World-known philosophers and thinkers gathered in Palermo to debate the possibility of uploading the human mind to a computer system.

Metaphysics of Possible Worlds. Results of Consciousness Research Center Summer School

In may 2019 Dmitry Volkov with media artists presented multimedia pop up project Faced2Faced within a special program of the 58th Venice Biennale.

Dmitry Volkov’s book entitled Freedom of will. An illusion or a possibility was presented in the format of an art-performance.

According to Japanese scientist Masahiro Mori’s hypothesis “the Uncanny Valley Effect”, at first people have a liking for humanoids and then they start being afraid of them. Philosopher Dmitry Volkov is speculating on the reasons for such fear.

Swiss experts in watch manufacturing Jaquet Droz have created a model with reproduction of “The Philosopher and Artist” painting for brand ambassador Dmitry Volkov

In November 2018 during the “Night of Arts” at the State Gallery there was a performance in the Small Button series in a form of dialogue between Dmitry Volkov, a collector and philosopher, and modern artists.

“Аrchitectural construction. Chipperfield to Gehry" is an attempt to imagine architects being modern art artists.

June, 2014. The Greenland Conference was organized in a new format of a scientific discussion. During the week its participants were on a philosophical expedition to the shores of Greenland on board of s/v Rembrandt van Rijn.

Philosopher and businessman Dmitry Volkov on how science looks for eternity in a person.

The Foundation acts as a partner in the annual conference between Dalai-Lama and Russian scientists on the topic of studying consciousness.

Dmitry Volkov and Tatiana Chernigovskaya gave a lecture on interaction of environment, human intelligence and artificial intelligence.

The philosopher Dmitry Volkov and the artist Pavel Pepperstein asked themselves this question and tried to answer them on Public talk at the MMOMA educational center.

Exhibition “This Is Not a Book: Collection of Dmitry Volkov. The story of a man, his art and library" sent viewers on a quest on the collector's mind.

For the first time, the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies at Moscow State University held an international summer philosophical school in an online format.

The first exhibition of the private collection of businessman and philosopher Dmitry Volkov, held at the MOMMA, became available for viewing online. “This Is Not a Book: Dmitry Volkov's collection. A story about a man, his art and library” is an experimental project. The idea of the exhibition was an invitation to the collector's mind, where philosophy and art are firmly connected.

The SDG Arts & Science Foundation supported the opening of Aidan Salakhova's "Revelations" exhibition, her first solo project in Great Britain at the Saatchi Gallery in London on January 12, 2015.

Oleg Kulik and Dmitry Volkov created a performance which is active and at the same time mediative, it’s philosophical but has an ironically playful nature.

"Collecting modern art is like a venture investment. Today technology art is quite affordable but you never know how much it is going to cost in 10 or 15 years", Dmitry Volkov in his interview to 1artchannel.com.

"If you have proved that at the very moment two dogs exist, you will ipso facto have proved that at the very moment there are at least two things to be met with in space», the quote from G.E.Moore's "Proof of an External World" became the leading idea for Dmitry Volkov's and Oleg Kulik's performance.

Together with the opening of a renewed exposition a new educational project is being launched. The idea of this project belongs to Dmitry Volkov.

"Purchasing modern art is like a high-risk venture investment, but as it's known these things quite often make the most profit", Dmitry Volkov said at the "Art to order" discussion at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

"The modern art exhibition enriches the image of the Tretyakov Gallery as a museum that lives together with us", Dmitry Volkov in his interview to the "Dozhd" TV Channel.

The "Art to order" discussion organized with the participation of the SDGroup International Internet Holding Company took place in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art located on Petrovka street.

A genuine project and the only scrim of the modern art history portraying all key trends and genres. It can help to understand the historical borders of the modernity, overcome the stereotype that it's diffucult to accept modern art and get rid of suspicion regarding modern art.

“Every great idea had its originator and artists either agreed to the idea or wanted to make money”, Nikolay Uskov, chief editor of the Snob project, starts the discussion «Art to order» at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Dmitry Volkov's column on technology art.

In his interview to GQ magazine Dmitry Volkov talked about philosophy, Mikhail Vrubel, Henry Ford and the "Contemporary Art:1960-2000. Restart" exhibition opened at the Tretyakov Gallery.

"One of the goals of the "Philosophy after art" discussion club is to give the audience an opportunity to understand modern art better", said Dmitry Volkov in his interview to 1artchannel.com.

During the first Street Piano Festival organized by the SDGroup International Internet Holding Company and Igor Butman’s Production Center Vitaly Gavruk and Ada Gorbunova’s duo will perform in Stoleshnikov lane.

The Garage Museum added a new direction to its grant program titled "Art and Technologies" established by the SDG Arts & Science Foundation and Dmitry Volkov's initiative. The nomination intends to support personal and joint projects in IT, engineering and science art.

For the first time the Street Piano Festival will take place in Russia upon Dmitry Volkov's initiative, and straight away in two cities, Moscow and Sochi.

"This is one of the most curious phenomenon in today's creative search. I'm happy that together with the Garage Museum we can support young artists and the development of high technology art in Russia", says Dmitry Volkov, SDG Arts & Science Foundation co-founder.

Cooperating with the SDG Arts&Science Foundation «Garage» adds a new nomination to their grant programme — «Art and Technology».

Dmitry Volkov and the SDGroup International Internet-Holding team participated in the Burning Man Festival of modern art and music in the U.S. Specially for the event an OraculeTang interactive art object was created together with an artist Oleg Kulik. For the whole week the OraculeTang became the main symbol of the SDGroup camp in the Mirage-City in the Blue Rock desert.

SDG Arts & Science Foundation, Laboratoria Art&Science Space and Igor Butman Music Art Support and Development Foundation will turn MUZEON into an interaction platform for art and technology for three days.

"The very idea to bring people working together in the office to a desert for almost ten days where in the daytime the temperature hits 40 degrees and the nights are extremely cold may seem adventurous. But that is not all. We have a mission at the Burning Man", Dmitry Volkov writes in his author's column on Snob.ru.

"Everyone who ever went to music school can remember the things he/she learned in three days and share his/her talent with other people", Dmitry Volkov in his interview to 1artchannel.com. on the Transcendental Piano Festival in the MUZEON Art Park.

The exhibition of works by famous artists will turn one of the SDGroup International Internat-Holding office floors in a full-scale display space of the contemporary art.

Afisha Daily: "This Festival is clearly the case when it's better not to read a lot of feedback trying to understand beforehand what is going to happen, but to just come and see everything yourself".