Vita Shakhnovich is an artist and designer based in Moscow. She works with such media as installation, sound, video, and CGI. In her practice, she explores problems of affect, memory, and critical history of design. Shakhnovich’s works are especially focused on sensorics, theory of things, and perception of time. A Rodchenko Art School graduate, she is currently studying at the Ostrava University in Czech Republic.
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1881-YYYY, 2020. In collaboration with Dmitrii Olgin. This project explores the intertwined histories of various kinds of matter, especially the pulsing matter of slime mould, as well as various viewpoints on the same events
1881-YYYY, 2020. In collaboration with Dmitrii Olgin
aCCTV, 2019. This work takes form of a wearable device that alerts the user of CCTVs around them, comparing the user’s location to the data on surveillance cameras from Moscow’s open website
aCCTV, 2019. By creating a wearable device instead of an app, the artist gives the user the sixth sense—the sense of being surveilled
aCCTV, 2019
brno, 2020. This projects includes a video essay of a walk in Brno and the artist’s inner conflict of two roles: a tourist and an applicant to the city’s university; as well as an interactive game where the viewer can digitally experience that walk
Hypercycle, 2019. In collaboration with Dmitrii Olgin. In a study of the life cycle of a slime mould, the artist explores the role of affect which blurs and destroys boundaries between species, organic and inorganic nature, organisms and environment
Hypercycle, 2019. In collaboration with Dmitrii Olgin
Place of Past, 2019. This project incorporates smells of 3 repurposed ex-factory buildings, presented in perfume bottles, as well as a set of objects produced or otherwise associated with those places
Place of Past, 2019. Through this work, the viewer got a chance to revisit the past
Sadyria, 2020. In collaboration with Dmitrii Olgin. This project is an exploration of the fictionalised urban environment of a generic post-Soviet city
Sadyria, 2020. In collaboration with Dmitrii Olgin
