ZLATA ZHIDKOVA
zlata@mur.at
Zlata (Zlata Zhidkova or zlata zhdkv) is a sound artist, musician, performer and composer. She works with multichannel systems, complex textures and feedback instruments, and experiments with tangible sounding materials, exploring “unexpressed/able” that exists in between the mediums and perception levels.
With a background in classical flute and philology, she is now finishing her Master of Arts in Computermusic and Sound Art at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at KunstUni Graz.
Zlata has performed at the Musik Installationen Nuremberg 2025, Klangmanifeste (Vienna 2025), Nerd Nights (2024, Graz), International Computermusic Conference (Seoul, 2024), the Sonic Territories Festival (Vienna, 2024), the Zentral Waescherei (Zurich, 2024), the impuls festival (Graz, 2022, 2024), the Junge Signale (Graz, 2021-2024), STWST48x9 COLD HEAVEN and NOPE (Linz, 2023&2024), Soundcampus ARS ELECTRONICA (Linz, 2023), phonoECHOES (as a part of MMEZAJ collective) (2022) etc.
Her installational projects were presented, among others during Prague Quadrennial (Prague, 2023) and at FORUM STADTPARK as part of Steirischer Herbst (Graz, 2024).
With a background in classical flute and philology, she is now finishing her Master of Arts in Computermusic and Sound Art at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at KunstUni Graz.
Zlata has performed at the Musik Installationen Nuremberg 2025, Klangmanifeste (Vienna 2025), Nerd Nights (2024, Graz), International Computermusic Conference (Seoul, 2024), the Sonic Territories Festival (Vienna, 2024), the Zentral Waescherei (Zurich, 2024), the impuls festival (Graz, 2022, 2024), the Junge Signale (Graz, 2021-2024), STWST48x9 COLD HEAVEN and NOPE (Linz, 2023&2024), Soundcampus ARS ELECTRONICA (Linz, 2023), phonoECHOES (as a part of MMEZAJ collective) (2022) etc.
Her installational projects were presented, among others during Prague Quadrennial (Prague, 2023) and at FORUM STADTPARK as part of Steirischer Herbst (Graz, 2024).
Zlata is also a co-founder and organizer of the event series of the CMKK community - a rhizomatic student-driven community for Computer Music and Sound Art.
She is also a curator of the net art project “CIA: Collective Intelligence Association” run by mur.at association.