A Space for Encapsulation
Andrey Chugunov
Description
A Space for Encapsulation is a new media art project exploring Scotland’s coastal zones — liminal sites among the first affected by rising sea levels, where natural and industrial artefacts entangle. These coastlines form unstable assemblages in which post-industrial ruins, defence structures, drifting plastic and organic matter merge, blurring boundaries between preservation and decay.
Developed over two years of expeditions across Scottish coastal towns, the project documents transient sites using photogrammetry and field recordings. Rather than fixing moments in time, photogrammetry reveals instability: 3D scans expose fractures, gaps and distortions that mirror shoreline erosion.
The project comprises 41 one-minute video loops, each centred on digital artefacts suspended in void-like spaces, slowly breaking apart or proliferating through particle systems. Fragmented subtitle monologues reflect on time, materiality and humanity’s uncertain future from a geological perspective. A generative soundscape built from field recordings echoes the turbulence of the shore.
The artwork challenges binary narratives of nature and culture, preservation and disappearance. The coastline is presented as a site of entanglement, where traces of industrial extraction and terraforming are gradually reclaimed by organic processes, forming shifting assemblages of matter and memory that continuously evolve through layers of abandonment and renewal.
Affiliations
The project was co-commissioned by Aberdeen Performing Arts and New Media Scotland’s Alt-w Fund with investment from Creative Scotland.
The project received the Carla Rapoport Award at the Lumen Prize (2025), and was nominated for a Scottish Landcape Award (2025).
Andrey Chugunov
Andrey Chugunov is a conceptual artist and educator working transdisciplinarily at the intersection of digital and analogue electronic media. His artistic practice focuses on total installations and technological sculptures, integrating multichannel spatial sound, light, generative graphics, audiovisual performance and procedural elements. His practice explores the intersection of art and technology through the meditative media approach. Andrey creates multimodal environments that evolve and invite concentration, reflection and immersion.
Central to his work are themes of mortality, memory decay, temporality and autonomy, explored through minimal yet profound modes of engagement. He often transforms scientific data into poetic models and metaphors, rejecting spectacle and the experience economy in favour of contemplative, processual encounters with the passage of time.
Andrey received the Carla Rapoport Award at the Lumen Prize (2025), the New Faces award at the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival (2018), and an honourable mention at the FutureTense Award (Hong Kong,2022). He was nominated for the Scottish Landscape Award (2025) and the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (2018, 2020, 2022). He has exhibited at festivals including Sonica (UK), SPECTRA (UK) and the WIP Festival (Cyprus), and has attended residencies such as Gleis70 (Switzerland) and the Cryptic Residency at Cove Park (UK). Andrey is a PhD Candidate at Abertay University. He is currently based in East Kilbride, Scotland.
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