Eugene Gorny's Curriculum vitae
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E-mail: gorny@list.ru
Home Page: http://www.zhurnal.ru/staff/gorny/
Phone: +7 926 237 7840
Research
- September 2002 - present
Mhil/PhD Student at the Media and Communication
Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London
- Thesis topic: 'Dynamics of creativity in Russian
cyberculture'.
Professional experience
- 2002 - present
Consultant for the Fundamental Digital Library
"Russian Literature and Folklore" (feb-web.ru)
- 2000 -2002
Independent expert
- Consultant for cultural IT projects, electronic publishing
and media
- Contractual work for Soros Foundation, Carnegie Moscow
Center, IREX, Moscow Scientific Foundation, Russian Bibliographical
Society, Media Union, Scientific and Technical Centre "Informregister"
- 2000:
Editor of book section for online shop Arcadia.ru
- Conducted marketing research and negotiations with partners
- Developed the concept and structure of the section, cataloguing
principles and the products database fields
- 1999 - present
Director of the Russian Virtual Library (www.rvb.ru)
- Elaborated the concept of digital academic library
- Prepared and edited the electronic publications of works of
Russian literature with commentaries
- General supervision of the project
- 1998 - 1999
Member of advisory committee for the Open Society
Institute's Programme on electronic publishing (www.osi.ru)
- Assessment of the projects participating in the OSI contest
'Electronic publishing in the sphere of culture and humanities'
- 80 of 513 applications were supported, with a total budget of
$200,000
- 1998 - 2000
Editor of Net culture section for the Russian
Journal (Russkij Zhurnal) (www.russ.ru/netcult/)
- Elaborated the concept of the section, organized and
coordinated work of experts and journalists (more than 60 authors)
- Edited articles, columns and interviews
- Wrote and published 32 articles
- 1997 - present
Founder and coordinator of Net literature (Setevaya
slovesnost') website (www.litera.ru/slova/)
- 1996 - 1998
Co-founder and Editor-in-chief of Zhurnal.ru (www.zhurnal.ru)
- Consolidated Russian net community in the framework of the
first Russian project devoted to the human side of the Internet
- Published seven issues of the magazine, five of them also in
print
- About twenty innovative online projects were created
- 1994-96:
Reporter, and then editor for
Den' za Dnem weekly newspaper (Tallinn, Estonia)
- Published about 200 articles on issues relating to society,
culture, religion, and the Internet
- 1991-92:
Deputy editor of Alma Mater newspaper (Tartu,
Estonia)
Teaching Experience
- 2001
Guest lecturer at Lotman-Institute, University of Bohum, Germany
- Lectures and seminars on the history and current issues of the Russian Internet
- 2000
Guest lecturer at State University Higher School
of Economics (Moscow)
- Lectures in Internet studies
- 1994
Lecturer in semiotics at University of Tartu
(Estonia)
- Taught two courses in English: Semiotics of Persuasion
and Interpretation and Understanding of Cultural Phenomena
- Conducted seminars on the philosophy of language, hermeneutics,
connotative semiotics, propaganda, advertising, methods of persuasion,
and meditation as an antithesis to manipulation
- 1992-94
Teacher of mythology and creative thinking in a
private Russian gymnasium (Tartu, Estonia)
- Developed and applied an original method of teaching children
of pre-school and primary school age, based on the simulation of
phylogenetic human development
Academic Background
- 2004
The Leadership for Social Justice Institute (Chiang Mai, Thailand). Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program (IFP).
- Certificate of completion.
- 1993
Central European University (Prague, Czech
Republic), department of history of art. One-trimester programme in the
history and philosophy of art and architecture in Central Europe.
- 1985-91:
University of Tartu (Estonia), department of
Russian language and literature
- Dissertation, "The Formation of A.M. Remizov's Artistic World:
1990-1909" (under Prof. Zara Mintz), graded "excellent"
- Diploma (B.A./M.A.)
- Qualification: Russian philologist, librarian and bibliographer
- 1981-85
State University of Novosibirsk (USSR), Department
of Humanities
Grants, Scholarships and Awards (selected)
- 2004
- Life achievement award in 1000$ Page Contest
- Recognized by a vote of the members of the International Union of Internet Professionals (EZhE) as one of the Magnificent 20 who made a significant contribution to the development of the Russian Internet
- 2002 - present
- Ford Foundation International Fellowship
- 2001
- A grant for participation in Open World Program awarded by
Open World Leadership Center / Library of Congress
- First award in Virtual personality nomination in Teneta online Russian literary contest
- 1999
- Listed in Top 25 leaders of the Russian Internet by Internet Magazine
- 1998
- First place for the best art project in the Da-da-net contest awarded by Open Society Institute
- Special award "For developing Russian Internet content" in the Golden site contest
- 1993
- Cultural Initiative Foundation scholarship
Publications (selected)
- Russian LiveJournal: National specifics in the development of a virtual community. Version 1.0 of 13 May 2004. (On Russian Cyberspace Project web site)
- Dynamics of
creativity in Russian cyberculture. A presentation at the
Oxford Internet Institute, 7.8.2003. (Online only)
- The virtual self: Self-presentation and
self-knowledge on the Internet (A working draft). May, 2003.
(Online only)
- Necrophilia as a structure of consciousness, in Mitin zhurnal,
#61, 2003 and Setevaya
slovesnost', 05.06.2003. (in Russian)
- Current Music. (with Roman
Leibov,
English translation by Robert Greenall, first published in Russian in Russkij
Zhurnal,, 30.01.2003)
- Developing digital libraries: the
worldwide and Russian experience, problems, perspectives, in The
Internet and Russian society, Moscow: Carnegie Moscow Center,
2002, pp. 158-188. (with K.V. Vigursky, in Russian)
- Alles
"umsonst" - die russische Internet-Literatur in der Krise? // Berliner
Zimmer, 29.06.2002. (an interview with Henrike Schmidt, in German;
Russian version was
published in Russian Journal, 25.04.2002)
- Talks by the light of
the
Black Moon: on the world governance, mahatmas and existence, in Russkij
Zhurnal, 08.02.2002 and 15.02.2002. (with Oleg Postnov, in
Russian)
- History of information in
brief, in Russkij Zhurnal, 30.08.2001. (in Russian)
- Symbolic situations, in Russkij
Zhurnal, 31.07.2001. (in Russian)
- The smile and its author: A
commentary to "The Words of Others", in Russkij Zhurnal,
16.02.2001. (in Russian)
- Digital person and his rights,
in SMI.ru, 03.02.2001. (in Russian)
- Digital divide: facts
and
mythology, in Grani.ru, 15.01.2001 (in Russian)
- The Internet and philology ,
in Russkij Zhurnal, 01.12.2000. (in Russian)
- A chronicle of the Russian
Internet:
1990 - 1999, version 3.0 (in Russian). First published in The
Internet in Russia: On the Eve of Great Changes. Moscow: IREX,
2000. Also published in German translation: Chronik
des russischen Internet: 1990-1999: Zusammengestellt von Jewgeni
Gorny, Uebersetzt von Henrike Schmidt.
- The Internet and
cyberculture
in Russia: A reader. (Compiler, editor and author of the
introduction; online only, 2000, in Russian)
- Eugene Gorny: The (re)construction of a
virtual personality, online only, 17.04.2000. (in Russian)
- Semiotics of virtuality, in Itogi,
14.04.2000. (in Russian)
- Copyright issue on the Russian net:
the battle for "Blue Lard" // Internet Magazine, #17, March 2000.
(in Russian)
- Comments on Roman:
Everything that you wanted to know about Roman Leibov but were afraid
to ask, in Russkij Zhurnal, 09.02.2000. (in Russian)
- Amphiblestronic fragments, in "Data-trash@Trash-art",
the catalogue of the festivals "Da-da-net" and "Trash-art", Moscow,
1999. ( Russian version
published in Russkij Zhurnal, 30.12.1999)
- The Internet
for
journalists, in Russkij Zhurnal, 27.05.1999. (in Rusian)
- On guestbooks,
in Internet Magazine, #15, May 1999. (in Russian)
- Elite.ru: Who rulez? in Internet
Magazine, #13, March 1999. (in Russian)
- Infocracy, or the End of alienated labour in Contemporary
Art on the Net, 26.03.1999. (with A. Sherman, in Russian)
- Net
culture and power, in Russkij Zhurnal, 02.04.1998. (in
Russian)
- Comments on net sex, online only
(first
published in Russian in Zhurnal.ru,
#3, December 1996).
- What is semiotics? in Creator
Magazine #3, London 1995.
- The negative world of Yuri Mamleyev, Creator
Magazine #1, London 1994.
- Bloody Man: The Ritual Art of
Hermann
Nitsch, online only, 1994. (Russian
version published in Khudozhestvennyj zhurnal, #3, Moscow
1994)
- "The Anatomist" and "Monkeys as Critics" by
Gabriel von Max, online only, 1994.
Research interests
Theory and history of cyberculture, creativity theories, philosophy
and sociology of change.
Hobbies