Olia Lialina

Country: RU

Born: 1971

Bio: Olia Lialina (Russian: Оля Лялина, May 4, 1971, in Moscow) is an Internet artist and theorist, an experimental film and video critic and curator.

Artworks

• My Boyfriend Came Back From the War (1996)

  Description: Created in 1996, this pioneering net art piece explores themes of love, war, and memory through the medium of the web. This iconic work was one of the first to utilize hypertext and the web as an art medium, taking the form of a fragmented, interactive narrative. The story is displayed across multiple web pages, with each click leading to a new part of the story. The work invites viewers to navigate a visual and textual representation of emotional and psychological distance, symbolizing the disjointed nature of online communication.

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

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• Agatha Appears (1997)

  Description: Agatha Appears was started as a pure art project, funny story about two young people who meet at night. Story combines principles of stage design, film montage and html documents, common internet stereotypes and net critics. It imitates the process of teleportation, but in the process of making Agatha appeared a new server http://www.teleportica.org, where datas of real people, who want to be teleported are stored. Agatha Appears was a starting point for two other projects as well: http://will.teleportica.org, and http://art.teleportica.org.

  Instructions: Windows 95, Resolution 640x480, 800x600, Internet Explorer 3.0 or Netscape Navigator 4.0

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