Anton Lapov
Anton Lapov is a Ukrainian media artist, musician, and curator from Donbas based in Vienna. Working across sound, performance, installation, and archival practice, he uses algorithmic and computational processes to shape collective listening situations. Emerging from self-organised electronic music and media art scenes in Eastern Ukraine, his work draws on club culture, displacement, and fractured archives shaped by war. He develops participatory sound environments, movement-based systems, and dataset-driven DJ tools, and is involved in long-term artist-run and archival initiatives linked to Donbas cultural scenes, including BOCTOK and Luhansk Contemporary Diaspora.
I create sound-based installations, performances, participatory formats, and curatorial platforms that explore how collective experience is shaped through media, space, and social conditions. My work uses sound, archives, sensing, transmission, and spatial design as material, often focusing on how people gather, listen, move, and relate to one another in public or semi-public situations.
Across these projects, I treat media systems not as neutral tools but as structures that shape circulation, attention, and access. Movement tracking, dataset-based navigation, broadcast formats, and curatorial framing become ways of organising how material is encountered and how collective situations hold, shift, or break apart.
Whether working through installation, club formats, archival infrastructures, or radio-based projects, I return to a shared set of questions: how technical and social infrastructures configure experience, how memory and cultural material circulate under unstable conditions, and how artistic formats can produce new form of non-representational embodied knowledge without reducing such practice to spectacle.
“(...) I treat media systems not as neutral tools but as structures that shape circulation, attention, and access.”
