andrey chugunov
Interdisciplinary artist
YOB: 1991
Country and city of origin: Sverdlovsk, USSR.
Country and city of residence: East Kilbride, United Kingdom.
Areas of interest:
Mortality, temporality, memory decay, interpersonal distance, autonomy.
Used media:
Installation, sound art, generative graphics, technological sculpture, video art, media performances and readymade.
Education:
Far Eastern Federal University
Master program in Digital Art
Master of Arts (MA)
2018-2020
Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin
Specialty «Non-traditional and renewable energy sources»
Specialist, engineer
2008-2013
Awards and nominations:
Honorable mention at the FutureTense award for the project «to whom it may concern» in Media art nomination,
shortlisted with the project «Corruption: byte by byte» in Digital art nomination, Hong Kong
2023

Nominee for the Sergey Kuryokhin Award in the Media Art category with the project «Mind Maps: Norilsk»
2022
Nominee for the Sergey Kuryokhin Award in the Science Art category with the project «the perfect sync»
2020

Shortlisted at Niio x AI Art Prizes competition as part of pt9 art-group with the project «AF:CFFiIV»
2019

Winner of Art of Neuroscience competition as part of pt9 art-group with the project «AF:CFFiIV»
2019

Nominee for the Sergey Kuryokhin Award in the Art in the Public Space category as part of 4g art-group with the project «Come: get around!»
2018


New Face Award at Art Division at 22-nd Japan Media Arts Festival with the project «Total Tolstoy»
2018


Residencies:
Gleis70 residency supported by Pro Helvetia, Zurich, Switzerland.
2024


Cryptic Residency 2024 at Cove Park, Scotland, UK.
2024



PolArt artist residency, Norilsk, Russia.
2022



Resident of the Ural NCCA studios, Yekatrinburg, Russia.
2021-2022



Synaesthesia lab, Peredelkino, Russia.
2021



Shishim Hill art-residency, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2020



Online art-residency of the Ural Branch of National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2020



Teaching experience and workshops:
Visiting Lecturer at the Audio-Visual Performance course at Glasgow School of Art Future Skills programm, Glasgow, UK
2024-...



Visiting Lecturer at Digital Art Master program at Far-Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia.
2021-...



Tutor at the technological art laboratory at the Yong artist laboratory, Ural Branch of NCCA, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2021-2022



Media-design lecturer at Media communication speciality at Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2020-...



DIY MIDI Interface creation workshop, ArtTECH weekend in NUST MISiS, Moscow, Russia.
2020


The head of 'AIxSound' laboratory at 'AIxArt' educational track at 'Arhipelag 2035' workshop, Russia.
2020


The head of the Sound design direction at Central industrial laboratory of the 4 th Ural industrial biennale of contemporary art, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2017


Participation in educational projects:
'Dolby Atmos Production' course, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2024
'Data Science' course, Clyde College, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2024
'Digital synthesis in VCVRack' course, Academy of Music and Sound, Scotland, UK
2023
Participant at the Mutek.JP AI Music Lab, Tokyo, Japan.
2019
Participant at the Joe Davis workshop «Constructing an immortal library» in the framework of 5 th Ural Industrial Biennial, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2019


Participant at the Young artist laboratory at the Ural Branch of NCCA-ROSIZO, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2018
Participant at the "Contemporary art as foreign language" laboratory at the Ural Branch of NCCA-ROSIZO, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2017


Personal exhibitions:
«to be contained, to be a container» exhibition project
Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow, UK
2024


«a space for encapsulation»
Aberdeen Music Hall screen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
2023


«Mind Maps: Norilsk»
PolArt artist residency, Norilsk, Russia
2022


«to be contained, to be a container» residency project presentation
Shishim Hill residency, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2020


«the perfect sync»
Vladivostok, Russia
2020


Selected group exhibitions:
Sonica Glasgow biennial festival of the audiovisual art
The New Glasgow Society, the Mercat Cross Monument and the Tolbooth Steeple, Glasgow
w/ installations: «Corrutption: byte by byte» and «Melting Through The Scatter of Time»
2024

The Ostranenie Theatre
The Talleyrand, Manchester, UK
w/ video art «Hello, world»
2024


Northern Lights project
SPECTRA Light Festival, Aberdeen, UK
w/ AR sculpture from the project «a space for encapsulation»
2024


The PolArt guest project
XV Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
w/ video part from «Mind Maps: Norilsk» project
2023


Listening Biennial Glasgow (curators: gentian rhosa meikleham, Riah Naief)
Listen gallery, Glasgow
w/ participatory sound performance «There are you and me and all others and the feedback among us»
2023


Wild Happiness exhibition (curator: Ilya Shipilovskikh)
PERMM (Perm Museum of Contemporary Art), Perm, Russia
w/ installation «There is nothing but silence beneath our feet»
2023


FutureTense exhibition
TomorrowMaybe, Hong Kong
w/ media installation «to whom it may concern» and video version of the artwork «Corruption: byte by byte»
2023


Earthworks in progress exhibition (curator: Artyom Antipin)
The Ural Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
w/ VR version of the artwork «Corruption: byte by byte»
2022


Biennale «Art for the Future» showcase in Norilsk
Norilsk Museum, Russia
w/ media installation «Mind Maps: Norilsk»
2022


Reverse (Obratka) (curators: Alisa Sycheva and Dmitry Bezuglov)
The Yeltsin Center Art Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
w/ installation «dash»
2022


Make it till you fake it (curator: Anastasia Albokrinova)
Victoria gallery, Samara, Russia
w/ the series of instructions «inconspicuous performances»
2022


Fight corruption with art
Online exhibition
w/ the digital version of installation «Corruption: byte by byte»
2022


Ural kvartirale
One-day exhibition at _void sound gallery in the Ural NCCA
w/ the installation «Corruption: byte by byte»
2022


18th 404 International Festival of Art & Technology (curator: Gina Valenti)
On-line broadcast exhibition
w/ the installation «to whom it may concern»
2021


blazar young art fair
The Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia.
w/ series of fabric prints «14 radiopulsars: exact data. Update required»
2021


Monopoly on memory (curator: Maria Maximova, exhibition in the framework of the Germany year in Russia in 2021)
The old GUM courtyard, Vladivostok
w/ the installation «to whom it may concern»
2021


New painting of Yekaterinburg (curator: Ilya Shipilovskikh)
The Yeltsin Center Art Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia
w/ 5 works from series of fabric prints «14 radiopulsars: exact data. Update required»
2021


17th 404 International Festival of Art & Technology (curator: Gina Valenti)
On-line broadcast exhibition
w/ the installation «the perfect sync»
2020


Séance (Сеанс) (curator Olga Komleva)
The Ural Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia
w/ the installation «the perfect sync»
2020


22nd Japan Media Arts Festival Exhibition of Award-winning Works
Fuji Television wangan studio, Tokyo, Japan
w/ the media installation «Total Tolstoy»
2019


Epizod: Local (curator: Ildar Yakubov)
Planetarium #1, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
w/ the dome projection of the «Total Tolstoy» project
2019


Bring Your Own Beamer: притащи свой проектор
Proun Moscow Gallery; Moscow, Russia
w/ the video-art «Hello, world»
2018


#deardiary (#дорогойдневник) (curators: Zhenya Chaika, Artem Antipin)
The Ural Branch of NCCA-ROSIZO, Yekaterinburg, Russia
w/ the media installation «Total Tolstoy» and interactive sound installation «between»
2018


What does it mean to dream about light? (curator: Ilya Shipilovskikh)
The Yeltsin Center Art Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia
w/ the installation «purification»
2017


Participation in group exhibitions as part of collaborations:
Live program of ROSBANK Future Cities festival
The Yeltsin Center Art Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
w/ videoart «All that confirmed» for media facade projection (collaboration with Olesya Ilenok).
2021


Undark light-art festival (curator: Evgenia Nikitina)
Ekaterinburg Central Park of Culture and Recreation named after V.V. Mayakovsky, Yekaterinburg, Russia
w/ light installation «Transpass» (collaboration with Olesya Ilenok).
2020


Learning Machines (curators: Helena Nikonole and Alexei Shulgin)
Electromuseum, Moscow, Russia
w/ the video-art «AF:CFFiIV» (as part of pt9 art-group)
2019


Second Beam
The Yeltsin Center Art Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia
w/ the video-art «1055» (as part of pt9 art-group)
2019


The Ideal Exhibition (curator: Svetlana Usoltseva)
Special project in the framework of 5 th Ural Industrial Biennale, Yekaterinburg, Russia
w/ the light installation «They forgot to pay» (as part of ZAHVAT cooperation)
2019


Received from or handed to (curators: Nastya Elizarieva, Uliana Yakovleva)
Research project in the framework of 5th Ural Industrial Biennale, Yekaterinburg, Russia
w/ the media installation «Recuperation in the State of Space» (made together with Timofey Gorbatenko, Evgeniy Lukuta, Anastasia Lukuta, Olesya llyenok, Marina Muzyka)
2019


After us (curator: Vladimir Seleznev)
Special project in the framework of 5 th Ural Industrial Biennale, the Ural Branch of NCCA-ROSIZO, Yekaterinburg, Russia
w/ the video-art «AF:CFFiIV» (as part of pt9 art-group)
2019


The body: digital borders
Electromuseum, Moscow, Russia
w/ the audio-visual delegated dance performance «Human Interfaces: Induction» (made together with Olesya Ilyenok, Marina Muzyka, Valeria Polshina, Timofey Gorbatenko)
2019


Paradoxical Hybrids (curator: Aristarkh Chernyshev)
Hlebozavod Center for Contemporary Culture; Vladivostok, Russia
w/ the audio-visual delegated dance performance «Human Interfaces: Induction» (made together with Olesya Ilyenok, Marina Muzyka, Valeria Polshina, Timofey Gorbatenko)
2019