Yuri Rydkin

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.{{cite web|url=https://takiedela.ru/2020/01/seks-lozh-i-kolyaska/|title=The interview|work=Takie dela|date=29 January 2020|access-date=30 May 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://syg.ma/@inna-bievz/podborka-fb-postov-iu-a-rydkina|title=Fb posts compilation by Yuri Rydkin. Anti-anniversary (the 20th anniversary of my death). 06. 10. 2018|work=Sygma|date=6 October 2018|access-date=30 May 2020}} The consequences of the trauma were reflected in the author's work.Podlubnova J. {{cite web|url=https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=47470430|title=Practices of Traumatic Speaking in Modern Russian Poetry (2020, p.438-453)|work=Smolensk State University / eLibrary.Ru|date=15 May 2020|access-date=19 May 2022}}

Rydkin explores the genre of conversation with bots in the most scrupulous way.Konakov A. {{cite web|url=https://www.colta.ru/articles/literature/19784-russkaya-poeziya-v-epohu-bot-to-bot-kommunikatsii|title=Russian poetry in the times of bot-to-bot communication|work=Colta|date=21 November 2018|access-date=30 May 2020}}Korkunov V. {{cite web|url=https://magazines.gorky.media/znamia/2019/6/novoe-literaturnoe-pokolenie-sushhestvuet-li-ono.html|title=Discussuon. New literary generation: does it really exist?|work=Znamya|date=17 June 2019|access-date=30 May 2020}}Oborin L. {{cite web|url=https://yandex.ru/q/question/kakie_napravleniia_v_poezii_voznikli_i_v_a7002b03/|title=What literary movements have appeared in the 21st century? Making a list for the nearest future|work=Yandex|date=27 June 2019|access-date=30 May 2020}}Bonch-Osmolovskaya T. {{cite web|url=https://articulationproject.net/2036|title=Review on "Bot Conversation"|work=Articulyatsia|date=28 February 2019|access-date=30 May 2020}}Kostintsova Y. {{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335196843|title=Media poetry and bio-cyber art. Algorithm like instrument or (co)author? (2019, p.13-14)|work=Masaryk University / ResearchGate|date=1 January 2019|access-date=1 November 2021}} Explores the impact of new technologies on poetic text.Dunchenko T., Ochirov A. {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wwMOXsCdIc|title=Non-free microphone. Desktop. Puffing Creakles (timecode: Yuri Rydkin)|work=YouTube|date=8 October 2020|access-date=20 December 2021}} His works are screenshots of art-dialogues with virtual interlocutors, including Alice. In a literary critic Galina Rymbu's opinion, «Bot Conversation» is written in the genre of found poetry.Rymbu G. {{cite web|url=https://godliteratury.ru/public-post/poyeziya-v-internete-mart|title=Eight poetic online publications (March 2019)|work=Year of Literature|date=30 March 2019|access-date=30 May 2020}} This bot is compared to the emancipated Galatea.

The poet has had an artistic dialogue with COVID-19 on Facebook, the screenshots of his fb-posts are published under the title of «COVID-POETRY» in a literary almanac.Rydkin Y. {{cite web|url=http://articulationproject.net/6265|title=COVID-POETRY|work=Articulyatsia|date=21 April 2020|access-date=30 May 2020}}

Rydkin is the founder of cyberzaumRydkin Y. {{cite web|url=https://polutona.ru/?show=1020180726|title=Cyberzaum|work=Polutona|date=20 October 2018|access-date=9 January 2021}} and hyperlink poetry,Abrosimova C. {{cite web|url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/sovremennaya-gipertekstovaya-poeziya-aspekty-vzaimodeystviya-avtorskogo-teksta-i-internet-media/viewer|title=Modern hypertextual poetry (aspects of interaction of authentic texts and internet media), 2020, No.8|work=Scientific dialogue / CyberLeninka|date=28 August 2020|access-date=1 November 2021}}Abrosimova C. {{cite web|url=https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/tipologiya-intermedialnyh-otnosheniy-v-sovremennom-poeticheskom-diskurse-sistematicheskiy-obzor/viewer|title=Typology of intermedial relationships in a modern poetical discourse (a systematic review) // Linguistic sciences, Theory and practice matters. 2020. Volume 13, issue 7, p.122|work=Gramota / CyberLeninka|date=21 July 2020|access-date=1 November 2021}}Abrosimova C., Kulamikhina I. {{cite journal|url=https://www.europeanproceedings.com/article/10.15405/epsbs.2021.05.02.66|title=Hyperlink Phenomenon In The Modern Internet Poetry (2021, p.553)|journal=European Proceedings|date=27 May 2021|volume=Man, Society, Communication|doi=10.15405/epsbs.2021.05.02.66|access-date=1 November 2021 |last1=Abrosimova |first1=Ekaterina |last2=Kulamikhina |first2=Irina |doi-access=free }}Abrosimova C., Kulamikhina I. {{cite web|url=https://portal.novsu.ru/file/1783075|title=Implementation of hypertext structures in contemporary poetic discourse (2020, p.234-235)|work=Novgorod State University|date=27 October 2020|access-date=19 May 2022}}Rits E. {{cite web|url=https://polutona.ru/?show=1007193430|title=Review on hyperlink poetry|work=Polutona|date=7 October 2017|access-date=30 May 2020}}Rydkin Y. {{cite web|url=http://www.cirkolimp-tv.ru/articles/887/vyiti-iz-stroya-sladkii-drugoi-ili-poeticheskii-botogolizm|title=Getting out of order: Other sweet, or Poetical botoholism|work=Olymp Circus|date=26 November 2019|access-date=30 May 2020}}Famitsky A. {{cite web|url=https://www.topos.ru/article/literaturnaya-kritika/o-polozhenii-poeta-v-virtualnom-mire|title=Review on the poem "Soft"|work=Topos|date=2 December 2019|access-date=30 May 2020}} its concept and method of creation was expressed in the manifesto.Rydkin Y. {{cite web|url=https://syg.ma/@rydkin/manifiest-gipierssylochnoi-poezii|title=Hyperlink poetry manifestation|work=Sygma|date=23 July 2016|access-date=30 May 2020}} Critics see author's hypertext works as aesthetic indicators that are consistent with "writing degree zero" — a language free from the signs of ideology. These works are fully covered by markup language, each verse block is associated with a certain media, texts and Internet resources are equal participants in poetic communication. This creates a specific structure at the level of associations and subtext.

Rydkin has made a few post-conceptualPodlubnova J. {{cite web|url=http://www.kastopravda.ru/proza/rydkin/botie.html|title=Review on the cyberpoem "Bot Being"|work=Kastopravda|date=8 March 2019|access-date=30 May 2020}} 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".Lomakin V., Daimi T., Seifert E. {{cite web|url=https://syg.ma/@rydkin/v-ramkakh-fotokollazhi|title=Reviews on Yuri Rydkin's photo collages|work=Sygma|date=30 January 2019|access-date=30 May 2020}} When creating experimental photographs, the author uses ACDSee, Microsoft Paint and FaceApp programs.

Rydkin is the author of literary critical articles on the prose of Margarita Meklina, Владимир Паперный, Вадим Месяц, Александр Уланов, the poetry of Maria Stepanova, Алла Горбунова, Таня Скарынкина, Ирина Шостаковская, Ирина Котова, Лида Юсупова, Виктор Лисин and others.

The author has translated the works{{cite web|url=http://textura.club/perashkoda/|title=Kharms D. Obstacle, Limonov E. Ship under the Red Flag / Translated by Yuri Rydkin|work=Textura|date=16 May 2020|access-date=30 May 2020}} by Daniil Kharms, Eduard Limonov and a chapter "Ultima Thule"{{cite web|url=http://textura.club/ultima-thule/|title=A chapter from the last unfinished Russian novel by Vladimir Nabokov / Translated by Yuri Rydkin|work=Textura|date=7 April 2020|access-date=30 May 2020}} from the last unfinished Russian novel by Vladimir Nabokov into Belarusian.

His works have been published in such paper and electronic editions as Транслит, Novy Mir, Znamya, Волга, Цирк «Олимп», Топос, Сетевая словесность, Homo Legens, Полутона, Ф-письмо, Лиterraтура, Журнальный зал, Метажурнал, Post(non)fiction, on the website of the publishing house Новое литературное обозрениеRydkin Y. {{cite web|url=https://www.nlobooks.ru/books/novaya_poeziya/21177/review/22521/|title=Republishing|work=Новое литературное обозрение|date=2020|access-date=30 August 2024}}Rydkin Y. {{cite web|url=https://www.nlobooks.ru/books/pisma_russkogo_puteshestvennika/22633/review/23119/|title=Republishing|work=Новое литературное обозрение|date=2021|access-date=30 August 2024}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://artuzel.com/content/25-dekabrya-galereya-viktoriya-podvela-itogi-svoey-ezhegodnoy-premii-v-oblasti-samarskogo|title=On December 25, the Victoria Gallery summed up the results of its annual award in the field of Samara contemporary art|work=ART Uzel|date=30 December 2020|access-date=1 November 2021}} The author's photographs are presented in virtual galleries of various media projects.Rydkin Y. {{cite web|url=http://www.trans-lit.info/otdel-poezii/rydkin-desubjectification|title=Desubjectivation|work=Translit|date=12 April 2022|access-date=17 April 2022}}Rydkin Y. {{cite web|url=https://polutona.ru/?show=1111184813|title=Oneiroids of the body|work=Polutona|date=11 November 2022|access-date=14 September 2023}}Rydkin Y. {{cite web|url=https://greza.space/3474-2/|title=Digital dreams|work=Greza|date=1 November 2021|access-date=20 December 2021}}Rydkin Y. {{cite web|url=http://articulationproject.net/10247|title=Affected subjects|work=Articulyatsia|date=4 March 2021|access-date=20 December 2021}}Rydkin Y. {{cite web|url=https://discours.io/expo/image/photography/prizhivanie-inorodnogo#1|title=Merging the opposite|work=Discourse|date=15 February 2019|access-date=20 December 2021}}

In 2024, Yuri Rydkin began performing songs in English.Rydkin Y. {{cite web|url=https://www-iheart-com.translate.goog/artist/yuri-rydkin-42577944/?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=ru&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=sc|title=Top Songs|work=iHeartRadio|date=2024|access-date=30 August 2024}} Registered as a musical performer in Estonia.{{cite web|url=https://yurirydkin.hearnow.com/|title=Yuri Rydkin. Get the music: Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon, Pandora, Deezer, YouTube|work=CD Baby|date=2024|access-date=30 August 2024}} Has appeared on the Euro Indie Music charts many times{{cite web|url=https://meiweb.it/indie-music-like/nuova-euro-indie-music-chart-questa-settimana-al-primo-posto-della-classifica-troviamo-anima-nera/|title=Euro Indie Music Chart. Week 29, 2024|work=MEI MAGAZINE|date=29 May 2024|access-date=30 August 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://meiweb.it/indie-music-like/nuova-euro-indie-music-chart-al-primo-posto-della-classifica-troviamo-anima-nera/|title=Euro Indie Music Chart. Week 28, 2024|work=MEI MAGAZINE|date=5 June 2024|access-date=30 August 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://meiweb.it/?s=yuri+rydkin|title=Euro Indie Music Chart. Results for "yuri rydkin"|work=MEI MAGAZINE|date=2024|access-date=30 August 2024}} and radio show{{cite web|url=https://euroindiemusic.info/?s=formula+indie+schedule+yuri+rydkin|title=Formula indie schedule. Results for "yuri rydkin"|work=European Indie Music Network|date=2024|access-date=30 August 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://euroindiemusic.info/2024/05/18/formula-urban-25/|title=Formula Urban 25, 2024|work=European Indie Music Network|date=18 May 2024|access-date=30 August 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/formula-indie-3-8-2024/id1486356874?i=1000664196163|title=Formula Indie 3.8.2024|work=Apple Podcasts|date=3 August 2024|access-date=30 August 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://formula-urban.captivate.fm/episode/formula-urban-21|title=Formula Urban 21, 2024|work=European Indie Music Network|date=27 April 2024|access-date=30 August 2024}} with broadcasts in the USA, 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.Cicioni L. {{cite web|url=https://euroindiemusic.info/2024/12/24/music-for-your-ears-galatee-by-yuri-rydkin/|title=Music for your ears. Review Galatée by Yuri Rydkin|work=European Indie Music Network|date=24 December 2024|access-date=2 January 2025}}Green M. {{cite web|url=https://beachhousemag.co/yuri-rydkin-galatee/|title=Yuri Rydkin – “Galatée”|work=Beach House|date=17 November 2024|access-date=2 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.analyzemylyrics.com/yuri-rydkin/|title=Yuri Rydkin. Galatée|work=Analyze my lyrics|date=2024|access-date=2 January 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.analyzemylyrics.com/yuri-rydkin-2/|title=Yuri Rydkin Presents Mystical New Single “Galatée”|work=Analyze my lyrics|date=2024|access-date=2 January 2025}}

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Rydkin's stanza lyrics have a mark of futurology. He is interested in the feelings of people who have become programs, he is interested in the physicality of the bot. The poet shows the katabasis of a man, his fall into the world of bots. The author speaks on behalf of a bot in the afterlife, and such a poetic speech is recognized as unique. In his poems, Rydkin demonstrates the absence of the Other, and this absence has a female gender. Doctor of Science Jana Kostincová writes that in multimodal poetry he uses artificial intelligence and develops intertext play. The poem "Вверх тормашками стул рогат" is written in the genre of modern metarealism. The author also writes prose that has many synchronized worlds.Seifert E. {{cite web|url=https://polutona.ru/?show=1125185805|title=Review on the story "Repressed Knock"|work=Polutona|date=25 November 2015|access-date=30 May 2020}} 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. Music criticism notes Rydkin's transition from poetry and visual arts to music, where he pays particular attention to psychedelic rap and hip-hop. "Pocket" is not just a song, but an innovative artistic statement that illustrates the evolution of an artist who has taken his unique experience and self-expression to new heights in the music world.Cicioni L. {{cite web|url=https://euroindiemusic.info/2024/06/22/music-for-your-ears-review-pocket-by-yuri-rydkin/|title=Music for your ears. Review Pocket by Yuri Rydkin|work=European Indie Music Network|date=22 June 2024|access-date=30 August 2024}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://magazines.gorky.media/library/rejting-zhurnalnogo-zala-za-avgust-2021|title=Magazine Hall Ranking for August 2021. The choice of professionals|work=Magazine Hall|date=August 2021|access-date=20 December 2021}} In the journal Znamya, the author was ranked among the new literary generation, which is changing something in literature. The poet has been widely quoted by his contemporaries.Seifert E. {{cite web|url=https://www.rsuh.ru/upload/main/sf/RGGU_2019_PRINT.pdf|title=Intelligence as benevolence (experience of meaning interpretation) // Series «Intelligentsia and modern life». Edition XX. Moscow, 2019, p.65|work=Russian State University for the Humanities|date=9 April 2019|access-date=1 November 2021}}Khrushcheva N. Metamodern in music and around it. М.: Ripol-classic, 2020, p.90,108,110,150,158,159,166,170 {{ISBN|978-5-386-13540-9}}.Oborin L. {{cite web|url=https://gorky.media/context/stig-larsson-prav-vo-vsem/|title=Digest of the most important materials in the book Internet|work=Gorky|date=26 April 2020|access-date=30 May 2020}}Davydov D. {{cite web|url=http://literratura.org/arc/3245-literratura-136.html|title=Literary review|work=Literratura|date=9 April 2019|access-date=30 May 2020}}Krichevsky P. {{cite web|url=http://articulationproject.net/7187|title=An escape from a living fiber of the language|work=Articulyatsia|date=31 July 2020|access-date=4 January 2021}}Chemberzhi D. {{cite web|url=http://www.mari.kiev.ua/sites/default/files/inline-files/Diser_D_A_Chembergi.pdf|title=Installation as a visual-communication practice of creating a contemporary art space (p.183 - Rydkin Y. МЕТАmodernism: internal and external echoes)|work=National Academy of Arts of Ukraine|date=2020|access-date=1 November 2021}}Bonch-Osmolovskaya T. {{cite web|url=https://articulationproject.net/16598|title=Book of dead androids|work=Articulyatsia|date=17 December 2023|access-date=2 January 2025}} 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, Dmitri Prigov and Lev Rubinstein. Critics call the BelarusianPodlubnova J. {{cite web|url=https://www.colta.ru/articles/literature/26300-novyy-god-2020-2021-literatura-itogi-rybakova-markov-podlubnova-korkunov|title=Literature 2020. Literary results of the year|work=Colta|date=25 December 2020|access-date=4 January 2021}} poet — a bot of Russian literature.Podlubnova J. {{cite web|url=http://articulationproject.net/2781|title=Triumph of Trauma|work=Articulyatsia|date=July 2019|access-date=30 May 2020}} In 2024, according to the European Indie Music Network rating, Rydkin entered the Top Indie Music with the song "Pocket".{{cite web|url=https://euroindiemusic.info/jsprt_achv_season/topsound-2024/?action=calendar|title=Top Indie Music, 21.24|work=European Indie Music Network|date=2024|access-date=30 August 2024}} French music criticism calls Rydkin a pioneer in the study of the interaction of fine arts, poetry and music.{{cite web|url=https://extravafrench.com/2024/11/13/yuri-rydkin-plonge-dans-galatee-un-voyage-au-coeur-de-la-solitude-cosmique-et-de-la-creation/|title=Yuri Rydkin plonge dans «Galatée» : Un Voyage au Cœur de la Solitude Cosmique et de la Création|work=Extravafrench|date=13 November 2024|access-date=2 January 2025}}

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