【Online Artist Talk】
Surfing | On the Internet Everybody Knows You had a Dog
Date | Thursday, Jan 22, 2026 · 20:00–21:30 PM (UTC+8)
Venue | Online

Speaker | Olia LIALINA
Panelist | Dragan ESPENSCHIED
Moderator | Emily Hsiang-Yun HUANG
90min + Q&A"


Registration｜Please register on the Vanishing Acts exhibition page.
*​​​All the events will be conducted in English and Mandarin.

Introduction
Artists Olia LIALINA and Dragan ESPENSCHIED will connect live to surf together On the Internet Everybody Knows You had a Dog (2025). Through this commented tour, they’ll discuss their overlapping creative practices, research methodologies, and how the work reflects their mutual investigations into digital folklore, resistance to platformized amnesia, and the paradoxes of surveillance as both spectacle and erasure in an already unstable medium such as the Internet.

Speaker | Olia LIALINA
Born in Moscow. Net Artist, one of net.art pioneers, animated GIF model.
Co-founder of GeoCities Research Institute and keeper of One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Archive. Writes on New Media, Digital Folklore, Vernacular Web and Human Computer Interaction. Professor for new media and art and design online at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart.
https://art.teleportacia.org/

Panelist | Dragan ESPENSCHIED
Dragan Espenschied is Preservation Director at Rhizome, stewarding ArtBase, a collection of more than 2200 pieces of digital art and net art. With a background in net activism, net art, and electronic music, Espenschied’s work as a conservator is mostly focused on infrastructure and field-wide action concerning web archiving, emulation, and linked open data, rather than singular artworks.

Moderator | Emily Hsiang-Yun HUANG
Hsiang-Yun Huang is a researcher and visual artist from Taiwan. Her research interests focus on the relationship between body and technology from the perspective of postcolonialism, cyberfeminism, digital materialism and critical AI. Projects she has curated include Net.Open public program and www.counterarchive.commons at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, IMPAKT Festival-Our Terms, Our Conditions, Taipei Digital Art Festival-Fake It Real, and Embodied Interface. Her dance films often derived from her poetry on the vulnerability of (non-)human existence, with a focus on collective mourning and digital intimacy. She is supported by the Mondriaan Artist Start Grant(NL) and National Culture and Arts Foundation(TW). Her works have been exhibited at the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Cinedance Festival at Eye Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Ars Electronica, Kikk Festival, and panke.gallery.

｜Other Notes｜The online link will be emailed to registrants on Jan.19.