Finished Moscow Institute for Architecture,
Department for city planning.

1987 - 1989  course on graphic design,
Postgraduate faculty within the Journalist Union,

1994  - 1998  Moscow State University, department
for philosophy and methodology of science.

Specialization: social philosophy.

1997 - Central  European University.
Educational summer program HESP,
Performing Gender: Visual Arts, Cultural studies.
Hungary, Budapest.

MEMBERSHIP

Since 1990 - member of the International Federation of Artists
1994 -  a founding member of the Laboratory
for Cultural Analyses, Idioma.

CULTURAL & ART PROJECTS

idioma projects* 

1996 - Interdisciplinary conference and exhibition.
The Borderlines of Interpretation,
curator and participant of an exhibition.

1995 - International conference, Apocalypse; 
self - awareness of culture on the verge of the 21st century
participant and exhibition curator,
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow.

1995 - International conference 
Gender/ Culture: Shifting Paradigms,
participant and organizer, 
Russian State University for the Humanities.

1993 - International conference
Post-Modernism & National Cultures, Seminar Signs of/for the Times. Russian State University for the Humanities in collaboration with the Tretiakovskaya State Gallery.

* Together with the Idioma members: ---------------------------------------------

experimental art projects**

1995 - Passenger Knot,
within the project Aqua Vitae and installation by Kristoph Rauch,
Museum of the Contemporary Arts, Odessa;

1994 - Auf der Such nach neuen Nervi Rerum, PBK, 
an exhibition space in Sprinkenhof, Hamburg;

1994 - Mentale Landshaften Russlands, Gallery Parzival, Berlin.

1993 - Aqua Vitae, Museum of the Contemporary Arts, Odessa

**Together with members of group. Medical Hermeneutics 
Anufriev S & Tchuikova M.

NETWORK & COMPUTER PROJECTS
 

2000 - 2002  Network / research project
Spatial models and perceptions in authentic cultures and new media 
KHM, KMW.

2000 -  Electronic archive of the authentic Siberian mythopoetics.
conceptual&graphic design.

1997-1999 ­ Interdisciplinary network and research project
Spatial Models in Traditional Cultures, RSUH.

1997 - Network presentation of the Museum of RSUH, 
exhibition : The Garden of Aphrodits.
the exhibition of computer graphics, RSUH server. Media Institute,

1996 - Home page of the University, graphic design, RSUH,
designs and computer graphics .for the video film : 
The First University.

EXHIBITIONS, the selection.

2001
- KHM, Academy for Media arts summer show, Cologne
the network project presentation.

2001
­ Direction to the East, on the way to the Himalayas, 
gallery Kino, municipal exhibition  hall Malii  Maneg, Moscow.

2000
- EVA show of the media projects, State Tretiakov gallery, Moscow

1997
- Surrealism and Revolution, A-3 Gallery, Moscow.

1996
- The Borderlines of Interpretations,
the Museum Center of RSUH  within the interdisciplinary conference with the same title, catalogue.

1995 
- Apocalypse, 
within the international conference: 
Apocalypse: self awareness of culture on the verge of 21 century, 
Multimedia space, Moscow, RSUH, catalogue.
- Multiplication, Museum of Contemporary art, Sadovniki, Moscow.
- Account, L - gallery, Moscow.

1994
- Swimming pool  Moscow, catalogue.
- Reincarnation, Gallery A-3, Moscow.

1993
- Creation of the happy dreams, Academy of Arts, Moscow.
- Art Fair 3,  art project Aqua Vitae, Maneg, Moscow.
- Monuments, Transformation for the future, Institute
for contemporary arts, Central house of artists.

1992
- From Plastozen to Galotzen, Malevich Center, 
Paleontology Museum, Moscow.
- Sots - Art, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Lenin Museum.
- 0 - Arcane, exhibition within the international conference
Russian culture and subculture, Central house of artists, Moscow.
- House N 101, gallery Beliaevo, Moscow.
- Attendence, Institute  for Contemporary art, 
exhibition hall in Peresvetov per, Moscow.

1991
- White River, series of studio exhibitions, actions and performances, Petrovskii bulvar, Moscow.

1990
- Shizo-China, Klava show, Club for vanguard artists, exhibition space on Fruzenskaya, Moscow.
Rose and building, installation within the presentation show of group Nicolai Copernic, Moscow

TEACHINGS AND WORKSHOPS

1998 - Course on composition and computer graphics
at Media Institute, RSUH.

1995 - Course New Technologies and Culture,
Department for Cultural Studies, RSUH.

- Archaic  tendencies in Contemporary Arts, 
Lectures at an Art School, Hamburg.

- Course on spatial models the Faculty for Fashion and Design, 
RSUH.

- Ideological Traps and Magnets of Soviet Architecture, 
Lectures at an International architectural summer school Gable.

CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS

2001 - Academy for Media arts, Cologne,
presentation of the authorly projects.

1999 - Word, Image and New media, 
interdisciplinary conference, RSUH, Moscow.

1998 - symposium New Technologies in Education, 
Galitcino, RSUH.

1997 - presentation of network projects on long-distance education,
Moscow,  RSUH.
- 3-rd International conference on Gender studies.
- Institute for Ethnography and Anthropology.
Russian Academy of  Sciences.
- symposium for stuff and administration of RSUH, Galitcino
- international conference Apocalypses:
- self-awareness of Culture on the verge of the 21 st. century.

1995 - international conference, Russian Culture and Subculture, Moscow.

MEDIA & SCREENINGS

1996 - Russian State Television, contemporary art program 
The Ninth Silence, a project demonstration and an interview.

- Municipal Television of Odessa, Contemporary art program,
Russian State Television, program Growth, performance and an interview.
- Quebec, Canada video art festival, 
video film The Transparent Fixator, Litovian Television, 
performance The Origin of Arts.

1990 - video film The Wind .
Gallery Rotor, Gothenburg, Sweden.

TEXTS,  PUBLICATIONS

2002 - Humane Body inside the Universal Space;
Spatial  narration in computer games; LMR.

2001 - Spatial models and perceptions in 
authentic cultures and new media, KHM, KMW

2000 ­ an article and introduction to the project
Possibility for transformation, Ponomarev S;
Introduction to the art project  Direction to the East,
gallery KINO.

1998 - an introduction to the network course
Spatial Models in Traditional Cultures;

1996 - an article for the catalogue of an exhibition.
The Borderlines of Interpretations;

1994 - Installation as a Model of the City, an article,
project Aqua Vitae, Post Soviet Art & Architecture;
Academy Editions, London.
- Architecture der Ideen, catalogue, Hamburg - Vienna.
- Auf der Such nach Nervi rerum, catalogue, Hamburg.
- Architecture
- Defense of Moscow, Mesto Pechati N 4, Moscow.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2000  ­ 2002 - Academy for Media Arts, KMW, LMR, 
Cologne, artist/researcher in residence.

1994  ­ 1998 - Russian State University for the Humanities:
-creative director at Multimedia center, 1995-1996;
-lecturer at the Department for Fashion and Design;
-research assistant at the Center for Gender studies, 1994;
-designer at the private publishing group, 1998.

1988  ­ 1994 - graphic designer at the  Research Institute
for computer science, Russian Academy of Sciences.

1987 - 1988 - designer at Russian Board for Advertisement
in social sphere, Rosbitreklama.

During the studies at the Institute for Architecture worked as an assistant at the Department for Landscape Architecture,
the Department for Drawing of this Institute.

Season work as graphic artist/architect at archaeologic research expeditions
at the historical memorials
- in the Crimea, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Archeology
- in Uzbekistan, Samarkand, Moscow Institute for Oriental Arts
- in Moldavia, Department for the History of Arts and Ethnography.

ADDRESS

E-mail
olgaziangirova@hotmail.com

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