Olia Lialina
Olia Lialina (b. 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 at Moscow State University from where she graduated in 1993. She was one of the organisers and later, director of Cine Fantom, an experimental cinema club in Moscow founded in 1995 by Gleb Aleinikov, Olia Lialina, Andrej Silvestrov, Boris Ukhananov, Inna Kolosova and others.
Since 1999 Professor of Merz Akademie (New Media Pathway), Stuttgart. Animated Gif Model. Wife of Dragan Espenschied. Junior blogger.
Selected works and articles
all the works
My boyfriend came back from the war, 1996
Art.Teleportacia, the first real net art gallery,1998
Zombie and Mummy, 2002 (with Dragan Espenschied)
Car Metaphors blog
Vernacular Web 2
teaching at Merz Akademie