I am an academic, poet and artist currently based in Hamburg.
My research is situated at the intersection of sound studies, literary studies and digital culture studies and informed by pragmatist aesthetics, postphenomenology and postcritique. I am particularly interested participatory and technologically-enabled creative practices across a variety of institutional and vernacular context. I am the author of two monographs: Participatory Sound Art: Technologies, Aesthetics, Politics (2023) investigates audience participation and interactivity in sound art, focusing on the dialectic of the social-political and material-aesthetic dimensions of sound artworks. Digital Oral Poetry: Voice and Subjectivity in Algorithmic Culture (2026) examines practices of oral, musicalized and sound poetry facilitated by digital technologies and media – such as poetry for synthetic speech, performances of AI-generated poetry and rap or intersections of poetry and ASMR – exploring how these practices articulate new digitally inflected forms of selfhood and identity. I have also (co-)edited several anthologies and special journal issues on poetry in the digital age, contemporary musico-literary practices, post-Soviet sound culture and sound and participation.
My artistic practice has grown out of my work in conventional poetic forms and explores the multifaceted relationships between text and other, primary sonic, media: visual and sound poetry, text scores, literary intermedia installations. I write in Russian and English.
For contact: vk [at] dada-avis.net