Multimedia installation, ceramics, digital application, electronic card system, wallpaper
A collection of ceramic alchemical urns for astrological predictions with built-in LCD screen, LLM GPT&UE5 based application and Mifare card scanner.
350 cards with a questions are placed in the tail of the comet, each (card) can be dropped into an urn where the axolotl named Anatoly can give his unique predictions.
Excerpt from a text by Andrei Parshikov, curator of the New New Era exhibition:
In “Glazov Esoteric Society” Maximov combines a mockumentary pseudo-documentary story with real works of his relative, artificial intelligence algorithms and routine working practices. At the entrance are stone urns with the digital oracle axolotl Anatoli. To communicate with Anatoly, you need to take a special question card at the end of the hall and throw it into one of the urns – just as routinely as you “punch” or attach a pass at work at the beginning and end of the day. Anatoly’s answers sound like the words of the head of a secret order or even a sect, and this is not accidental: the neural network model underlying the oracle is trained on the relevant materials. Near the oracle there are works by Larisa Vinokurova, the artist’s relative and art teacher. They resemble Theosophical paintings and, like Anatoly’s sayings, may be connected with the Glazov Esoteric Society, a mysterious occult association from the town of Glazov in the Udmurtian region. As a result, Maksimov’s project turns out to be both a touching commentary on people close to him and a reflection on the digitalization of non-scientific knowledge – because Anatoly the axolotl does not give an answer to the question of whether it is possible to put artificial intelligence at the esoteric service of the population
Early variations of the comet:
