“The Future of Your Digital Space” is a grid of fantastic machines, each with its own whimsical locomotion. While we are used to machines engaging in more utilitarian work, the artist’s contraptions appear to feverishly dance or exercise. They recall the absurd devices conceived of by early 20th-century artists like Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia; only these mechanisms are better suited for the metaverse than the machine age. With a background in architecture and 3D, Belitskaja brings a unique perspective to the exhibition. Rather than modeling her ecosystems from scratch, she cleverly disassembles the bots from her companion piece “In Search of Your Digital Self,” and reassembles the parts as bot-specific imagined environments.
