Olya Dubatova (russian: Оля Дубатова, born July 8) is a Russian born visual artist. Since 2008 she has exhibited internationally. She lives in California and

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Work

Dubatova is a

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

, filmmaker, and installation artist. She explores language, technology, time, place, sound, mapping, gender and identity through new media installation and performance. From 2007 to 2011 her studio was in

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, and she mostly exhibited in Europe. Her

digital photography Digital photography uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors interfaced to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to produce images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film. The digitized image is sto ...

, interactive video art installations, films, sound, and single and multi-channel video works have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions and screenings in institutions such Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archive,

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, Women’s Museum, LACDA (Los Angeles Center of Digital Art), BAWIFM, and Scuderie Aldobrandini Museum, Rome. In 2014, Dubatova co-founded an art and technology center/ art lab at USC, her project a collaboration with Chris Kyriakakis (USC) as well as

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and

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. Olya was invited to be an artist in residence at

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in 2016. In 2016 Olya, together with Greg Niemeyer and Archive.org, created installation Gifcollider, presented at BAMPFA in October 2016. The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life commissioned a second version of gifCollider, "The Night Vision", for the "Power of Attention" Exhibit running through 2017. This version includes animations of a menorah design.

References

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