Serge Segay geboren 1947 in Murmansk.
Bereits seit 1962 beschäftigt er sich mit abstrakter Poesie.
Als die "Anarcho Futurist Group" in Vologda gegründet wurde, wurde er
dort bald Mitglied. Aus dieser Zeit stammen auch seine ersten Zaum Gedichte.
1971 begann Serge Segay mit piktographischen Gedichten und wurde damit einer der wichtigsten Exponenten der russischen visuellen Poesie.
Erst Mitte der 80er Jahre entdeckete er als künstlerisches Handwerkzeug den Kassettenrecorder.
Serge Segay born in 1947 in Murmansk (in Northern Russia), from 1974 he lived in Yeisk (on the Azov sea), from 1997 in St. Petersburg, from 1998 in Kiel, Germany.
Wrote his first zaum and abstract poems in 1962, when the "Anarcho-Futuristic
group" was founded in Vologda.
Since 1971 he has produced pictographical poems, unique in Russian poetry;
first founder of visual poetry movement in Russian Literature;
Some examples of zaum poems and experimental prose published in the magazine "Urbi" (1993, 1996, 1997), almanach "Index-2" (1993), antology "Zevgma: russian poetry from manierism to post-modernism" (1940), antology "Samizdat of the Century" (1997).
His visual poems have been published in the emigrant almanach "Rough Copy" (USA), american magazines "Score", "Ozone", "World Letter", "Lost and Found Times", and in issues of "Doc(k)s", "Offerta speciale", "Collegamenty Wobbly" and in many other international editions.
His articles about the poetry of Russian Futurism are published in "Zaum Futurism and Dadaism in Russian Culture" (Bern, 1991), "Russian Avant-Garde Literature" (Trento, 1992), "Russian Literature" (Amsterdam, 1986) and in Russian publications.....
In 1992 he published the complete poetry of the futurist Vasilisk Gnedov (Trento), in 1993 - organized the first publication of unknown texts by Alexei Khrouchonyh and Kasimir Malewitch....
Worked with tape recorder since 1985, sound performances include: "Hommage a Luiggi russolo" (S.Petersbourg, 1998), "The Breathing of Cannibal" (Bremen, Neues Museum Weserbourg, 1998), "Sounds of Shaman" (Berlin, Bobeobi Festival, 1994), "Assistances" (Budapest, Polyphonix-26, 1994) and others.