LOCATION
FORUM
After (Fleeting Retention)
Installation
After (Fleeting Retention) explores the fleeting nature of visual memory through archival images, light, and perception. A modified slide projector with a high-powered LED briefly illuminates black-and-white negatives in stroboscopic bursts, leaving only an afterimage—a fading trace on the viewer’s retina. The interplay of brightness and darkness highlights memory’s impermanence, while the stark, decontextualized images dissolve into elusive visual echoes. Through precise spatial arrangement, timing, and a minimal soundscape, the installation immerses viewers in the fragility of visual retention.
ŠŪTUM
Installation
Šūtum is a mixed media installation that reflects on the impermanence of laws, norms, and their interpretations. Utilizing an ultraviolet laser and photochromic pigments, the artwork creates ephemeral images of ancient laws on a stone surface that gradually disappear, symbolizing the fragility and mutability of human constructs.
SLAVA ROMANOV
Slava Romanov is a data artist and multimedia developer based in Bremen, working with generative graphics, interactive installations, performances and auditory displays. His background in human rights and data journalism drives him to combine activism, art and technology. By investigating language, socio-political processes, and immersive interaction, he aims to balance chaos and orders and challenging perspectives on memory, perception, and collective narratives.
INTERVIEW
By combining analogue and digital techniques, Slava Romanov creates immersive experiences that encourage the audience to reflect on perception, time and memory. His participation in LICHTROUTEN inspires him to further explore light as a means of revealing the hidden identities of a place.
Link to Interview
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Namur (be), KIKK FESTIVAL PNCTM
2024 Gelsenkirchen (de), GOLDSTÜCKE Šūtum
2024 Bremerhaven (de), ARTSPACE BREMERHAVEN Forgetting Machine
2024 Bremen (de), STUDIES OF CHANGE PNCTM
2024 Leeuwarden (nl), LUNA YOUNG MASTERS In the Style of
2023 Bremen (de), IN DEN STARTLÖCHERN Haus Der Wissenschaft
2023 Bremen (de), FORGETTING MACHINE UMZU Forgetting Machine
2023 Brixen (it), WATER LIGHT LAB SPILL Young Masters In the Style of
2023 Bremen (de), PROPAGANDA NARRATIVE SOUNDSCAPES Edit Wars
2021 Bremen (de), DISTANCE MATTERS: COMING TOGETHER TO STAY APART Fake Cardboard Window
2020 Yekaterinburg (ru), PIXELS FEST Curiosity
2019 St. Petersburg (ru), FORM OF COMMUNICATION Metaphor of Sea
RESIDENCIES
2025 Bremen (de), Multimedia performance UMBRA – Schwankhalle production support, funded by Senator for Culture
2024 — 2025 Vilnius (lt), CYBIOSES 2 – Life in the Future Imperfect, Nordic Summer University
2024 — 2025 Løgumkloster (dk), CYBIOSES 2 – Life in the Future Imperfect, Nordic Summer University
2024 — 2025 Kopenhagen (dk), CYBIOSES 2 – Life in the Future Imperfect, Nordic Summer University
2023 Essen (de), OPEN SOUND HACKLAB – HUMANIZING THE MACHINE SELF Blaues Rauschen Festival
2022 Mediafutures (eu), ARTIST FOR MEDIA TRACK WINNER (Edit Wars Project)
PERFORMANCES
2022 — 2024 Bremen (de), Visuals for UNKN Raves
2022 St. Petersburg (ru), NoiseRoom AV Festival
2021 Stuttgart (de), XChanges X2
2019 St. Petersburg (ru), NoiseRoom AV Festival
STUDIES
2020 — present Bremen (de), University of the Arts: Studies of Digital Media
2011 Yekaterinburg (ru), University: Ural State Law Academy (Diploma)
BIO
He lives in Bremen (de)
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