Nadezhda Bei
About the Artist
Nadezhda Bei is a new media artist, who uses VR as her major medium, combining it with performances, process art and painting. As an artist, Nadezhda develops a unique style, thrives on making innovative technological art, and experiments with art&science and question the philosophy behind technologies she uses. Nadezhda works a lot on understanding physical and digital realities, corporeality, and such problems as value of a digital life, simultaneous coexistence of a body in several realities. Nadezhda got her bachelor degree in Computer Graphics and Design in ITMO University (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) in 2019 and took part in academic exchange program in Zlin University of Tomas Bata, Czech Republic. In 2022, she graduated from "Art&Science" Master program at ITMO University. She took part in multiple exhibitions of technological art in Russia and abroad: “V Art Reality” (Saint Petersburg State University, 2020), "Staying with the Trouble" (AIR gallery, Saint-Petersburg, 2021), Speculum Artium Festival (Slovenia, 2021), "Pending Futures" (Art Catch Exhibition Room, 2021), and others. Currently, she works as a VR artist and educator, being focused on studying digital art and XR technologies, also searching for various ways of presenting virtual artworks.
