V4W.ENKO is the alias of Evgeniy Vashchenko (Ukrainian, b. 1981), an artist who builds custom software to generate real-time sound, video and installation work from self-programmed algorithms. Based in Kyiv, he trained as an architect before turning to music and new media around 2007.
He studied music and painting as a teenager, then earned a bachelor's and master's degree in architecture, specializing in public buildings, at Kyiv's State Technical University of Construction and Architecture. After several years working in architecture, he returned to sound, carrying over an approach to algorithms he had learned there: seeing nature itself as an algorithmic structure. He builds his own applications in Max/MSP/Jitter, then generates both the sound and the visuals of a piece from the same underlying algorithmic structure.
