About exhibition:
«Hybrid Chronicles»
Digital art emerged at the intersection of experiment and technology — from the artist’s intention to explore reality through new tools. Since the end of the 20th century, the computer power has become an artistic medium, and with the spread of Internet, VR, blockchain, and AI, art has transcended traditional media.
A new phase of digital culture development began in the 2020s with the rise of NFTs and AI, which allowed artists to create and consolidate unique digital works. AI has evolved from just a tool to a creative partner with whom it has become possible to collaborate and share the results of one’s imagination. A new chapter in the history of art has begun — the era of hybridity, where the boundaries between a human, machine and image become fluid. Artists are not only mastering technology, but also rethinking the nature of the human body, identity and presence.
The Hybrid Chronicles exhibition invites you to the immersive space "Vnutri", where art reflects the evolution the humanity and its interaction with technology.
The exhibition features seventeen artists and six curatorial teams from different countries, each exploring the posthuman experience in their own way: the digital body (Daniil Zeuv, Reiki Zhang, Hwia Kim), emotional intelligence (Ash Xu, Shama Rahman), the symbiosis of nature and technology (Rinatto L’Bank, Dilara Baskoylu), new rituals and emotion mediators (Sue Sha, MengXuan Sun) and many more.
Today, an artist does not exist in a vacuum, but they collaborate with technology, becoming an architect of emotions and values. In the digital art centre "Vnutri," the visitor becomes part of an immersive space where light, sound, and movement transform technology into poetry. "Hybrid Chronicles" records the cultural transition from analogue to digital, from individual to distributed consciousness.
Art remains a space of dialogue, reminding us: technology is not an enemy, but a mirror in which we see ourselves anew.
A new phase of digital culture development began in the 2020s with the rise of NFTs and AI, which allowed artists to create and consolidate unique digital works. AI has evolved from just a tool to a creative partner with whom it has become possible to collaborate and share the results of one’s imagination. A new chapter in the history of art has begun — the era of hybridity, where the boundaries between a human, machine and image become fluid. Artists are not only mastering technology, but also rethinking the nature of the human body, identity and presence.
The Hybrid Chronicles exhibition invites you to the immersive space "Vnutri", where art reflects the evolution the humanity and its interaction with technology.
The exhibition features seventeen artists and six curatorial teams from different countries, each exploring the posthuman experience in their own way: the digital body (Daniil Zeuv, Reiki Zhang, Hwia Kim), emotional intelligence (Ash Xu, Shama Rahman), the symbiosis of nature and technology (Rinatto L’Bank, Dilara Baskoylu), new rituals and emotion mediators (Sue Sha, MengXuan Sun) and many more.
Today, an artist does not exist in a vacuum, but they collaborate with technology, becoming an architect of emotions and values. In the digital art centre "Vnutri," the visitor becomes part of an immersive space where light, sound, and movement transform technology into poetry. "Hybrid Chronicles" records the cultural transition from analogue to digital, from individual to distributed consciousness.
Art remains a space of dialogue, reminding us: technology is not an enemy, but a mirror in which we see ourselves anew.
Curatorial collectives:
VS Gallery (Russia), Art Curatorial Nomads (Hong Kong), Project22 (UAE), capitArtX (UK, Turkey), ArtSect (UK, Greece, Middle East) and Green Grammar (UK, China)
Art producer and curator:
Alisa Lisovskaia
Artists:
Daniil Zuev, Andrey Berger, Evgenia Shabunina, Rinatto L'Bank, Anastasia Gross, Dilara Baskoylu, Shama Rahman, Daisy Dickinson, Tatsuru Arai, Jessica Avarello, Sue Sha, Reiki Zhang, Annan Shao, Ash Xu, MengXuan Sun, Bkyle, Hwia Kim
Сurator, art critic and art consultant with many years of experience working at museums in Moscow, galleries in London and art & tech companies in the US. An alumna of Moscow State University and Russian State University for the Humanities, she later studied at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York (MA Art Business). Currently, she lives in London, leads a course on art management at the British Higher School of Design (Moscow), advises artists and art businesses, participates as a mentor in the Culttech Accelerator (Vienna, Austria), and develops projects in the field of digital and analogue art.
Curator
Alisa Lisovskaia
Human
Работа художницы Human («Человек») повествует о том, что технологии не стирают человеческое, а только множат его следы, а мы тем временем проходим через технологическую трансформацию, оставляя за собой след — цифровое эхо. Оно повторяет наши жесты, голоса, эмоции, но в этой бесконечной отражённости всё равно слышен первоисточник — человек.
Ejaneress / Евгения Шабунина
Медиа-художница, работающая с AI. В центре её творчества — человек, а точнее его красота, сексуальность и внутренние переживания. Евгения — участница выставок и фестивалей современного искусства, сотрудничала с фестивалями Signal, Intervals, Nur, Outline, а также с артистами AIGEL, Aespa и крупными брендами. Лауреат европейских фестивалей AI-фильмов.
Human
Evgenia Shabunina’s work Human narrates that technology does not erase humanity, but only multiplies human footprints. In the meantime the humanity is going through a technological transformation, leaving behind footprints — a digital echo. It repeats our gestures, voices, and emotions, but in this endless reflection, we can still hear the source — the human.
Ejaneress / Evgenia Shabunina
Evgenia Shabunina is a new media artist working with artificial intelligence. At the centre of her work is a person, or rather his beauty, sexuality and inner feelings. Evgenia is a participant in exhibitions and festivals of contemporary art, collaborating with the Signal, Intervals, Nur, Outline festivals, as well as with artists from AIGEL, Aespa and major brands. Evgenia was nominated as the award-winning of the European AI film festivals.
I’m coming into America, America is coming into me
His immersive installation is a space where a visitor and the digital environment merge into one. The artist explores how the information flow absorbs a modern person, turning, metaphorically speaking, into the "meat" of the Internet. Clicking and chewing sounds enhance the feeling of connection between the virtual and the physical aspects.
Daniil Zeuv / Zuzya
Daniil Zeuv/Zuzya is a digital artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, science and technology. A graduate of the ITMO University and the Art & Science program, a student at the Higher School of Economics, his "virtual worlds" works have been presented at the Hermitage Museum, the Zaryadye Park and at many international exhibitions.
After the Sign
The media installation "After the Sign" combines an interactive object and a generative video, comprehending the two-sided nature of the linguistic sign and the transformation of writing in the age of algorithms. The project addresses the topic of automating language and image, where the boundaries between man and machine, the signifier and the signified are erased, and error becomes a new form of truth. Authors: Valab Association (interactive object) and media artist Nastya Galanina (neurogeneration).
re-коллегиум х Editorial opinion* may not coincide
re-collegium is a new association that was founded via the creation of the "Posthuman" section of the "Editorial opinion* may not coincide" publication. The founders of the association are the editor-in-chief of the magazine, Ekaterina Nekhludova, and Anastasia Gross, art director of the magazine, curator, and multimedia artist working at the intersection of art, science, and technology, graduate of the Joseph Bakshtein Institute of Contemporary Art and the British Higher School of Design, finalist of the ASTA Award and the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize.
Untitled
BKyle’s work unfolds as a modern love story — an exploration of the complex relationships that bind people together. Through the prism of the latest technologies, the artwork reveals both connection and separation, proximity and distance. Each scene shows the polarity of emotions, reflecting tension, vulnerability, and longing in a world where human feelings constantly clash with technological influences.
B K Y L E
B K Y L E is a British artist who explores natural forms, patterns of relationships, and human emotions by creating well-structured visual systems. The artist’s projects show how technology affects a person’s perception of reality. B K Y L E’s work has been shown at the Grand Palais in Paris, Shibuya in Tokyo, W1 Curates and art’otel in London, as well as at Outernet London and NFTUK.
VS Gallery is Russia’s first phygital gallery, specializing in digital art and new media. The gallery team is focused on supporting artists working at the intersection of technology and art, who create works that would previously have been impossible without modern digital tools and materials. Since 2022, VS Gallery has realized over 15 projects, including museum exhibitions, art residencies, and collaborations with businesses and cultural institutions.
VS Gallery
From Nature to Digital Immortality
The concept of his work "From Nature to Digital Immortality" is based on the ideas of posthumanism that are relevant in the artistic environment today, as well as on observations about the role and place of a human in the technology-based world.
Rinatto L'Bank / Rinat Abdrakhmanov
Rinatto L’Bank (Rinat Abdrakhmanov) is an interdisciplinary artist from Kazakhstan, working at the intersection of new media, digital art and NFT. Rinat actively takes part in international exhibitions and cultural projects. In his works, Rinatto L’Bank explores visual communication strategies as well as the capabilities of the human body. In his artistic practice, he primarily explores the aesthetics of cyberspace. At the same time, Rinat is interested in such categories as beauty, ugliness, and the sublime in modern culture.
Green Grammar is a London-based, artist-run curatorial organisation that creates exhibitions, workshops, screenings, and art talks. Rooted in their artistic practice and daily reading, they seek to open conversations with the public through programmes, using art as a way to raise questions and spark dialogue.
The Green Grammar
Annan Shao is a media artist who creates 3D animations and installations exploring human emotions and their transformations in the digital age. She studied in China and the United Kingdom, and her work has been exhibited in international museums and galleries, including Tank Shanghai, Tree Art Museum (Beijing), Guangdong Museum of Contemporary Art, Zabludowicz Collection (London). Annan’s art shows the interaction of humans, technology, and the environment through virtual ecosystems and allegorical plots.
Annan Shao / Аннан Шао
The Reptile Café project explores human behavioral patterns through visual metaphors, Customized New Routine — the desire to control and change the perception of the situation, and Sushi Highway — the circulation of information in the near future. In 2025, her project Reptile Coffee won the 4th Cifra Award and will be exhibited at POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair. In 2024, the same work won the international digital art competition Nescience or the State of Not Knowing in Spain. In 2023, her piece Customized New Routine won the international competition From Micro To Macro and Back, jointly organized by mmmad art and smth art (Spain). That same year, her work Highway Sushi received the NAFI Future Award at
Nanjing International Art Festival.
Nanjing International Art Festival.
Reptile Café,
Customised New Routine,
Highway Sushi
Customised New Routine,
Highway Sushi
The work "Cosmic in the Brain" combines neurotechnology and generative art and visualises thought processes in the form of a starry sky in virtual space.
Cosmic in the Brain
Ash Xu is a multimedia artist and designer who explores the impact of technology on art and society. A researcher of IxD technologies, Ash is passionate about interdisciplinary design practice and technological innovation. His current research areas include brain-computer Interaction (BCI) research and XR design. He combines innovation and critical analysis to create projects with artificial intelligence and digital media.
Ash Xu / Эш Сюй
Reiki Zhang is a digital artist and AI filmmaker who explores the connection between identity, fashion and technology. Graduted from Tsinghua University and Central Saint Martins, she creates hybrid visual worlds where art, design and media merge together. Her work reinterprets artistic expression in the age of artificial intelligence.
Reiki Zhang / Рэйки Чжан
The Digital Rituals
The Digital Rituals project explores and predicts how human rituals will be changing in the future, where humans and digital beings exist together. The artist rethinks the ancient rituals of nature worship, transferring them to the metaverse and creating new forms of spirituality.
MengXuan Sun is a digital artist and co-founder of the Berlin-based art collective AN (8)X. Sun works with installation and audiovisual performance, in which she explores the influence of the Internet and social media on human perception. Sun creates systems that connect sound, light, and electricity, and explores themes of cosmology, the future, and virtual worlds.
MengXuan Sun / Мэнсюань Сун
Weak Apple Eschatology" reflects on the fading power of the "apple"—once a symbol of knowledge, temptation, and divine technology. From Eden to the Apple logo, it has shaped belief and desire. Here, the artist envisions its fall: when the shine fades and the myth collapses. The "weak apple" becomes a sign of entropy, evoking spiritual and systemic decay. In a post-technological world, mythic beings from Eastern cosmologies perform ancient rituals now mediated by code. A quiet apocalypse unfolds, where the sacred and digital merge, asking what remains of faith as technology dies. Sound — Bianyachichi & MengXuan Sun
Taì Chū: In the Beginning
Project22 is an international digital art initiative based in Dubai that has quickly established itself as a leading platform for innovation, creativity, and cultural exchange within the digital art community. With a portfolio of over 20 exhibitions, immersive concerts, AV performances, and large-scale artistic shows, the project highlights the vast diversity of digital expression while supporting artists in developing and sharing their unique visions. More than a showcase, Project22 creates immersive experiences that invite audiences to interact with and be inspired by the transformative potential of digital art. By fostering collaboration, embracing the latest technologies, and connecting artists from around the world, Project22 not only nurtures the growth of the digital art sphere but also positions Dubai as a global hub where tradition meets innovation and the future of art is continually reimagined.
Project22
The work "Journey of Consciousness" is a spatial installation that forces you to immerse yourself in meditation on the search for new facets of perception. The work explores the transitions between sleep, awakening and rebirth, where the boundaries between the real and the imaginary are blurred. In "Lucid Dreaming", consciousness becomes a creator and an observer, wandering between dimensions. "Fragmented Reality" shows the disintegration of the familiar world and the discovery of new forms of perception. In "Metamorphosis", the human body turns into a hybrid of physical and digital. Jessica Avarello’s project is a visual journey through creation, destruction and renewal, symbolising the endless evolution of consciousness.
Серия Hybrid Chronicles
Jessica Avarello is a German 3D artist with Italian and Lithuanian roots, known for her breathtaking and surreal digital landscapes exploring themes of dreams, spirituality and self-discovery.
Jessica Avarello / Джессика Аварелло
The Rebirth Protocol project explores the emergence of synthetic consciousness in a self-developing laboratory where organic memory and artificial intelligence merge. The artist’s work conceptualises rebirth as a continuous configuration of data, emotions, and light — a cycle of memory and becoming. Combining artistic aesthetics with cybernetic form, she suggests thinking about the boundaries between human and artificial and whether consciousness, born from a code, is capable of thinking about its creator.
Rebirth Protocol. Quantum Sequence [Phase_∞]
Sue Sha is a digital artist who explores the connection between organic and digital. She creates virtual worlds on the edge of reality and science fiction, worlds inhabited by surreal characters. The artist’s works have received international recognition and have been shown at major art&tech forums. Sha founded the cultiv8 IT School and sue sha LAB in Seoul, a space for experimentation, learning, and social interactions. Sue Sha aims to blur the boundaries between physical and digital art by combining artificial intelligence with natural processes.
Sue Sha
Art Curatorial Nomads is a curatorial platform that focuses on global collaborations, digital experimentation, and exhibitions at the intersection of art, technology, and culture. It curates transgressive exhibitions and develops strategies for artists that blend physical and digital elements, often focusing on themes like identity and the relationship between nature and technology. The platform's founder and art director, Evgeny Sheidlin, operates at the intersection of contemporary art and digital media. The curator and media strategist of Artcnomads, Maria Raikkonen, is also the founder of the FindArt Platform.
Art Curatorial Nomads
The Hangeul Garden VR installation transforms the Korean alphabet into a living digital environment where viewers create their own "garden of language" with the help of VR, and letters become moving forms mixing culture and technology.
Hangeul Garden
Hwia Kim is a Seoul-based media artist who explores the interaction of humans and technology. In her VR and interactive projects, she shows how a machine and a human create new forms of feeling experience and perceptions. Her work has been featured at international media art festivals and spaces, such as Creatives in motion NY 2025, the New York Korean Cultural Center, and Art Korea Lab.
Hwia Kim / Хвиа Ким
"Uncollectible. Assembly Instruction" is the study of instructions as an algorithm that has lost its function and requires reassembly. The project is based on the original IKEA instructions, transformed by the artist into a series of graphic sheets, where interference with the usual assembly system violates its logic. The new elements are organically woven into the original drawing, so that the point of failure is almost invisible, but it triggers the process of rethinking.
By disrupting the well-established algorithm, the artist not only transforms the visual language of the instruction, but also reveals its internal vulnerability: the moment when the clear order stops functioning and opens up the possibility of perceiving reality anew.
The project has a physical dimension — it is not just a digital or generative work, but a series of real graphic sheets based on original IKEA instructions that mechanically convey the animation of individual pages. Thus, the "broken" instruction turns into an object where the failure becomes the assemblage point of a new meaning.
By disrupting the well-established algorithm, the artist not only transforms the visual language of the instruction, but also reveals its internal vulnerability: the moment when the clear order stops functioning and opens up the possibility of perceiving reality anew.
The project has a physical dimension — it is not just a digital or generative work, but a series of real graphic sheets based on original IKEA instructions that mechanically convey the animation of individual pages. Thus, the "broken" instruction turns into an object where the failure becomes the assemblage point of a new meaning.
Uncollectible. Assembly Instruction
Andrey Berger is a Russian multimedia artist. His work combines art, science and technology, but he is also interested in topics such as urbanism, the digitalisation of society and the post-Internet environment. Berger works with installations and graphics, videos and objects. His works have been exhibited in the USA, Europe and Asia and are in the collections of Ruarts, "Artmosphere" and the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture.
Andrey Berger
ArtSect Gallery and Initiative is a nomadic entity that builds, produces, and curates physical and digital exhibitions in London, Athens, and the Middle East. They focus on subtle geopolitics, psychology, underrepresented communities, and emerging immersive and sensory practices. Incubating new artists and fostering cross-border communication between regions is a logistical and social challenge that ArtSect is exploring and will continue to do so in the coming years.
ArtSect Gallery & Initiative
Her work WETRIP, created in collaboration with composer Simon Fisher Turner, is an immersive audiovisual installation where sound and image are intertwined in a journey through space and time. The video work creates a hypnotic landscape where reality dissolves and the viewer is immersed in a changing, dreamlike world.
WETRIP
Daisy Dickinson
Daisy Dickinson is a London-based artist and filmmaker who works with experimental video, mapping, and performance art. She is known for her audiovisual projects with musical accompaniment and participation in festivals from Glastonbury to Berlin Atonal.
Part of this exhibition, the Neurotech AI Flow project transforms brain waves into visual images, essentially working as art / psychotherapy.
NEUROTECH AI FLOW
Shama Rahman is an artist and scientist from the UAE who works at the intersection of art, science and technology. Her projects combine music, theater, cinema, and artificial intelligence that responds to human movements, impulses, and human brains activity. One of her famous works, Groupthink, created in collaboration with the National Gallery X at the National Gallery in London, synchronised the heartbeats of 100 visitors and was shown at the Ars Electronica Festival.
Shama Rahman / Шама Рахман
Tatsuri Arai’s "Face of Universe" is a futuristic work exploring the fusion of energy of Nature and science/technology. By combining plants and flowers — parts of a natural ecosystem powered by solar fusion — with artificial flowers created with the help of AI, the work is an attempt to visualise the desire of humanity to find a new balance between nature and civilisation.
Face of Universe
Tatsuru Arai is an artist and composer who combines classical music with artificial intelligence and digital technologies. Arai is experimenting with new art forms, exploring the connection between man, nature and the space through sound and visual images. His works are designed to demonstrate the harmony of emotions and technology and have been shown at the world’s leading festivals, as well as at the Philharmonic halls of Berlin and Paris.
Tatsuru Arai / Тацуру Араи
capitArtX is a London-based decentralised curatorial and research initiative, anchored by an immersive media port in the UK and supported by pop-up venues across Europe. We deliver high-profile international projects, exhibitions, and events within the contemporary creative industries, grounded in research, curatorial practice, and collaborative project management. For over five years, operating as a collective model at the intersection of art and technology, capitArtX has actively supported artists and creative communities worldwide.
capitArtX
The work "Transmuting Refractions" is a journey through changing landscapes inhabited by fantastic creatures. They symbolise the merge of humans, nature and technology, where the boundaries between them disappear, and all living things are in the process of constant transformation. The sound designer of the work "Transformative refractions" is Baris Yalaz.
Transmuting Refractions
Dilara Baskoylu is a new media artist working at the intersection of art, technology and artificial intelligence. She uses generative programming and data visualisation to explore how digital systems change human perception. Inspired by the forms of Nature, the artist combines the physical and digital aspects in poetic visual worlds. Her projects have been presented at international media art festivals like IDAF25, Sonar Istanbul, The Wrong Biennial, and immersive spaces like Art in Space Dubai.
Dilara Baskoylu / Дилара Баскойлу
Organizers:
The Vnutri Center — a digital art hub located in Moscow on the grounds of Khlebzavod No. 9, where modern technology meets cultural heritage. Its main feature is a projection hall, where the walls and floor display content — 500 m² of projections. It offers a chance to literally step inside a project and experience its atmosphere firsthand.
The center hosts exhibitions and educational events, creating a platform for artists working with new media.
The center hosts exhibitions and educational events, creating a platform for artists working with new media.
FUTUART is creating an ecosystem in Russia to facilitate collaboration between art and tech startups, as well as innovative artists working at the intersection of art and technology. In 2025, the team will host Russia’s first Art&Tech Forum for those shaping the culture of the digital age, alongside an international digital art exhibition "Hybrid Chronicles."
