#VJkET [Kateryna Pits ]
New Media Artist
1990, Kiev
sound:
Ms. Upbringer
https://soundcloud.com/ms-upbringer

TIGER & THE D(E)AD a.k.a. SPECULATIVE COWBOYS
https://soundcloud.com/speculative-cowboys

First performance with visually-oriented software happened in September 2014, as #VJkET project. Number of collaborations with different musicians and projects followed.
First installation/performance as #VJkET happened in February 2016 in Mars Center for Contemporary art.
#VJkET' installations appeared in Kiev Planetarium with two-hour live show on 22-meter dome; MMOMA (Moscow Museum of Modern Art); CENTER MARS; ELECTROMUSEUM; Museum of Moscow; Saint-Petersburg (QuartaRiata Residency of Arts & Technology); ART4 gallery, Bogota (SOFA); New York (MADE IN NEW YORK MEDIA CENTER); Mexico (CINE TONALA); Manifesta 11 European biennial of contemporary art; as well as on number of music and art festivals.

2013-2014 – CINE FANTOM newspaper, official media of Electrotheatre Stanislavsky, visual formalization, photo editor;

since 2014 - participant in POLYTECH SCIENCE ART artistic / educational project

2015 - first student, fellow worker then at CURIOSITY MEDIA LAB, leading Russian structure, uniting specialists, researchers, artists, programmers, etc., studying new perspectives in programming technologies aimed to improve visual environments, and ways it could be invested in modern art and entertainment industry

2015 (as #VJkET) – Center for Artistic Initiatives Perspectiva: concept and composition development, as well as visual part of lecture course "Horror and Psychedelia. History of Philosophy of 21st century"

2016, summer (as #VJkET) – visual assistant in Adventure The Music. Global Clubbing, Moscow episode

2017, May –KLF (The Kyiv Lights Festival) -international festival of light and media arts in Kyiv:
Architectural mapping contest
VJ contest

2017,May - Saint-Petersburg' Festivals of light. [second prize for interactive light installation]

2016-2017 - winner in a number of Hackatons focused in AR and VR- geek' contests, each aiming to resolve one or another IT-problem in broad sense - in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg,

2017 May – panoramic A/V performance in Planetarium One [St. Petersburg / Russia]

2017 August – participant of Genius Loci Lab [Weimar, Germany]:
• Architectural mapping ; A/V performance on Bauhaus Museum

2017 August - International Lighting Installations Competition «Laboratory of Dreams» [National Reserve-Museum “Gatchina” / St. Petersburg / Russia]
• Interactive laser installation on water screen – second prize

2017 September- II International Odessa Light Fest
• A/V performance
• Architectural Mapping

2017 September –Circle of Light / Art Vision [Moscow / Russia]:
• VJ Contest – first prize
• Architectural Mapping Contest – participant

2017 September – Visual Brazil Festival [Barcelona / Spain]
• A/V performance
• Architectural Mapping

2017 October – Signal BYOB [Prague / Czech Republic]: installation , A/V performance in Alchemist Gallery

2017 November – Temp Studio [Lisbon / Portugal]:
• A/V performance
• Light installation

2017 December - Plum Fest [Moscow]: NON-CONSISTENCE AS only POSSIBLE way of CONSISTENCE – A/V Performance

2018 - One Minute Map [Japan]
• Architectural Mapping

2018 -2019 – video engineer / visual artist - WoW club [Moscow. Russia]

2018 March- since now - visual director in "Psyche" play in Electrotheatre Stanislavsky [ Moscow /Russia ]

2018 May - KLF (The Kyiv Lights Festival) -international festival of light and media arts:
• A/V performance
• Architectural Mapping

2018 – Genius Loci Lab –visual art laboratory – live architectural mapping performance- [Weimar/ Germany]

2018 September - Spookymental Visual Art Convention – architectural mapping [Essen / Germany]

2018 December - since now - visual director in "The Little Prince" neon theatre show

2018 -2019 – video engineer / visual artist - ICON club [Moscow/ Russia]

2019 May - Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art [Guangzhou/ China]
• Architectural Mapping

2019 July -Museu Nacional da República DF [Brazil]
• Architectural Mapping

2019 July - Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art [Guangzhou/ China]
• Architectural Mapping

2019 September - Circle of Light / Art Vision [Moscow / Russia]:
• Architectural Mapping Contest – Museum of Great Patriotic War
• VJ Contest - Arbat Hall

2019 September - until now -Visual Artist in Globalclubbing Project [base addition]

2019 October - Planetario UFMS [Brazil / Santa Maria] - full dome show

2020 February -Acsee Festival [China/Daton] - Architectural Mapping

2020 September - NTERVALS festival [Russia/ Nizhny Novgorod] - Architectural Mapping

2020 November - TD Livepatching Event [Ukraine/ Kiev] - performance [first prise]