United States
2020-2022 — Virginia Tech, STEM MFA in Creative Technologies, School of Visual Arts in College of Architecture, Arts, and Design
2018-2019 — California Institute of the Arts, MFA Program in Film and Video
2010-2013 — Rodchenko Art School Moscow, BFA in Photography and Multimedia
SCHOLARLY WORK:
2022 — Essay “ORIENTATION DEVICE: poiesis of documentary volumetric video for augmented reality; location-aware interactive mise-en-scène; applied queer phenomenology; the potential of procedural worldmaking in the future”, Master of Fine Arts thesis, Virginia Tech, USA
ART / SCIENCE CONFERENCES, PANELS, JURY:
2023 — speaker in “Speaking Volumes”, a symposium on volumetric images, OCAD University and Ontario Tech University, online, Canada
2022 — panelist in “Digital Nomadism and Virtual Production”, Cyber Attack: Digital Art and Activism, NORDWIND, online, Berlin, Germany
2022 — jury member for a digital art residency at Chimera Platform, London, UK
2022 — speaker in an educational program for XR creators, “Digital Autumn: Sensations,” at Less Media Group, online, Kazakhstan
2020 — game developer of XR experience “Sentiments” and participant in Snap Creative Challenge with Virginia Tech and Microsoft at ACM IMX, online, USA
2023 — “Hip Hop Lit”, literature study AR experience, The Department of English, a collab with Dr. Tyechia Thompson, Virginia Tech, ipureland, USA
2022 — “Dragzina”, holographic drag performance, a collab with Masha Vorslav, ipureland, USA - Russia
2021 — “Pain”, volumetric music video, a collab with Yevtya, ipureland, USA - Russia
2022 — DOK Leipzig, official selection, Germany
2022 — Virtual Reality Experience VRE, official selection, Italy
2022 — Athens Digital Arts Festival, FutuRetro, official selection, Greece
2022 — FIVARS Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories, official selection, Canada
2020 — Cannes XR Development Showcase, finalist, France
2019 — Diversity Grant, CalArts, USA
2018 — Lilian Disney scholarship, CalArts, USA
2017 — Puffin Foundation grant, New York, USA
2017 — Indiana Humanities grant, USA
2016 — The Watermill Center International Summer Program, New York, USA
2014 — World Press Photo, Amsterdam
2022 — “Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend” VR installation, Osnova gallery, Loop Barcelona, Almanac Barcelona hotel, Spain
2022 — “From Carnival to Russian Drag” installation, Spring/Break Art Show, Los Angeles
2021 — "Last March" video installation, Cube.Moscow
2021 — "Last March", Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg
2020 — “Scan | Klaxon”, 11.12 Gallery, Moscow
2019 — “Klaxon” CalArts Bijou Fest, Los Angeles
2019 — “Ice”, Anhydrite Biennial of Media Arts, Barbarossahöhle, Thuringia, Germany
2017 — “The Last March”, collaboration with Naum Medovoy, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2017 — “Ice” screening at Artdocfest film festival, Moscow
2015 — “Sacred Procession”, Baltic Biennial of Photography, Kaliningrad
2015 — “Children: personal space”, Gallery Peresvetov, Moscow
2014 — “Moscow Nightlife”, Moscow Biennial of Photography
2013 — “Black Sea Vacations”, Biennial Fashion and Style in Photography, Moscow
2012 — “Empty Hills. The Space of Joy”, Galerie Iragui, Moscow
2022 — “Dragzina” official selection at DOK Leipzig film festival, Extended Reality: DOK Neuland. THX 4 Nothing, AR show at Museum of Fine Arts (MdbK) Leipzig, Germany
2022 — “Dragzina” official selection at VRE22 Virtual Reality Experience, AR show at MEET Digital Culture Center, Milano, Italy
2022 — “Dragzina” AR show, 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival, FutuRetro, Athens, Greece
2022 — “Klaxon. My Dear Sweet Friend” VR film, FIVARS Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories, Toronto
2021 — “PAIN” AR experience, Biennale Art for the Future, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
2020 — BRIDGE TO METAVERSE by Snark.art
2020 — “Möbius Loop” by a-s-t-r-a gallery, Spring/Break Art Show, New York
2019 — “Darling Angel”, Redcat, Los Angeles
2019 — “The Last Dodo”, CalArts Digital Expo, Los Angeles
2018 — “Moscow - New York" screening, EEP Berlin
2018 — “SCAN”, 8th Tashkent International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Tashkent
2016 — “ICE”, FADA: House of Madness, Watermill Center, Water Mill, New York
2015 — “Sacred Procession”, The 5th Photoquai, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
2015 — “GAZ. Hope”, The 6th Moscow Biennial, Austrian Cultural Forum, Moscow
2015 — “Borderlands”, Gallery for Russian Arts and Design, London
2014 — “Twelve Reflective Photographers”, Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg
2014 — “Young”, GUP Gallery, Amsterdam
2011 — “Life in Motion”, International Center of Photography, New York
2022 — Loop Barcelona
2020 — ENTER art fair, Copenhagen
2020 — CADAF Online
2019 — Printed Matter Art Fair Book, Los Angeles
2018 — I Never Read Art Book Fair, Basel
2018 — VOLUMES, independent book festival, Zurich
Apollo (UK), ARTnews (USA), Art Observed (USA), The New York Times (USA), The Guardian (UK), Le Monde (France), TV Rain (Russia), L’Express (France), Courrier International (Italy), IL (Italy), Fluter (Germany), China Newsweek (China), L’Insense Photo (France), DUMMY (Germany), Calvert Journal (UK), YET magazine (Switzerland), Revista Colada (Argentina), Extra Extra (Netherlands), Reporters Without Borders (France).