Oleg Elagin

Digital technologies have formed a new environment of existence, with its laws and rules of conduct expressed in post reality in which the digital and analog worlds merged in the concept of “contemporary nature”, «deep ecology». Researching new language of sensitive, formed on the basis of new technologies, I rethink boundaries of the corporeal in new reality, appeal to the aesthetic of error, temporal failures glitch, white noise and etc.
I am Interested in processes in virtual spaces and their influence on the physical world. Such concepts as "digital freedom", free exchange of knowledge, "new copyright", different codes, concept of Livshits about new sensualities, overcoming boundaries of corporeality, extending tradition of ready-made video and photo and using accidentally found digital material.
Working with software or simple and/or complex digital devices, I see a certain potential in malfunctions, errors, interference, glitches, not only for art, but also for critical evaluation of society with its constant striving for improvement. I guess through the aesthetic of error, on the one hand, we can prove that machines are able to speak out, resist imposed rigid structures, algorithms and programs that seek to keep them ...

Graduated from the Samara State Communication Academy (2004), Independent School of Contemporary Art (2006), The art grant on training in Germany (Stuttgarter kunstverein e.v., Stuttgart. Germany) (2014), the art grant of European Cultural Foundation (2018), the grant of Vyksa Air artresidence, member of the Creative Union of Artists “Solaris».

Selected projects
2019 - V International digital art festival “101. Invisible connection”, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2019 - «Impossible Journeys to The Netherlands, Russia and Persia Now and Then», Cargo In Context, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019 - Solo exhibition «Deep digital night», Samara Art Museum, Samara, Russia
2019 - «Impossible Journeys to The Netherlands, Russia and Persia Now and and Then», Emrooz Gallery, Isfahan, Iran
2018 - FILE, FILE Hypersonica. Electronic Language International Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
2018 - “Electric Russia”, Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia
2018 - «Portal – A Visual Research», Lothringer13_FLORIDA artist-run project space and residency, Munchen, Germany
2018 - “Madness Of The Volga”, Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russiа
2018 - Solo exhibition «Deep digital dream», art residence Vyksa Air, Vyksa, Russia
2017 - Laureate «MATA» festival, The Kitchen multi-disciplinary art and performance space, New York, USA
2017 - «Volga.Zero», the Central Volga branch of the State Center for Contemporary Arts, Samara, Russia
2017 - Cyberfest 2017. Retrospective of the video programs shown at " Cyberfest» festival. The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2016 - «Antimuseum. Part 2», Electrom...