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i'm varvara pekhota and i'm excited about things going wrong, blurriness and digital uncertainty,,,
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2027: Transmediale festival Berlin Lattice Lab participation; 2026: “SHE TRADED HER CLAUDE SUBSCRIPTION FOR A PISTACHIO” Simulacrum Magazine feature; Gogbot Festival Enschede; group exhibition ‘You’ve reached the center. Please hold’, ArtEZ finals, Arnhem; group exhibition ‘Digital Alchemy’, @ Dokzaal, Amsterdam; group exhibition ‘What I did last summer’, @ Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam; 2025: group exhibition COMPUTALA, LCB Depot, Leicester; window exhibition ‘[sickly{sweet}(de)composing’, @ SWSW69 Arnhem; 2024: Media Arts Festival, Arnhem; 2021: group exhibition ‘Lines of Communication’, @ Pennlab Gallery, Moscow;
PC, Lian Li Galahad II 360 cooler, resin tubing, found party fountain, RedBull, metal-finish stickers.
The vitalising presence of the Red Bull Fountain is a refreshing source of energy that leaves no residue: the customer is invited to unwind while the flow of energising liquid is circulating through the Lian Li Galahad II CPU cooler.
This advanced cooling solution allows for essential tasks to be performed swiftly, painlessly and nearly unnoticeably.
Part of ArtEZ graduation work “SaaS™☁︎℠: Working Towards Living”
Exhibited at Digital Alchemy exhibition @ Dokzaal, May 2026,
and @ Gogbot festival, September 2026
Fountain (2027) installation documentation at ArtEZ finals
(2026)
Salesforce promotional materials, broken TV
Part of ArtEZ graduation work “SaaS™☁︎℠: Working Towards Living”
Activating Super Intelligence: full video
Activating Super Intelligence: presentation experience
(2023)
Deconstructed LCD screen, custom prototype board, light tube.
- where does an image seize to be?
- how many layers of cables, shields and filters can we strip
- off of a screen and still see one?
- this visual synthesizer passing current through the leftovers
- of an lcd screen is an attempt to grasp this question
(2024)
Three iPhones
- the rounded-rectangular 'snooze -- add to the calendar’
- accept free trial' button is the shape of commodified utility
- it is one of the basic parts of swiftUI, the coding language
- designed by apple to make most apps existing today.
- i misuse this language by not trying to make profit out of
- it; instead, i trespass this boring ecosystem to see its limits
(2024)
Video on two+ screens
The doctor called, the
results came in. he says that im
laying severe coughing,
hit by car.
Is your body
insured?
As my kilobytes. take a pill.
injured
hurting idle.
Paracetamol. Folders and folders and folders they are whispering. tonic seizure.
Hit by car.
installation documentation
also as seen on display @ swsws69; documentation by Eva van Boxtel <3
(2025)
we hear the bubbles pop in the stream of outsourced joy.
*-*-•*-*-* installation documentation
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soup
(2024)
a gif feels like a file that can't be bigger than 300kb
my custom LORA is trained on an archive of blingee gifs, whose palimpsestic structure has been a subject of various net art works
due to the structure of ComfyUI, it was possible to create a circular cross-referential workflow, generating ingredients of the future eternal soup: water, vegetables, meat and herbs. as a new generation of an ingredient appears, the soup updates, while staying the same soup of theseus
comfyUI workflow & the soup
(2023)
a camera as a pov, a solar eclipse as a deep manifestation of a pov
solar eclipses are extremely rare and place-dependent. you need to happen to be in a specific patch of land at a specific time to be able to experience one
contemplating this, Lisa and i trained an stable diffusion lora based on grainy images from my nokia, and generated images of solar eclipses that my phone would never see. now we have an imaginary archive of a person who did
(2023)
- the environment of the gut bacteria is also an actor:
- it’s the human themselves. the relationship between
- the human and their body carries almost mystical
- character; trying to affect the bacteria (which
- reportedly produce 90% of serotonin in human body), unreliable wellness rituals are
- performed.
the viewer is invited to affect the digitally represented bacteria.
(2024)
- moving slowly and unstably through the landscapes of the
- netherlands, the viewer is put in a perplexing (or perplexed)
- position. through whose eyes are they looking? what is their
- role in this act of surveillance? are they even meant to see
- what they're watching? these questions gain urgency with
- (alleged) authenticity of data.
- staged in unreal engine and borrowing relevant information
- from google maps api, the work questions the mediation of
- the environment through the data infrastructures - and the
- way we build relationships with those images
(2024)
- the biggest wisdom comes from thewise people's words,
- accidentally misread
- based on a common issue of havingto read curatorial texts
- in a hurry, this website takes the best out of that experience
- and makes the user misread a randomly picked hans ulrich
- obrist quote
“misreding” video documentation of a website
new! also upgraded to a google chrome extention! now you can misread any of your favourite wise words!
(2023)
for example - who the fuck is julia?
primary substances
(2024)
Everything consists of and participates in interconnected complex systems; all things are synthesized and lie at the border between what was called nature and what may be called artificial.
Plastic can be the physical expression of this blurriness. Its uncanny structure is loaded with everchanging connotations ranging from futuristic, to kitsch, to the dreadful vastness of the oil industry - and forth.
A plastic toy dinosaur may or may not be made from a regular dinosaur. A wall is made from the same calcium as the egg laying next to it. Maybe a part of this dinosaur has already seen that plastic patch of grass...