Digital collage, animation, interactive geospatial website
2021–2025
The artwork was created in collaboration with
Konstantin Tsokur
and
Valery Belov
Alexey Boriskin: conceptual development, software development
Konstantin Tsokur: digital collage
Valery Belov: drawings
In the project "Affine Transformations," I explore the psychogeography of cities. In mathematics, affine transformations refer to scaling, translation, and rotation. The psychogeographical spaces of cities vary, but sometimes they intersect: the dominance of buildings on a hill creates tension with administrative centers in the valley; town halls in the old city disapprove of the skyscrapers in the business district. In this project, I attempt to reveal lines of tension, intersections, and play through mathematical and cartographic projections.
Affine Transformations: Paris - Moscow
This work is a part of ongoing project "Affine transformations". Pandemic closed the borders, and the only way to travel is with one's imagination. Our psycogeographical maps are intertwined in our memories, cities' sizes and key points surrender to compression, stretching, rotation and transfer: all the thing that are called "Affine transformations" in math.
In my work I use the fact that the Third Ring Road of Moscow is almost identical to the Boulevard Periferique in Paris. Who knows, maybe if you are lost in the underground passages near Savyolovsky Rail terminal, you can emerge from the stalls with tights and shoe repairs at the flea market at Porte de Clinnancourt?