𰅆𰄖𰂅A 𰄒𰂆𰀂𰄓𰂐𰄣𰀁

Olia Lialina is among the best-known participants in the 1990s net.art scene – an early-days, network-based art pioneer. Her early work had a great impact on recognizing the Internet as a medium for artistic expression and storytelling. This century her continuous and close attention to user culture, “net.language” and vernacular web expression has made her an important voice in new media and post-digital studies.  She is cofounder and keeper of One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age archive, author of Digital Folklore (2009) and Turing Complete User (2021), professor at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany; and an animated GIF model.