Veni, Vidi, Digi

The exhibition Veni, Vidi, Digi presents a current selection of works by students of the Digital Media Studio, led by Prof. Michal Murin, at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica. Through a variety of media and artistic strategies, the students reflect on the contemporary condition of digital culture and its influence on social structures as well as everyday experience. The exhibition title paraphrases the familiar “to come” and “to see,” which, in a digital context, acquires a new dimension—shifting from physical presence toward the technological transformation of reality. The included works move between personal reflection, critical commentary, and poetic intervention within digital environments.

In his interactive work A Routinised Battle with Routine, Andrej Abaffy reinterprets the everyday act of commuting. Manipulating a Rubik’s Cube that generates sounds associated with different phases of the day becomes a metaphor for the algorithmic structure of daily routines.

In Ludiosis Nostalgio, Jessica Šimoneková uses 3D scans of environments tied to her childhood and present life. By intentionally preserving the “rawness” of digital models and combining them with sound recordings of memories, she creates a hybrid space between personal archive and game world—a melancholic labyrinth where past and virtual present gently intersect.

Questions of control and digital behaviour surface in Pavol Šeliga’s works Under Control and Noise. In the former, the visitor encounters an installation in which the computer acts unpredictably: the cursor escapes, and text is generated through an authorial algorithm. In Noise, Šeliga reflects on informational overload through experimental poetry placed in a virtual environment as names of fictional Wi-Fi networks.

Júlia Ľachová’s installation Light Blue Linen shifts attention away from digital space to the materiality of domestic life. The gesture of hanging textiles becomes a metaphor for women’s labour and its often overlooked social value.

In Blow Me Away!, Patrik Sluka invites viewers to influence a map of Slovakia with their own breath. Airflow captured by a microphone animates the movement of cities based on wind direction. What begins as a playful interaction subtly acquires geopolitical meaning—showing how a single act can unsettle the stability of a whole landscape.

Ľubomír Slovinský brings into the Bunker space a model of the EGM2008 geoid, transforming precise geodetic data into an artistic object. He translates scientific representations of the Earth into a visual form where accuracy meets the poetics of interpretation.

The exhibition also includes Gabriela Birošová’s Light at the End of the Tunnel, a work that explores hope and spatial perception in moments of transition.

Together, the works in Veni, Vidi, Digi trace a diverse map of approaches to digital environments—from introspective experiments and personal archives to analytical strategies engaging with technological and societal change. The participating artists do not treat technology as a neutral tool but as an active force shaping contemporary perception. In their work, the digital realm becomes both a site for experimentation and a space for reflection—an exploration of the shifting boundary between the real and the virtual.