Tachyoness
Lesia Vasylchenko, 2022

Single-channel video, 8 min., 2022. Courtesy of the artist.

The title Tachyoness takes its name from a ‘tachyon’, a hypothetical particle that travels faster than light. The duration In this video is 8 minutes, which is the approximate time Sun light takes to reach our eyes. In this work more than a thousand images of sunrises over Ukraine are constructed into a video sequence using AI technology. The images were collected from archives, advertisements, social media, home VHS videos covering the time period from 1990 to 2022. Tachyoness mirrors this historical period of time as a single event.

The video work troubles the linear perception of time through the use of ‘machine learning’ that ‘predicts’ the future by means of analysing data from the past. A rising sun is the result of an artificial gaze, where a machine eye watches our human realm and dreams about a sunrise of its own.