Anna Tokareva

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My research-led creative practice explores entanglements between technoscience, contemporary mythologies and fictions of post-Soviet ecosystems. Manifesting alternatives to systemic imbalances; planting intoxicating thought-weeds. Modes: writing, digital art and design.

I completed a Master of Creative Technologies (First Class Honours) at Colab, AUT and was selected to join Strelka’s The New Normal. I have exhibited work in online and offline spaces across New Zealand, UK, Germany, Spain and Croatia. My writing has been published by Digital Cultures Institute NZ, HAMSTER Magazine, href zine and Kajet Journal.

2022: Currently based in London, UK
1998: Migrated to Tāmaki-makau-rau / Auckland,
Aotearoa / New Zealand
1988: Born in Rostov-na-Donu, (then) USSR / (now) Russia

EXHIBITIONS

/’fu:bar/ Glitch Art Festival 2020
–group exhibition–
Siva Gallery, AKC Medika / expo.fubar.space
Zagreb, HR
3–9 Oct 2020

Nooscope 2.0
–solo exhibition–
MEANWHILE gallery, www / Wellington, NZ
Oct–Nov 2019

BYMG™
–solo exhibition–
External Pages gallery, www / London, UK
June–July 2019

To feel the goose that lays the golden eggs
–solo exhibition–
Performance Research Lab, AUT University, Auckland, NZ
Nov 2017

Postcards from the Anthropocene: Unsettling
the Geopolitics of Representation
–group exhibition–
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture,
University of Edinburgh, UK
22–24 June 2017

Typographic Earthquake, TypoMad Festival
–group exhibition–
Espacio B, Madrid, ES
Nov–Dec 2015

Elam Graduate Show
–group exhibition–
Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, NZ
Nov 2010

Franklin Emerging Artists Exhibition
–group exhibition–
Franklin Arts Centre, Auckland, NZ
Nov 2008

PUBLICATIONS

Pickled Futurism
Essay to be published in:
Kajet Journal: Issue 5, On The Future
Bucharest, RO
February 2022 (upcoming)

Baba Yaga Myco Glitch
Essay republished in:
href zine: Landscapes, Symbioses, Technoid Natures

Bremen, DK
Jan 2021

Clearing the Aether
Score published in:
woven scores
(curated by Alisa Oleva for the Woven Network)
Mariupol, UA / EU
Dec 2020

Landscape
Glossary definition published in:
A Multiplicities Glossary
(curated by href zine / Lotta Stöver & Nathalie Gebert)
INTER-
Berlin, DE
Dec 2020

Baba Yaga Myco Glitch

Essay commissioned by CUNTemporary / Arts Feminism Queer
and published in:
Queer Feminist Decolonial Ecologies Dossier on the occasion of the festival EcoFutures: Queer Feminist and Decolonial Responses to Ecological
& Environmental Changes, March–April 2019.
London, UK
Aug 2020

Nooscope: The Political Myth of Planetary Scale Computation
Published by the Digital Cultures Institute
Auckland, NZ
Dec 2018

The Manifestation of the Capitalist Spirit
Issue 1, HAMSTER Magazine
Published by the Physics Room
Christchurch, NZ
Dec 2017

RESIDENCIES / RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Decolonising Imagination Research School by DOXA journal
(and INCO), with the support of Higher School of Economics and Oxford Russia Fund.
Moscow, RU
2–7 Feb 2019

Shortlisted, Web Residencies by Akademie Schloss Solitude and ZKM
www / Stuttgart, DE
Jan 2019

The New Normal research programme / think tank
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design,
Moscow, RU
Jan-Mar 2018

PRESENTATIONS

BYMG - "Intoxicated Interface Infusion- Fermentation Tactics"
ReclaimFutures Conference
online / CH
18–20 Sept 2020

BYMG Presentation at 4th Open Fields Conference: UN/GREEN: Naturally Artificial Intelligences
RIXC Art Science Festival
Riga, LV
4–6 July 2019

Archive as cyborg: imagining archeologies of the future
Chew It Up, Auckland University of Technology
Auckland, NZ
June 2016

PRESS

“Beneath the Facade,” by Ana Meisel
in Cyborgology, The Society Pages
and Spanish translation:
“Viendo a través de sitios web engañosos”
in Anti-Materia
22 July 2019

AWARDS

Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies Dean’s Award
for Excellence in Postgraduate Study
Auckland University of Technology, NZ
2018

Colab Master of Creative Technologies Fees Scholarship
Auckland University of Technology, NZ
2016

EDUCATION

Introduction to Machine Learning with Python (short course)
Goldsmiths, University of London
Jan-Mar 2019

Master of Creative Technologies (First Class Honours)
Colab, Auckland University of Technology, NZ
2016-17

Diploma of Graphic Design (Merit)
Media Design School, Auckland, NZ
2011-12

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours)
Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, NZ
2007-10

CONTACT DETAILS

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Twitter is mostly neglected.
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Work history on LinkedIn.