Vid Koprivšek
Track/Tir, 2024
“In my works, I recontextualise and extend physical objects through new media interventions, or address the intersection between physical and digital artistic artefacts. I treat digital extensions of and interventions in these objects as a kind of techno-animism – a process whereby technology and media approaches add fictive qualities to physical objects, breaking their spatial and material unity, and turning them into interfaces of sorts. In my work, I understand the term techno-animism – which refers to the projection of biological qualities onto technology, or the use of technology to create the illusion of life, more broadly – as the performative use of new media technology to intervene in the reading of physical objects, and vice versa.” (Vid Koprivšek)
Produced in the framework of the EMPACT project with support from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
multimedia installation, still frame, courtesy of the artist
Vid Koprivšek graduated from Ljubljana’s Academy of Fine Arts and Design in painting and is about to complete the MA programme Video and New Media. He works at the intersection of digital and physical media – of contemporary painting and sculpture practices, computer graphics and intermedia installations. He received the Academy’s Prešeren Prize for his BA thesis. His first solo exhibition Swarm Entry (2023) was shown at the Aksioma Project Space as part of their U30+ initiative. In addition to the Polymer Ooze, a project created with Matej Mihevc and exhibited at the DobraVaga gallery (2022), Koprivšek’s work has been presented in several group exhibitions: Terminal Drift at the MoTA LAB (2022), Ni belega platna at Mala galerija BS (2020) and Looking Forward at the DLUL Gallery (2022).
