Daniil Leiderman

Daniil M. Leiderman currently teaches Art History and Game design at the Department of Visualization at Texas A&M University.

In 2016, Daniil defended a Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Moscow Conceptualism and ‘Shimmering’: Authority, Anarchism, and Space” at the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. The project investigated the Moscow Conceptualists, a circle of experimental artists and writers that emerged in Moscow’s unofficial artistic underground in the early 1970s, tracing their development of the critical strategy called “shimmering” and its relationship to contemporary Post-Soviet and Post-Crimean artistic resistance.

Most recently, Daniil has been working on the representation of Eastern Europe and Russia in contemporary video games and related media, as well as ludic epistemologies, and the ways that games represent the world or make arguments about the world through representation.

Modern and Contemporary art.
Art of the underground and political resistance.
Games as as an art form.
The epistemology of games–educational games, political games., procedural rhetoric.