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Garden of Aether is a real-time simulation in which non-playable characters autonomously interact with the digital environment. Each brief generation of the characters builds a new sculpture in a sonic and visual landscape. The cameraman documents this whole process and no two instances are the same. Building the sculptures consumes computational resources and the computer gets hotter and hotter, while the digital environment becomes more polluted. Each generation ends with a run to the fire exit, just to be replaced by the same behaviours.
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screen-recording of the generative animation
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presentation at Quartair Contemporary, The Hague, Netherlands
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screen-recording of the generative animation
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group exhibition view- Het Nationale Theater, The Hague, Netherlands
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screen-recording of the generative animation
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Group show at the Out_sight gallery in Seoul, South Korea
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group exhibition view - Jovan Popovic Gallery, Opovo, Serbia
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Presentation at the Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague
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outdoor screening at the 1646 gallery in the Hague
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Still from the film "Silicon Sights"
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graduation festival presentation at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Netherlands
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Websites
website
www.adamcentko.artSocial media
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2022 - 2022Virtual Production Gnomon — School of Visual Effects, Games & Animation
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2016 - 2020Interactive/Media/Design Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
exhibitions
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2022Dry Roots Die Young Aants.World Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Dry Roots Die Young was a residency and a solo show in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. On view: Dry Roots Die Young (2022), Ethereum Landscapes (2021), Viewport Weather (2022) adamcentko.com/Dry-Roots-Die-Young-2022 Solo
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2022I don't want to be horny anymore, I want to be happy Out_sight Seoul, Republic of Korea out-sight.net/out_sight/ Group
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2022Opovo Artist Colony Group Exhibition Jovan Popovic Gallery Opovo, Serbia and Montenegro Group
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2021All my friends are phones and tablets Filodrammatica Rjieka, Croatia Showing of Silicon Sights. drugo-more.hr/en/friends-phones-tablets/ Duo
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2020WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET WYSIWYG - online The Hague Showing of Silicon Sights in an interactive online installation where buyers needed to buy gasoline to power up a server on which the video was running. wysiwygcinema.net/
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2020Graduation Festival Royal Academy of Art in the Hague The Hague, Netherlands graduation2020.kabk.nl/students/adam-centko Group
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2020IMPAKT Festival Online Channel & video archive IMPAKT Festival Utrecht, Netherlands impakt.nl/channel/films/silicon-sights/ Group
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2020Collectibles Subbacultcha Amsterdam, Netherlands graduation2020.kabk.nl/articles/artwork%20by%20four%20kabk%20graduates%20added%20to%20subbacultcha%20collectibles%20graduates%20edition Group
Projects
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2022
Garden of Aether The Hague, Netherlands garden-of-aether.com/ Garden of Aether is a real-time computer simulation in which non-playable characters (NPCs) autonomously interact with a digital environment. Every generation of the characters builds a new audiovisual sculpture. The autonomous cameraman observes and documents this whole process. Building the sculptures consumes resources and the computer temperatures increase, while the digital environment becomes more polluted. Every generation ends with a run to the fire exit and gets replaced by the same behaviours.
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Maiden Flight Opovo, Serbia and Montenegro adamcentko.com/Maiden-Flight-2022 “Maiden flight” is an installation that was produced in a 10-day residency in Opovo, Serbia in August of 2022.
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Viewport Weather The Hague, Netherlands adamcentko.com/Viewport-Weather-2022 Single digital nature scene rendered using different render engines. Creating a scenery of digital weather.
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2021
Ethereum Landscapes The Hague, Netherlands adamcentko.com/Ethereum-Landscapes-2021-ongoing Collection of machine learning generated landscapes that mimic the ETH-USD price graph. The images are created for each month.
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2020
Silicon Sights The Hague, Netherlands adamcentko.com/Silicon-Sights-2020 Silicon Sights is an abstract exploration of the physical spaces and their digital replicas. Protagonist residing on both sides, equipped with a camera as a tool to traverse the wall, can explore and reflect on these seemingly different, yet related environments. A unique trait of the device is established and the video utilizes this ability to construct a fictional narrative. Contemplating resource use by the two sides of the border and putting forward an equation. Equation of pollution, render times, and beautiful simulated nature. The meta-human entities on the digital side are left to dream of a better future, a "post-representational paradise".
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2018
Sand Nudes The Hague, Netherlands adamcentko.com/Sand-Nudes-Film-Festival-2018-annual Sand Nudes is an annual film festival in the dunes of the Hague. Every year it brings together more amateur and professional filmmakers in order to make careless fun movies which are screened on a sandy summer night somewhere in June. There have been 4 editions so far.
International exchanges/Residencies
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2022Kulturni Centar Opovo, Jovan Popović Gallery Opovo, Serbia and Montenegro
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2022Aants.World Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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2021Creative Industry Kosice Artist Residency, Slovakia
Commissions
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Awards and grants
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2022NIEUWE MAKERS Covid-19 Fonds Podiumkunsten The Hague, Netherlands
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2021Talent Development Grant Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie The Hague, Netherlands