Alexei Shulgin

Country: RU

Born: 1963

Bio: Alexei Shulgin is a Russian born contemporary artist, musician, and online curator. Working out of Moscow and Helsinki, Shulgin established the Immediate Photography Group in 1988 and started his career in this area of study. After 1990, he shifted his interests from photography to the Internet, and consequently, in 1994, founded Moscow-WWW-Art-Lab WWW Art Lab, collaborating with many artists from London and Slovenia. That very same year, the artist created an online photo museum called "Hot Pictures". In 1997, Shulgin continued his work with the invention of Form Art, and later that year the introduction of the Easy Life website. In 1999, Shulgin became Webmaster at FUFME, Inc. Since 2004, Shulgin has been a co-owner of Electroboutique.

Artworks

• Form Art (1997)

  Description: None

  Instructions: Windows 95, Resolution 640x480, 800x600, Netscape Navigator 3.0

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• 386 DX (1998 –2013)

  Description: 386 DX was “the world’s first cyberpunk band.” Known for its live performances on city streets and in nightclubs, the performer is a dingy, singing PC that runs Windows 3.1, equipped with a vintage sound card and loaded with MIDI files of drums, guitar, and synth and accompanying lyrics. Its live performances (it only plays covers, ranging from “California Dreaming” by the Mamas and the Papas to Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”) are accompanied by colorful digital graphics reminiscent of early 1990s screensavers.

  Instructions: None

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• Easylife XXX (1997)

  Description: Don't go there if you are not 18 yet.

  Instructions: Windows 95, Resolution 640x480, 800x600, Netscape Navigator 3.0

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• SeeFree (2003)

  Description: None

  Instructions: Windows 98/XP

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