Prof. Olia Lialina

Vita

Olia Lialina, born in Moscow, is an early pioneer in network-based art who has worked with internet architecture and web cultures her in artistic and publishing projects, developing an internationally respected position both in contemporary art, new media theory and human computer interaction.

From her early and highly influential “My Boyfriend Came Back From the War” (1996) to her projects together with Dragan Espenschied “Digital Folklore” (2009) and “One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age” (2010- ) to the extensive exposure or her works in exhibitions around the world, Olia Lialina is one of the foremost artists of our generation whose works have been shown at the New Museum, New York; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Transmediale, Berlin; Western Front, Vancouver; and/or, Dallas/LA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Mudam, Luxembourg; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Madison Square Park, New York; Barbican, London; LEAP, Berlin; HMKV, Dortmund; HEK, Basel; The Kitchen, NY; Whitechapel Gallery, London; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Her teaching focuses are art and design online, digital cultures and digital folklore, user experience (UX/AI) and AI based environments. In addition to co-directing the New Media program at the Merz Akademie, she is currently Dean of Studies and active in the master program.

Scientific/Artistic Projects (Selection since 2010)

2018
Kunstwerk: Self-Portrait, (Gewinner des Netbased Award 2018) Kunstwerk: Lossless
2017
Kunstwerk: Something for Everyone Theaterstück: Bear With Me (Aufführungen im Haus der Kulturen Berlin und The Kitchen, New York) Kunstwerk: Treasure Trove Künstlerische Forschung: What Did Peeman Pee On?
2016 – 2018
Kunstwerk: Online Newspapers, Postfactual Edition. Triptych Kuratierung der Ringvorlesung “How Deep is Your Dream”, Vorlesungsreihe über Künstliche Intelligenz an der Merz Akademie, Stuttgart
2016
Webmaster Summer Collection
2015
Kunstwerk: Give me Time/This Page Is No More Kunstwerk: Best Effort Network Kuratierung der Ausstellung Digital Folklore, HMKV, Dortmund
2014
640x480, net art project
2013
Kuratierung der tel.net Vorlesungsreihe, Stadtbibliothek, Stuttgart Künstlerische Forschung: One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age (ongoing) SUMMER, net art project Künstlerische Forschung: User Rights Declaration (Work in Progress)
2012
Kuratierung der Ringvorlesung "Do you believe in users", Stadtbibliothek, Stuttgart Kunstwerk: Once Upon, http://1x-upon.com/ Kunstwerk: Online Newspapers. French edition
2011
Kuratierung der Ausstellung Speed Show, Stuttgart
2010
Trailblazers Web Surfing Competition, Ars Electronica Linz und in Stuttgart.

Artistic Presentations/Lectures, Panels (Selection since 2010)

2019
Keynote: They may Call It Home, Collegium Helveticum, Zuerich Keynote: The Web that Was: Archives, Traces, Reflections, University of Amstrdam Talk: Generation Update, Re:publica Talk: Network Portraits, Campus Gegenwart, Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart
2018
Keynote: Once again, the Doorknob: On Affordance, Forgiveness and Ambiguity in Human Computer and Human Robot Interaction, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2017
Keynote: 5th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Lisboa Keynote: Access, Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft for Medienwissenschaft, Nürnberg
2016
Keynote: Art and Packet Switching, net based prize, HEK, Basel Talk: Preserving and Exhibiting Low Res art, Whitechappel Gallery, London Talk: Online Offline, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich Keynote: Viral Art - GIF Conference, Bologna University Talk: Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology Launch, New Museum, NY
2015
Talk: The Morning After Experience Design, Light Industry, Brooklyn Talk: in conversation with Karen Archey, FOMO symposium, ICA Talk: Small Data, Preservation and Access to Born-digital culture, iMAL, Brussels, London
2014
Keynote: Riich User Experience, Interface Critique, UdK, Berlin Talk: Beautiful 0s and Ugly 1s, Transmediale, Berlin Talk: Do you believe in Users? The Influencers, Barcelona Talk: Invisible Users, Logan Symposium for Investigative Journalists and Hackers, London Talk: The Only Thing We Know About the Cyberspace Is That Its 640x480,CCC,Hamburg
2013
Talk: Turing Complete User, Chaos Computer Congress, Hamburg Panel: What was the User, transmediale, Berlin Talk: 1993, Future Symposium,CCA, Glasgow Talk: Aging Online, BERN-Lectures on Digital Heritage, Bern
2012
"The Gifs that keep on Gifing“, ROFLcon III, MIT,Cambridge Artistic „Responses to Social Media“, Unlike Us; Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam „in/compatible aesthetics“; transmediale, Berlin „Digital Conservation: Not a Technological Challenge“, Remediate Symposium, Merz Akademie, Stuttgart
2011
"Kitsch Digital", Canta Felipe, Barcelona. "Forever in the 90s", Goethe Institut, Rotterdam. "Folklore du Web", Gaite Lyrique, Paris "Ubiquitous Mini Cinema", Animator Festival, Poznan, Polen. "Kunst im Zeitalter der neuen Medien und Vernetzung", Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin.
2010
"Medien und Demokratie", (Podium), Fachhochschule Furtwangen. "Tele Internet", Ars Electronica, Linz. "Digital Folklore", NIMK, Amsterdam.
Olia Lialina, Photo: Merz Akademie, Lea Röwer, License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Exhibitions (Selection since 2010)

2019
The Art Happens Here: Net Art's Archival Poetics, New Museum, NY Quid est veritas?, Annka Kultys Gallery, London
2018
Lossless. Roehrs&Boetsch Zuerich (Einzelausstellung) The Whole Internet, ICA Aksioma, Ljubljana (Einzelausstellung) Art in the Age of the Internet 1989 to Today. ICA, Boston Re/Public. Polit-Forum, Bern
2017
Asymmetrical Response (duo w/ Cory Arcangel), The Kitchen, NY Art Projects Ibiza, Ivissa Hacking / Modding / Remixing as feminist protest, Miller Gallery, CMU, Pittsburgh Summer , LiMA, Amsterdam (Einzelausstellung)
2016
My Boyfriend Came Back From The War. online since 1996, HeK Basel (Einzelausstellung) Electronic Superhighway, Whitechappel Gallery, London MBCBFTW. Online since 1996, MU, Eindhoven MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery
2015
L'art et le numerique Resonance 1/3, Maison Populaire, Montreuil .htaccess, Digital3mpire, Düsseldorf DARK room, DAM gallery, Berlin "GIF model", PLUMSfest, Moscow
2014
You Might be a Dog, LEAP, Berlin Digital Revolution, Barbican, London Coded After Lovelace, White Box, New York Megarave, Kunsthaus, Langenthal
2013
One Terabyte of Kilibyte Age, Photographer's Gallery, London Casting a Wide Net, Postmasters Gallery, New York
2012
Once Upon; Gallery Office, Moscow (Einzelausstellung) The Internet. Let me show you it, Gallery b, Stuttgart (Einzelausstellung) Born in 1987.The Animated GIF, Photographers Gallery, London Hot, Museum of Moving Images, New York IRL (In Real Life), Western Front, Vancouver The Artist as an Archivist in the Internet Age, 319 Scholes, New York
2011
Wild Sky, Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg Chaos as Usual, Kunsthall Bergen, Norwegen Collect the WWWorld, Spazio Contemporanea, Brescia, Italien
2010
Speed Show, Berlin Bidoun Video, Dubai Biennial, Dubai

Prof. Mario Doulis

New Media

mario.doulis@merz-akademie.de

Professor of New Media

Jörg Frohnmayer

New Media

joerg.frohnmayer@merz-akademie.de +49 (0)711 268 66-45

Dipl. Designer and European Media Master of Arts.