Outernet and Adot show continuous 16K video in the 2nd year of the Ukrainian war

'Vlada' is the amazing work of visual art, created by English artists Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson, to show 27.000 videos of this conflict, collected by its citizens, on the 16K Led screens that cover the four floors of Outernet London.

The war in ukraine after the Russian invasion of 2022 has led to the rise of large amounts of videos and photographs a Internet. Since most people can use their phones to upload information, has become one of the most documented conflicts of history.

All this information has been transformed into a great video installation, called Government, created by Manchester audiovisual artists Nick Crowe e Ian Rawlinson, from the collection of more than 27.000 videos uploaded to a Ukrainian Telegram channel.

Specifically, Government has served to show, the past 24 February, more than 320 video that have been projected simultaneously for eleven hours in the 16K high definition screens covering the four floors of Outernet Londres; an overwhelming work of visual art around the conflict.

The inhabitants of Ukraine are the true protagonists of this enormous visual work, after recording and sharing images and videos of his life in these years of war on the only Ukrainian Telegram channel, an encrypted messaging platform.

The immersive art space, equipped with Led screens that cover from floor to ceiling and in 16K definition have been used to project in 360º and for one day los 27.000 collected videos, “to create a massive visual document of the conflict, in which they are shown 320 videos simultaneously, which is combined with a soundtrack that produces an overwhelming sensation and invites reflection”.

This is the objective of Data, Outernet affiliated charity, to show the work created by Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson on the screens of this space and support with donations to Ukrainian communities displaced by war. “Together we can build a world in which displaced communities thrive,” they say.. “This moving exhibition offers a unique and powerful reflection on the war in Ukraine that will bring us closer to each other.”.

As Crowe and Rawlinson explain, "it's a long format video and it had to be meticulously assembled - the artists explain -. One imagines you could automate something like this, but it actually requires a human eye to verify that each element is placed as it should. We are proud to show this work on Outernet. If art has a role to play in such a conflict, it is to help us not forget.. When the full-scale invasion began, We knew this was an era-defining moment in world politics..