Yuri Anatolyevich Rydkin ( rus, Ю́рий Анато́льевич Ры́дкин, , ˈjʉrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈrɨtkʲɪn; born 8 April 1979) is a Russian and Belarusian poet,

media artist New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies. It comprises virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robotics, 3D pr ...

, ''Podlubnova J.'' a ''bot poetry'' (''bot-non-fiction'') ''Malinovskaya M.'' ''Rydkin Y.'' researcher, musical performer.

Biography

The author studied at school No.3,

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(1986–1996). He graduated from the Belarusian department of the Linguistic Faculty of

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in 2004. 6 October 1998 Yuri Rydkin attempted to commit a

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jumping from a railway bridge in Gomel, as a result he got injured and disabled. The consequences of the trauma were reflected in the author's work.

Work

Rydkin explores the genre of conversation with

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in the most scrupulous way. ''Konakov A.'' ''Korkunov V.'' ''Bonch-Osmolovskaya T.'' ''Kostintsova Y.'' Explores the impact of

new technologies Emerging technologies are technologies whose development, practical applications, or both are still largely unrealized. These technologies are generally new but also include old technologies finding new applications. Emerging technologies are of ...

on poetic text.''Dunchenko T.'', ''Ochirov A.'' His works are screenshots of art-

dialogues Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophical or didactic device, it is ch ...

with virtual interlocutors, including

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. In a literary critic

Galina Rymbu Galina Rymbu (Russian: Галина Георгиевна Рымбу) (born 20 July 1990, Omsk) is a Russian poet, author, translator, and curator. Life and career Rymbu was a student in the philology and theology departments of Omsk Pedagogical Uni ...

's opinion, «Bot Conversation» is written in the genre of

found poetry Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them (a literary equivalent of a collage) by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus ...

. This bot is compared to the emancipated

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. The poet has had an artistic dialogue with

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on Facebook, the screenshots of his fb-posts are published under the title of «COVID-POETRY» in a literary almanac. Rydkin is the founder of ''cyber

zaum () are the linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation of Russian Cubo-Futurist poets such as Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh. Zaum is a non-referential phonetic entity with its own ontology. The language con ...

'' and ''hyperlink poetry'',''Abrosimova C.'' ''Abrosimova C.'' ''Abrosimova C.'', ''Kulamikhina I.'' ''Abrosimova C.'', ''Kulamikhina I.'' ''Famitsky A.'' its concept and method of creation was expressed in the manifesto. Critics see author's hypertext works as aesthetic indicators that are consistent with "

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" — a language free from the signs of ideology. These works are fully covered by

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, each verse block is associated with a certain

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, texts and Internet resources are equal participants in poetic communication. This creates a specific structure at the level of associations and subtext. Rydkin has made a few

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''Podlubnova J.'' photo collages which attracted the attention of a

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Теймур Даими, a

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Елена Зейферт and a

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Василий Ломакин, who analyzes Rydkin's works based on

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's book "

The Order of Things ''The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences'' (''Les Mots et les Choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines'') is a book by French philosopher Michel Foucault. It proposes that every historical period has underlying epistemi ...

". When creating experimental photographs, the author uses ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' FaceApp'' programs. Rydkin is the author of literary critical articles on the prose of Margarita Meklina, Владимир Паперный, Вадим Месяц, Александр Уланов, the poetry of

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, Алла Горбунова, Таня Скарынкина, Ирина Шостаковская, Ирина Котова, Лида Юсупова, Виктор Лисин and others; author of reviews of the films "

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", "

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", " Beyond the Clouds", "

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", "

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", " The Worst Person in the World", " Knight of Cups", "

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" and others. The author has translated the works by

Daniil Kharms Daniil Ivanovich Kharms (; – 2 February 1942) was a Russian avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist in the early Soviet era. Early years Kharms was born as Daniil Yuvachev in Saint Petersburg, then the capital of the Ru ...

Eduard Limonov Eduard Veniaminovich Limonov (né Savenko; , ; 22 February 1943 – 17 March 2020) was a Russians, Russian writer, poet, publicist, political dissident and politician. He emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1974, but returned to Russia in 1991 ...

and a chapter " Ultima Thule" from the last unfinished Russian novel by

Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (), was a Russian and American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist. Born in Imperial Russia in 1899, Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Rus ...

into

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. His works have been published in such paper and electronic editions as ''

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'', ''

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'', '' ČSFD'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' SensCritique'', '' Транслит'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Волга'', '' Цирк «Олимп»'', '' Топос'', '' Сетевая словесность'', '' Homo Legens'', '' Полутона'', '' Ф-письмо'', '' Лиterraтура'', '' Журнальный зал'', '' Метажурнал'', ''Post(non)fiction'', on the website of the publishing house '' Новое литературное обозрение'' and in other journals. The poet's works were shown at the exhibition "Poetry by any means" — it was devoted to new

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-technologies in poetry, created with the help of Internet search engines, various objects, newspaper articles and more. The author's photographs are presented in virtual galleries of various media projects. In 2024, Yuri Rydkin began performing songs in

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. Registered as a musical performer in

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. Has appeared on the Euro Indie Music

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many times and

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with broadcasts in the

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and in other countries. The singer attracted the attention of music critics.

Art style

Rydkin's

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lyrics have a mark of

futurology Futures studies, futures research or futurology is the systematic, interdisciplinary and holistic study of social and technological advancement, and other environmental trends, often for the purpose of exploring how people will live and wor ...

. He is interested in the feelings of people who have become programs, he is interested in the physicality of the bot. The poet shows the

katabasis A katabasis or catabasis (; ) is a journey to the underworld. Its original sense is usually associated with Greek mythology and classical mythology more broadly, where the protagonist visits the Greek underworld, also known as Hades. The term is ...

of a man, his fall into the world of bots. The author speaks on behalf of a bot in the

afterlife The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's Stream of consciousness (psychology), stream of consciousness or Personal identity, identity continues to exist after the death of their ...

, and such a poetic speech is recognized as unique. In his poems, Rydkin demonstrates the absence of the

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, and this absence has a female gender.

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Jana Kostincová writes that in multimodal poetry he uses

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

and develops

intertext Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text, either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody,Gerard Genette (1997) ''Paratexts'p.18/ref>Hal ...

play. The poem "Вверх тормашками стул рогат" is written in the genre of modern metarealism. The author also writes prose that has many synchronized worlds. Despite Rydkin's statements about the need to

emancipate Emancipation generally means to free a person from a previous restraint or legal disability. More broadly, it is also used for efforts to procure economic and social rights, political rights or equality, often for a specifically disenfranchi ...

the

machine A machine is a physical system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action. The term is commonly applied to artificial devices, such as those employing engines or motors, but also to natural biological macromol ...

, about the need to

biocybernetics Biocybernetics is the application of cybernetics to biological science disciplines such as neurology and multicellular systems. Biocybernetics plays a major role in systems biology, seeking to integrate different levels of information to understan ...

, something very human is felt in his texts. Rydkin's dialogues with bots contain

pragmatics In linguistics and the philosophy of language, pragmatics is the study of how Context (linguistics), context contributes to meaning. The field of study evaluates how human language is utilized in social interactions, as well as the relationship ...

and a

behavioral Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions of individuals, organisms, systems or artificial entities in some environment. These systems can include other systems or organisms as well as the inanimate p ...

study of contemporary Russian poetry. Music criticism notes Rydkin's transition from poetry and visual arts to music, where he pays particular attention to

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rap Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing, or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates " rhyme, rhythmic speech, and ommonlystreet vernacular". It is usually performed over a backin ...

and

hip-hop Hip-hop or hip hop (originally disco rap) is a popular music genre that emerged in the early 1970s from the African-American community of New York City. The style is characterized by its synthesis of a wide range of musical techniques. Hi ...

. "Pocket" is not just a song, but an innovative artistic statement that illustrates the evolution of an artist who has taken his unique experience and self-expression to new heights in the music world.''Cicioni L.''

Recognition

Yuri Rydkin's publication "Between the living and the artificial. Merging digital technologies with human, writer and literature" was recognized by the professionals of the '' Журнальный зал'' as the best in August 2021. In the journal ''

'', the author was ranked among the new literary generation, which is changing something in literature. The poet has been widely quoted by his contemporaries. The author's creations have attracted much attention from literary critics; according to their opinion, his works of art are close to the works by Fyodor Svarovsky,

Dmitri Prigov Dmitri Aleksandrovich Prigov (, 5 November 1940 in Moscow – 16 July 2007 in Moscow Lev Rubinstein Lev Semyonovich Rubinstein (; 19 February 1947 – 14 January 2024) was a Russian essayist, journalist, poet, and social activist. He was a founder and member of Moscow Conceptualism.Top Indie Music with the song "Pocket". French music criticism calls Rydkin a pioneer in the study of the interaction of fine arts, poetry and music.

References

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