Art & performance
Digital media, interactive installations, photography, music and performance in clubs.
Berlin · digital and media artist
Gleb
Kalinin
Images, systems, situations.
I work with digital media, interactive installations, artistic research and experiments that do not fit neatly inside conventional software development. The same practice moves into clubs, classrooms, workshops and conversations with people and teams.
Enter the story ↓
Not one discipline, but a way of moving between image, code, sound, bodies and attention.
Research & experiments
Artistic research and working prototypes that test how emerging technologies change everyday life.
Teaching & workshops
Learning spaces where people build with new tools, compare methods and develop their own practice.
People & teams
Consulting, coaching, one-to-one work and collaboration with teams around products, attention and change.
From the early web
to thinking machines
These chapters overlap. Together they form a long-running inquiry into media, tools, people and the forms that connect them.
2001—2010
Learning the internet by making it
Gleb launched his first internet project, Experiment.ru, in 2001. He later became the initiator and first editor-in-chief of Theory and Practice in Saint Petersburg, building the editorial team and organising around twenty events.
2010—2018
Studios, products and communities
He ran Raum7, a consultancy working across UX and design; co-founded the neighbourhood network Lokolo; worked on services for Russian Post at Tsentsiper; and later led content at Ostrovok.ru.
2016—2020
Leadership with the human in focus
Gleb served as curator of the Moscow Global Shapers hub and as product director at OZON.travel. Alongside product work, his interest in attention, behaviour and group learning became an increasingly public part of his practice.
2020—now
An independent, expanded practice
Based in Berlin, he works independently across AI, mental-health technology, artistic experimentation, consulting and education. His current laboratories bring people together to build personal systems and new ways of working with AI.
A life documented in fragments
Work, performance, teaching, friendship and the ordinary rooms where ideas became projects.
Work in public
Conferences, classrooms, broadcasts and the shared spaces where projects meet other people.
A private register
Portraits, domestic rooms and quieter moments away from the formal biography.
Making and sharing
Artwork, gatherings and the physical situations around creative work.
Camera, stage, sound
Photography, performance and experiments with presence in front of an audience or lens.
Other ways of knowing
Gleb completed Sergey Maksimishin’s two-year “Photographer as Storyteller” course. His work also includes meditation and embodied practice, music, teaching and performance—different instruments for paying attention to what a system leaves out.
A few points of reference
TEDxspeaker
Global Shapersalumnus · former Moscow hub curator
350+Claude Code Lab graduates
Since 2001building internet projects
Bring a strange question.
For collaborations, commissions, workshops, consulting or one-to-one work: