CURRICULUM VITAE

Olga Ziangirova

Education
Professional experience
Cultural and art projects
Network and computer projects
Exhibitions
Teachings
Membership


Studied architecture at Moscow Institute for Architecture, *
graphic design at the University for Journalism,
social philosophy and cultural theory at Moscow State University,
gender studies at Central European University in Budapest

In the beginning if nineties was one of the first actively exhibiting russian contemporary artists of the early post soviet period. 
Participated in numerous exhibitions, conferences, art and cultural events.

She is the author of many experimental art, cultural and media projects, which were developed with the help of  different media, in different ways  and  places. Such art projects as Aqua Vita, Mental Landscapes,
In a Search for the new Nervi rerum**, were exhibited in Moscow, Berlin, Hamburg and Odessa.

She was a founding member of Laboratory for cultural analysis and curator group " Idioma ".
Within the "Idioma" activities was the curator of different interdisciplinary projects, including symposiums and contemporary art exhibitions, among them there are :
Borderlines of Interpretations, Gender and Culture: Shifting Paradigms, Apocalypses and others.

In 1993-1999 worked at Russian State University for the Humanities as a creative director at Media institute and the Department for new technologies in education
lecturer at the department for fashion and design,
research assistant at the center for gender studies,

During her work at the University has developed educational network programs on cultural and art history, 
educational courses on computer design and composition.

At the Academy of  Media arts  in Cologne was developing network and research project, devoted to the spatial perceptions and models in new media and authentic cultures
and some other experimental items.

The general intention of her  recent work is
to open new media to  broader interdisciplinary areas and 
to make investigations in bordering areas,
between new media, arts and other actual disciplines.

* During her studies  worked temporarily 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;
as an assistant at the department  for landscape architecture, department of graphics and drawing.
Worked as the designer at advertisement company Rosbitreklama, 
Research Institute for Computer science, Russian Academy of Sciences.

**(together with the members of a group "Medical Hermeneutics").
 

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