Editing Alexei Shulgin (section)

==Highlights==
Particularly involved with [[software art]] and [[internet art]], he is a part of the [[readme]] culture and uses code as a form of art. In 1997, he released his first interactive work, Form Art,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Form Art - Alexei Shulgin|url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/form-art-alexei-shulgin/wwGzKzE1h3uCqQ|access-date=2022-01-20|website=Google Arts & Culture|language=en}}</ref> in which only minimum factors are programmed in the form of [[HTML]]. Navigating this site requires aimless click-throughs of blank boxes and links, which lead the viewer through 19 pages of "form art" animations. Behavioral expectations are subverted by frequently overriding default functionality of basic form elements such as radio buttons and list boxes.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Alexei Shulgin {{!}} Form Art (1997) {{!}} Artsy|url=https://www.artsy.net/artwork/alexei-shulgin-form-art|access-date=2022-01-23|website=www.artsy.net}}</ref>

Shulgin is probably most well known for his ongoing so called "386DX" performances,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-10-27|title=NET ART ANTHOLOGY: 386 DX|url=https://anthology.rhizome.org/386-dx|access-date=2022-01-20|website=NET ART ANTHOLOGY: 386 DX}}</ref> in which he manipulates an antiquated computer with [[Microsoft Windows]] version 3.1 and an [[Intel 80386|Intel 386]] processor to perform [[MIDI]] (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) renditions of popular music hits while a synthesized text-to-speech voice "sings" the lyrics. Shulgin describes his project, which he began in 1998, of electronic covers as "the world's first cyberpunk rock band."<ref name="NMA">{{cite book |title=New Media Art |last=Tribe |first=Mark |author2=Jana, Reena |year=2007 |url=https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/New+Media+Art |publisher=Taschen |location=Germany |isbn=978-3-8228-3041-3 |pages=84–85 |access-date=2008-04-30 |archive-date=2010-07-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705010735/https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/New+Media+Art |url-status=dead }}</ref> Shulgin and his software have given live performances in many different locales all over the world, from the San Diego/Mexico border, with Shulgin on one side and his computer on the other, to the streets of [[Graz]], [[Austria]], where the machine was actually given money as if it were a real person for playing the music.<ref name="NMA" /> Shulgin encourages his audience to also manipulate the early Microsoft software- with the self-release of his cover songs on an enhanced cd titled ''The Best of 386 DX'', which included the same first version of Windows that he used, followed by the release of ''Biggest Smash Hits'' on the [[Staalplaat]] label.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Biggest Smash Hits, by Alexei Shulgin/ 386 DX|url=https://staalplaatlabel.bandcamp.com/album/biggest-smash-hits|access-date=2022-01-20|website=staalplaat label|language=en}}</ref>