Aristarkh was born in 1968, Lugansk, Ukraine. One of the pioneers of media art in Russia. He began his artistic career in 1991, immediately after graduating from Bauman Moscow State Technical University as a mechanical engineer, designer of satellite systems.


From 1991 till 1994 was a member of Art Community on the Petrovsky Boulevard 12, during this period he organized a number of exhibitions and the first public-art project "The Art belongs to the people" on city billboards in the newly-emerging advertising industry.

Between 1994 and 2004 he created a series of multimedia and interactive installations with Vladislav Yefimov, the most prominent of which were included in the SCCI Moscow collection ("Genetic Gymnastics") and in the MMOMA Moscow collection ("Bubbles, Commutation").

In 2005 together with Alexey Shulgin (a net-art pioneer) he organized the gallery-workshop Electro Butik at Artstrilka. Vivid media-art works were created as part of Electraboutique and exhibited at London's Museum of Science, the Trongheim Contemporary Art Center, Oslo's Telemuseum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Aarhus, at numerous festivals, among them Transmediale, Archstoyanie. Aristarkh takes part in the 4th Moscow Biennale curated by Peter Weibel, Asian Art Biennale Meditation 2011, 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, winner of the Kandinsky Prize 2009.

The works created in the period from 2005 to 2018 entered various museum and private collections, including the Tretyakov Gallery, MAMM, MMCI, Museum of Moscow, the private collection of the Stella Foundation, the private collection of the Catherine Foundation, the private collection of Doronin (Capital Group), Natalia Opaleva private collection, Michael Jerlis private collection, the private collection of the Ural Vision Gallery.

From 2011-2021 taught media art at Rodchenko School. Rodchenko.

In 2014, together with Alexey Shulgin, organized the Electromuseum.

From 2014 to 2021, he curated projects at Electromuseum.

He creates media-sculptures, interactive objects, mixed media objects combining 3D printing and other technologies, video and conceptual projects in the field of ski-fi and speculative art. The subject of his work is information in a broad sense, in his projects he comprehends and deconstructs information flows, creates concepts of gadgets and new services related to the development of social networks, genetic engineering and other technologies. A separate theme is the aesthetic consideration of overconsumption in modern society.