Olia Lialina
Olia Lialina (1971, Moscow) graduated Moscow State University in 1993 as a journalist. She is a net artist, animated GIF model, and a pioneer of net.art; co-founder of the Geocities Research Institute and keeper of the One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Archive. Lialina writes on digital folklore, vernacular web and HCI. Since 1999 she is a professor for digital art and design at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart. (2021)
She founded Art Teleportacia, a web gallery of her work, which also features links to remakes of her work My boyfriend came back from the war and was one of the organisers and later, director of Cine Fantom, an experimental cinema club in Moscow co-founded in 1995 with Gleb Aleinikov, Andrej Silvestrov, Boris Ukhananov, Inna Kolosova and others.
Books, catalogues[edit]
- editor, with Dragan Espenschied, Digital Folklore: To Computer Users, with Love and Respect, Stuttgart: Merz & Solitude (Merz Akademie & Akademie Schloss Solitude), 2009, 287 pp.
- MBCBFTW. My Boyfriend Came Back From The War, eds. Sabine Himmelsbach and Olia Lialina, Basel: HEK, 2016, 176 pp. [1] [2] (German)/(English)
- with Cory Arcangel, Asymmetrical Response, ed. Caitlin Jones, Cologne: Koenig Books, 2018, 120+28 pp. Catalogue; with CD. Publisher.
- Olia Lialina -- Net Artist, ed. Valérie Perrin, Dijon: Les presses du réel, and Espace Multimédia Gantner, 2020, 224 pp. Publisher. (English)/(French)
- Turing Complete User, Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, 2021, 244 pp, PDF.
Interviews[edit]
- Josephine Bosma, "Olia Lialina interview Ljubljana". 1997.
- Olia Lialina, Michael Samyn, "Cross Interview Olia - Michael". 1997.
- Florian Schneider, James Allen, "Runet - interview with olia lialina", 2000.