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Encyclopedia > Alexei Shulgin

'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. 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronunciation: Moskvá) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 1097. ... runme. ... Internet art is art or, more precisely, cultural production which uses the Internet as its primary medium and, more importantly, its subject, much like video art uses video as its medium - but is also very much about video, although many artists working with the Net view video as only a... A readme (or read me) file contains information about other files in a directory and is very commonly distributed with computer software. ... The Intel 80386 is a microprocessor which was used as the central processing unit (CPU) of many personal computers from 1986 until 1994 and later. ... Microsoft Windows is a range of operating environments for personal computers and servers. ... Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ...


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Net.art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2137 words)
The members are usually referenced as Vuk Ćosić, Jodi.org, Alexei Shulgin, Olia Lialina, Heath Bunting.
This group was united as a parody of avantgarde movements by writers such as Josephine Bosma and Hand Dieter Huber but their individual works have little in common.
The birth of net.art as a geographically and historically defined movement is usually related to the creation of the Electronic Photogallery [4] by Alexei Shulgin in 1994, which evolved into the Moscow wwwartcentre [5], as initiated by Alexei Shulgin, Tania Detkina, Alexander Nikolaev and Rachel Baker.
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