Oleksandr Sirous at the RIXC Fields residency, 2025. Photo: Lelde Gūtmane

Residency website: https://air.rixc.org/

Starting from July 12, 2025, RIXC is pleased to welcome the next artist at the RIXC Fields residency – Oleksandr Sirous (Ukraine)! He has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Programme 2025 in collaboration with Photinus Studio (Ukraine).

Oleksandr Sirous is a sound and media artist who works with big data sets and the principles of interaction and communication in web environments. He also creates complex simulation environments using AI. Recently, due to his work with game engines, he has turned more and more to the culture of video games and various game mechanics and new rules of interaction, thus finding new approaches at the intersection of the already established approaches in media art and video games.

Oleksandr Sirous, artwork visualization.

At RIXC Fields Residency, the artist proposes to transform the Salinas farmhouse environment into an active participant within his speculative narrative ecosystem. His project explores the threshold between material and immaterial worlds through evolving hybrid entities—machine-creatures that resonate with invisible forces and environmental signals.

Through building small robotic systems in the metal and wood workshops and cultivating living experiments in the greenhouse, he will create a network of adaptive objects—each reacting to and amplifying site-specific signals. These hybrid systems, inspired by the chaos of frontline ecologies and evolutionary algorithms, will generate a living infrastructure that evolves both digitally (through real-time simulations) and materially (through kinetic sculptures and terrarium-based organisms).