THEURGY

Software . 2018  

Theurgy — (/ˈθiːɜːrdʒi/; from Greek θεουργία, Theourgia) describes the practice of rituals, sometimes seen as magical in nature, which appeared in Ancient times and later received a further development in the aesthetics of Russian symbolism. It is directed towards the state of reunification with divine nature via one's inner creativity which is based on an organic unity of the three main elements: «mystics», «fine arts» and «techne». Literally, theurgy means human acting along with God.

The work is an application based at Google Captcha algorithm, which for security purposes distinguishes machine intelligence from human. The "theme" of each slide is a real example of a machine-human conflict that cannot be resolved. These examples were taken as one of the most popular in the online media. The slide itself consists of images (downloaded from a Google search for a query corresponding to each topic), a text description of the real conflict and audio design, which is also thematically related to each task. The slide itself consists of images (downloaded from a Google search for a query corresponding to each topic), a text description of the real conflict and audio design, which is also thematically related to each task.