ABOUT
A playthrough of Chuly?Chuly - a video game/live performance piece.
The 'Чули? Чули'/ Chuly? Chuly, ( from Ukrainian 'Have you heard? We’ve heard), merges performative video gameplay with choreography to delve into manipulative narratives and the embodiment of online personas. It engages with narratives shaped by human-led troll farms and AI, anchored in a speculative story from a woman who saw giants once. Her narrative, twisted by ChatGPT to reflect online misinformation tactics, indirectly guides the player through the environment, yet never revealing the discussed cave and giants. This work looks at today's giants—enormous, planetary, interconnected, and mostly invisible entities; AGIs, pandemics, secret weapons, and disinformation itself; some engineered and run by humans, others self materialising, shapeshifting.
During Beta Camp Letta will be playing through the game world and sharing the process behind the work.
Letta Shtohryn (UA/EU) is an artist and researcher. She works with XR, CGI, animation, machinima, and video games. Letta Shtohryn investigates the intricate relationship between the physical and digital realms, employing extended reality (XR) as her medium. Letta’s academic background is in Philosophy and Visual arts.
Through a posthumanist perspective, she examines the notion of embodiment, considering the presence of non-human life forms, machines, avatars, aliens, monsters, ghosts, and the intersecting realms, both visible and invisible, that they inhabit. Drawing inspiration from intuitive epistemologies, archaeology, history, and weirdness, Letta explores factual and fictional storytelling and its effects IRL by employing speculative investigations, world-building, and visual narratives as her methodologies.
Recently, Letta’s work Chuly?Chuly received an Honourable Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2024. Her works have been showcased at Deep Space 8K @ Ars Electronica Center (AT), Goldsmiths College, London (UK), Centre Pompidou (FR), Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (AT), Spazju Kreattiv (MT), Milan Machinima Festival (IT), Frieze Art Fair (NYC), The Box at Phillips (NYC), and others.
Personal wedsite: imal.org/Lettashtohryn.com
Instagram: imal.org/@lettashtohryn
CREDITS
Images by: Letta Shtohryn