Taras Mashtalir in his multimedia works, using the latest techniques and various electronic and computer systems, seeks to form a harmonious sound aesthetics involving the audience into interaction.
His interactive multimedia installations were exhibited at numerous international festivals, such as LUMEN EX, ISEA, ZEBRA, Brooklyn International Film Festival, FIFI, Moscow Book Festival, ELO, E-Poetry, Interrupt II, Oslo poesifilm, Liberated Words, Tarp and others.
Over the past eight years, he has conducted numerous lectures and seminars on interactive technologies at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Harvestworks in New York, Bard College, Kingston University in London, the State Hermitage Museum and the European Biennale of Contemporary Art MANIFESTA10, and presented his work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, UCSC and Harvard.
Currently, Taras is an artist in the Art & Science residence of the ITMO University in St. Petersburg, teaching the course "Sonic Ecology: Harmonious Sound Aesthetics in Urban Environments".