Alexei Shulgin as a Creative Filter

Public Talk | Alexei Shulgin | November 5th, 2003


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In his talk Alexei Shulgin will give an introduction to his major artistic and curatorial projects from the perspective of the information excess and data noise we experience today. Where do artists get inspiration from during the crisis of Religion and after the end of Folk? Why do we need to produce more in the situation of overproduction? What is creative activity in the shade of a divided institutional art world? New art forms, brought up by the fast development of technology. These and many other interesting topics with be touched upon in Alexei's richly illustrated talk, along with a report on his work at PZI. This project for the web addresses issues of individual resistance to consumer culture, information filtering, the cleansing of public space, privacy protection, art and business strategies, 'analogueness' vs. 'digitalness', low-tech and simplicity vs. high-tech.

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ALEXEI SHULGIN

Artist, curator, musician

born 1963 in Moscow
lives and works in Moscow and Helsinki

1988 Founded "Immediate Photography" group
1994 Created electronic photogallery "Hot Pictures" on the Internet
1995 Founded Moscow WWWArt Centre (http://sunsite.cs.msu.su/wwwart/)
1997 Invented Form Art (http://www.c3.hu/collection/form/)
1997 Started Easylife site (http://www.easylife.org/)
1998 Founded 386 DX cyberpunk rockband (http://www.easylife.org/386dx)
1999 Webmaster at FUFME, Inc. (http://www.fu-fme.com)
2000-2001 Professor at Pro Arte Institute, St. Petersburg
2002 Curator of Read_Me software art festival, Moscow
2003 Curator of Read_Me software art festival, Helsinki
Co-organizer of Runme.org, a software art repository (http://www.runme.org/)

Alexei has participated in hundreds of local and international exhibitions, festivals and conferences on photography/contemporary art/media art/communications. 386 DX band has given over a hundred performances worldwide.