{"id":544,"date":"2016-08-22T12:48:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T12:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apo33.org\/electropixel\/?p=544"},"modified":"2026-10-23T09:51:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T09:51:53","slug":"interview-robert-b-lisek-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electropixel.org\/index.php\/2016\/08\/22\/interview-robert-b-lisek-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview – Robert B. Lisek (EN)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1 – Can you introduce yourself as an artist, your artistic career and
\napproach in general?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I research at the truly cutting-edge vanguard of fine and electronic
\narts and music. Drawing upon conceptual art, hacking and tactical
\nmedia, my work intentionally defies categorization.The areas of my
\nactivity covering conceptual art, institutional criticism,
\nenvironmental arts, media arts, sound art and electronic music. I am
\nresearching new methods and algorithms for non-standard sound and
\nimage synthesis. I am focusing on building a model encompassing
\nmethods of randomness, stochastic synthesis and the use of artificial
\nintelligence.<\/p>\n


\n2 – Can you tell us about the project you are presenting at
\nElectropixel? How did your creation come about? The process, the
\ndifferent steps, influences, failures, surprises and experiments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am working with ideas of RANDOMNESS, POTENTIALITY and INFINITY. I’m
\npresenting installation and action Quantum Random Generator. I reveal
\nthe process of radioactive decay as the best and strongest
\nmanifestation of the idea of randomness. Thorium is a medium of my
\nidea: I have chosen Thorium as radioactive material, which is the
\nsource of fundamental random processes and is not associated with art.
\nThorium is a source of dispersion and real disorder. The use of
\nThorium is the use of raw material which is not subject to power of
\nwill. The real performative element contained in the action reveals
\npure process of decay and energy emission.
\nIn the first stage I present radioactive material sealed within leaden
\ncontainer. The observer has no access to processes occurring within
\nthe container. A potential space emerges, consisting of particles that
\nremain in a superposition of numerous states. The particles do not
\nexist in any particular place, they exist in many places
\nsimultaneously with a certain probability of occurrence. Without the
\nobserver it is a superposition of states and therefore a pure
\nPOTENTIAL, which encompasses many different setups, including many
\npast and future works of art and music compositions.<\/p>\n

I am presenting also new composition C_INFINITY. It is an infinite
\ncomposition with open form which means that it cannot be enclosed in
\none physical realization. I am pointing to the infinite number of
\npossible variations, formats and shapes. I am starting with few
\ninitial sound units and their initial configuration (generators and
\nnoncommutative transformations based on Clifford algebras), which can
\nsubsequently be freely chosen and arranged; moreover they can be
\nplayed or not. Duration of the composition, sequence of units, sound
\nparameters, intervals and orders are changeable. I am using different
\ntypes of random generators to create initial units, next I shape the
\nform by controlling algebraic structure and probability distributions
\nof individual sound parameters.<\/p>\n

3 – What does Powerhack mean to you? How does this concept relate to
\nyour artistic approach?<\/strong><\/p>\n

First of all, if we think of art in terms of working with different
\nkinds of energies, powerhack is a way of breaking existing rules and a
\ntransgression, which delivers more energy to the artist and the
\nwitnesses. In a different perspective “powerhack” also means braking
\nand re_coding, which leads to the creation of a yet unknown work of
\nart and a change on a more fundamental level: crucial change in
\nunderstanding art itself and in the way the artwork exists.<\/p>\n

4 – What does electropixel festival mean for you? Do you think that
\nthis type of festival is important in the current artistic landscape?
\nHow do see the future for this kind of diffusion space?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think it is important to create free spaces where artists can
\ncollide their works, where they can experiment and test radical ideas.
\nThe result of such experiments and their disclosure change art and
\nglobal culture.<\/p>\n

5 – Apart from the idea that art transcends genres and categories, how
\ndo you see the new areas of digital art? How do you understand the
\ngenre “digital art”? What is the difference between digital art,
\nelectronic art, net art, multimedia creation, sound art … etc? What
\nimpact does this sort of categorization add to your approach to art
\nand creativity?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t like such classifications and I don’t like the term “digital
\nart” as it tries to unify many artistic domains by reducing them to
\nthe same way of coding or given technology. Relations between
\ntechnology and art are complex. Art, unlike technology, is far from
\nserving attitude in terms of being useful for the society. In my
\nopinion classifications based on technology are useless because they
\nignore conceptual and spiritual aspect of the artwork.<\/p>\n

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