Adomas Žudys will present his doctoral research, “Conspiraton and excavation as a critique of modernity”. The process of oak root system excavation, and time spent listening to stories online about conspiracy theories provides a point of departure and contextual material for the investigation of contemporary predicament. Research is an exploration of contemporary imagination and the creation of tools for its investigation: Wooden Computer – investigating the origins of cybernetics; Memory Fighter Jet – an investigation of the ancient art of memory palaces; Giant Instrument – a meme-playing-machine reflecting contemporary epistemological shock; S**** Game – a virtual/board/survival game based on research associations; & Rosette – a panoramic worldview image as schema, with oak roots as a centerpiece. The research aims to provide academically legitimate methods for investigating what is considered to be beyond “polite discourse” and to “marry the opposites” opposites” – synthesis between theory and praxis, between fact and fiction, flat and round – poiesis, faction, torus.
Adomas Žudys (b. 1988) is currently a DA (Doctorate of Arts) candidate at Vilnius Academy of Arts. His main interests are the crisis of imagination and conspiracy theories. Adomas Žudys is an artist working at the intersection of digital and physical artifacts. Artistic practice that he is developing focuses on old and well-known art forms collaged together with current technologies and worldviews. His work addresses questions and variations of perception and recognition. Themes centred around the relationship between materiality, technology and identity. Subjects range between intimate space and deep time, personal and public experiences, identity and its representation, signs, magic, and virtual and actual reality. The artist and researcher actively participates in exhibitions and events dedicated to interdisciplinary art in Lithuania and abroad. In 2017, he was granted the status of art creator by the Republic of Lithuania.
