Presented by the artist and ANNA NOVA GALLERY

“A Drop of Creacin” is a filmstrip series and a series of paintings based on it. “Iskusstvo Kino” magazine devoted an analytical article “Artificial Intelligence, Free Artist: ‘A Drop of Creacin’ – a filmstrip from the Malgaute planet” (2017) to the series “A Drop of Creacin”. The series was also awarded the press prize at the XVI International Cannes Film Festival in 2017, in the city of Kansk, Krasnoyarsk region.

A MILESTONE IN THE CREATION OF ART:
Rostan Tavasiev turns to science fiction to discern the prospects for the development of art. He creates a fantastic filmstrip series about the adventures of an artist in the distant future. While working on the series, Rostan Tavasiev realised that he was very interested in creating works of art in space. Thus, the series “A Drop of Creacin” became the starting point to his work on the “Catalogue of Projects of Artworks in Outer Space”.

“A Drop of Creacin” is a painting series and the first sci-fi series featuring the visual arts of the distant future. Each painting is a splash page to one of the eight episodes of the series. The protagonist of the story is an Untitled artist who was originally a work of art himself. But thanks to his inbuilt artificial intelligence, he realised himself as a creator. It was he who became one of the first to create works of art in space. Nebulae and other cosmic objects. For example, the Untitled artist changes the stellar orbits for the Gartecinan Biennale, the main exhibition of the universe. Or at the request of a powerful villain, he creates a portrait of his honourable mother from a dying star. How has all this been made possible?

In the middle of the 21st century, mankind shifted the burden of creative and scientific activity to artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence, in order not to waste energy on the production of images, meanings and ideas, started to combine new ones on the basis of already existing ones. Biological beings gradually lost the ability to create. At some point, the possibilities of combining exhausted themselves. “Creative crisis” turned out to be one of the most difficult stages in the history of mankind. There was an unpleasant break in the rapid development not only of arts, but also of technologies.

To find a way out of this situation, an artificial intelligence with a creative module was integrated into a work of art. The experiment yielded surprising results. As soon as the work of art realised itself, it almost immediately became passionately creative, becoming an independent artist. Thus, during the interaction of imagination and reality in the bi-quantum brain of the artificial artist, creacin was synthesised for the first time.

Creacin turned out to be the strongest stimulant of creative abilities both for quantum neuro-mechanisms and biological beings. Civilisation under the influence of creacin began to develop rapidly again. Creacin turned out to be the most important substance in the Universe, becoming the basis of cosmic economy and universal means of exchange between worlds. It made it possible to travel any distance at the speed of imagination.

Art exhibitions have become major sources of creacin. Many works of art turned into artists in their own right. They began to self-realise artistically, producing works of varying creacin intensity. The viewer’s brain produced its own creacin while watching and comprehending a work of art, and secondary creacin was extracted from the works of art themselves in laboratory conditions.

Creating, selling and collecting works of art has become a very lucrative yet dangerous activity. This adventurous art world of the distant future is the subject of the series “A Drop of Creacin”.

Rostan Tavasiev

Сериал-диафильм Filmstrip series “A Drop of Creacin” (2017)