Olia Lialina

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Olia Lialina (born May 4, 1971 in Moscow) is a pioneer Internet artist and theorist as well as an experimental film and video critic and curator. Lialina studied film criticism and journalism at Moscow State University, graduating in 1993, then followed with art residencies at C3 (Budapest, 1997) and Villa Walderta (Munich, 1998).[1]

She founded Art Teleportacia, a web gallery of her work, which also features links to remakes of her most famous work "My boyfriend came back from the war" [2] and was one of the organisers and later, director of Cine Fantom, an experimental cinema club in Moscow co-founded in 1995 by Lialina with Gleb Aleinikov, Andrej Silvestrov, Boris Ukhananov, Inna Kolosova and others.

Lialina taught at New Media Lab (Moscow, 1994); Joint Art Studios (Moscow, 1995); University of Westminster (London, 1997); MUU (Helsinki, 1997); Kunst Academiet (Trondheim, 1998); Fachhochschule (Augsburg, 1998); University of Graz (1998); Akademie der Bildenden Künste München(Munich, 1998-99);[3] and Merz Akademie in (Stuttgart (1999-2001).[4] Some of her artwork is maintained in the computerfinearts collection at Cornell University.[5]

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[edit] Works

  • Olia Lialina's website includes her piece " My boyfriend came back from the war" which is a perfect example of netart. In this particular piece Olia Lialina tells a story with gif about a couple and what occurred when the male came back from a war. The female talks about cheating, and there is some talk about marriage. The whole piece is in black and white and the story progresses as one clicks on the different words. This piece has been remixed and redone in different ways, you can find the links to these new pieces here
  • The first real net art gallery is a webpage that features what appears to be a creator in the lower right hand side of the page and eleven bars at the top left hand side, the website pictures evergreen trees throughout. The link on this page is over the creator, when clicked on the page moves towards the top left, finally stopping and revealing links.
  • The most beautiful web page is a webpage which appears to be as the link states "some universe". The link to the page is in the words which appear in the middle of the page and read "SOME UNIVERSE for heike, dragan and your browser"[6] when clicked on, a new webpage appears in which one must scroll using the page down on your keyboard. While doing this the various spots of color on the black background appear to twinkle and move. Throughout the scrolling there are different images that appear, at times there are stripes of color which look as if they are moving in the opposite direction of the rest of the site. Finally at the bottom of the page five images can be seen, including a horizontal stripe of sparkling purple lights.
  • News paper online is a webpage that features newspaper with different Gif through out the news papers. There are five different newspaper from different parts of the world in order from left to right.
  • The first newspaper is of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung a German news paper from August 2, 2004. Olia has added GIF of roses.
  • The second newspaper is of Daily Jang. The date of this paper is August 6, 2004 the animations added to it are colored spheres.
  • The third newspaper is of USA TODAY, this page includes GIF of American flags and of The Statue of Liberty. The date for this newspaper is August 9, 2004 and when scrolled over the part entitled "Election Officials Act to Stop Snags" the same newspaper is revealed without the GIF and in black and white.
  • The fourth newspaper is of The Wall Street Journal Europe this page contains GIF of animals. The date on the newspaper is August 4, 2004.
  • The fifth newspaper is of Dajiyuan. In this newspaper there are GIF of Street Fighter. The date on the newspaper is August 4, 2004.

[edit] References

  1. ^ art residency. teleportacia.org. Retrieved on 2008-03-01.
  2. ^ "Pages in the Middle of Nowhere" (formerly, "First and the Only Real Net Art Gallery"). teleportacia.org. Retrieved on 2008-03-01.
  3. ^ Teaching. tvgallery.ru. Retrieved on 2008-03-01.
  4. ^ New Media Pathway. merz-akademie.de.
  5. ^ Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. library.cornell.edu. Retrieved on 2008-03-01.
  6. ^ The most beautiful web page

[edit] Further reading

  • Rosenthal, S., & Dinkla, S. (2002). Stories: Erzählstrukturen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst : Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Lars Arrhenius, Birgit Brenner, Susanne Berkenheger, Sophie Calle, Tracey Emin, Anna Gaskell, Renee Green, Josph Grigely, Rachel Harrison, Benjamin Heisenberg, Anton Henning, Lynn Hershman, William Kentridge, Olia Lialina, Julia Loktev, Florian Merkel, M+M Aernout Mik, Abigail O'Brien, Franck Scurti, Andreas Siekmann, Sam Taylor-Wood, Janaina Tschäpe, Susanne Weirich. Köln: DuMont. ISBN 3832171916
  • Tribe, Mark; Reena, JAna (2007). "New Media Art". Taschen GmbH, 60. ISBN 978382283041. (Brown University open source)

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