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Oleksandr Isaienko was born in 1976 in Izmail, UkrSSR. Ukrainian artist who works with various media, including photography, video, text. Lives and works in San Diego, California.

 

Awards:

2023 Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos FICMA, Mexico / Mexico

2023 ZTV Video Festival A Go-Go, Nashville / USA ( Honorable mention )

2022 Silk Road Film Festival, Cannes / France

2021 CineToro Experimental Film Festival #14, Toro / Colombia

2021 Stoptrik International Film Festival #10, Lodz / Poland ( Special Mention )

2019 Videoformes International Digital Arts Festival #34, Clermont-Ferrand / France

2018 Interference Festival Free Form #5, Gdansk / Poland ( Distinction )

2015 Interference Festival Free Form #2, Gdansk / Poland

2013 PhotoVisa International Festival of Photography #5,  Krasnodar / Russia

2013 Videoformes International Digital Arts Festival #28, Clermont-Ferrand / France

2012 THE #1 The Video Community, Krakow / Poland

 

Some of the screenings and exhibitions:

2024 Ghent International Short Film Festival, Gent / Belgium

2024 Vilnus International Film Festival, Vilnus / Lithuania

2024 The Experiments in Cinema v19.8, Albuquerque / USA

2024 Martinique International Film Festival, Online

2023 ZTV Video Festival A Go-Go, Nashville / USA

2023 Festival Cinema Zero, Trento / Italy

2023 Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art #2, Kyiv / Ukraine

2023 IDKF Internationales Digitalkunst Festival, Stuttgart / Germany

2023 REX Animation Festival # 9, Stockholm / Sweden

2023 Producer's Night Los Angeles, Los Angeles / USA

2023 London Super Shorts Film Festival, London / United Kingdom

2023 Little Scuzzy Film Fest, Carbondale / USA

2023 Alternative Film and Video Festival, New Belgrade / Serbia

2023 Bardak Festival of Independent Short Ukrainian Cinema #7, Kharkiv / Ukraine

2023 International Alternative Media Film Festival FICMA # 8, Mexico / Mexico

2023 INTERMEDIACIONES Video Art and Experimental Video Showcase #10, Antioquia / Colombia

2023 DOBRA Experimental Film Festival #9, Rio de Janeiro,  Sau Paolo / Brazil

2023 Ibrida Festival Delle Arti Intermediali, Forli / Italy

2023 Nectar from Another Planet,  Poznan, Warsaw / Poland

2023 Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Kyiv / Ukraine

2023 Bogota Experimental Film Festival #9, Bogota / Colombia

2023 Bridge Film & Video Festival, Chicago / USA

2023 Concepcion Independent Film Awards #9, Concepcion / Chile

2023 Madatac Audiovisual Art Festival #12, Madrid / Spain

2023 Cannes 7th Art Awards #4, Cannes / France

2023 New York Independent Film Festival #14, New York / USA

2023 "Alchimies numériques" Immix Gallery, Paris / France

2023 The Experiments in Cinema v18.4, Albuquerque / USA

2023 Videoformes International Digital Arts Festival #38, Clermont-Ferrand / France

2022 Arkipel International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta / Indonesia

2022 Pasa Festival #5, Suwon / Korea

2022 Bardak #6 Festival of Independent Short Ukrainian Cinema, Kyiv / Ukraine

2022 Simultan Festival #17, Timisoara / Romania

2022 Re-connect Art Festival of Performance and Video Art,  Prague / Czech

2022 Linoleum Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Kyiv / Ukraine

2022 Suspaustas Laikas Experimental Film and Arts Festival, Nida / Lithuania

2022 International Festival of Fine Arts #11, Kranj / Slovenia

2022 Peace Letters to Ukraine, Los Angeles and Rockville / USA

2022 Frame & Frequency #8, International Film & Video Art Screening Series, Rockville / USA

2022 Video Art in Support of Ukraine with VAFT, Turku / Finland

2022 Tampere Film Festival #52, Tampere / Finland

2022 EXPERIMENTA Transformação Audiovisual #3, Funchal / Portugal

2021 Interface Video Art Festival, Zagreb / Croatia ( Online )

2021 CineToro Experimental Film Festival #14, Toro / Colombia

2021 IDKF - Internationales Digitalkunst Festival, Stuttgart / Germany

2021 Fonlad Festival Internacional De Video Arte E Perfomance (Online)

2021 Pugnant Film Series Goes to Punk , Athens / Greece

2021 Proyector Video art Festival, Madrid / Spain

2021 Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao / Spain

2021 ALC Videoart Festival, Alicante / Spain

2021 Ibrida Festival Delle Arti Intermediate, Forli / Italy

2021 Encuentros Internacionales Traverse #24, Toulouse / France

2021 An Ordinary Day Film Festival, Stockholm / Sweden

2021 Panorama Video Art + Experimental Cinema #3, VisualcontainerTV International Videoart WebTV (Online)

2021 Нungry Eyes Festival,  / Germany (Online)

2020 Festival Des Cinémas Différents Expérimentaux De Paris #22, Paris / France

2020 Stoptrik International Film Festival #10,  Maribor / Slovenia, Lodz / Poland

2020 "Unseen" Simultan Festival #15, Timisoara / Romania

2020 LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Kyiv / Ukraine (Online)

2020 IFF International Film Festival - Elysium gallery, Swansea / UK (Online)

2019 AVAF - Addis Video Art Festival #3, Addis Ababa / Ethiopia

2019 Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos  #4, Mexico / Mexico

2019 Artpro International Video Art Festival, Dhaka / Bangladesh

2019 Cinespacio Festival Internacional #5, Cali / Colombia

2019 Festival Des Cinémas Différents Expérimentaux De Paris #21, Paris / France

2019 BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao / Spain

2019 Facade Video Festival #10, Plovdiv / Bulgaria

2019 Horn Contemporary Film Festival #2, Jerusalem / Israel

2019 "Parallel screens"

        1805 gallery, San Diego / USA,

        Hermes Artes Visuais, Sao Paulo / Brasil,

        Nova Art Space, Weimar / Germany

2019 “Suspaustas Laikas” Eksperimentinio kino festivalis, Nida / Lithuania

2019 LIF - Little Islands Festival, Sikinos / Greece

2019 FIAV - Festival International d'art Vidéo de Casablanca,  Casablanca / Morocco

2019 Over the real - Festival Internazionale Videoarte,  Lucca / Italy

2019 Videoformes International Digital Arts Festival #34, Clermont-Ferrand / France

2019 Ibrida Festival Delle Arti Intermediali #4, Cesena / Italy

2019 The Experiments in Cinema v14.2, Albuquerque / USA

2019 Themeless Timeless Disciplinele Formless - Samples #7, Mexico / Mexico

2019 "To see more lighT" -  Pugnant Film Series #2, Athens / Greece

2018 Interference Festival Free Form #5, Gdansk / Poland

2018 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest #35, Kassel / Germany

2018 Festival Des Cinémas Différents Expérimentaux De Paris # 20, Paris / France

2018 Horn Festival, Jerusalem / Israel

2018 Video Art Miden Festival #14, Kalamata / Greece

2018 VAFT - Video Art Festival Turku, Turku / Finland

2017 Interference Festival Free Form #4, Gdansk / Poland

2017 Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series, Hsinchu / Taiwan

2017 Festival Des Cinémas Différents Expérimentaux De Paris #19, Paris / France

2017 Transmission Art Festival, Kassel / Germany - Warszawa / Poland - Kassel / Germany

2017 Watch Out Film Festival,  Tetovo / Macedonia

2017 Fracto - ACUD, Berlin / Germany

2017 VAFT - Video Art Festival Turku, Turku / Finland

2017 IVAHM - International Video Art House Madrid, Madrid / Spain

2016 Art Video International Festival, Jerusalem / Israel

2016 Espacio Enter  - International Festival of Creativity, Innovation & Digital Culture #8, Tenerife / Spain

2016 FIVA Festival Internacional de Videoarte #6, Buenos Aires / Argentine

2016 "I Do Care But I Don`t Understand" BBKL - BUND BILDENDER KÜNSTLER LEIPZIG e.V,  Leipzig / Germany

2016 RETHink ART Digital Festival, Rethymno / Greece

2016 Staunton International Film Festival, Staunton / Virginia

2016 "Breach" Rabbithole Gallery, New York / USA

2016 "Around the Axis" AkT , Kyiv / Ukraine

2016 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF) #4, Winnipeg / Canada

2016 Urban Nomad Film Festival  #15, Taipei / Taiwan

2016 Photobook in Russia, Dom Metenkova, Yekaterinburg / Russia

2016 MADATAC Audiovisual Art Festival #7, Madrid / Spain

2015 Edinburgh Artists' Moving Image Festival (EAMIF), Edinburgh / Scotland

2015 "Praeparatio" Festival of experimental poetry, Novosibirsk / Russia

2015 Festival Des Cinemas Differents #17, Paris / France

2015 Interference Festival Free Form #2, Gdansk / Poland

2015 Facade Video Festival #6, Plovdiv / Bulgaria

2015 Art Video Israel  - International Video Art Festival, Netanya / Israel

2015 "Poetry in Visual" - Gallery of Capitania Building, Aveiro / Portugal

2015 Incubarte International Art Festival  #7,  Valencia / Spain

2015 « Un Homme » Chapitre III  - Galerie Hors-Champs, Paris / France

2015 Experiments in Cinema Festival #10, Albuquerque / New Mexico

2015 « Protecht»  - Bank Space Gallery, London / United Kingdom

2015 Zoom-Zblizenia International Film Festival #18, Jelenia Góra/ Poland

2014 Without Words Film Festival (WWFF), Lorraine / France

2014 Les Instants Vidéo Festival #27, Marseille / France

2014 Encontros da Imagem - International Photography Festival “Hope & Faith”, Braga  / Portugal

2014 AVIFF Art Film Festival, Cannes / France

2014 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick / Scottish

2014 Videoformes  International Digital Art Festival #29, Clermont-Ferrand / France

2014 SLINGSHOT Festival of Music, Electronic Arts, and Technology, Athens / Georgia

2014 International Extra Short Film Festival MAMM #14, (Multimedia Art Museum Moscow), Moscow / Russia

2014 Berlin International Directors Lounge #10, Berlin / Germany

2013 Streaming Festival #8, Zagreb / Croatia

2013 VIDEOMEDEJA #17 International Video Festival, Novi Sad / Serbia

2013 PhotoVisa International Festival of Photography #5,  Krasnodar / Russia

2013 Multimedia Showcase #3, Porto / Portugal

2013 Watch Out! Film Festival -  Museum of Communist Party, Tetovo / Macedonia

2013 Videoformes  #28 International Digital Arts Festival, Clermot-Ferrand / France

2013 Internationell Konst Film Utstallning (IKFU) - Portrait in the moving image - Vandalorum Centrum for Konst och Design, Varnamo / Sweden

2013 Directors Lounge - Urban research, Berlin / Germany

2013 CologneOFF #8 - Continental Drift, Sattal / India

2013 Festival Miden, Chios / Greece

2012 The Video Community - Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow / Poland

2012 Proyector Videoart Festival #5, Madrid / Spain

2012 Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick / Scottish

2012 Simultan Festival #8, ‘The beginning of the end’, Timisoara / Romania

2012 Cronosfera Festival  #3, Cavatore / Alessandria

2012 Ionian International Digital Film Festival, Levkas / Greece

2012 Kalamata Street Festival #6, Kalamata / Greece

2012 Metronome - National Centre for Conteporary Arts (NCCA), Novosibirsk / Russia

2012 Festival Oodaaq d’images poetiques, Rennes / France

2012 Intercept 1:7 - Multiplexer Gallery, Las Vegas / USA

2012 Generation Loss Festival, Manila / Philippines

2012 CeC - Carnival of a-Creativity, Sattal / India

2011 ExTeresa Arte Actual Mexico City, Mexio

2011 DokumentART European Documentary Film Festival, Neubrandenburg / Germany and Szczecin / Poland

2011 FIVA media festival, Adrogue / Argentina

2011 Baltic Sea #5 - Waterpieces Contemporary & Video Art Festival Riga, Riga / Latvian

2011 BuSho – Budapest International Videoart Festival, Budapest / Hungary

2011 Shams – the Sunflower Beirut 31 August, Lebanon / Beirut

2011 Videoholica International Video Art Festival, Varna / Bulgaria

2011 Chamber Light - Flash Box Gallery, Novosibirsk / Russia

2011 Space #2 - Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk / Russia

2011 Vidiot #5 - Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (MAMM) / the Museum «Moscow House of a photo», Moscow / Russia

 

Books:

2015 Rupture zone , self published, 50 copies

2014 Index Lost, self published, 10 copies