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Vanadium Landscapes: An Element of Duality and Contradiction by Kristofers Scipanovs, Royal College of Art, School of Architecture

The project locates itself in Russia, the second-largest vanadium producer in the world, and looks at Evraz, one of the largest metallurgical companies in the country. Following the supply chain of vanadium, the Russian landscape becomes abstracted into a series of anthropogenic systems and boundaries, becoming values which the Vanadium Landscape simulation is based on.

Approaching the mine as a point of conjuncture between the natural flow of vanadium and the anthropogenic use of the substance. Russian Mining Legislation sees Subsoil substance as State Property. Only once the substance crosses the legal boundary of the soil layer, it enters private ownership. In the case of Evraz, its ownership is further broken down into shares, voting rights and representative companies. The substance body defined by human systems of legislation, abstracting the physical body of vanadium into values.

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The Inteface by Kristofers Scipanovs (RCA Media Studies project)

The Interface remains in the context of global network of computing as space of political production engaging with the monumentality of the physical network of the internet.

The tensions between the physical with the digital have had wide-reaching consequences up to the point where public discourse has mystified the digital into the invisible. The merging of political and commercial contexts has resulted in emerging of global super-jurisdictions. At the same time as, in the landscape of the digital, the dividual becomes just an interface by which the cyber understands the physical body of an individual.

The Landscape of the digital is ever-present in the physical the infrastructure of the internet crosses oceans and political borders creating its own ecosystem of global network of computing. Where the non-human interface- algorithms make high frequency trades in fractions of a second, thus producing a landscape where the cyber no longer requires to interact with the human. All it requires is to be interacted with, through this the individual becomes the USER, as machine-to-machine interface is equal to human-to-machine interface.

‘The Interface’ is an active intervention with the internet. By visualizing WiFi activity around itself, the interface engages with the monumentality of the global network, contextualized by the space it is in. A controller listens to WiFi signals mapping the amount of WiFi to the intensity of light. Invisible communications of devices around us become tangible in the physical for us to interact with.

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ADS8: Data Matter: Digital Networks, Data Centres & Posthuman Institutions in collaburation with OMA.eu and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam

The Dividual by Kristofers Scipanovs (RCA Media Studies Project)

Through the merging and overlapping of the commercial and the political, there has been an incentive to use big data to surveil human activity. This has implications on privacy from individual autonomy to social contexts, the dividual is created using the individual. The profiles built are now linked to surveillance systems linking the physical body to the digital, using facial recognition.

Presented is one of many publicly available datasets used to train a facial recognition algorithm. It reveals the complex interface that digital surveillance has with the individual and the inherent biases built into the system.

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Karosta was constructed in 1890-1906 as a naval base for the Russian Tsar Alexander III, and later served as a base for the Soviet Baltic Fleet. The juxtaposition of the old tsarist architecture and the communist officers blocks create an exiting space to explore. A real place that provokes.

In November 1908 the fortress was liquidated, as its construction had a strategic mistake. Except some of the cannons which were dismantled and taken to the Kaunas Fortress in Lithuania. However, the remains of the Tsarist Russia fortress and also the later, more modern fortress, still stand today.