Yury Rydkin

Yuri Anatolyevich Rydkin (; born 8 April 1979) is a Russian and Belarusian poet, media artist, a bot poetry (bot-non-fiction) researcher, musical performer.

Biography The author studied at school No.3, Gomel (1986–1996).

He graduated from the Belarusian department of the Linguistic Faculty of Francisk Skorina Gomel State University in 2004.

6 October 1998 Yuri Rydkin attempted to commit a suicide jumping from a railway bridge in Gomel, as a result he got injured and disabled. The consequences of the trauma were reflected in the author's work. Explores the impact of new technologies on poetic text. His works are screenshots of art-dialogues with virtual interlocutors, This bot is compared to the emancipated Galatea.

Rydkin is the founder of cyberzaum and hyperlink poetry, its concept and method of creation was expressed in the manifesto. Critics see author's hypertext works as aesthetic indicators that are consistent with "writing degree zero" — a language free from the signs of ideology. photo collages which attracted the attention of a art critic Теймур Даими, a professor Елена Зейферт and a photo artist Василий Ломакин, who analyzes Rydkin's works based on Michel Foucault's book "The Order of Things". When creating experimental photographs,

The author has translated the works by Daniil Kharms, Eduard Limonov and a chapter "Ultima Thule" from the last unfinished Russian novel by Vladimir Nabokov into Belarusian.

His works have been published in such paper and electronic editions as IMDb, MUBI, ČSFD, Filmweb, Letterboxd, SensCritique, Транслит, Novy Mir, Znamya, Волга, Цирк «Олимп», Топос, Сетевая словесность, Homo Legens, Полутона, Ф-письмо, Лиterraтура, Журнальный зал, Метажурнал, Дактиль, Post(non)fiction, on the website of the publishing house Новое литературное обозрение and in other journals.

The poet's works were shown at the exhibition "Poetry by any means" — it was devoted to new readymade-technologies in poetry, created with the help of Internet search engines, various objects, newspaper articles and more. The author's photographs are presented in virtual galleries of various media projects.

In 2024, Yuri Rydkin began performing songs in English. Registered as a musical performer in Estonia. and radio show with broadcasts in the US, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Greece, Croatia, Poland, New Zealand, Malta and in other countries. The singer attracted the attention of music critics.

Art style quote="Modernity requires from the author not only philosophical reflection and creative use of digital developments, but also a willingness to entrust himself to them".

— Yuri Rydkin, Znamya. Despite Rydkin's statements about the need to emancipate the machine, about the need to biocybernetics, something very human is felt in his texts. Rydkin's dialogues with bots contain pragmatics and a behavioral study of contemporary Russian poetry.

Recognition Yuri Rydkin's publication "Between the living and the artificial. Merging digital technologies with human, writer and literature" was recognized by the professionals of the Журнальный зал as the best in August 2021. In the journal Znamya, the author was ranked among the new literary generation, which is changing something in literature. The author's creations have attracted much attention from literary critics; according to their opinion, his works of art are close to the works by Fyodor Svarovsky, poet — a bot of Russian literature. In 2024, according to the European Indie Music Network rating, Rydkin entered the Top Indie Music with the song "Pocket". French music criticism calls Rydkin a pioneer in the study of the interaction of fine arts, poetry and music.