Alexei Shulgin

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Alexei Shulgin, born 1963 in Moscow, Russia, is a contemporary artist. Particularly involved with software art and internet art, he is a part of the readme organisation, a festival and conference devoted to software art, and is probably most well-known for his 386DX performances, in which a Microsoft Windows-based 386 PC performs MIDI renditions of popular music hits while a synthesized voice sings the lyrics. He established the Instant Photo Group in 1988 and started his career as a photographer. After 1990, he shifted his interests from photography to the Internet, consequently in 1994, founded Noscow-WWW-Art-Lab collaborating with many artists from London and Slovenia. At the same time, an on-line photo museum, Hot Pictures, was started. In 1997, he released his first interactive work, Form Art, in which only minimum factors are programmed in the form of HTML. This was aimed at the influence of a networking process on the Internet.