eeefff / cv
eeefff (Minsk / Berlin) is a collaboration of two people, Nicolay Spesivtsev (artist, computer scientist, researcher) and Dzina Zhuk (writer, artist). Active from 2013.
eeefff is working with emotional effects of the new economic regimes driven by computation, materiality of sensibility, affects within creative industries, frictions between user interfaces and protocols, test settings for collective imaginaries.
The methods of eeefff are: making public actions and situations, online interventions, performative seminars, software and hardware hacks, framing environments and settings.
Selected exhibitions / festivals
2025
— Forum | There Is Nothing Solid About Solidarity / satellite program of Kyiv Biennial 2025 / M HKA / Antwerp (BE)
— Organised Forest Assembly of Educational fictions / Massia / Massiaru (EE)
— (near) near but — far. Transmediale 2025 / Berlin (DE)
— Konstfesten 2025 / festival / KIN Museum of Contemporary Art/ Kiruna (SE)
— YOU ARE WELCOME / group exhibition / Berlin (DE)
2024
— AMRO 2024: Dancing at the Crossroads / festival / Linz (AT)
— Alt Nets / show / panke.gallery / Berlin (DE)
— This Too Is a Territory. Navigating Digital Frontiers | Are you for real | 4th cluster / online exhibition
— Obsolet exhibition / Projektraum Galerie M / Berlin (DE)
2023
— V Kyiv Biennial / Vienna (AT)
— Exploring the Decentralized Web / HEK / Basel (CH)
— If Disrupted, It Becomes Tangible / NGA / Vilnius (LT)
— NICHT UNSER KRIEG / weltkunstzimmer / Düsseldorf (DE)
— Transmediale 2023 / Berlin (DE)
— Speichern / Potsdam (DE)
2022
— Documenta 15 / School of Algorithmic Solidarity, INSTAR and antiwarcoalition.art / Kassel (DE)
— Time After Time: The Polychronicity in Blockchain / Beijing (CN)
2021
— Fast. Conveniently. Dangerously / City Arsenal / Kyiv (UA)
— Antibodies. Young Art from Belarus / Westwerk / Hamburg (DE)
— Futur 3 Festival / Kiel (DE)
2020
— SILENT WORKS. Berliner Gazette Winter School / Berlin (DE)
— Shelter / Helsinki (FI) & Online
— STATUS — Artistic Practice and Social Change / Konstepidemin / Gotheborg (SE)
2019
— Low Text: Footnotes. After The Eclipse / Berlin (DE)
— MORE WORLD / Berliner Gazette & ZK/U / Berlin (DE)
2018
— Digital landscapes / Havremagsinet, parallel program of Luleå Biennial / Boden (SE)
— Ambient Revolts / ZK/U — Center for Arts and Urbanistics / Berlin (DE)
— Shadowmemory / Art Night / London (UK)
— LOW TEXT #4 Automations / Berlin (DE)
— Escapism Training Program / CCI Fabrika / Moscow (RU)
— Kitchen activism / Samara (RU)
— Private life of Radiowaves / A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications / St. Petersburg (RU)
2017
— The Kyiv International. Kyiv Biennial 2017 / Kyiv (UA)
— Letters to the Future: From the Future to the Past. / St. Petersburg (RU)
— Eye in the Sky. Festival Fotograf #7 / Prague (CZ)
— The Industrial Boomerang, Barents Spektakel / Kirkenes (NO)
— p r o x y / Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture / Helsinki (FI)
— It´s a good day to have a good day / MEET/N/WORK / Frankfurt am Main (DE)
— Queer festival DOTYK / Minsk (BY)
2016
— GLOBALE: New Sensorium / ZKM, Center for Art and Media / Karlsruhe (DE)
— Politics of Fragility (as part of Flying cooperation) / Na shabolovke Gallery / Moscow (RU)
— Conversations about Politics. Critical Art in Belarus (as part of Flying cooperation) / Delai sam/a Space / Moscow (RU)
— New Poverty (as part of Flying cooperation) / Center “Red” / Moscow (RU)
2015
— 900 und etwa 26000 Tage / Kunstverein in Hamburg / Hamburg (DE)
— Tunnel Vision / MOMENTUM 8, TUNNEL VISION, Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art / Moss (NO)
Performances / Actions
2025
— Assembly of Leisure Unrest (as WH!PH! working group) / DO AS US USERS DO @ kex-kunsthalle exnergasse / Vienna (AT)
— Algosomatic Session: how to act on a distance, to race conditions, to sleep with algorithms? at (near) near but — far. Transmediale 2025 / Berlin (DE)
— Algosomatic Session at Basel Critical Media Lab colloquium, Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures / Basel (CH)
2024
— Decentric Circles Assembly (as WH!PH! working group) / Warsaw (PL)
— assembly “Decentric Circles of Leisure Unrest” (as WH!PH! working group) / alpha nova & galerie futura / Berlin (DE)
— Session of The School of Algorithmic Solidarity in frame of decolonial research laboratory “Mycelium” / Solidarny Dom Kultury “Słonecznik” / Warsaw (PL)
— Session of The School of Algorithmic Solidarity in frame of AMRO 2024: Dancing at the Crossroads / Linz (AT)
— Session of The School of Algorithmic Solidarity in frame of Terms and Conditions. The Legal Form of Images program / “Expanded Cinema” class in HGB together with Harun Farocki Institut / Leipzig (DE) /
— Laboratory Can colonialism be encoded? / ACUD together with Goethe Institut / Berlin (DE)
— Laboratory Can colonialism be encoded? at Critical Data Lab of Humboldt University Berlin / Berlin (DE)
— facilitatiion of the track “Contesting ‘Green’ Coloniality” at KIN CITY conference / Berlin (DE)
2023
— Laboratory on the infrastructures of “Artficial Intelligence” / Academy of Arts (UdK) / Berlin (DE)
— Strike Event (as WH!PH! working group) / PAF Summer University / Saint-Erme (FR)
— Algorithmic solidarity session / [ome] / Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Berlin (DE)
— Strike Event (as WH!PH! working group) with ZK/U / Documenta 15 / Kassel (DE)
2022
— Strike Event (as WH!PH! working group) with ZK/U / Berlin (DE)
2020
— Museum of Future / street action during uprising in Belarus / Minsk
— Reenactment of Affect / action during League of Tenders / Anapa (RU)
— Training session “Who will get tired faster, you or the algorithms?” / Status Project (BY / SE) & Ångpannegatans Processer (SE) / Gotheborg (SE)
2019
— Mystery covered with the darkness / Camp as One / Anapa (RU)
— Fatigue and pharmachoreography (as part of WH!PH! working group) at festival “Forms of artistic life” / MMOMA / Moscow (RU)
— Holed Futurism / Digital Labour Symposium / Kyiv (UA)
— Holed Futurism / In frame of workshop-week of The Project STATUS: The Role of the Artist in the Changing of Society / Minsk (BY)
— Error-Friendly Networks / Decolonising Imagination Research School / Moscow (RU)
— Simultaneous Work Sessions / Worker Woman 2.0 / Gallery “Peresvetov Pereulok” / Moscow (RU)
— Fatigue and pharmachoreography (as part of WH!PH! working group) / Royal Institute of Art’s Research Week 2019 / Stokholm (SE)
— “Creating Empathy” workshop (in collaboration with Spectrum / Berlin) / MMOMA / Moscow (RU)
2018
— Unprofitable togetherness / Picnic of Platform Workers and freelancers / Art Night / London (UK)
— Mc’Donalds Blockchain / Laboratory 24/7 / Murmansk (RU)
— Hackathon choreography / Rosa’s House of Culture / St. Petersburg (RU)
— Skillful Survival workshop (as part of Flying cooperation) / Festival-laboratory “Shelter” / Helsinki (FI)
— How do the Internet, a Plant and our Imagination work / seminar for teenagers / Vyksa (RU)
2017
— Documenta 14 press preview in Moscow (as part of Flying cooperation) / MCC train / Moscow (RU)
— Fatigue and pharmachoreography (as part of WH!PH! working group) / 1/2/8 Demanding Responses. PACT Zollverein / Essen (DE)
Screenings
— Screening of didactic materials for Can Colonialism Be Encoded? at UKRAINATV stream initiative / 2025
— Screening of Tactical Forgetting | e-flux link at “Mental Ecologies of War” / e-flux film program / 2023
— Screening of the Tactical Forgetting at The Common Sensuous | Спільне Чуттєве in diffrakt / Berlin (DE) / 2023
— Visual narrative Outsourcing Paradise RTV Magazine (PL) / 2020
Lectures / Texts / Talks / Visual Narratives
2025
— (upcoming, in December) Seminar on Technopolitics of Futures / Institute for Art in Context / Berlin (DE)
— Panel Discussion Body Knotted in the Cables and Codes: Artistic Research of the (Cyber)War Infrastructure in frame of Interdisciplinary Conference “Feeling Machines: Gender, Technologies, and Capitals” / Vilnius (LT)
— Discussion Body Knotted in the Cables and Codes: Artistic Research of the (Cyber)War Infrastructure“ in frame of the conference Feeling Machines: Gender, Technologies, and Capitals / Vilnius (LT)
— Discussion Something More Felt than Known: Bodies Troubling the Digital at (near) near but — far. Transmediale 2025 / Berlin (DE)
— Text on Can Colonialism Be Encoded? in AWC Journal #1. Entanglement of Infrastructures: Civilian Systems under the Pressures of Militarization
2024
— Visual narrative on the School of Algorithmic Solidarity in the Sowing Unrest: Biennale Matter of Art 2024 / Prague (CZ)
— Guest lecture / Media Art Academy Cologne (KHM) / Cologne (DE)
2023
— Guest Lecture on Activist Practices / Academy of Arts (UdK) / Berlin (DE)
— Lecture on the Outsourcing Paradise at LABORING IMAGES / IMAGES OF LABOR conference / FAMU / Prague (CZ)
— Discussion On Seeing Where There’s So Much To See / Transmediale 2023 / Berlin (DE)
— Lecture Infrastructural Strike And Time: how to disturb military transportation / Fusion festival (DE)
2022
— Visual narrative on the Outsourcing Paradise / Book Chimeras: Inventory of synthetic cognition
— Talk on Tactical Forgetting at AMRO festival / Linz (AT)
— Talk on Tactical Forgetting at CTM festival in frame of Lockdown Lessons / Berlin (DE)
— Class “Forms of Communality: Institutional Critique, Perpendicular Institutions and lead from the fields” / School of Contemporary Art “Sreda Obuchenia” (RU) / 2021-2022
— Theses on a School of Algorithmic Solidarity / Radical Friends. Online DAO Summit for Decentralisation of Power and Resources in the Artworld / Haus der Kunst (Munich) and Goethe Institut
— Interview about Digital Materiality / BerlinArtLink (DE)
2021
— Lecture on art production during uprising / “Back to Belarus: The State of Art & Protest Today” conference / Yale University (USA)
— Guest Lecture at “Summer School Viadrinicum” / Europa-Universität Viadrina / Frankfurt (Oder) (DE)
— Discussion about Platform economies during “Fast. Conveniently. Dangerously” exhibition / Kyiv (UA)
— Talk on the role of urban and digital spaces in protest (experience of Belarus and Ukraine) / in the frame of the exhibition “Every Day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance” / Kyiv (UA)
— Workshop “Algorithmic aided lovers” / Summer School Cultural Management in the Digital Age / by Goethe Institut / Online
— Performative Lecture on Tactical Forgetting / Conference “Museum as research hub” by Garage MCA / Moscow (RU)
— Essay All you need now is in pinned messages / “Ecology of Attention” by Montag Modus
— Essay Economic orangery 2021 or How to occupy production of economic abstraction / Moscow Art Magazine
2020
— Performative lecture “Infrastructure of solidarity in Belarus” / the Biennial “World Without Labor II” / St. Petersburg (RU)
— Lecture on decolonial approach to the infrastructure / in frame of educational program “(Post)Colonial Knowledge and Art” / Среда обучения (RU)
— Talk Belarus: “Tomorrow should not be the same as today” / A Careful Strike exhibition / Stockholm (SE) & Online
— Visual narrative Lazy Simulator (as part of (non)work group) / Status Project (RU / EN)
— Talk Care During a Crisis / online lecture hall on the syg.ma platform
2019
— Script of the LARP “Holed Futurism” / Book “Artistic practice and social change. Observations from Belarus and Sweden” (RU / EN)
— Guest lecture / Department of the History of Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art / Higher School of Economics / Moscow
— Essay “Holed Futurism” / “Portal” book (RU)
2018
— Essay “Speculative computer club. Defile-discussion in the second-hand store” / book “Street Tactics / City Strategies. Political art in an era of conservative turn” (RU)
— Essay “Smart City” from below? / Berliner Gazette
— Perplexed species manifesto / visual intervention into 2018/08 Kapitál newspaper (SK)
— Lecture “How to occupy abstraction” / Strelka Institute / Moscow (RU)
— Part of the conference “Critical and Technical: Session on Philosophy of Technology” / Moscow (RU)
2017
— Essay “Programmers wanna be” / Pervasive Labour Union zine #11 Entreprecariat
— Lecture “Human works as human in the age of machine learning” / The Academy of Performing Arts / Prague (CZ)
— Panel Discussion / Fotograf festival #7 / Prague (CZ) — Lecture “Non-human Non-places” / Coordinate system project / Berlin (DE)
— Lecture on the Art and Horizons of technological Desires / New Holland summer school / St. Petersburg (RU)
— Esay “Documenta Reader” (as part of Flying cooperation) / Prostory magazine
— Lecture on Non-human non-places / Intimate place laboratory / St. Petersburg (RU)
— Essay Ritens maskerad (as part of Flying cooperation) / Hjärnstorm magazine (SE)
— Essay Human works as human in the age of machine learning / Prostory magazine (UA)
— Guest lecture “The Face, an Interface?” / Free University / Berlin (DE)
— Artist talk in SHTAB (as part of Flying cooperation) / Bishkek (KG)
2016
— Essay For the Lucre and Delight (as part of Flying cooperation) / Moscow Art Magazine #101
— Essay Machines against the Machines / Dissents magazine
— Essay Picnic near the Data Center / Moscow Art Magazine #99
— Guest lecture “Interfaces in the Age of AI” / British higher school of art and design / Moscow (RU)
Residencies / Grants
— Kin Museum of Contemporary Art / Kiruna (SE) / April-June 2025
— Next Cloud / servus.at Online Residency Program / April 2022
— ZK/U residency program (as Work Hard! Play Hard! working group) / Berlin (DE) / March-April 2022
— 52proposalsforthe20s / online residency by Maria Lind / April 2022
— Self-residency for Work Hard! Play Hard! working group / Kyiv (UA) / October 2021
— Glitch residency / Château du Feÿ (FR) / October-November 2021
— Garage MCA residency program / Moscow (RU) / January-July 2021
— Residency in frame of League of Tenders / Anapa (RU), August 2020, August 2021
— Residency-Laboratory in frame of DAOWO Global Initiative / London (UK), February 2020
— Garage Digital grant program / Garage / Moscow (RU), 2020
— Web-residency “Liquid Fiction”, 2019
— Ställbergs gruva / Kopparberg (SE), 2019
— CAMP AS ONE / Anapa (RU), 2019
— Traffic loop / Havremagsinet / Boden (SE), 2018
— 1/2/8 Demanding Responses. PACT Zollverein / Essen (DE). 2017
— Meet Factory Residency / Prague (CZ), 2017
— M-Cult / Helsinki (FI), 2017
— Pikene på Broen / Kirkines (NO), 2016
— Aesthetic — Responsibility — Drones / Migrating Art Academies, Weissensee Art Academy / Berlin (DE), 2013
Organised several events, spaces and agencies
— Forest Assembly of educational Fictions / 2025
— Decentric Circles Assembly / 2024-ongoing
— Organisers of a laboratory on different forms of strikes in Kyiv in May 2022 (as Work Hard! Play Hard! working group) / canceled due to the war in Ukraine
— Work Hard! Play Hard! / Focus: transformations in the structure of labour and leisure, new conditions of post-work society, immaterial and material workers / Minsk (BY), 2016—2020
— (non)work research project / The Project STATUS: The Role of the Artist in the Changing of Society / 2018—2020
— Speculative Computer Club / Focus: new physical/digital city ecology, human-non-human interactions, 2017
— Press agency “Flying Cooperation” / International / 2016—ongoing