Mark Cinkevich
Info about the residency
1. August 2025 - 31. October 2025MeetFactory: Prague, Czech Republic
About the artist
Mark Cinkevich is a Belarusian researcher and artist whose work explores how infrastructures and visual technologies organize power. Focusing primarily on post-Soviet social and infrastructural landscapes, he examines how surveillance, logistics, and extraction shape environments of control. In his artistic practice, he is interested in critical and speculative aspects of art that operate at the intersection of fact and fiction. His projects have been presented internationally, including at transmediale (Berlin), the London Film Festival, Ars Electronica (Linz), Lithuanian National Gallery of Art (Vilnius), and Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art (Ljubljana).About the project
His project investigates the concept of the nonbattle image, as articulated by Jussi Parikka, which explores how military power operates in the absence of direct conflict. Focusing on Belarus, his research examines how visual and algorithmic technologies are used by the state to maintain and expand control—particularly in the aftermath of the contested 2020 presidential elections and the mass protests that followed.He analyzes infrastructures such as surveillance systems, internet shutdowns, algorithmic profiling of citizens, and state-run digital archives to understand their role in algorithmic governance and warfare. His creative process combines critical analysis with speculative storytelling, and he incorporates OSINT (open-source intelligence) methodologies as part of his research approach.
By tracing Belarus's shifting political and infrastructural landscape amid growing militarization, his project seeks to expose how such systems of militarized anticipation shape state power and control. During the residency, his aim is to develop a visual and narrative framework to map, highlight, and critically engage with these mechanisms.