The Art & Science Master’s program at ITMO University offers three specializations, one of which is "Digital Worlds"

To support the development of digital art and expand the professional opportunities of students, the Art & Science Center of  ITMO University has created an online gallery designed to showcase students' digital projects.

This initiative promotes student-led creative practices and opens new possibilities for engaging with broader audiences.

Rooted in Code

The exhibition is the result of the Digital Tools course led by artist and curator Roman Solodkov. Over the course of two months, first-year Art & Science Master’s students explored digital tools and developed concepts for art projects, culminating in this exhibition.

Curators:

Khristina Ots
Asya Kaplan

Course teacher

Roman Solodkov

Rooted in Code invites visitors to imagine nature as a fully digital environment where the boundaries between the organic and the artificial dissolve, and technologies become an extension of nature itself—from minerals and oils to algorithms.

Today it is difficult to imagine life outside the digital dimension. This is where we work and rest, form connections, shield ourselves from the outside world, store memories, and cultivate desires. The digital realm is tightly woven into the fabric of everyday life, shaping its foundations.

Digital technologies do not merely duplicate or extend physical reality—they grow into it, forming new modes of existence through digital objects. Every day we encounter entities that cannot be reduced either to abstract data or material forms. Philosopher Yuk Hui describes digital objects as a distinct mode of being defined by networks of relations—with other objects, and with conditions of storage, access, and transformation.

Participating Artists:

Sound:
Sasha Ostrovsky

Dashi Abram, Aino, Ekaterina Arkhipova, Anna Vikhrova, Daniil Volodin, Daria Vostretsova, Olga Giske, Elizaveta Goryunova, Arina Grigorieva, Anastasiia Guseva, Maiia Goloviznina, Alisa Eremeeva, Anel’ Eralieva, Yulia Izhboldina, Ivan Karpov, Ilya Korostelev, Milena Kotikova, Anastasia Kuzmenko, Vova Lebedev, Sasha Malysheva, Alika Mindarova, Daria Mikhailova, Valeria Nikolaeva, Sofia Naumenko, Maiia Oganova, Sasha Ostrovsky, Anastasia Peshina,Vasiliy Petukhov, Nastasya Romanova, Lucyenn Sollo, Polina Titarenko, Anastasiia Tsukanova, Valeria Zhuravlyova,  Ekaterina Chernukha

Dashi Abram
Aino
Ekaterina Arkhipova, Anna Vikhrova
Daniil Volodin
Daria Vostretsova, Olga Giske
Elizaveta Goryunova Arina Grigorieva
Anastasiia Guseva Maiia Goloviznina

Alisa Eremeeva
Anel’ Eralieva
Yulia Izhboldina
Ivan Karpov
Ilya Korostelev
Milena Kotikova Anastasia Kuzmenko Vova Lebedev
Sasha Malysheva
Alika Mindarova
Daria Mikhailova

Valeria Nikolaeva Sofia Naumenko
Maiia Oganova
Sasha Ostrovsky Anastasia Peshina
Vasiliy Petukhov
Nastasya Romanova Lucyenn Sollo
Polina Titarenko, Anastasiia Tsukanova
Valeria Zhuravlyova
Ekaterina Chernukha

Like living systems, digital objects evolve over time and ultimately form digital ecosystems as complex and mutable as physical ones. The students' projects explore hybrid environments where the virtual and the material merge, giving rise to new forms of life. They reflect on the future of social interaction and the transformation of bodies, memories, and emotions.

The exhibition includes works that investigate new modes of relation between the natural and the digital. The artists address themes of memory and digital imaginaries, material transformation and the evolution of digital ecosystems, the traces we leave behind, and the changing relationship between humans and technologies.

Through diverse media — from video works and digital animation to 3D objects — the projects reveal how technologies become not only tools but active participants in a new environment where humans, algorithms, plants, crystals, and virtual entities form a single interconnected landscape.

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Globemories

Maiya Goloviznina, Aino

De_Sublimation

Daria Vostretsova, Alisa Eremeeva, Valeria Zhuravlyova

Erbarium

Sasha Ostrovsky,
Ekaterina Arkhipova, Ivan Karpov, Nastasya Romanova

_Sephiroth.tree [human]

Anastasia Peshina,
Ekaterina Chernukha,
Arina Grigorieva

Daria Mikhailova, Ilya Korostelev

TOUCH SOME GRASS

Anel Eralieva, Alika Mindarova,
Sofia Naumenko, Olga Giske

Brat Pregnancy

Yulia Izhboldina, Vova Lebedev

Cactus.exe

Milena Kotikova, Sasha Malysheva, Lucyenn Sollo

Clean up Your Browser History Before You Die

Dashi Abram, Anna Vikhrova,
Daniil Volodin, Polina Titarenko

Digital Garden

Maiya Oganova

Twins

Anastasia Guseva,
Anastasia Kuzmenko

VRvian Man

Anastasia Tsukanova,
Vasily Petukhov,
Elizaveta Goryunova,
Valeria Nikolaeva