machine.