Atom C, 2016
Full HD, 10:30 min, stereo sound
Atom C takes a poetical approach in describing the carbon cycle seen through the perspective of a single carbon atom. The animated video Atom C traces the journey of the atom from its birth in the Universe, through the biosphere and finally its end as part of the human consciousness. Seen through a first-person perspective, the viewer is being placed in the position of the carbon atom - the building block of terrestrial life. By assuming a first-person perspective, the aim of the piece is to imagine the visual sensation of traveling in a microscopic world as well as to challenge the viewer to imagine her or himself in a micro scale.
In the right part of the animation’s frame, an infographic supplies the viewer with information about the atom's states as it enters different environments, further adding metadata information to the visual aesthetic of the piece and assuming a more game-like visual experience. The piece is inspired by Primo Levi's book entitled 'The Periodic Table'. In the book’s chapter entitled 'Carbon', Levi is taking a carbon atom on a hypothetical journey through the biosphere upon which the animation’s narrative is based. Furthermore, scientific facts, data and chemical formulae related to the carbon cycle are used in construction of the animation.
Essentially, the piece aims to provoke reflections on the complex relationships of elements in building organic life. Furthermore, it aims to highlight the incredibly intricate yet fragile machinery of the biosphere, in the hope that it would spark thoughts on sustainability and preservation.
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Terra Elastica, 2017
110 x 150 x 160 cm, mixed media

Terra Elastica is a kinetic sculpture that deals with the moon's gravitational pull that causes the oceans' tides.
Using mini solar panels, electro motors and paper origami made out of ocean maps, the piece aims to depict the intertwined relationship between the sun, moon and ocean i.e. the influence of cosmological systems on environmental systems and weather patterns.
The origami shapes are made from ocean maps, which derive from satellite images sourced from Google Earth.
Furthermore, each shape represents one of the world’s oceans, with the Pacific Ocean being divided into South and North Pacific.
Together, the six units form a star-shaped structure that is being put in motion through the spotlights’ sporadically cast light onto the solar panels.
The origami shapes are made from ocean maps, which derive from satellite images sourced from Google Earth. Furthermore, each shape represents one of
the world’s oceans, with the Pacific Ocean being divided into South and North Pacific. Together, the six units form a star-shaped structure that is being
put in motion through the spotlights’ sporadically cast light onto the solar panels.
As the shapes move, a movement sequence emerges and this movement pattern alludes to the orbit of the moon around the Earth, putting each origami in movement
as it hovers over each ocean. This sequence is based on the moon’s gravitational pull of the ocean’s tides.
Essentially, the piece aims to trigger thoughts about the influence of the sun and moon over Earth’s eco systems as well as biological rhytms.
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Carbon, Sonic Cycles, 2016
The piece Carbon, Sonic Cycles is an interactive sound installation that deals with the carbon cycle. Drawings, archival documentary sound and scientific data that relate to different aspects of the carbon cycle are displayed on three cylinder-shaped rotating objects. The objects are colour coded into three main themes that tend to illustrate the element carbon from three different perspectives: green cylinder, looking at photosynthesis and carbon as the building block of terrestrial life; blue cylinder, looking at the Earth’s atmosphere and carbon’s role within it; and purple/grey cylinder: looking at carbon’s chemical and industrial characteristics.

Infographic referencing the origins of data used for the work
By using the digital application Phono Paper created by Russian programmer Alexander Zolotov, through tablets and smart phone devices, the work invites participants to translate the data on the cylinders into sound, further revealing an ongoing musical composition of the carbon cycle. The objects are silently rotating in the space and sound can only be activated through participation. Each object contains three different soundscapes and by the participant’s choice on which one of the three will be activated, and through the number of possible combinations played at one time, a unique sound composition emerges every time the work is enabled.
Video documentation of the work:
This ongoing change in the musical outcome is used as a metaphor for the complex nature of the carbon cycle, the series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment, involving the incorporation of carbon dioxide into living tissue by photosynthesis and its return to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels. Carbon, Sonic Cycles is part of a larger series entitled Carbon Memories, first shown at the NI MoCA Skopje in May 2016.
Active Process, 2016
Active Process is an interactive sonic installation that deals with the carbon cycle. Inspired by electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram’s Oramics machine that uses drawings to create sounds designed in 1957, as well as the ANS Synthesizer that uses similar techniques, designed by Russian engineer Yevgeny Murzin from 1937 to 1957, the piece is essentially a machine that turns drawings into sound.
Video documentation of the work:
By using a rotating motor with adjustable speed and the digital application Phono Paper created by Russian programmer Alexander Zolotov, the work invites participants to experiment with drawn sound waves. As the drawing surface rotates, the sound is looped in an endless cycle. This cyclical movement of the sound is used as a metaphor for the carbon cycle, the series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment, involving the incorporation of carbon dioxide into living tissue by photosynthesis and its return to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels. The participants’ interaction with the piece illustrates our active participation in the carbon cycle process as the human factor.
Active Process is part of a larger series entitled Carbon Memories, first shown at the NI MoCA Skopje in May 2016. On the opening night of the show, the artist performed a sound performance entitled Active Process_01.
Video documentation of the performance:
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Photophilia, 2016
Photophilia is a proposition for a future human that evolved into a human-plant entity that is able to photosynthesise. The work's title derives from the term 'photophilic', which is used when describing plant life that seeks and/or thrives in sunlight. As bioethics and biopolitics become more and more integrated in art, there is an emergence of a new way of looking at evolution. Artist Eduardo Kac states that working with biomedia is an act of manipulating life, and for Kac, every manipulation is a part of evolution. Drawing from his idea of evolution, my proposal for the future human is a human that has evolved within the carbon cycle and has gained the ability to photosynthesize. By feeding on solar energy, this human-plant prototype has regained the egalitarian status within the biosphere and would enter the age of the Post-Anthropocene. Instead of cultivating nature for its own needs, this human is able to produce oxygen and become a sustainable link in the carbon cycle.
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Sonic Nature, 2015
Based on Pierre Schaeffer’s ‘Musique concrète’, Sonic Nature is an installation that uses both recorded sounds and sonifications that derive from a set of natural and manufactured objects. The piece utilizes projection mapping that corresponds to the individual sounds of the objects further visualising the sonic composition.
Projected scanners ‘read’ the shape of the objects, which is then transformed into sound. Other field recordings like knocking wood and crunching dead leaves are being digitally manipulated and accompanied by a projected manifestation of sound waves. By combining the physical and the digital, Sonic Nature aims to question the border between the real and virtual, as well as to propose a new visualization of sound.
Abandoning Symmetry, 2013
FullHD, 04:49, 2013 The piece explores the differences and similarities between the biological and industrial evolutions. Through an experimental approach, the footages act as single cells of complex organisms, trying to fit into the even bigger picture of an eco or industrial mechanism. With this work, I tried to question the paradox of our age where the industry tries to follow the systems and mechanisms of nature, yet fails to preserve its primary source of inspiration.
Abandoning Symmetry was shown as a part of the Victoria and Albert Digital Design Challenge during Design Week in 2013.
Switching Heads – Sound mapping the [Arctic], 2015
Switching Heads – Sound mapping the [Arctic]
is the first in an on-going project by artist duo Holly Owen and
Kristina Pulejkova. Environmentally un-intrusive sculpture, binaural
sound technology and film come together to record the sights, sounds and
stories of areas around the globe that are most at risk from the effects of our
rapidly changing climate.
Owen and Pulejkova have created a life-size mould of a head that
can be stuffed with organic material found in a specific environment.
The use of local material means the sculpture can be left in place to melt,
crumble or decompose without adding or taking anything away from the area.
This organic head holds a pair of binaural microphones that records the
environmental and human sounds of the landscape in 360 degrees.
Through this mixed-media work Switching Heads - sound mapping the Arctic
transports the viewer through perspective sound, moving image and tactile organic
sculpture to areas worst affected by changes in our global climate. Engaging the senses,
the project will draw upon the lived experience, encouraging audiences to act through
feelings of empathy.
The final moving image piece, Fram (norvegian for forward), was shown guerilla-style in Paris as part of the art and culture festival ArtCOP21 during the United Nations Climate Change conferences in winter 2015. Dressed as Arctic explorers, through a city expedition, they carried their finished Arctic film and two pairs of headphones on their backs as they walked through the city. In doing this, they brought the experience out to the public, inviting locals, tourists, climate concerned individuals as well as artists to switch places with the snow head to watch, listen and explore life in The Arctic Circle.
Watch and listen to the artists’ immersive moving image piece Fram. (The binaural sound is audible through headphones.)
Bioluminescence, 2015
Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by a living organism. The same entitled piece takes the idea of a luminescent organism and transfers it onto two cord-connected objects that use Electroluminescent (EL) wire to communicate with each other. The woven EL Wire light patches act as transmitters of signals and are lit in sequences, further signifying the receiving and sending of messages between the objects.
X (automated sequence), 2013 – on going
X (automated sequence)' is a series of drawings that deal with the loss of memory or memory erosion. Memory erosion occurs during execution of automated tasks which provide no or little experience. In retrospect, those actions are not registered in our memory. Instead, our memory is a collection of fragments of actions that hold a high density of experience. By writing the x, I tend to record the automated sequence further exposing the fragmentation of memory.
POINT OF VIEW (Organic Cartography), 2012
POINT OF VIEW is an installation consisting four pieces of paintings, video projections and sound. The works are
cartographic representations of four types of migrating animals. This is achieved by taking the microscopic patterns
of the animals as the landscape, and the animals’ migration patterns as the networks or routes of the map. As all living
beings transform through time and space, the maps in question will tend to undergo this same process much like unfrozen
worlds in constant flux.
As climate change and man made environment interventions continue to influence the migrating routes of these animals,
this piece questions the (in)ability of these animals to adapt to the fast changing pace of their environments.
Capsule, 2015

Capsule is an installation piece that explores the concepts of real time and subjective time perception.
Different time scales are overlapped in order to collapse any linearity in the narrative structure.
Past, present and future become a chaotic flat plane where distant stories of space and time mix with personal
time perception narratives of artists and scientists. This temporal polyphony is enhanced with soundscapes from the
plasma oscillations from the JET fusion reactor and stellar sonifications from
NASA’s Kepler Project.
Capsule consists of two pieces, which are connected via web cam live feed. The capsule – shaped viewing pod derives from a cross section of the torus-shaped
JET fusion reactor. Inside the capsule, there is a looped projection of the same titled animation piece, which is occasionally interrupted by a live feed of the second piece
titled My Time Is Your Time, which is an interactive light structure, further adding an aspect of ‘real time’.
My Time Is Your Time is an interactive LED light structure that explores the process of energy distribution. The Universe holds a finite amount of energy that cannot be
gained nor destroyed, but only redistributed. Here, participants are invited to make their ‘light footprints’ that get fragmented and reshaped by the next person’s interaction,
further emphasizing the passage of time and energy as the only thing that is truly timeless.
‘Capsule’ was awarded the Daniel Ford International
Prize for Innovation ,
Central Saint Martins College in 2014 and the 11th Young Artist Biennial Prize in Skopje Macedonia in 2015 resulting with a solo show at the Museum for Contemporary
Art in Skopje, Macedonia to be realised in 2016.
Epicentre, September 2015, Skopje, Macedonia
Epicentre is an audio-visual piece by the artist Kristina Pulejkova and the experimental music duo KNNT. Comissioned by the City Creative Network (CCN) the performance opened the new Nautilus Konstrukt public stage in Skopje, Macedonia. Epicentre uses sounds created from seismic data from the city Skopje as well as imagery from the city’s post 1963 brutalist architecture, proposing a new geo-urban sound specific to the city.
Seismic data sourced from The Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, IZIIS are made into sonified data loops, which are combined with live music by KNNT, further exploring the capital’s geological and urban sonic identity. The outdoor stage is taken as a focal point that enables cultural diversity in the city’s public domain.
Initially, the work takes the term epicentre from both a seismological and a metaphorical aspect,
exploring the city as a geologically and socially shifting environment. In the latter respect,
the stage is taken as a cultural epicentre that has the capacity to ‘shake the ground’ of the current
complacent cultural realm and brake way for emerging artists working across the creative disciplines.
The data sets are sonified with an ANS Synthesizer emulator, based on the ANS Synthesizer that was
used for the soundtrack of the film Solaris (1972) by the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, Epicentre
draws a connection between Tarkovsky’s futuristic sets and the capital’s concrete futuristic architecture,
further echoing the post 1963 idea of rendering Skopje as the city of the future.
Carbonated Memories, May 2016
Solo Show, Museum for Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
Carbonated Memories is the concept for the artist’s upcoming solo show awarded by the Museum for Contemporary Arts in Skopje, Macedonia. Funded by the Macedonian Ministry of Culture, the show will be exhibited at the Museum for the Contemporary Arts in Skopje in 2016.
The exhibition will be looking at the chemical and philosophical
aspects of carbon, the element whose chemical basis is responsible
for all known life. Seen through the journeys of a carbon atom,
the exhibition will contain a series of works that depict the
atom’s cyclical journey through the biosphere. As the carbon
travels through the various eco systems, it gets repeatedly
recycled and thus forming an endless loop. The question that the
show poses is whether the carbon atom retains the memory of all
its former beings and if so, do we as humans retain the molecular
memories of all the carbon’s previous states.
All the known elements are a result of stellar supernovas. After a supernova occurs,
due to the powerful blast the newly formed elements are scattered in the universe in a
form of stardust. The clustering of stardust creates planets such as ours, as well as
all the life on it. Having in mind that we are all made of ancient building blocks,
as we breathe, can we try and remember our molecular past?
Through the use of moving image, interactive installations and sound objects,
the artist will create works that look at the carbon cycle and echo its
previous journeys.
Just one drop, 2015-2016
Storyboard mockups
Just one drop is a music video to be created for Scaramount – a project initiated by poet and radio presenter Mr Gee and producer Lawrence Mohammed . Initially written by Mr Gee for one of his news inspired radio shows, Just one drop is a poem about climate change where a man apologises to mother Nature for his abuse.
Switching Heads – Sound mapping the Arctic,


Images: Slate head model, © Holly Owen
Following Holly Owen’s successful art residency at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Wales, Owen and Pulejkova will create their next Switching Heads project with the centre’s sustainability-engaged community.
Modified, 2017
100 x 40 x 150 cm, mixed media and AR application
In Modified, social and psychological aspects of becoming a cyborg are explored through the use of augmented reality (AR). The piece consists of three different scenarios or modules that are meant to play out onto a participant’s skin. Through the use of AR, Modified explores the role of the implant in cyborg aesthetics as well as the idea of perceiving the human as a host to the technology. Three different simulations of an implant penetrating into the participant’s skin are constructed, each imagining a different aspect of a possible human enhancement. Based on survey research as well as futurist theory, the idea of the piece is to provide different alternatives to what being a cyborg could mean.
This piece was produced as part of the LCN artist development programme. Through mentoring and technical support, the programme supported my research and experimentation with augmented reality, further enabling me to incorporate this knowledge into my practice. Sound design produced by Ed Berriman.
My Heart Has Run Out Of Breath
My Heart Has Run Out Of Breath is a collaborative audio-visual
project by visual artist Kristina Pulejkova and musician and
Piano Magic
member Glen Johnson.
Pulejkova’s film, in which familiar images from the movies of Stanley Kubrick
and Andrei Tarkovsky, amongst others, are transformed into new, otherworldly
entities, is not only mixed live by Pulejkova but soundtracked live by Johnson.
Informed by 70’s science fiction films, the animation’s aesthetic aims to
isolate the iconic images from their environment, further placing them into
different contexts and relations to other characters. The final result is a
world of characters and creatures, suggestive of being inside a man/machine
hybrid or floating in the vast emptiness of space.
The set is divided into different tracks entitled ‘hearts’ which are then
paired with accompanying visuals. As both music and visuals are mixed live,
‘My Heart Has Run Out Of Breath is a piece that is ever changing, giving the
audience a glance of its perpetual flux.
Following Johnson and Pulejkova’s two-year long collaboration, the piece
resulted in a music album accompanied by video, released through the
Second Language
record label in January 2016.
As part of the project, a series of water colours were developed based on the
animated piece, which then provided the basis for the CD artwork.
My Heart Has Run Out Of Breath has been performed at Cafe Oto , one of the London leading experimental music venues, as a part of a group show at the Brunel Museum Tunnel Shaft in London for the Art Licks Weekend Festival and in the Electric Palace Cinema in Hastings, UK.
Switching Heads – Sound mapping the Arctic
Switching Heads – Sound mapping the Arctic
is the first in an on going project by artist duo
Holly Owen (http://www.hollyowenartist.com)
and Kristina Pulejkova. Environmentally un-intrusive sculpture, binaural sound
technology and film come together to record the sights, sounds and stories of
areas around the globe that are most at risk from the effects of our rapidly
changing climate.
Owen and Pulejkova have created a life-size mould of a head that can be stuffed
with organic material found in a specific environment. The use of local material
means the sculpture can be left in place to melt, crumble or decompose without
adding or taking anything away from the area. This organic head holds a pair of
binaural microphones that records the environmental and human sounds of the
landscape in 360 degrees. Video captures the events in real time.
Through this mixed-media work Switching Heads - sound mapping the Arctic
transports the viewer through perspective sound, real-time moving image and
tactile organic sculpture to areas worst affected by changes in our global
climate. Engaging the senses, the project will draw upon the lived experience,
encouraging audiences to act through feelings of empathy.
In spring 2015 Owen and Pulejkova embarked on an art expedition to the island
city of Tromsø situated between fjords at the upper most tip of Norway, deep
within The Arctic Circle.
They invited local people to share their stories, traditions and experiences of
living in the Arctic Circle with a head cast in snow, whilst binaural microphones
and film recorded the events. The final film work will be shown guerilla-style in
Paris as part of the art and culture festival
artCOP21
during the United Nations climate conferences in winter 2015. Through a city
expedition they will carry their finished Arctic film and an individual pair of
headphones on their backs as they walk through the city. In doing this they will
bring the experience out to the public, inviting locals, tourists, climate
concerned individuals as well as artists to switch places with the snow head to
watch, listen and explore life in The Arctic Circle.
Anosis, 2017
A multidisciplinary dance installation

Choreography | GEORGIA TEGOU | Performer | MICHALIS THEOPHANOUS Spatial Design | ARGYRIS ANGELI | KYRIAKI NASIOULA (Gesamtatelier) Video Art | KRISTINA PULEJKOVA | Music composition | F73 | Costume Design | MARR | Lighting Design | MIKE TOON | Co-lighting Designers & Stage Management | CHARA PANAYI | ANDREW SANGER | Photography | NIKOLAS LOUKA | Graphic Design | ARGYRIS ANGELI | Visual Arts Consultant | TAMARA TOMIC-VAJAGIC | Producer | MARK MALLABONE | Production Associate, Marketing, Communication | LIA GARBOLA
A ritual of personal transformation, ‘Anosis’ explores three emotional states relating to water; the concepts of sinking, floating and flying.
The audience dives into a visual environment, tracking the dancer’s transition across the three states and utilizing the ‘model of affect’ as a roadmap. The circumplex model used in neuroscience proposes that all affective states arise from two fundamental neurophysiological systems, one related to pleasure and displeasure and the other to arousal and deactivation
Anosis’, the Greek word for buoyancy, symbolises the force which lifts us up, counteracting what brings us down until we reach equilibrium. The body becomes the vessel carrying us through the struggle of processing what we experience in our lives. This journey from sinking to flying is a continual cycle that traces old patterns and carves new paths.
‘dance-as-design’ brings together the four disciplines of dance, music, fashion and architectural design and integrates scientific theories. Georgia Tegou's research and practice blurs the boundaries of dance and movement with visual and spatial arts, highlighting their interdependent relationship. You can read more about the project here .
Kristina Pulejkova is a London-based artist whose works engage with science. Working across disciplines, Pulejkova is looking for connections between man and machine, the organic and mechanical.
Born 1988 in Skopje, Macedonia


Kristina Pulejkova (1988, Skopje, Macedonia) is a London-based multimedia artist who works at the intersection of art, science and technology. Working mainly with moving image and installation, she aims to build a subjective narrative based on data and principles from the scientific disciplines of astronomy, physics, biology and ecology. Her main subjects of interest are time, ecosystems and mechanisms, looking for connections between man and machine, the organic and the mechanical.
Pulejkova’s recent research focuses around ideas of the posthuman and cyborg aesthetic. Drawing on transgenics, biotechnology and bionics, as well as the growing human reliance on technology, she explores narratives around technologically enhanced humans. By looking at human-computer interfaces, the research aims to redefine the body and the self into an extended self through technology, and explore how this prosthetic relationship might evolve into a symbiotic one in the near future.
Since 2013, she also works as part of the artist duo Owen – Pulejkova. The duo aims to create series of artworks entitled Switching Heads-sound mapping the [...] , which focus on the way climate change is affecting communities and environments around the globe.
Education:
2012 - 2014, MA studies in Art and Science, Central Saint Martins College for Art and Design, London, UK
2006 - 2012, Magisterium degree (BA + MA) in Painting and Animated Film, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Awards and Nominations:
- 2017 FLAMIN Fellowship
- 2017 SPACE London Creative Network Programme
- 2015 Young Artist Award, 11th Biennial of Young Artists in Skopje, Macedonia
- 2014 Daniel Ford International Prize for Innovation
- 2009 film.riss Audience Award for experimental film
- Shortlisted for the 2016 Tate Exchange Residency with Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhal, Gasworks Gallery, Pump House Gallery and Nine Elms
- Honorary Mention for the 2016 ESA and Ars Electronica Residency
- Nominated for the 2014 Red Mansion Prize
Selected Exhibitions and Screenings:
Solo Exhibitions:
- 2016, Carbon Memories, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, MK
- 2014, Capsule, Brunel Museum - Thames Tunnel Shaft, London, UK
- 2012 Point of View, Heiligen Kreuzerhof Gallery, Vienna, AT
Group Exhibitions and Screenings:
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2010
- 2009
(Upcoming) Switching Heads – Sound mapping the quarry, Centre for Alternative Technology, Powys, Wales,UK
Ästhetik Der Veränderung, MAK, Vienna, AT
Art Licks Weekend, LUX and SPACE Bring Your Own Beamer, SPACE, London, UK
LCN Showcase, SPACE, London, UK
WRONG Digital Art biennale, Homeostasis Lab pavilion (online)
30/30, 12o Collective (online)
Future-esc, isthisit? (online)
(EVA) Electronic Visualisations in the Arts Conference, British Computational Society, London, UK
Lumen: School of Light, Ugly Duck, London, UK
Invisible City Symphonies, St John on Bethnal Green, London, UK
Urban Bliss, Graphic, London, UK
Bring Your Own Beamer, Lumen Studios, London, UK
XI Young Artists Biennial, Multimedia Center Mala Stanica, Skopje, MK
Bizarre Sound Creatures, Het Glaspaviljoen, Eindhoven, NL
Switching Heads, ArtCOP21 Festival, Paris, FR
Switching Heads, Time To Act Week, The Synergy Centre, Brighton, UK
Switching Heads, Interrobang, Omnibus Theatre, London, UK
Fram, Switching Heads, The Centre for Alternative Technology, Powys, Wales, UK
Hello Ape Eyes, Art Licks Weekend Festival, Thames Tunnel Shaft, London, UK
My Heart Has Run Out Of Breath, Café Oto, London, UK
My Heart Has Run Out Of Breath, Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings, UK
Heteroglossia, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
Two Sisters, Tricky Women film festival, Vienna, AT
Digital Design Challenge, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
In Transit, V22, London, UK
The Convergence of the Twain, Science Museum, London, UK
X Biennial of Young Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, MK
On Being Different at the Same Time, UAL Showcase Gallery, London, UK
Essence, Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna, AT
Umwaelt Umwaelzen, Amthof, Feldkirchen, AT
To approach, University for Applied Arts, Vienna, AT
Essence, Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna, AT
Until I find you, Tricky Women film festival, Vienna, AT
Fear, Showroom Gallery Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, AT
Three stories at once, Project space Kunsthalle, Vienna, AT
Naehe, Xpedit Kiosk, Vienna, AT
Until I find you, film:riss film festival, Salzburg, AT
Until I find you, Up-and-coming film festival, Hanover, DE
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Recipient of the FLAMIN Fellowship .

Kristina was selected for the FLAMIN Fellowship, a new scheme for early-career artists that offers training, seed finance, professional development and access to audiences, curators and industry professionals.
The group is representative of the new generation of artist filmmakers, challenging traditional forms and presentation platforms for moving image, exploiting technological developments and bringing new experiences to audiences. Between them, their work has explored everything from history and movement to science and psychoanalysis.
Sunday, 5th November 2017
Listen to the new episode of Enter The Picture with artist Marta Di Francesco .

Listen to the latest podcast here .
Wednesday, 4th October 2017
Aesthetics of Change | MAK | AT | FRI,15 DEC 2017 – SUN,15 APR 2018

Kristina’s work will be shown as part of the Aesthetics of Change exhibition at the MAK in Vienna, Austria.
A cooperation of the University of Applied Arts Vienna with the MAK.
In 1867 the School of Arts and Crafts was established at the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry to enable Austrian arts and crafts to compete internationally. This school is the predecessor institution of today’s University of Applied Arts Vienna which is now celebrating its 150th anniversary. The history of the “Angewandte” [Applied] is now portrayed in a large exhibition which also drafts future scenarios.
Curators: Peter Weibel, Director, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, and professor emer., University of Applied Arts Vienna;
Gerald Bast, President, University of Applied Arts Vienna; Elisabeth Schmuttermeier, Curator, MAK Metal Collection and Wiener Werkstätte Archive; Patrick Werkner, Cultural Historian, professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Tuesday, 3rd October 20177
Anosis | A multidisciplinary dance installation | 9th & 11th of November 2017
THE OLD TRUMAN BREWERY | JUJU'S BAR & STAGE | 7.30 pm

A ritual of personal transformation, ‘Anosis’ explores three emotional states relating to water; the concepts of sinking, floating and flying.
Choreography | GEORGIA TEGOU | Performer | MICHALIS THEOPHANOUS | Spatial Design | ARGYRIS ANGELI | KYRIAKI NASIOULA (Gesamtatelier) | Video Mapping | KRISTINA PULEJKOVA | Music composition | F73 | Costume Design | MARR | Lighting Design | MIKE TOON | Photography | NIKOLAS LOUKA | Graphic Design | ARGYRIS ANGELI | Visual Arts Consultant | TAMARA TOMIC-VAJAGIC | Producer | MARK MALLABONE | Marketing & Communication | LIA GARBOLA
Friday, 30th September 2017
Bring Your Own Beamer | SPACE and LUX as part of the Art Licks Weekend

For this year’s Art Licks Weekend Moving Image Programme, SPACE and LUX are excited to announce their second Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB) event at SPACE.
BYOB is an international movement of DIY one-night-exhibitions where artists collaborate on site to create an installation of moving image. BYOB was started by visual artist Rafael Rozedaal and events have been held in over 40 international cities.
Art Licks Weekend (ALW) is a three-day festival that celebrates the contribution that emerging artists and grassroots projects make to the cultural life of London. This is the fourth year LUX have partnered with ALW on the Moving Image Programme and the first in collaboration with SPACE. This year’s festival, Finding Solutions runs 28 Sep – 1 October.
Friday, 15th September 2017
Tutoring at the BFI Film Academy UK Network Programme

Kristina will be one of the tutors at the BFI Film Academy. She will be teaching Animation and VFX at the intensive course for students aged 16-19, which will take place in London this October.
Wednesday, 6th September 2017
LCN Chit Chat #2 | Talk as part of the London Creative Network

Kristina will be giving a talk on her practice and experience as a former artist on the London Creative Network programme . LCN Chit Chat #2 is taking place on Tuesday 12 September, at SPACE, 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, London E8 3RH, 7-9pm. To book tickets and more info, lease visit this link .
Friday, 1st September 2017
The Wrong Biennale

Kristina will be showing at The Wrong – an online and offline digital art biennale. Her work Atom C will be shown as part of the Homeostasis Lab Pavilion. For more information on The Wrong, visit the biennale’s website.
Sunday, 20th August 2017
Listen to the first three episodes of Enter the Picture Enter the Picture – podcast on London-based emerging art hosted by Kristina.

Enter the Picture is conceived as a bi-weekly podcast about emerging art in London. Through interviews with artists, curators, gallery and project space directors, the series will be mapping the network of emerging art in London. Tune in for interviews with artists Bob Bicknell-Knight , Ana Milenkovic and Daniel Silva.
Tuesday, 11th July - Thursday, 13th July 2017
Kristina will be presenting a paper at this year’s EVA London conference.

Held annually in July, EVA London is one of the international Electronic Visualisation & the Arts conferences. The first EVA conference was held in 1990, with the intention to create a space for people using or interested in the new technologies to share their experiences and network in a friendly, collaborative atmosphere. EVA London's focus is on the development and application of visualisation technologies to various domains, including art, music, dance, theatre and the sciences.
Thursday, 15 June
SPACE / LCN Showcase
2nd edition
Opening: Thu 15 June, 6 – 9pm
Showcase: Fri 16 – Sat 17 Jun, 12 – 6pm
SPACE Mare Street

This second edition of the London Creative Network (LCN) Showcase illustrates how artists are continuously exploring new technologies and ideas to push contemporary art practice as a dynamic and engaged contribution to wider culture.
The event is an expansive presentation of new developments and works in progress, ranging from performative or collaborative pieces to interdisciplinary approaches, fusing fine art with craft and digital technology. This is accompanied by an artist-led programme, which includes specialist panel discussions, workshops and site-specific performances.
Participating artists:
Alexa Wright, Alexis Zelda Stevens, Antonio Marguet, Ben Nathan, Brigitte Parusel,
Cecilia Sjoholm, Cleo Broda, Eva Lis, Guy Oliver, Helen Dixon, Holly Gramazio, JMC Hayes,
Katia Potapova, Kristina Pulejkova, Laura Moreton-Griffiths, Louisa Bailey, Millie Schwier,
Pandora Vaughan, Queenie Clarke,
Rob Mullender, Rosanna Dean, Sarah Derat, Sineid Codd, Soa J. Hwang, Will Thorburn, Ute Decker
Friday, 28 April 2017
Kristina’s moving image piece Atom C is part of an online exhibition future.esc with the online gallery Is this it is this it. Curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight, future.esc is an exhibition concerning our increased attachment to technological devices.

The online exhibition marks Is this it is this it’s one year anniversary, and will be running between April 28 – 5th May. To view the exhibition, please follow this link.
Saturday, 1 April 2017
Kristina is taking part in the 30/30 challenge curated by the 12ø collective . 3O/3O is a month long project for artists where they are required to submit a new piece of work which is made within each day, every day for the month of April - 3O works in 3O days.

An online exhibition is curated daily by the collective and can be seen at thirty.works.
Friday, 20 January 2017
Lumen: School of Light, group show at the Ugly Duck Project Space
School of Light will take place on 3rd-5th February 2017 and will be a showcase of artists that explore the relationship between astronomy and light. This will showcase many of the artists who have contributed to previous exhibitions and residencies, since Lumen’s launch in September 2014, as well as new names too.

ARTISTS //
Alexander Burgess • Anna Dakin • Anna Gray • Aoife Van Linden Tol • Cat Scott • Diego Valente • Douglas Benford and Rob Olins • Finlay Taylor • Fiona Grady • Hannah Fletcher • Jane Grisewood • Jessica Rayner • John Hooper • Julie Hill • Kasper Pincis • Kristina Pulejkova • Ky Lewis • Lauren Franklin • Leanne Bell Gonczarow • Lisa Pettibone • Louise Beer • Lucent Matter – Rose Leahy, Kim Yip Tong, Sylvana Lautier • Luke Harby • Melanie King • Molly Behagg • Natasha Sabatini • Nettie Edwards • Rebecca Huxley • Sarah Duncan • Sisetta Zappone • Susan Eyre • Susie Olczak • Thom Bridge • Victoria Doyle • William Fraser • Zanny Mellor
Thursday, 5 January 2017
Taking part in the London Creative Network Artist Development Programme at SPACE

Kristina was awarded a place on SPACE's London Creative Network artist development programme. SPACE supports visual artists to realise a project within a 6 month-period using innovative technologies or processes. The focus is on the development of new artworks that ultimately lead to the sustainability of an artist’s practice. The programme will result in an artist showcase at SPACE. For more information about the programme visit here.
Wednesday, 9 November - Friday, 11 November 2016
Switching Heads at the Feeding The Insatiable Creative Summit
Artist duo Holly Owen and Kristina Pulejkova will be giving a talk at the Feeding The Insatiable Creative Summit which will be taking place at the Dartington Hall in southwest England this November. Furthermore, the artists will be creating a third piece from their ongoing Switching Heads series.

About the Summit
Feeding the Insatiable is produced by art.earth; principal partners are Schumacher College , and Regen SW.
The summit encourages creative intervention and invention and new approaches to scientific narrative including the quirky, the impossible, the micro and the personal. It encourages debate – practical, philosophical, metaphysical, and theoretical – about how creative minds and creative spirit can be brought to bear on these issues.
For ticket booking and the complete programme please visit the summit’s website.
Saturday, 1 October 2016
Tutoring at the BFI Film Academy UK Network Programme

Kristina will be one of the tutors at the BFI Film Academy. She will be teaching Animation and VFX at the intensive course for students aged 16-19, which will take place in London this October.
Friday, 30 September 2016
Kristina Pulejkova and Glen Johnson perform audio-visual piece Epicentre at the Videokills Invisible City Synphonies

Glen and Kristina will take part at the London edition of Videokills Invisible City Symphonies Festival. This one night festival will feature video art accompanied by live music and will take place in three different venues, ending with the final performances and a DJ set at the St John on Bethnal Green. For more information on the festival as well as the Videokills events, please follow this link.
Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Shortlisted for the Artist Residency as part of TATE EXCHANGE at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, Gasworks and Pump House Gallery

Kristina’s project proposal entitled Transforming Stations was among the shortlisted projects for the TATE EXCHANGE Artist Residency. The artist residency is a part of a 3-year long programme created by Nine Elms on the Southbank in partnership with Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, Gasworks, Pump House Gallery and Tate Modern.
Tuesday, 16 August 2016
Artist talk and screening at the Virtual Futures Summer Symposium

This coming Tuesday, 16th August Kristina will be giving a talk on her latest project on the humans in the Post-Anthropocene, followed by a screening of the moving image piece entitled Photophilia. The Virtual Futures Summer Symposium will be held at The Lights Of Soho. For ticket booking and more information on the event please visit the Eventbrite link.
About Virtual Futures
Virtual Futures Salons are a series of highly immersive event experiences that encourage and promote original thinking. They bring together artists, philosophers, cultural theorists, technologists and fiction writers to re-address the potential of looking at our future through a techno-philosophical lens.
Monday, 8 August 2016
Artist profile included on the European Digital Art and Science Network website

Following Kristina’s honorary mention of her project proposal made for the first ESA and Ars Electronica Artist Residency, her artist profile was included in the networks’ artist list. For the complete artist list, please visit the network’s artist section on their website.
About the European Digital Art and Science Network
The basis of the " European Digital Art and Science Network " is a big manifold network consisting of two scientific mentoring institutions (ESA, CERN and ESO), representing Europe’s peak in scientific research, the Ars Electronica Futurelab – providing state-of-the-art technical production possibilities in a trans disciplinary discourse, and seven European cultural partners (Center for the promotion of science, RS – DIG Gallery, SK – Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation, ES – Kapelica Gallery / Kersnikova, SI – GV Art, UK – Laboral, ES – Science Gallery, IE) representing strong and various European cultural- and artistic positions.
Monday, 1 August 2016
European Space Agency ESA and Ars Electronica Residency Honorary mention

Infrared photo of the NGC 2174. Credit: NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Kristina’s project proposal entitled We could be Martians was singled out for recognition with honorary mention at the first joint artist residency between the European Space Residency and Ars Electronica. For more information about the residency and the organizations, please follow the link to Ars Electronica’s press release.
Monday, 11 July 2016
Kristina’s research presentation awarded with the best Research Workshop Presentation Prize

Atomic Memory and the Future Human is awarded the best Research Workshop Presentation Prize at this year’s EVA (Electronic Visualizations in the Arts) Conference. For more information on the winners and the conference, please visit the EVA website. EVA website .
The research paper is part of the conference’s publication which has also been made available online. online .
Friday, 8 July 2016
Speaker at the EVA Conference (Electronic Visualizations in the Arts) London

12 July 2016 -14 July 2016
Kristina will be presenting her research on Atomic Memory and the Future Human at this year’s EVA Conference in London. The Computer Arts Society, a specialist group of the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS), organizes EVA. For more information and booking please visit the EVA website.
Thursday, 16 June 2016
Switching Heads Sound mapping the quarry at the Centre for Alternative Technology

Artist duo Holly Owen and Kristina Pulejkova will be producing their second piece in the Switching Heads series entitled Switching Heads – Sound mapping the quarry at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Wales, UK. The artists will be capturing the sites, sounds and stories at the Centre through the use of binaural sound, unintrusive sculpture and film from 24 July 24 – 1 August this year.
Wednesday, 24 May 2016
Carbon Memories, a solo exhibition by Kristina Pulejkova

27 May 2016 – 26 Jun 2016
Ni Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje presents London-based Macedonian artist Kristina Pulejkova in a first major solo exhibition in Macedonia.
Ni Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje presents London-based Macedonian artist Kristina Pulejkova in a first major solo exhibition in Macedonia. In the exhibition Carbon memories, Pulejkova examines the possibility of atomic memory and its potential to influence the future of human evolution. The displayed works aim to cast light on the central question: whether the carbon atom, which is contained in all terrestrial life forms, can contain data or memory of all its previous states?
Watch the show’s trailer here.
Thursday, 7 April 2016
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) at the Lumen Studios

This Thursday Kristina will be showing moving image piece ‘Atom C’ at group show BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) at the Lumen Studios in London. For more information please visit the
Lumen Studios website.Thursday, 21 January 2016
Tutoring at the BFI Film Academy

Kristina will be one of the tutors at the BFI Film Academy She will be teaching Animation and VFX at the weeklong intensive course for students aged 16-19, which will take place in London this February.
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
‘My Heart Has Run Out Of Breath’ record release

A record by Kristina Pulejkova and Glen Johnson entitled My Heart Has Run Out Of Breath was released by Second Language Records. The piece is the result from Pulejkova and Johnson’s ongoing collaboration on an audio-visual project that has up to date been shown at Café Otto, Hastings Cinema and the Brunel Museum Tunnel Shaft.
For more information and orders please visit the Second Language Records website.
Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Kristina will take part as one of the speakers in a webinar session organized by the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) The talk titled ‘Not Too Many Irons in the Fire – creative approaches to saving energy’ will be looking at use of creative practices in reaching wider audiences on sustainability issues. An animation commissioned by the London College of Fashion, UAL made by the artist accompanies the 2015 Green Gown Award winning project on energy saving timer swtich for an industrial iron. For joining the session online and more information on the webinar visit this link.
Sunday, 15 November 2015
Animating poetry: workshop
at the Site Gallery for 14-19 year-old, Being Human Festival of the Humanities (Sheffield)
Following the creation of the poemfilm ‘Questions Of Travel’ based on
Elisabeth Bishop’s poem of the same name,
Kristina will take part in a two-day poetry and animation workshop at Sheffield’s
Site Gallery
alongside artist and professor Charlotte Hodes, poet and professor Deryn Rees
Jones and Dr. Jonathan Ellis. For more information on the festival and booking
please visit the
Being Human
website.

Friday, 23 October 2015
Holly and Kristina’s Switching Heads – sound mapping the Arctic project will have its premiere at the Omnibus Theatre in London as a part of the Perception Festival: Voice – INTERROBANG. The event is opened by designer and climate change activist Vivienne Westwood.

Interrobang is night of comedy and thought that aims to make you question, and make you exclaim. This month, our theme is ARTCOP21- the global arts festival that coincides with the 21st UN Conference on Climate Change. For more information and ticket booking please visit the Omnibus website.
Saturday, 17 October 2015
‘Capsule’ will be a part of the screening program at the Bizarre Sound Creatures exhibition in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The exhibition focuses on sound art and will host a series of performances and workshops. For more information and a program for the show’s events, please visit the Bizarre Sound Creatures website.

Friday, 18 August 2015
‘Epicentre’ is an
audio-visual project by the artist Kristina Pulejkova and the experimental music duo
KNNT(Marko Janev, Ivan Trajchev). Comissioned by the
City Creative Network (CCN),
the performance took place at the new Nautilus
open stage in Skopje, Macedonia. ‘Epicentre’ uses sounds created from seismic data from the
city Skopje as well as imagery from the city’s post 1963 brutalist architecture in order to
propose a new geo-urban sound specific to the city.
Watch the video documentation of the performance
here.

Wednesday, 03 June 2015
Kristina’s work ‘Capsule’ was awarded the Best Young Macedonian Artist Prize at the XI Young Artists Biennial in Skopje, Macedonia. The prize is a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, funded by the Macedonian Arts Council, to be realized in 2016. For more information on the XI Young Artists Biennial, please visit the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje web page.

Friday, 29 May 2015

As a part of the CSM MA Art and Science Symposium which will run in conjunction with the MA Degree Show, Kristina and Holly will take part in a discussion panel on Art and Environment. Here, the artists will also present the making of their collaborative project ‘Switching Heads – Sound mapping the Arctic'. For booking and more information please press here.
Friday, 8 May 2015

Kristina’s moving image piece ‘Capsule’ takes part in this year’s XI Young Artists Biennial in Skopje, Macedonia. At the Multimedia Centre Mala Stanica in Skopje, the show will be open to public from 9 May – 9 June. For opening hour and more information, please visit the Mala Stanica website.
Friday, 13 March 2015

Find out about Kristina and Holly’s Arctic art expedition through their daily blog, a part of the artist duo’s ‘Switching Heads – Sound mapping the Arctic’ project. .
Tuesday 9 December 2014

Kristina will give a talk on using data sonifications in her artwork at the Creative Data Club, a monthly event that brings people from all fields to discuss the creative use of data. The Creative Data Club is created by Sound and Music, the national charity for new music. For booking and more information please press here.


Watercolour work at the Bankside Gallery
7 March 2014 - 19 March 2014

“X hang” is being shown at this year’s Contemporary Watercolour Competition organized by the Royal Watercolour Society. This prestigious competition provides professional artists with an established and internationally recognised platform on which they can exhibit their work. Prizes are awarded during the Competition with previous winners including James Faure Walker ARWS and Bridget Moore ARWS.
For more information please visit:
http://www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/exhibition.aspx?exhibitionid=70
http://www.banksidegallery.com/Default.aspx
Royal Watercolour Society | Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London SE1 9JH | 020 7928 7521| info@banksidegallery.com
Capsule | Kristina Pulejkova
Solo Show at the Brunel Museum Thames Tunnel Shaft

'Capsule' will take place in the highly befitting setting of the Thames Tunnel Shaft - a huge, cylindrical chamber 50ft underground deep beneath the Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe, London.
‘Capsule’ is an interactive installation where viewers are invited to explore the space through a time perception altering experience. Deep underground, enclosed in a cylindrical chamber, Pulejkova creates an immersive space where the Thames Tunnel Shaft is regarded as a “timeless capsule” that projects different time scales while breaking the linear narrative. Past, present and future become a chaotic flat plane where distant stories of space and time mix with personal time perception narratives of artists and scientists. This temporal polyphony is enhanced with soundscapes from the plasma oscillations from the JET fusion reactor and stellar sonifications from NASA’s Kepler Project.
Event Details:
Date : 28th March 2014
Time: 7:30pm – 10pm
Free Entry
Address: The Thames Tunnel Shaft, Brunel Museum
Railway Ave, Rotherhithe, London SE16 4LF
For more information please visit:
http://www.brunel-museum.org.uk