Natalia Fuchs (born November 6, 1981) is an

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new media New media describes communication technologies that enable or enhance interaction between users as well as interaction between users and content. In the middle of the 1990s, the phrase "new media" became widely used as part of a sales pitch for ...

researcher, international

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and cultural producer.

Biography

Natalia Fuchs was born on November 6, 1981, in

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

. She studied in Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences, obtained MA in Cultural Management in

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

, UK and another MA in History of Media Arts in

Danube University Krems The University for Continuing Education Krems () is an Austrian university specializing in further education for working professionals. It is located in Krems an der Donau, Lower Austria. Name The Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Re ...

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

. Before 2009 she worked in the field

marketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...

and

communications Communication (from la, communicare, meaning "to share" or "to be in relation with") is usually defined as the transmission of information. The term may also refer to the message communicated through such transmissions or the field of inquir ...

for Daimler Chrysler Russia, Ogilvy,

Young & Rubicam VMLY&R is an American marketing and Marketing communications, communications company specializing in advertising, Digital media, digital and social media, sales promotion, direct marketing and brand identity consulting, formed from the merger of ...

and

Aegis Media Dentsu International (previously Dentsu Aegis Network) is a multinational media and digital marketing communications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Japanese advertising and public relation ...

. In 2009—2011 she worked on

Moscow International Film Festival The Moscow International Film Festival (russian: Моско́вский междунаро́дный кинофестива́ль, translit. ''Moskóvskiy myezhdunaródniy kinofyestivál''; abbreviated as MIFF) is the film festival first h ...

Media Forum dedicated to

media art New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies, comprising virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robotics, 3D prin ...

and

experimental film Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working. Many experimental films, parti ...

making as Business Development and Public Relations Director at . In 2010 she moved to

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and worked on

VIENNAFAIR VIENNAFAIR is Austria's biggest fair for contemporary art and focuses on the CEE (later this concept was expanded to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe) region. It has taken place in Vienna every year since 2005 until 2015. Since 2015, the ...

contemporary art fair and sound:frame audiovisual festival. Around that time she founded an art relations practice ARTYPICAL. Upon her return to Russia in 2013 Fuchs became a Curator in

Polytechnic Museum The Polytechnic Museum (russian: Политехнический музей) is one of the oldest science museums in the world and is located in Moscow. It showcases Russian and Soviet technology and science, as well as modern inventions. It was fo ...

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

. She curated Polytech.Science.Art interdisciplinary program, Electronic Living Room experimental multifunctional space and museum's international science art exhibitions. Polytech.Science.Art was awarded a diploma from

Ministry of Culture Ministry of Culture may refer to: *Ministry of Tourism, Cultural Affairs, Youth and Sports (Albania) *Ministry of Culture (Algeria) *Ministry of Culture (Argentina) * Minister for the Arts (Australia) *Ministry of Culture (Azerbaijan) * Ministry of ...

as "Best Educational Project in Museum" in 2015. In 2016 Fuchs joined Sila Sveta interactive media studio as International Communications Director. She was also appointed as Deputy Director, Curator and Multimedia Programs Manager in

National Centre for Contemporary Arts The National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) (russian: Государственный центр современного искусства) in Moscow, Russia, is a museum, exhibition and research organization which primarily aims its efforts ...

in Moscow. In late 2017 she launched NCCA's TECHNE platform for innovative art. In 2018 together with Maurice Jones she co-founded United Curators collective. In 2019 Fuchs curated the Input symposium on digital art at Lunchmeat Festival in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

and co-curated the "Persisting Realities" exhibition and "The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" workshop at

CTM Festival The annual CTM Festival is a music and visual arts event held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1999, the festival originally focused on electronic music, but has since evolved to cover a wide range of genres under the banner "Festival for Adventurou ...

in Berlin. Fuchs is co-producer of Gamma festival of music, art and urban culture.

Selected curation projects

Research and education

Fuchs' professional interests include contemporary culture, media art, cinema and sound. She was teaching Media Art History at

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

since 2017 and Art & Science at

ITMO University ITMO University (russian: Университет ИТМО) is a state-supported university in Saint Petersburg and is one of Russia's National Research Universities. ITMO University is one of 15 Russian universities that were selected to particip ...

since 2018. In 2017 Fuchs also curated an Art & Science educational program for teenagers in NCCA. In 2018 Fuchs was giving lectures in Avant-Garde LAB curator school launched by Denis Semyonov in

Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center opened in Moscow in November 2012. Construction of the museum is estimated to have cost $50 million. Features This museum, dedicated to the complex history of Russian Jewry, uses personal testimony, arch ...

. Fuchs ran workshops, gave public talks and lectures in

Tokyo University of the Arts or is the most prestigious art school in Japan. Located in Ueno Park, it also has facilities in Toride, Ibaraki, Yokohama, Kanagawa, and Kitasenju and Adachi, Tokyo. The university has trained renowned artists in the fields of painting, scul ...

, Miraikan — The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, at The New Media Lab at the New Stage of

Alexandrinsky Theatre The Alexandrinsky Theatre (russian: Александринский театр) or National Drama Theatre of Russia is a theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Alexandrinsky Theatre was built for the Imperial troupe of Petersburg (Imperial trou ...

, SMENA Contemporary Culture Centre in

Kazan Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering a ...

. She also curates Gamma LAB_AI, the laboratory on AI and music in frame of Gamma Festival of music and contemporary art and Gamma_pro annual art & technology forum she produces in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

Additionally Fuchs consults other institutions such as

ZKM The ZKM , Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (until March 2016: ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology), a cultural institution, was founded in 1989. and since 1997 is located in a listed industrial building in Karlsruhe, Germany, a former muni ...

("Open Codes" curated by Peter Weibel) and

Barbican Centre The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhi ...

("AI: More That Human" curated by Majolo Uchida) as Art Advisor.

Exhibitions

* December 2014 — ''Playing Hopscotch'',

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, also referred to simply as ''The Garage Museum'', is a privately funded art gallery in Moscow. It was founded by Dasha Zhukova and Roman Abramovich as the ''Garage Center for Contemporary Culture'' in 2008 an ...

. An annual exhibition of works created by participants of "Polytech.Science.Art: Science. Art. Technologies" interdisciplinary program of

in 2014. * December 2015 — ''On The Origin of New'',

. An exhibition of works by 2015 "Polytech.Science.Art: Science. Art. Technologies" interdisciplinary program participants within Polytech.Science.Art.Week. * January 2016 — ''Crystal. Reconstruction'', SMENA Contemporary Culture Center,

. A project within Polytech.Science.Art Week dedicated to a unique audio-visual musical instrument created in 1964 by Bulat Galeev from Prometheus Institute and recreated by Russian media artist ::vtol:: and

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

-based artist and composer Peter Kirn. * September 2016 — ''EARTH LAB'',

Red October The October Revolution,. officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution. in the Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment ...

. An exhibition project produced by

and

Ars Electronica Ars Electronica Linz GmbH is an Austrian cultural, educational and scientific institute active in the field of new media art, founded in Linz in 1979. It is based at the Ars Electronica Center (AEC), which houses the Museum of the Future, in the ...

Export and dedicated to social, ecological and economic phenomena that impact the future of

Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surfa ...

. * December 2017 — ''TECHNE.Prologue'',

. A pilot exhibition of TECHNE Initiative curated by Fuchs that includes exhibitions, workshops, performances, open labs and other events devoted to technological practices in contemporary art. * June 2018 — ''Everyday Transformations'', Vyksa Steel Works,

Vyksa Vyksa (russian: Вы́кса) is a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Oka River southwest of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: History Vyksa was founded in 1765 and was granted town status in 1934. Etymology From a substrate ...

. An exhibition within ART-OVRAG contemporary art festival that featured works by Helena Nikonole, ::vtol:: and Ildar Yakubovich in the field of scientific art. * June 2018 — ''Humanity Proof'',

VDNKh VDNKh may refer to: * The name of the exhibition centers in former Soviet Republics ** VDNKh (Russia), known as All-Russia Exhibition Center in 1992–2014 ** National Complex Expocenter of Ukraine (formerly "VDNH of the Ukrainian SSR") ** Exhibi ...

. An exhibition that presented 6 young Russian sci-artists that participated in VDNKh's project Vzlet. The exhibition took place inside

Yakovlev Yak-42 The Yakovlev Yak-42 (russian: Яковлев Як-42; NATO reporting name: "Clobber") is a 100/120-seat three-engined mid-range passenger jet developed in the mid 1970s to replace the technically obsolete Tupolev Tu-134. It was the first airli ...

plane located at VDNKh's Industry Square. * January 2019 — ''Persisting Realities'', Kunstraum Kreuzberg,

. An exhibition within

so-curated by Fuchs, Martin Craciun, Nicole Gingras, Eric Mattson, and Antje Weitzel that presented various artistic interpretations and responses to 2019 festival's main theme of Persistence.

References

Extras

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Natalia Fuchs in Russia-K's 'Observer' TV-show episode dedicated to technological art
(8 January 2019) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fuchs, Natalia Russian art curators 1981 births Living people Russian women curators