Greetings Traveller, 2024
video, 5′
Wavy hair, shiny fur, muscular movement hypnotical and soft. Can a virtual being become an object of desire? Sebulec invites his audiences into a world combining the Skyrim game with the OnlyFans platform, Furry Animals whispering iconic NPC content for an ASMR effect. The artist seeks intimacy, relationships and poetry in generic phrases of welcome, invitation and/or threat gamers know so well. Using the Unreal Engine and Artificial Intelligence, the artist has created MetaPeople characters – hybrids we encounter in intimate 9:16 shot for-mat, experiencing their virtual materiality, fantasy patchworks extending beyond traditionally defined corporeality.
The author provokes questions concerning relationships between digital beings and people. Are they a mere implement designed to meet our needs? Will they take over our jobs and destroy our world? Or are we actually fantasising about becoming just like them, transcending the limitations of our own bodies?
Sebulec – studied at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Showed his works i.a. at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Museum of Warsaw, Krupa Gallery in Wrocław, and Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź. Creates digital and material objects, the latter using e.g. 3D printing, composites, textiles and silicone. Focuses on expressing queer identity in his artistic practice, seeking inspiration in the aesthetic of online fandoms, furry animal subculture, and video games. Creates ani-mations, digital companion characters, and avatars. Teaches at the 3D and Virtual Occur-rences II Studio of the Faculty of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
photo: Adam Gut
