Jaka Juhant imagines how to escape the "the grind never stops" lifestyle and invites us to a relaxing, meditative environment where we can immerse ourselves in the music and put our work on hold for a moment.

In the virtual environment in which we have landed after falling off a jet ski, we are surrounded by water lilies, various scattered objects and an iPod with a nostalgic playlist that takes us back to the seemingly carefree days of summer EDM music festivals. The artist also refers to the more recent past, the 2010s, by using tumblr aesthetics, motivational quotes, memes and other references of internet culture at the time, evoking a period of coming together in various internet communities, united by niche interests and less driven by algorithms than today.

Jaka Juhant's work often focuses on the experience of physicality in digital environments. In the work Music Vibes he looks nostalgically back to a musical era of the recent past, highlighting music's ability to trigger feelings of disembodied, transcendental states, evoking certain haunting memories and an escapist longing for simpler times.

Jaka Juhant (1997) is a multimedia artist working mainly in 3D and digital illustration. He is currently finishing his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, majoring in Video and New Media. In 2018 and 2019 he had two solo exhibitions at DobraVaga gallery in Ljubljana. He is a member of the artist collective Podmladek, with whom he has exhibited in numerous group exhibitions since its beginning in 2017. In 2023 he created the cover image for the ETC. Magazine.

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Jaka Juhant razmišlja, kako ubežati “the grind never stops” načinu življenja in nas povabi v sproščujoče, meditativno okolje, v katerem se lahko prepustimo glasbi in za trenutek odložimo delo.

V virtualnem okolju, v katerem smo pristali po padcu z vodnega skuterja, nas obkrožajo lokvanji, različni razstreseni predmeti in iPod z nostalgičnim seznamom predvajanja, ki nas popelje v navidezno brezskrbne dni poletnih festivalov EDM glasbe. Na desetletje med 2010 in 2020 se umetnik referira tudi z uporabo tumblr estetskih elementov, motivacijskih citatov, memov in drugih referenc takratne internetne kulture, ki pričajo o obdobju združevanja v različne internetne skupnosti, ki so jih povezovali nišni interesi ter jih manj kot danes usmerjali algoritmi.

Dela Jake Juhanta se pogosto osredotočajo na izkušnjo telesnosti v digitalnih okoljih. V delu Music Vibes se nostalgično ozira v glasbeno obdobje nedavne preteklosti, pri čemer izpostavlja sposobnost glasbe, da sproži občutke breztelesnih, transcendentalnih stanj ter izzove določene preganjujoče spomine in eskapistično hrepenenje po preprostejših časih.

Jaka Juhant je multimedijski umetnik, ki deluje predvsem v 3D in digitalni ilustraciji. Trenutno zaključuje študij na Akademiji za likovno umetnost v Ljubljani, smer Video in novi mediji. Leta 2018 in 2019 je imel dve samostojni razstavi v galeriji DobraVaga v Ljubljani. Je član umetniškega kolektiva Podmladek, s katerim je sodeloval na številnih skupinskih razstavah od začetka njihovega delovanja v 2017. V 2023 je ustvaril podobo za naslovnico revije ETC.