April 2–27
A Procedural World. From Random Wanderings to a Collective Intelligence: A workshop in Creative Programming
August 27 – September 17
Game of Life. Cellular Automata in Art, Science, Architecture, and Games: A Creative Programming Course
August 19, 13:00–15:00
A masterclass on creating chatbots from Ilya Kulish
August 3–August 10
Overcoming Reading: A Series of Digital Literature Workshops by Ivan Netkachev
June 18–July 9, 11:00–13:00
Difficult Questions about the Internet / Uncomplicated Internet: A Computer Literacy Course for Older People
June 4, 13:00–15:30
A Workshop by Maxim Anpilogov and Vera Barkalova on Assembling a Dirty Video Mixer
April 30, 13:00–16:00
“Concluding Statements” from Participants of the Second Season of Alek Petuk’s Seminar The Door Opens from the Other Side
April 15, 17:00–18:00
On Stumbling: A Lecture by Lera Kononchuk
April 9, 15:00–17:00
An Extended Lecture by Anatoly Osmolovsky and Alek Petuk
April 4, 20:00–21:00
A Paper by Max Naimark
April 2, 15:00–17:00
Coincidental Institute Stream of the Game Dark Souls: Remastered
March 24 — April 7
A Seminar by Ellina Gennadievna
December 22, 19:00–21:00
Passport to the Shredder, or On the Other Side of Bureaucracy: A Workshop on Generative Poetry by Ivan Netkachev
December 17, 14:00–17:00
“Concluding Statements” from participants of Alek Petuk’s Seminar on playing Dark Souls
December 15, 19:00–20:30
A discussion about the importance of digital adaptation of sites for users with disabilities
December 7–21
Harun Farocki Operational Images
A series of seminars and practical sessions
December 7–20
Harun Farocki Operational Images
December 4, 16:00–18:00
The Genesis of Cyberculture. A Cyberfeminist View: Seminar by Irina Aktuganova and Alla Mitrofanova
December 4, 13:00¬–15:00
Women’s Self-Organized Communities of the 1990s. A Cyberfeminist View: Lecture by Irina Aktuganova and Alla Mitrofanova
November 24–December 1, 19:00
A Place for Writing: A creative laboratory by the collective Digital Object Alliance
November 13–December 7, 2022
Computer literacy course for third agers
November 9, 19:00
A performative non-lecture by the art collective Digital Object Alliance
November 8 — December 3
Alek Petuk’s seminar on the game Dark Souls
November 5, 15:00–16:30
Presentation of The Motherboard, a project by Mascha Danzis
October 23, 14:00–16:30
A lecture and a masterclass on neural networks and image generation
September 18, 17:00–18:30
Game session with Mikhail Maksimov creator of the video game The Tool
June 10–November 19, 13:00–16:00
Playing the Game: A Game by Asya Volodina
Saturday, October 23
Performance and public talk Hydrogen City
October 19, 19:00–20:30
Science Fiction Reading Group
September 22
Film screening: World on a Wire
August 12
Discussion of Lu Yang’s performance
DOKU Giant – LuYang the Destroyer
August 4, 19:00–20:30
World on a Wire Dialogues
July 11
Stream of the survival game Still Alive
Sunday, 23, 30, May
Performance by Lu Yang
May 24–26
A series of remote presence events in a digital object by Aleksei Taruts
March 19–21, 18:00–20:00
Digital Workers’ Conference
Until October 15
Open call to select participants for a performance by the multimedia artist Lu Yang
June 30
Science Fiction Reading Group
April 16
A Performative Lecture by Kirill Savchenkov
April 12
A practical session by Sofa Skidan
February 23
Letsplay by Aleksei Taruts and Sergey Babkin
February 20
Letsplay by Sara Culmann
December 1
Sasha Puchkova’s Speculative Concilium
November 30
Performance by Sofa Skidan
November 29
A lecture by Daria Kalugina
November 23–24
Eco Jam Hackathon
November 15
A lecture by Alexander Vetushinsky
November 10
100 Games on Ecology. Postlecture and workshop
November 3
Public Talk by Jose Sanchez
October 17
Artist talk and Let's Play by Lu Yang
October 6
Let's Play by Dasha Nasonova and Dima Vesnin
October 4
Public talk with Hideo Kojima
September 28
A lecture by Sergey Rozhin
19:30–21:00 at Garage Auditorium

“Bugs in video games through the artist’s eyes”

A bug is an amusing and annoying mistake, a glitch in a program. But what if we look at them differently? What if using bugs enables us to build alternative relationships with computer games?


In fact, bugs are not necessarily irritating. The Internet is full of videos with rankings of errors found in various computer games, along with detailed instructions explaining how to detect them. A good bug is valued as much as a decent Easter egg, that is a joke deliberately included in the game by its creators. Just like the Easter egg, the bug busts the illusion of plausibility and questions the rationality of the game’s virtual world, but whereas the Easter egg is a kind of author’s signature, the bug’s behavior remains unpredictable. Nevertheless, many bugs are intentionally kept in games even after their discovery.

What types of bugs can be found in computer games? How do they occur? What does a bug mean to a player? And is it possible to understand bugs metaphysically? Sergey Rozhin’s informal lecture will introduce the most popular bugs, discuss their influence on game culture and culture in the wider sense, and explain the meaning of bugs from an artist’s perspective.

He will discuss examples from the games The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Mafia 2, Mafia 3, The Sims 3, GTA 3, GTA 4, GTA 5, Bloodborne, Half-Life 2, Goldeneye 007, Stalker, FIFA, Creepy Watson, Red Dead Redemption, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Heavy Rain.

Sergey Rozhin

An artist whose blog Malevich’s Slaves examines contemporary art through the lens of humor. He is an experienced gamer. A dyslexic with a degree in process engineering, he lives and works in Moscow.
July 22
Let’s Play. Lawrence Lek: 2065
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