Dear Visitor,
My name is Valia Fetisov . I’m a media artist and software engineer interested in the intersection of social psychology and technology. More specifically, my passion is constructing artificial situations to explore people’s reactions. If you don’t want to read further, here is an old video that introduces my work.
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Currently I work at a young company based in Cologne, Germany as a team lead full stack developer and a UX designer. Before that I worked at the Garage Museum’s archive department in Moscow, Russia and Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design. Most of my work is focused around project conceptualisation and full stack development of custom tools, websites or frontend-heavy special projects.
At the same time, I’ve been teaching at the Rodchenko School of Photography and New Media in Moscow with a workshop-based course: “Technical Introduction to the Media Art.” In this course, during a one year period students learned about web scraping, interactive and 3D interfaces, internet-connected devices and much more. But my job was not to teach students how to use any particular tools, but rather inspire them and lower the entrance barrier into the media art.
Just in case you’re interested in technologies I have experience with: git, javascript, python, react, vue, d3, docker, nginx, electron, mongodb, posgtres, arduino, esp8266, zigbee, mqtt, puredata, max/msp/jitter, unity, sketchup and fusion 360. Here is my github account.
Currently I’m working on a tiny exhibition space called Space in transition as an artist and a curator. Recent works include User flow – a research-based project conducted on Social Credit System and Call to action.
But the key work for understanding the origins of my interests is still the Installation of experience (2011). It is a room with an automatic door at the entrance, which closes each time someone comes in, so people are trapped there for an unknown amount of time with no instructions for how to get out.
Some of my other works include: a voicemail community Diane (2017); an online-activity tracker of my friends Be my friend (2016); a way of entering into a video surveillance system Control yourself (2012); and Paranoiapp (2015), a tool for the social psychology experiment in the form of a mobile application.
List of the previous events can be found here.
Write me if you have any questions.
Thank you for reading,
Valia