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Artist, writer, plant grower. Born in 1984 in Voronezh, Russia. Lived and worked in Saint Petersburg before leaving the country after Russia's fullscale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Currently studies Environmental Arts & Social Practice at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Ilia's life and professional interests lie in the liminal area between art, plant-growing, and natural philosophy. In installations, writings, online projects, educational programs, and communicative situations, he seek to initiate co-participation in the emergence of compound selves.
Artist (2009-ongoing): total installations, mixed media, digital projects.
Writer (2009 - ongoing): speculative fiction, nature writing, eco-poetry. Editor of online publication platforms.
Educator (2011 - ongoing): history of art, plant studies, experimental plant-growing, writing.
Compound selves, sciaponics, eco-poetics, psychoanalysis, cybernetics, experimental plant-growing, experimental writing, visual poetry, non-retinal art.
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— 2023 Winner of the Andrei Bely literature prize in the Proze nomination
— 2016 Winner of the “Credit Suisse and Cosmoscow art prize for emerging artists 2016”
— 2013, 2015 Nominee of the “Kandinskiy Prize” for contemporary art
— 2013 Winner of the granting program of the “Garage” museum of contemporary art
— 2012 Winner of the “Innovation 2012” Russian state award in the sphere of contemporary art, “The best regional project” nomination.
ART 101 - 01 Introduction to Computer Programming for the Arts
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