December 24, 2013 – January 11, 2014
Video and Audio Installations
Borey Art Center
St. Petersburg, Liteyny Prospekt 58
Vernissage on December 24 at 18:00
Anna Frants continues her series of pre-New Year’s exhibitions in the halls of the Borey Gallery, started in 2006. As in previous years, the artist will present video and audio installations. Like all works by Anna Frants, the installations are partly fantasy and partly an instinctive immersion, intertwined with programming and robotics
Cyland Audio Archive
Compilation
Presented by Cyland Media Lab
Curators: Sergey Komarov, Vlad Dobrovolsky.
The compilation includes works by artists: Nick Edwards, Peter Vogel, Hans Tammen, Dmitry ::vtol:: Morozov, Kurvenschreiber, Vladislav Dobrovolsky, Art Electronix, Pete Um, Jonas Gruska, Yoshio Machida, Vasily Stepanov.
Cyland Media Lab was founded in 2007 by artists Anna Frants and Marina Koldobskaya.
Angel
Anna Frants and Martin Dudoroff
Volume Animation
1995
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“Angel” is a computer-generated cartoon from 1995, lasting one and a half minutes. The plot was inspired by a joke. “Angel” won an award at the SouthSide Film Festival in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 2006.
Weather Forecast — WINTER/SUMMER
Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova
Installation
Cyland Media Lab
Video, cotton, threads
What were you doing in the winter of ’80? And in the summer? What about ’89, what do you remember about that winter? What image comes to mind first when you close your eyes? The project Weather Forecast-WINTER/SUMMER is an attempt by artists to reflect on the paradox of time, slow and simultaneously fleeting. Winter… summer… winter… summer…
Reflection on Life № 125082
Anna Frants, robotics and programming by Alexey Grachev
Installation
Cyland Media Lab
Metal conveyor, 3D printing, Arduino, manual knitting.
Dimensions: variable
2013
It is said that Yuz Aleshkovsky, to instruct his son, composed the following schedule:
8:00 Get up
8:05 Brush teeth
8:15 Think about life
8:30 Breakfast etc.
In the work “Reflection on Life № 125082,” the numbering is conditional; let’s assume it starts from birthday №0, and in “Reflection on Life № 1,” the image should probably be inverted, as a baby would see it…
Do “exercises in reflections on life” make us better, wiser, or kinder? I don’t know, let’s leave that to Aleshkovsky’s son.I still think that “Reflection on Life №1” is akin to “Reflection on Life № 125082,” of course, if you do not delve into the already learned RULES OF THE GAME.
Anna Frants
Object № 3 from the series “Made in Ancient Greece”
Anna Frants
Video Installation
Cyland Media Art Lab
Dimensions: variable
New York, 2013
Clay vessels in Ancient Greece were made for many purposes. Displayed in the agora, they were containers for wine, grain, or oil sold there. Placed on graves, they served as a mourning monument. In city homes, various kylixes, amphoras, and phials performed both utilitarian and decorative functions. Whatever their purpose, these vessels were always storytellers. They depicted stories – scenes from daily life, tales of distant cities, or myths about gods and heroes.
In Anna Frants’ series “Made in Ancient Greece,” classic vessels continue to tell stories through visual means, only instead of black or red figures, the artist uses modern video, proving that an object from the past can be a perfect tool for telling about the present. Mocking the snobbery of conventional thinking, the sculpture plays on the fundamental principles of our vision, on those clichés embedded in our memory, such as the perfect proportions of Greek ceramics.