Veniamin Kostitsin-Tétérin
Systems. Music. Images. Objects.
Different materials. The same curiosity.
Tarusa→Moscow→Vienna→Israel
One method. Many materials.
I build systems, make music, work with images and design objects. What connects them is an interest in how things hold together: the mechanism, the history, the material, the detail that changes the whole.
A useful tool, a convincing image, a well-formed argument or a stone in the right setting — each asks for attention before invention.
01 / Systems & tools
Tools begin with a specific need.
Then they have to work.
Memory · Provenance · Collaboration
Working knowledge should outlive a conversation. CTX is a governed continuity system built around inspectable records, explicit sources, preserved corrections and shared context.
A memory that can be questioned, revised and carried forward.
Evidence · Hypotheses · Early warning
A way to watch the point where an explanation may stop holding. It keeps competing hypotheses, expected signals and their sources together, asking which observation would actually change the judgment.
Missing information remains missing information.
Jewellery · Parametric assembly · CAD
A browser-based bridge between a collection of stones and a resolved design. Stone dimensions, settings, repeated motifs and assembly logic meet in a practical environment for developing jewellery before the engineering handoff.
Start with the stones. Build around the material.
Architecture, specification and the pleasure of making the useful thing.
Code & projects on GitHub
Studio image / synthetic editorial02 / Music & performance
Opera, multilingual wordplay, satire and the dance floor belong to the same listening life. My music moves between registers, following the character of the piece rather than the border of a genre.
Writing, arrangement, performance direction and AI-assisted production become parts of an authored work.
03 / Jewellery & material intelligence
Colour is the beginning.
Proportion and construction give it form.
Gemstones are a vocabulary of colour, light and geometry. My work moves from looking and selecting to design, modelling and the practical questions of fabrication.
Crown & Signet brings this interest into a world of distinctive jewellery, private commissions and professional exchange.
04 / Photography & the visual studio
Found moments. Constructed worlds.
Character, light and the telling detail.
Photography, synthetic imagery and performance direction share an eye.
Their provenance stays distinct.
05 / Editorial & evidence
iGulag joins editorial work, political art and evidence-led publishing. Sources, context and the distinction between a fact and an inference are part of the publication itself.
The image makes you look. The record gives you something to examine.
The person behind the work
Tarusa → Moscow → Vienna → Israel.
That is the geographical line through my life. Art, language, music and technical work run through it together.
Tarusa is a root and an artistic landscape. Moscow and Vienna belong to the formation of my eye, ear and working life. Israel is home.
I move comfortably between a technical specification and a musical phrase, a photograph and a stone. Each changes what I notice in the others.
Russian, German, English, French and Hebrew are part of that world: different ways of hearing, reading and making a point.
de tarusa
“Life is an ensemble,
not a warehouse.”
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