Tachyoness

The title ‘Tachyoness‘ takes its name from a ‘tachyon’, a hypothetical particle that travels faster than light. In this video work more than a thousand images of sunrises over Ukraine are constructed into a video sequence using AI technology. The images were collected from archives, advertisements, social media, home VHS videos covering the time period from 1990 to 2022. Tachyoness mirrors this historical period of time as a single event. The video work troubles the linear perception of time through the use of ‘machine learning’ that ‘predicts’ the future by means of analysing data from the past. A rising sun is the result of an artificial gaze, where a machine eye watching our human realm and dreaming about a sunrise of its own.