Olga Goriunova

Born 1977 in Ulan-Ude, USSR. Scholar and a curator in the fields of digital media arts and cultures.

She graduated in 1999 from department of philology, Moscow State University. Recently has completed her Ph.D. "Art Platforms. The constitution of cultural and artistic currents on the Internet" in Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki, on the concept of art platforms, with close attention to the questions of organizational aesthetics, autocreativity, collective, flexible and amateur production, network politics and valorization as playing out in the materiality of digital cultures.

She currently teaches audiovisual arts, sociology of art and media theory in Moscow City University and Moscow State University of Humanities. She has also taught in many educational media institutions in St. Petersburg (course on the history of media technologies and essentials of media theory "Media: history of expansion", 2000-2001 Pro Arte Institute), Almaty/Kazakhstan ("New Media Art Strategies" Programme, 2001 Center for Contemporary Art), Moldova and has lectured world-wide.

She is a co-organizer of Readme software art festivals (Moscow 2002, Helsinki 2003, Aarhus 2004, Dortmund 2005); a co-organizer of software art repository Runme.org. From 2001 a member of Data Exchange Laboratory. 2001 Curator and moderator of the round table discussion "Copyright in the age of digital reproduction", MediaForum, Moscow.

Written and published on a broad range of topics in the areas of new media theory and art, literature in the digital age, history of philosophy of technology, aesthetics, social and critical theory, emphasizing questions at the intersection of digital materiality, aesthetics and organisation. Research interests include digital folklore, aesthetics of glitch, FLOSS (free, libre and open source software) and culture, online participatory platforms, 8-bit music and low tech aesthetics, sociology of artistic experiment and "male" literature, amongst others.

Lives in Moscow and Helsinki.

Books edited

• Readme 100 Temporary Software Art Factory, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, 2006, editor
• Readme Edition 2004. Software Art and Cultures, Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, University of Aarhus, 2004, co-editor
• ReadMe 2.3 Reader. About Software Art. NIFCA Publication 25, Helsinki, 2003, co-editor
• Read_me 1.2. Moscow, Russia. 2002, co-editor

Book chapters

‘Autocreativity. The Operation of Codes of Freedom in Art and Culture’, FLOSS + ART, ed. Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk, (OpenMute, London, 2008).

• ‘Vitalist Technocultural Thinking in Revolutionary Russia (on Piotr Engelmeier)’in: Place Studies in Art, Media, Science and Technology. Historical Investigations on the Sites and the Migration of Knowledge, Eds. Andreas Broeckmann, Gunalan Nadarajan, (Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, VDG, Weimar, 2009).
• ‘A Life Story of Runme.org, software art repository", Forthcoming in French in ART ++, Ed. David-Olivier Lartigaud, (Éditions HYX, Paris, 2009).
• ‘Glitch’ (together with Alexei Shulgin), In Software Studies: a Lexicon, Ed. Matthew Fuller, (Cambridge, The MIT Press, 2008).
• ‘From Art on Networks to Art on Platforms’ (together with Alexei Shulgin) In Data browser volume 3: Curating Immateriality: On 'the Work of the Curator in the Age of Network Systems', Ed. Joasia Krysa, (Autonomedia, New York, 2006).
• ‘"Male literature" of Udaffcom and other networked artistic practices of the cultural resistance’, In Control + Shift. Public and Private Usages of the Russian Internet. Eds. Henrike Schmidt, Katy Teubener, Natalja Konradova, (Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2006). Re-printed: XXXXX, (xxxxx and OpenMute, UK, 2006).

Articles

• ‘Old Contexts for New Media Cultures (in Russia)’, Third Text magazine, (2009).
• ‘Swarm Forms: On Platforms and Creativity’, in Mute magazine, Vol 2 # 4, (January 2007, London).
• ‘Notes on the Death of Net.Art’ in Springerin, #3, (Vienna, 2001); Re-printed in German in ESC. Published by Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2002).

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