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Still life with VR headsets

2022
Materials: vr
100 см x 100 см
Category: digital art
Item Number: 020232
500 000
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About the Work
About the Artist

The image on the still-life of the most ordinary things and, at the same time, the representation of the whole reality through them is one of the most familiar traditions in art. But what should be the still life in a world where there is already a VR helmet and the ability to enter any reality? Is it a combination of fragmented and vivid images from different eras? Are these things still considered luxury, despite their apparent mass availability? Is this all of it?

Nadezhda Bey is a young media artist who uses VR as her main medium. Born in Tyumen, then at the age of 18, she moved to St. Petersburg, where she received her higher education in design and CG at ITMO University, and then a master's degree in science&tech art at the same university.

Since 2019, she has been actively involved in developing VR technologies and the popularization of virtual reality art, she is one of the most famous figures in Russia in this direction. In 2022-2023, she became a prominent representative of the digital art scene in Russia, received the ASTA award and the S. Kuryokhin Art Prize. Nadezhda currently works as an artist at the Interactive VR Lab and as a tutor at the Art&Science program at ITMO University.

Awards

2023

Winner of the Kuryokhin Prize in the category “Best Media Object”

ASTA Award in VR/AR nomination (Corpoirreality v.1 project)

Long list of S. Kuryokhin Prize in the nominations: "Grand Prix" (MINIM project) and "Best Media Object" (To-do list project)

1st place in Web 3.0 nomination, “Life Form” art competition by reStore

Selected exhibitions, fairs

2023

“Digital Mechanics”, Kuryokhin Center, St. Petersburg

Blazar Fair, Moscow

“Life Form”, RuArts Gallery, Moscow

Exhibition of nominees S. Kuryokhin, St. Petersburg

"Play Digital Art", Yekaterinburg

“Spirits, Jinns & Avatars - On Magic in the Digital Age”, HAU Berlin, Germany

“Message space. From sign to sensation”, Krasnokholmskaya Gallery, Moscow

2022

"STAGE-2022", St. Petersburg

"ABC Time", KGallery, St. Petersburg

"Art of the Future", online program, MAMM, Moscow

Art&Tech Festival, St. Petersburg

2021

Speculum Artium Festival, Slovenia

«Pending Futures», Russia, Netherlands

"Staying with the Trouble", AIR gallery, St. Petersburg

"Depressed_Fest", V Glavnoy Gallery, Tomsk

2020

“I, about me, about me”, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg

Art Weekend, New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

"V Art Reality", St. Petersburg

XR Atlanta Showcase, USA