Tanja Vujinović Tanja Vujinović

ProtoMachines Lab at “Digital on Stage”

Looking forward to my presentation tomorrow as part of Digital on Stage.

I’ll be introducing a new virtual world, Proto Machine Lab, alongside a focused overview of my recent artistic practice.

The project will be on view at Kibla, Maribor, as part of the Digital on Stage program.

This presentation offers insight into my evolving exploration of virtual environments, immersive sound, and our entanglement with technology.

My work investigates transhuman figuration, techno rituals, speculative mythologies, and the poetic potential of glitch. The garden appears throughout my projects as a temporary autonomous zone and a philosophical playground. This ongoing inquiry into digital identities, synthetic ecologies, and Proto-Machines forms the core of my AvantGarden project.

Read More
Tanja Vujinović Tanja Vujinović

Calipso Operating System (Voodoo Update)

Calipso Operating System (Voodoo Update)

"...This series delves into the subconscious life of the machine, through a speculative, tongue-in-cheek operating system running on the very 'Proto-Machines' inhabiting the AvantGarden. Through CalipsoOS, we explore the uncanny valley of emergent AI consciousness. In a world flooded with upgrades, beta features, and unstable updates, CalipsoOS channels the glitches of techno-evolution into a visual and sonic experience. In an era saturated with discussions—both utopian and dystopian—around artificial intelligence, CalipsoOS captures our collective unpreparedness and inherent naivety in the face of colossal systemic changes....The visual and auditory language of CalipsoOS manifests these moments of experimental yearning and anxiety. The series morphs from abstracted avatar portraits and fragmented computer interfaces into profound speculations on the biological computer. At its conceptual core lies the idea of an operating system called Calipso, a 'biOS'—an operating system imagined to be running entirely on lab-grown neurons. Within this speculative, fragmented storyline, the artworks envision scenes and images generated by such a biological intelligence, reflecting ghostly apparitions of memories, thoughts and feelings, prompting us to critically engage with profound ideas of consciousness, agency, and utopia in this hybrid future..."

https://www.tanjav.art/calipso-voodoo

Read More
Tanja Vujinović Tanja Vujinović

CalipsoOS

This is a glimpse into CalipsoOS, the subconscious system running on the Proto-Machines of AvantGarden - few presentations rolling out in the coming months. Meanwhile, two new essays + my updated artist statement are now published on my site.

"...CalipsoOS captures our collective unpreparedness and inherent naivety in the face of colossal systemic changes. Rapid updates, untested developments, and ever-new versions of digital systems are constantly being deployed, often without full comprehension of their implications. This creates a pervasive sense of living through an ongoing, bizarre experiment, whether we consciously consent to it or not—from the clumsy movements of early humanoid robots in labs to the relentless pace of software development pushing new realities upon us...."

https://www.tanjav.art/calipso

Read More
Tanja Vujinović Tanja Vujinović

CalipsoOS

CalipsoOS is a new series of artworks emerging from the RezSelf project. It imagines a speculative, tongue-in-cheek operating system running on the Proto-Machines inhabiting the AvantGarden, exploring the subconscious life of machines and the uncanny valley of emergent AI consciousness.

In an age of endless updates and broken beta versions, CalipsoOS distills techno-evolution into a visual and sonic language. It captures the collective naivety and anxiety in the face of massive systemic change—where software pushes us into experimental realities we never asked for. Welcome to the glitch.

🔗 https://www.tanjav.art/calipso

Read More
Tanja Vujinović Tanja Vujinović

Ultramono Dreamwave & RezSelf

After a year in development, a new chapter in the Ultramono saga begins.

Ultramono Dreamwave is a retrowave memory engine — a magnetic archive, a laserdisc soul garden, an emergent collection of crystal-radio formations. It drifts between frequencies, revealing glimpses of forgotten utopias.

Techno assemblies — interlinked, suspended, partially exposed. Wired silence in sunset lag. Nothing is whole. Nothing is final. Tendrils of wire twist with surgical precision into post-human beings.

Ultramono Dreamwave is an exploration of the digital ether — one multi-dimensional sculpture at a time.

Within this fleeting world emerges RezSelf, a series of abstract digital compositions exploring the poetics of presence in a constantly shifting infosphere. Each piece is a Residual Self — a spectral imprint within an endless loop of perception, computation, and decay.

Formed through glitched erosions, AI-aided generation, and 3D compositing, each image reveals fluid entities in states of becoming. Not fully human, not fully artificial — these are image-constructs suspended between metadata and myth, echoing the latency of early web culture and the collective subconscious of the digital age.

More soon.

Read More