December 23 – 27, 2014
Anna Frants and Cyland Media Lab.
Video and Audio Installations.
Borey Art Center
St. Petersburg, Liteyny Prospekt 58
Vernissage on December 23 at 18:00.
This year’s annual exhibition of Anna Frants at the Borey Gallery is dedicated to the theme of anxiety. Is there a source of anxiety or is it a figment of our brain’s chemistry? There is no objective answer to this question when it comes to an individual. However, there is a certain calmness and stability in the world of one. This is what we are talking about…
Like all works by Anna Frants, the installation is partly fantasy and partly instinctive immersion, intertwined with programming and robotics.
Anna Frants is a multimedia artist living in New York. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where in 1989 she graduated from the Mukhina Academy of Arts, receiving a solid classical education. She then expanded her circle of interests by mastering new areas such as computer imaging and animation.
Her achievements reflect the wide spectrum of the artist’s interests. Anna has already received several top awards for the best three-dimensional computer animation at prestigious computer graphics competitions, such as the AutoDesk Planet Studio Award. She has participated in and curated numerous art exhibitions in the USA and Russia, taught media disciplines and animation for several years, and has published articles on art. Her works can be found in the Museum of Art and Design in New York and in private collections.
Descriptions of several works that will be presented at the exhibition:
“Snags”
Looped animation, 4-channel audio, cathode-ray tube mockup, old tin cans. Something went wrong in a system that’s been fine-tuned for years and rusted over time.
“On the lookout”
Mounted head of deer, artificial eyes, sensors, cameras,
computer programming
“Anxiety”
Fabric, fans, programming
An allegory of anxious states – no love, no empathy – only anxiety.
“Weather Forecast” (exhibited together with the installation “Anxiety”)
Projection of a live internet broadcast from the Estonian coast of the Baltic Sea, real-time audio sounds from the “Anxiety” installation, parabolic directional sound speakers.
The artificially created soundtrack of the kinetic installation “Anxiety,” read in real-time, evokes a feeling of anxiety and calls for an alternative – the eternal grandeur of the sea, forest, and its inhabitants.