Olia Lialina (Research)

Olia Lialina is a pioneer Internet Artist, Theorist, an experimental film & video critic and curator. Lialina studied Film Criticism and Journalism at Moscow State University, then went on to study art residencies at C3 (in Budapest) and Villa Walderta (in Munich).

She also created a web gallery of her work (named Art Teleportacia), which include and features links to remakes of her most noticeable and famous work such as “My Boyfriend Came Back from the War”. She was one of the organisers and later director of Cine Fantom, which is an experimental cinema club in Moscow co-founded in 1995. ‘My Boyfriend Came Back from the War’ is a site founded by Lialina where you will find many frames consisting of sentences and pictures. On the site, the user has the choice if clicking on whatever frame they want.

Lialina has taught at a range of different places which include New Media Lab (in Moscow, 1994); Joint Art Studios (in Moscow, 1995); University of Westminster (in London, 1997); MUU (in Helsinki 1997); Kunst Academiet (in Trondheim, 1998) and many more. Since 1999 Lialina has been teaching the ‘New Media Pathway’ at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart. Some of her work is maintained in the computer fine arts collection at Cornell University.

Reference; 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olia_Lialina

http://networkcultures.org/unlikeus/2012/03/09/olia-lialina-and-97-web-melancholy/