Grids is the result of thinking about networks and the uneasy relationship arising between its internal elements. Grids function as emergent phantasms. Because their logics are entirely composed of their individual elements, it becomes considerably harder to determine both their boundaries and the site of their emergence. This state of indeterminacy extends into an ambivalent relationship of interdependence that this same logic determines – networks enable the emergence of elements while simultaneously determining them, yet at the same time they delimit the direction of their development and their possible functions within its logic. Just as there is no clear boundary between an element and the structure that articulates it within the system – a structure that itself exists only as a consequence of interdependent processes between elements – so there is no clear causality to their morphology or purpose. Softness and rigidity are equally responsible for the fragile homeostasis of the system. Guiding and guidedness oscillate between states of symbiosis and parasitism.
The work aesthetically appropriates the biological image, thereby situating the body within a system of networks, just as it itself consists of a network system. The image evokes a view of the network as entrails, as an opportunity to divine the future from it based on the patterns observed, in accordance with the ancient practice of ‘haruspicy’.
Blaž Miklavčič is an artist and VFX designer based in Amsterdam (NL). The primary focus of his artistic research is simulation of organic and biomorphic systems, and the aesthetics of horror and science fiction. He studied fine arts and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design at the University of Ljubljana. His work has been presented in various exhibitions at venues such as Aksioma Project Space, Škuc Gallery and Plaza Protocol, as well as festivals like IFCA – International Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor (SI), and CTM Vorspiel, Berlin (DE).