Information technology and culture: The latest digital technology in contemporary art presented by the project “The Art of Deep Immersion” in Moscow

18 December 2014

December 18, 2014 at the State Exhibition Hall “Nagornaya Gallery” (Moscow) is opened an exhibition project “Art of deep immersion. Konstantin Khudyakov” to the 70th anniversary of the artist.

“The Art of Deep Immersion” - a project that aims to show the latest digital technology in contemporary art. Screen 3D-panorama, plasma and LCD large high-resolution digital pictures, objects, videos, show people and immerse the viewer in a new virtual world - total and all-consuming. By focusing on different fragments of paintings made on the traditional canvas, using personal electronic devices (smartphones, tablets and others) the viewer has a unique opportunity to literally dive into the picture, enter in its space, and touching the screen - to change its contents. Designed using technology for adding a virtual picture takes on a whole new, hitherto impossible qualities and properties. The project was implemented for multi-touch technology, and will soon be created an application for a tablet.  

The author of the project – Konstantin Khudyakov – is a undisputed leader of Russian art of high-tech – an inexhaustible in search of latest technical suctions, not pitying efforts to develop the most advanced to date software and hardware. With every new project he reveals previously unknown possibility of creating artistic images of the era of network intelligence, while remaining principal follower of art, professing equally academic school as a necessary foundation, plastic dignity.