Anna Frants. «VISIONARY DREAMS #3245-3351»

December 23 – January 3, 2009
«VISIONARY DREAMS #3245-3351»
Video Installations In the gallery halls

Anna Frants is a multimedia artist living in New York. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where she graduated from the Mukhina Academy of Arts in 1989, receiving a solid classical education. She then expanded her range of interests by mastering new areas such as computer imaging and animation. Continue reading “Anna Frants. «VISIONARY DREAMS #3245-3351»”

CYBERFEST / КИБЕРФЕСТ 2008

Cyland Foundation Inc.
Russian National Center for Contemporary Art, Saint Petersburg branch
CYLAND Media Art Lab

present the project of the
Second International Cyber Art Festival
CYBERFEST / КИБЕРФЕСТ 2008

‘‘Field Of Grass’’ by Ryan Wolfe in Damstuhltrager Gallery, NY

КИБЕРФЕСТ / CYBERFEST is the first international festival of cyber art in Russia. CYBERFEST was established in 2007; it is organized on the basis of CYLAND Media Art Lab, a cooperation project of Russian National Center for Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg, Russia) and the non-commercial organization Cyland Foundation Inc. (New York, USA).

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“Movement Perception” – an online interactive installation

From 15 to 18 of february a media artist Sergej Kotsun was a guest of Kronshtadt Cyland Residence, near St. Petersburg.

Project concept: displaying realtionship between the space and the viewer, changes of space in the process of perception viewer’s movements (motion, hand moving, etc…); development of system to perceive audio-visual art, where viewer becames the author himself, the main character of an interactive audio-visual performance.

Realization: a video stream from the PC with connected web camera, being transmitted to the projection screen using the multimedia projector. When viewer appears in the working zone of a web camera, he sees himself on a projection screen, surrounded by transparent squares (squares exist only on projection screen). Installed on PC program analyzes movements of a viewer. When viewer and square become in contact on the screen, a sample corresponding to the square, as in musical instrumesnts, is playing and a primitive geometrical element being added to the image on the screen. After the series of contacts the space of the exhibition becomes filled with sounds and the screen is filled with abstract suprematic compositions.

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