Alexei Blinov (10 July 1965 - 26 November 2019 WRD
December 5th, 2019.) was a

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-based electronic engineer and new media

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working out of Raylab in Hackney. As founder of

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new media organisation
Raylab
he has collaborated with a number of creative artists including

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By Jeremy Gluck. GS Artists, January 25, 2020. Quote: ''"I’ve lost someone recently that I loved and work with, a Russian computer artist called Alexei Blinov who died quite recently of cancer..."'' He was trained as a doctor before moving to the Netherlands and then the UK. In the early 1990s he specialised in large scale high quality laser projections. Since the late 1990s he has produced a wide variety of interactive audio-visual installations. Over the past few years, he has been the creative force behind many interactive audio-visual art projects in the UK. Between 1993 and 1996 he worked extensively in the

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, creating laser projections for

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events, music and arts festivals and for

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companies. Since 1997 he has worked mainly in the UK creating interactive

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installations at a number of important art galleries including the ICA, London and the Barbican Art Centre, London. Collaborations include Ciron Edwards. From 2006-2016 he led the technical development for feature film '' Dau'' – life and times of physicist Lev Landau, on set in the Ukrainian border city Kharkov where he revisited many period experiments and engineered his own to feature in the film. The movie is one of Russia's largest and most controversial cinematic projects to date. He engaged with new media projects based on wireless networking such as

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, and was a well known and respected I/O specialist with a passion for high voltage and radio frequency experimentation. Blinov was also interested in

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resourcing. He also researched electro stimulation of neural feedback and, in collaboration with Dau and xname, he attempted the construction of an interactive system to transmit emotions (es pain, pleasure) from the brain of a subject to the body of another (project Empathy). He has exhibited a selection of these HT experiments including the ‘Hairpin Circuit’ at Moscow University. A set of spectacular arctic ICE core holographic images were recently exhibited in St Petersburg. Alongside Ilze Black an
Martin Howse
he was a member o
TAKE2030
a brave new media society that operated in parallel net media scheme. The London based collective produced public art projects, shifting social network missions into hypermedia playing fields. Past projects include RichAir2030, UK, EU (2003-2004) and Lets do Lunch, London (2005). Blinov had deep ties with the Open Wireless Network community between Moscow, London and Berlin, collaborating with

, Empress Stah,

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, Nancy Mauro-Flude and many others. He died on 26 November 2019 following complications from

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References

External links

Hive Networks website

Ray Lab

''Dau''

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Blinov, alexei 1964 births 2019 deaths Artists from Kazan Laser art New media artists Russian emigrants to the Netherlands Russian emigrants to the United Kingdom Russian male artists