[RU] ~ 1963 & 1968

electroboutique.com

Alexei Shulgin, in the nineties, was one of the first pioneers of net.art, with a variety of different roles: artist, curator, organiser of events and festivals (such as Readme, the first software art festival). Aristarkh Chernyshev has been active since the beginning of the nineties, and he directed, between 2000 and 2004, the Media Lab at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow.

“Media Mirror” ~ 2006

LCD display, acryl, custom electronics.

Private Collection, Brussels

“A custom developed electronic mirror that moves a user to a different, ‘fantastic’ reality. The mirror is based on the newest unique electronic technologies that allow real-time processing of a moving image of high quality”.

“Commercial Protest” ~ 2007

LCD TV, supermarket cart, custom electronics.

Courtesy Electroboutique and XL Gallery, Moscow

Commercial Protest produces a vivid, super-ornamental chromatic texture mixing corporative logos in a continuous flow.

“Transitions” ~ 2007

LCD screen, acryl, custom electronics.

Courtesy Electroboutique and XL Gallery, Moscow

Transitions would like to be “a stunningly impressive minimalist meditative animation, where the positive beauty of the functional algorithm replaces the doubtful inner life of an artist”.