"olia lialina is the shit, man. she has been making sincere net art since the early '90s. i think maybe people don't realize how much she did, and how early.""Way better than Nina Kraviz."bio:
Born in Moscow.
Finished Moscow State University as journalist, film critic.
One of the founders of Moscow experimental film club CINE FANTOM.
Net Artist, one of net.art pioneers.
Writes on New Media, Digital Folklore and Vernacular Web.
Professor at Merz Akademie, (New Media Pathway), Stuttgart
Animated Gif Model. Wife of Rockstar. Mother of three*. Junior blogger. @GIFmodel
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In Memory of Chuck Poynter, 2011
author of:Turing Complete User 2012
Still There 2012
Online Newspapers. French Edition 2013
Last Real Net Art Museum 2000
First Real Net Art Gallery 1998
The Most Beautiful Web Page 2001
Merry Christmas 2003
A Vernacular Web, Vernacular Web 2 and Prof.Dr. Style (Vernacular Web 3) 2005--2010
co-author of:Once Upon 2011
Digital Folklre reader 2010
Zombie&Mummy 2002 -- 2003
Frozen Niki blog 2005
Newspapers Online 2004
Newspapers Online, New York edition 2008
With Elements of Web 2.0 2005
MIDNIGHT 2006
Contemporary Home Computing 2007 -- 2011
blogs:Car MetaphorsOne Terabyte of Kilobyte Agelast century:
MY BOYFRIEND CAME BACK FROM THE WAR
www.teleportacia.org/war 1996
ANNA KARENINA GOES TO PARADISE
www.teleportacia.org/anna 1996
IF YOU WANT TO CLEAN YOUR SCREEN
www.entropy8zuper.org/possession/olialia/olialia.htm 1996
AGATHA APPEARS
www.c3.hu/collection/agatha 1997
WILL-n-TESTAMENT
will.teleportacia.org 1998
HEAVEN & HELL
with Michael Samyn
www.zuper.com/hh 1997
Zombie and Mummy Enter The Art Market, 2003
presentations/exhibitions/talks:
1994
NEW MEDIA LOGIA CONFERENCE, Moscow
1996
V2_EAST MEATING, Rotterdam
METAFORUM III, Budapest
1997
ART+COMMUNICATION, Riga
BACKSPACE LECTURE SERIES, London
INTERNET GALAXIES, Budapest
EMAF, Osnabrueck
BEAUTY AND THE EAST, Ljubljana
SEAF, Scopje
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Moscow
ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL, Linz
STEIRISCHER HERBST, Graz
1998
THE BEST OF 2 WORLDS, Madrid
BEYOND INTERFACES, Toronto
IFCA, Maribor
MUUMEDIAFESTIVAL, Helsinki
NET ART WORLD, Berlin
ART AND ARCITECTURE IN EXTENDED FIELDS, Trondheim
MEDIENFORUM, Munich
AUDIOVISIONEN, Salzburg
1999
FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM, Rotterdam
NEXT FIVE MINUTES, Amsterdam
EMMA FORUM, Stuttgart
NET_CONDITIONS, Karlsruhe
ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL, Linz
ZAC'99, Paris
KUNSTVEREIN, Frankfurt
MEDIENFORUM, Munich
MEDIATTERA, Athens
CIBERART99, Madrid
AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KUENSTE, Stuttgart
2000
MAID IN CYBERSPACE, Montreal
SCRIPT, Seoul
MOCA, Los Angeles
WALKERART CENTER, Minneapolis
SEX, ROCK'N'ROLL&HISTORY, Oberhausen
PRO&CONTRA, Moscow
NIPPER, Nuevo Leon
ARGONAUTEN, Munich
EVENT CITY, Dessau
LA BIENNALE DE MONTREAL, Montreal
STUDIOXX, Montreal
ELECTROHYPE, Malmo
VIPER, Basel
METABOLICS, Munich
WRO@KULTURA, Wroclaw
MediaZlounge, New York
2001
TOTALMUSEUM, Seul
SUBVERTING THE MARKET, Michigan
MEDIA CONNECTION, Rome
DMMK, Stuttgart
Art.Dortmund, Dortmund
..., Israel,
DIMA, Duesseldorf
EVO1, Moscow
DIGITALES, Brussels
DV-WERKSTATT, Stuttgart
Video Festival of Navarra, Pamplona
2002
The Sao Paulo Biennial
ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL, Linz
FotoFest, Houston
Haus der Kunst, Munich
STUK, Leuven
KOP, .tw
Medienhaus, Hannover
Alternative Museum, NY
TELECITY, Dessau
Dia center, NY
2003
Modern Art Museum, Oslo
Modern Art Museum, Stockholm
FACT, Liverpool
NY Digital Salon, NY
La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Conquest of Ubiquity, Murcia
2004
My Story, Amsterdam
Video Zone, Tel-Aviv
2005
ABC gallery, Moscow
The Decade of Webdesign, Amsterdam
Art Meets Media, ICC, Tokio
Premio Michetti, Francavilla
Ladyfest, Berlin
Futursonic Festival, Manchester
Artmedia IX, Salerno
Bienal de Video y Nuevos Medios, Santiago
Impact festival, Utrecht
2006
MEIAC, Badajoz
MFRU/IFCA, Slovenija
Rx Gallery, San Francisco
ABC gallery, Moscow
EMAF, Osnabrueck
Art Fair, Moscow
Sonar, Barcelona
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York
IGAC,Org
2007
Montevideo, Amsterdam
Transmediale, Berlin
GEDOK, Stuttgart
Time Shares, New Museum, New Yourk
Shandyismus, Secession,Vienna
ABC.etc, XL Gallery, Moscow
My Own Private Reality, Edith Russ Haus, Oldenburg
New Network Theory conference, Amsterdam
The art formely know as computer art symposium at Informatic 2007, Bremen
B I T M A P: as good as new,VertexList gallery, New York
FROZEN NIKI (Fragments), ABC Gallery, Moscow
2008
MONTAGE: UNMONUMENTAL ONLINE, New Museum, New York
RICH USER EXPERIENCE, ACAF, Alexandria
ONLINE NEWSPAPERS: New York Edition, Madison Square Park, New York
HOLY FIRE, IMAL, Brussels
SHOW#17, And/Or Gallery, Dallas
Exhibition: Digital Words, Espacio Movistar Barcelona
Workshop: Of everyday life practices in infoware, Universit Paris 8, Paris
Lecture: DIGITALE FOLKLORE, State Library, Stuttgart
Exhibition: Indexing the Moment, CADD Art Lab, Dallas
Lecture: Do you Belive in User, What was Old is New Again, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Exhibition: THE WEB OF COKAYNGE, Chicago
2009
Exhibition: Olia Lialina, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
Exhibition: Happy World, Havana Biennial, Cuba
Exhibition: Kiosk, STRP festival, Eindhoven
Exhibition: The Best of Digital Art, DAM gallery, Berlin
Festival: Poetry International, Rotterdam
Festival: PIXXELPOINT 2009, Nova Gorica
Talk: Animated GIFs, LIAA, Lucern
Talk:The Drop Shadow Talks, Berlin
2010
Exhibition: Bidoun Video, Dubai
Podium: Media and Democracy, Furtwangen
Exhibition: SPEED SHOW vol.1, Berlin
Talk: TELE-INTERNET, ARS ELECTRONICA, Linz
Festival: Shift, Basel
Talk: NIMK, Amsterdam
2011
Exhibition and Talk: Kitsch Digital, Barcelona
Talk: "Forever in the 90es" Goethe Institute, Rotterdam
Talk: Folklore du Web, Gaite-Lirique, Paris
Talk: Digital Folklore, The New Museum, NY
Workshop: "Ubiquitous Mini-Cinema", Animator Festival, Poznan
Exhibition: Wild Sky, Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg
Exhibition: Chaos as Usual, Kunsthall, Bergen
Exhibition:Collect the WWWorld, Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
Talk: Kunst im Zeitalter der neuen Medien und Vernetzung, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin
Talk: History and future of artistic creation on the Internet, iMAL, Brussels 2011
2012
Panel: in/compatible aesthetics; transmediale, Berlin
Talk: On net art and Web art; ENSBA, Lyon
Exhibition:Once Upon; Gallery Office, Moscow
Panel: Artistic Responses to Social Media; Unlike Us; Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam
Panel: THE GIFS THAT KEEP ON GIFING, ROFLcon III, MIT,Cambridge
Solo Exhibition: The Internet. Let me show you it, Gallery b, Stuttgart
Exhibition: Born in 1987.The Animated GIF, Photographers Gallery, London
Talk: Digital Conservation -- Not a Technological Challenge, Remediation Simposium, Stuttgart
Exhibiton: Hot, Museum of Moving Images, New York
Exhibition: IRL, Western Front, Vancouver
Exhibition: Artist as an Archivist in the Internet Age, 319 Scholes, New York
2013
Panel: What was the User, transmediale, Berlin
Exhibition: Offline Art:New2, xpo gallery, Paris
Exhibition, Talk: One Terabyte of Kilibyte Age, Photographer's Gallery, London
Exhibition, Talk: Networked Art Forms and Tactical Magick Faerie Circuits, Tasmania
art and research residency:C3, Budapest, 1997
VILLA WALDBERTA, Munich, 1998
Communication in a Digital Age, Piet Zwart Institute, Roterdam, 2010
prizes:
My Boyfriend came back from the war-
3rd prize
WEB ART CONTEST, Sao Paulo, 1997
Agatha Appears-
2nd prize
NET-ART'98
Online Newspapers-
Honorary Mention
Premio Michetti, 2005
nominated:
Last Will and Testament -
BEST SITES OF THE YEAR
Webbyawards, San Francisco, 1999
teaching/workshops/seminars:
NEW MEDIA LAB, Moscow, 1994
JOINT ART STUDIOS, Moscow, 1995
WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY, London, 1997
Workshop: MUU, Helsinky, 1997
KUNST ACADEMIET, Trondheim, 1998
FACHHOCHSCHULE Augsburg, 1998
UNIVERSITAET, Graz, 1998
AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KUENSTE, Munich, 1998,1999,2000
Workshop:CALARTS, Los Angeles, 2000
MERZ AKADEMIE, Stuttgart, 1999-2011
Workshop:LABINARY, Labin, 2000
Workshop: KHM,Cologne,2001
Workshop: Art.Lebedev Center, Moscow, 2001
Lecture: Royal Art Academy, Stockholm, 2003
Workshop: Universidad Internacional de Andalucia, Sevilla, 2004
Lecture: NCCA, Moscow, 2007
Lecture: Mexico City, 2009
Colloquium:Networked Media, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, 2010
Seminar: Copy, Version, Remix, HDK, Zurich, 2011
jury:
Exotica video art festival, Sochy, 1993
Exotica video art festival, St.Peterburg, 1995
Ostranenie, Dessau, 1997
Mr.Net.art, Irational.org, 1998
Trash-Art, Moscow, 1999
Course Development Competition, Budapest, 1999
The Cute Private Homepage 1999, Graz,1999
Medienforum Munchen : Kunstpreis, Munich, 1999
POTOP, Russian Professional Web Award, 2000
Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, 2000
VIPER, Basel, 2000
BROWSERDAY, Berlin, 2001
BAUHAUS AWARD, Dessau, 2002
FILMWINTER, Stuttgart, 2003
ARANEUM, Madrid, 2004
1000$ PAGE CONTEST,2004, 2005
fotowow.ru, 2005
Rhizome Commissions, 2006
FilmWinter, Stuttgart, 2007
Prix Ars Electronica Media.Art.Research, Linz 2007
curating:
PARALLEL FILM exhibition, Selb, 1995
CINE FANTOM festival, Moscow, 1997
CINE FANTON festival, Moscow, 1998
MASHA DRAWS home exhibition, Munich, Moscow, Stuttgart, Oslo, 2000-2004
ACTIVE LINK, Stuttgart, 2000
MAKE WORLD, Munich, 2001
BROWSER AFTERNOON, Stuttgart,2002
EMMA FORUM, Stuttgart, 2002
FIRST TEN YEARS, 2003
MERRY CHRISTMAS, 2003
1000$ PAGE CONTEST, 2004, 2005
TRAILBLAZERS surfing competition, Stuttgart, Linz, 2010
SPEEDSHOW Fun is Back, Stuttgart, 2011
Lecture series Do You Believe in Users, Stuttgart, 2012
some pictures of Olia Lialina:197? (Moscow) by ?09.05.95 (Amsterdam) by G.Aleinikov02.07.98 (Moscow) by M.Panteleev13.05.00 (Moscow) by F.Madre29.06.00 (Stuttgart) by D.Espenschied16.07.00 (Balabanovo) by M.Konstantinov01.10.00 (Montreal) by I.Stromajer16.12.00 (Hamburg) by S.Aleinikova04.01.01 (Moscow) by K.Morshnev07.09.01 (Moscow)by K.Diachkov13.10.01 (Karlsruhe) by D.Espenschied15.10.01 (typewriter) by DJ Cougar Shuttle07.03.03 (Strasbourg - Colmar) by D.Espenschied22.03.03 as a hero (Oslo)
02.12.04 (decadeofwebdesign.nl) by L.Kranenburg and L.Sikkes08.08.05 (Cagliari) by D.Espenschied31.01.06 (Teletext) by D.Espenschied05.05.06 (Rotterdam) by D.Espenschied10.05.06 (Osnabruck) by M.Grimm25.12.06 (Nordheim) by D.Espenschied08.01.07 (Wii) by Mii31.03.07 (Moscow) by M.Iliukhin13.04.07 (Biometrical) by D.Espenschied05.12.07 (Karlsruhe) by M.Russ02.01.10 (Takamaka) by unknown05.09.11 (Cetona) by Sofya Glebovna2012(ink on paper) by Aram Bartholl04.02.12 (Berlin) by Florian Cramer14.11.12 (Stuttgart) by Jan Potente19.03.13 (Stuttgart) by Jan Potente
The 5th July in 1994, 2004 and 2010