Alexei Shulgin was born 1963 in Moscow. He is a contemporary artist, musician, and online curator. Between 1994-95, he taught photography and contemporary art at the United Art Workshops. Began his activities on the internet in 1994, as an intersection of photography and new technologies for dissemination, with the creation of the electronic photo gallery "Hot Pictures." He founded Moscow WWWArt Centre in 1995, and thereafter started teaching seminars on the www and internet art. Alexei Shulgin belongs to a group of artists who have worked in the medium of Internet art since 1994 that initiated the net.art movement. Their goals were, among others, to close the gap between art and everyday life, to maintain independence from institutions and to invest without material interest.