Ivan Netkachev (b. 1998, Orenburg) is a multimedia artist, publicist, and writer. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in theoretical linguistics from the Higher School of Economics and has graduated from Rodchenko Art School (Moscow); currently he is a researcher at The New Centre of Research & Practice. He works with generative poetry, automatic generation of texts and images, video games, and video. He is interested in exploring the hidden politics behind the omnipresent algorithms that structure our society—specifically, the traumas and violence induced by artificial intelligence. On the other hand, he investigates the emancipatory potential of AI in the hope that, finding the machine’s weaknesses, we could use them against itself.

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How Images Turned InvisibleIvan Netkachev

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(...) For this exact reason, images are not inherently visual: they are defined by a paradoxical configuration of forces. A flat, two-dimensional surface happens to be a perfect place for the resolution of these momenta. But some images never arrive there, lingering in the dark — as many technical images do.
Peter Szendy advances the idea of an ecology of images, driven by an urge to account for their vital powers. For him, images are akin to living organisms, which means they never exist on their own but combine into larger ecosystems.¹⁴ To unfold such an ecology is also to push the borders of visual culture beyond the Anthropocene: to see beyond human and human-based temporalities.
I propose a simpler idea. Before conceiving images as organisms, we should understand their behavior as bodies. I’m advocating for a Newtonian physics of images: a tentative foundation for a new critique of visual culture, one that accounts precisely for the physical power of images...more

artworkfieldwareIan Margo 2025, digital video, color, sound 16:9 4K, 11:00min...(more)