Her academic background is in Philosophy/Sociology (University of Vienna), Photography (Kunstschule Wien), and Digital Art (MFA/UM). Letta is the founder of digital platform Whatdowedonow.xyz and holds the position of Research Excellence Award Fellow at The Immersion Lab, University of Malta. Her tools feature virtual reality, augmented reality, textile, sculpture, video, machinima, and imagery. Her methodical frameworks include speculative investigations, world building, and storytelling. Being fascinated by deception, Letta also explores the relationship between fact and myth-making. She explores embodiment through a post-humanist lens, considering non-human life forms, machines, avatars, aliens, monsters, and ghosts. She investigates the complex relationship between the physical and digital realm. Letta Shtohryn (Ukraine/EU) is an artist and researcher who works predominantly with media art, sculpture and imagery. Cotten is on a remote island enjoying the good life - sunbathing, getting daily massages, and imbibing exotic cocktails- while former QuadrigaCX users and conspiracy theorists speculate about his untimely demise. The latest installment, Cryptoheaven3, is a hybrid of machinima and net.art combining The Sims 4, text messages, forum posts, and GIFs. Letta Shtohryn began exploring this event shortly after Cotten’s passing with Crypto H(e)aven (2019) and Cryptoheaven 2.0 (2020, in collaboration with curator Kat Zavada). His mysterious disappearance sparked several conspiracy theories and marked the beginning of an online hunt for “the Truth”. When Cotten unexpectedly passed away in 2018, he held the passwords to every customer's digital wallet, thereby rendering $190 million lost or missing. Interestingly, Non-Player Character physically resides on a 3D printed USB drive resembling the arm of a Deathclaw from the Fallout video game series.ĭigital video/machinima (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 5’ 59”, 2022, UkraineĬryptoheaven3 (2022) is the third iteration of an ongoing project developed with The Sims 4 about the digital afterlife of Gerald Cotten, the CEO of QuadrigaCX, a popular cryptocurrency exchange.
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Their share horror stories about their meaningless lives in a world devoid of free will. The video is accompanies by a relaxing soundtrack featuring monologues from the POV of the NPCs. The characters break apart upon hitting the ground and their fragmented bodies are instantly recycled to produce endless copies of their own selves. They fall into a Stanley Kubrick's sterile white environment, evocative of a White Cube.
The video shows NPC slowly plummeting from the sky.
In his video, the British artist explores the feelings and emotions of NPC, which, in turn, reflects the lack of agency and autonomy experienced by the vast majority of living human beings as they are unable to enact real change in the world as they are dominated by higher forces, from the world of finance to the will of corporations, from increasingly pervasive bureaucratic systems to the inertia, greed, and corruption of the political class. As Bicknell-Knight writes, "they are stuck in the game world, doomed to repeat the same day for eternity, waiting to be interacted with". They do not have an independent, autonomous life, but are de facto subservient and functional to player's prerogatives. Their behavior tends to follow predetermined and/or recognizable patterns. NPC is an acronym used to indicate characters in video games controlled and managed by the machine. Commissioned by Petra Szemán, Non-Player Character is a looping CGI video exploring the inner lives of non-player character’s (NPCs) as a metaphor for the boundaries of human action within an increasingly algorithmic, surveilled existence. Bob Bicknell-Knight's latest project is entitled Non-Player Character.
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