Blogs on Michail Rybakov

I was bored by too perfect modern lenses, and decided to build one with a strong character.

My playful gradient.horse project went viral - but exploded in different online communities at different moments.

So many apps, life coaches and philosophers to save us from mindless browsing, but I see mindless browsing as unavoidable.

Since gradient.horse went online in January 2026, six months have passed, and more than 700 000 horses (and non-horses) were drawn.

I’ve started designing custom film cameras, and needed tools to understand what kind of tolerances and imperfections can I get away with when guessing focusing distances.

I really hate it when I’m exposed to some horrible news online, and feel powerless.

This image is taken with a (60 year old) Bronica C medium format camera, with a (120 year old) Petzval-type lens.

Sometimes I get tired of the usual composition, of the trained way of seeing.

These things became annoyingly good at generating visually rich images.

Where do people go, when the whole world seems foreign?

As part of the Critical Zones exhibition in ZKM Karlsruhe, Hanna Jurisch and I offered workshops to experience the Critical Zone in a more direct way.

2007, St.Petersburg, Russia.

Mio asked a few artists and designers to write exercises and interventions that they do when feeling lonely or lost.

ZKM, the german media art museum, published my research on Strategies of Arrival, done under guidance of Bruno Latour.

But also, [redacted], look at this guy.

I used neural networks to recognize and remove human bodies from videos, simultaneously trying to fill the void they left.

Squint your eyes!

I was doing some research for an upcoming exhibition and looked into the question of tone in scientific communication, specifically the stylistic influence of visual representations of knowledge.

Looking for ways to visualize machine learning processes.

Exposition is the process of arriving in a movie, arriving at the characters’ vantage point, arriving in their space.

Nobody actually wants to use a web browser.

The concept of a global village stems from an idealistic view of a shrinking world, connected through electronic media.

There is a long history of movement notations.

at Bless Home Berlin.

Diseases have always been fashionable.

In the winter of 2013 I went to Guinea with a few friends.

Costa Compagnie was preparing the Empire of Oil 360° movie to show at Ballhaus Ost in Berlin.

Mira Hirtz has a good write-up on how abstractions and representations of things become the things they meant to represent.

It is always great fun to try and find patterns in vast amounts of data.

My nephew’s laptop is so old, he can’t play fifa.

I had a simple dream.

What do we see here?

Christoph, teaching guinean kids the pronounciation of shandwish.

Spam emails try to get through filters by having slightly different content, such as writing “incredible” and “fantastic” interchangeably.

In a reddit thread on health inspection violations someone offered a story about a run away cow licking bread in a recreation of a 18th century french bakery.

There is something magical in such videos - since you are basically making something from nothing.

Irgendwo haben sie 100 Zenit-Bälle gefunden.

In Guinea laufen Hühner überall rum, sie sind schmal und schmächtig, leicht und knochig wie Rennradfahrer.

Ходил я по дворам; дворы дрожали.