Denis Semionov


Denis Semionov - is a Russian and French new media artist.
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Biography

Denis Semionov was born in 1985 in Moscow. His great grandfather, a Russian-Finnish artist and sculptor Leonid Kuzmin, immigrated from USSR to Finland in 1920. In 2002 Semionov graduated from the courses of Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry, in 2007 – art and graphic faculty of Moscow State Pedagogical University, in 2010 - post graduate studies. At the university he worked as an illustrator and designer. After graduating - as a creative director. From 2007-2015 he worked as a teacher of graphic design at the Department of Drawing Geometry of the Moscow State Pedagogical University.

Projects

Semionov generally uses virtual art and artificial intelligence art. In 2018 he won grand-prix at Open Frame Award of international film festival goEast for his VR cinematographic project “The Nominal Empire”, which was drawn in virtual reality. The interactive project combined virtual reality and biomechanics of Vsevolod Meyerhold. In 2019 Denis Semionov became one of five artists who created art pieces during WorldSkills 2019 opening on the 45 000 stadium Kazan arena in collaboration with a speaker Pranav Mistry. The collaboration with Jean-Michel Jarre for the New Year 2021 concert "Welcome to the Other Side", which got 75 million viewers online and in VR, featured illustrative Notre-Dame de Paris made inside virtual reality. From 2023 Denis - is a member of International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. In 2024 Denis Semionov performed as an artist and a speaker at TEDx Brussels with the AI art installation “Feelings and Sensors”. Semionov collaborated with such musicians and performers as Jean-Michel Jarre, Deborah Frances-White, institutions - Venice Biennale, Institut Français, Arts Council England, Deutsches Filminstitut, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, TED (conference), brands – Leica, Samsung, Estée Lauder, Absolut

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