Andrey Chugunov is a conceptual artist working at the turn of digital and analogue electronic media. He combines sound art, light installation, generative graphics, technological sculpture, media performances, and readymade in his practice. He researches topics of mortality, temporality, autonomy, and memory decay in his artworks from the perspective of meditative media.  Andrey received the New Faces Award in the Art division at the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival (2018). He was also nominated for the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award in the categories of Science Art (2020) and Media Art (2022) and received an honourable mention in the Media Art nomination for the FutureTense Award (2022).  In 2019, he won the Art of Neuroscience contest and Niio AI Art Prize nominee as part of the pt9 art group. Andrey was born in Sverdlovsk, USSR and is now based in East Kilbride, Scotland. He has a Master’s degree in Digital Art from the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, Russia, participated in the Laboratory of a Young Artist at the State Center for Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg and has a Bachelor’s degree in Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources from Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg.

Photography by Anya Marchenkova.