The video game multi-user-depot.net draws inspiration from the ways early gaming communities were connecting, by adopting interaction methods typical of online multiplayer games, such as the chat function and the option of using customised ‘sprays’ - visual interventions that players could imprint on the virtual space of the game.

In the central window of the graphical user interface, the player moves through a complex 3D environment, detecting text and image traces of anonymous users, which, on contact, are being displayed in the other two windows. These digital remnants originate from an indeterminate period in Slovenian internet history, somewhere in the transition between the socialism and the present, and through hallucinatory writings, they express their relationship to dying cyberpunk obsessions, attempt to map the given space, and spread their conspiratorial ideas.

By using archaic graphic approaches and appropriating historical genres, Vid Koprivšek alludes to past, niche forms of online communities and the remnants of multiplayer maps. The very experience of wandering through an abandoned and forgotten online environment evokes an eerie sense of the elusive presence of former users and of being trapped in an eternal loop between the past and the present, from which we cannot escape.

Vid Koprivšek (1998) graduated in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design and is completing his MA in video and new media. Swarm Entry, his first solo exhibition, was presented at the Aksioma Project Space in 2023 as part of the U30+ initiative. In collaboration with Matej Mihevc, he presented Polymer Ooze at DobraVaga gallery and participated in several group exhibitions. He has designed several graphic images for theoretical lecture series and music albums, including the cover of the international music compilation Bag of Toys, for which he won the first prize for the best album image at the visual competitions of the Tresk #12 festival, together with Matej Mihevc. He works between Maribor and Ljubljana.

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Videoigra multi-user-depot.net navdih črpa v načinih povezovanja znotraj zgodnjih gejmerskih skupnosti, pri čemer prevzema metode interakcij, značilne za večigralske spletne igre, kot sta funkcija klepeta in opcija uporabe po meri narejenih ‘sprejev’ –  slikovnih intervencij, ki so jih igralci lahko odtisnili v virtualni prostor igre.

V centralnem okencu grafičnega uporabniškega vmesnika se igralec premika znotraj kompleksno prepletenega 3D okolja ter zaznava tekstovne in slikovne sledi kopice anonimnih uporabnikov, ki se ob stiku izrisujejo v preostalih dveh oknih. Ti digitalni ostanki izvirajo iz nedoločljivega časa slovenske spletne zgodovine nekje med tranzicijo in sedanjostjo ter preko halucinacijskih zapisov izražajo svoj odnos do umirajočih kiberpankovskih obsesij, skušajo mapirati dani prostor in širijo svoje konspiratorne ideje.

Vid Koprivšek z uporabo arhaičnih grafičnih pristopov in apropriacijo historičnih žanrov namiguje na pretekle, nišne oblike spletnih skupnosti ter posmrtne ostanke večigralskih map. Samotna izkušnja sprehajanja po zapuščenem in pozabljenem spletnem okolju vzbuja srhljiv občutek neslutene prisotnosti nekdanjih uporabnikov in ujetosti v večno zanko med preteklostjo in sedanjostjo, iz katere ne moremo pobegniti.

Vid Koprivšek (1998) je diplomiral iz slikarstva na Akademiji za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje ter zaključuje magistrski študij videa in novih medijev. Svojo prvo samostojno razstavo Swarm Entry je leta 2023 predstavil v okviru iniciative U30+ v projektnem prostoru Aksioma. Z Matejem Mihevcem  je sodeloval pri projektu Polymer Ooze v galeriji DobraVaga ter svoje delo predstavil na več skupinskih razstavah. Oblikoval je več grafičnih podob za serije teoretskih predavanj in glasbenih albumov, med drugim naslovnico mednarodne glasbene kompilacije Bag of Toys, za katero je skupaj z Matejem Mihevcem prejel prvo nagrado za najboljšo podobo albuma na vizualnih natečajih festivala Tresk #12. Deluje med Mariborom in Ljubljano.