December 29 – January 2, 2010
Video and Audio Installations
In the gallery halls
Anna Frants is a multimedia artist living in New York. Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 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 #3245-3352”
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On 27th December Cyland MediaArtLab will show special program of Russian video art “Nonnarative” in Norwegian gallery Rauland within the scope of AVE: ArtVideoExchange. Screenshots and list of participants could be found here.
Videos by the following authors will take part in this program: Escape group, Anna Kolosova, Sveta Mikhaylova, Soska group, Boris Kazakov, Masha Sha, Vladlena Gromova, Zer Good group, Olga Lovtsys, Anton Xlabov, Veronica Rudyeva-Ryazantseva.
Cyland Foundation Inc.
cordially invites you
to attend the opening reception
for the exhibition of works by
Alexander Dashevsky
“CONTAINERS”
December 11th, 2009
6:00 -10:00 PM
FRANTS GALLERY SPACE (NY)
81 Wooster Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10012
Our contacts:
Tel: 212 343 0104
E-mail: anna@frantsgallery.com
RSVP 212 343 0104
or send email to rsvp@frantsgallery.com
On 27th November Channel One showed news about Cyberfest.
ECHOLOCATION by Harvestworks (Carol Parkinson и HansTammen, New York)
Gryaznaja gallery on Marata str., Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Cyberfest festival.
Parkinson and Tammen will present their work ECHOLOCATION, for live sound processing instruments and Endangered Guitar. For them, every performance with electronic instruments is site-specific. Their instruments are designed to react with the resonant frequencies of the room, bringing the sonic qualities of the surrounding conditions to the listener’s attention. They start with some microscopic sound details that investigate the acoustics of the room. Small but controlled variations are introduced persistently, some take on a new musical life on their own, others die out at a very early stage of their existence. The random drift moves the piece slowly into new directions following the characteristics of the room.
* Supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through US Artists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
3rd Cyberfest started on 20th November 2010 in the State Hermitage Museum, Russia. This is the only International festival of cybernetic art in Russia (i.e. art, which combines living, biological and somatic substance with technical and computer devices). CYBERFEST is carried by CYLAND media laboratory, organized by National Center for Contemporary Art, (St. Petersburg Branch) and non-commercial organization Cyland Foundation Inc.
Video: DennyDaniel
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Vladimir Kozin
at Frants Gallery Space (NY)
“RUBBERS, WIRE SUPREMATISM”
at Frants Gallery Space (New York )
Opening: Friday, September 18 – 2009
Text from “Kommersant” on English.
RUBBER PRODUCT №…
It seems like galoshes were called product “number one” by the language of soviet official papers. They were dull and unpleasant, according to those days’ fashion, but now they became amusing and even stylish. In the same time it is a bit creepy thing, if you remember the unforgettable “Krasnyj Treugolnik” (“Red Triangle”) – a place of forced labour, called “chemistry”, where galoshes were produced. Rubber product “number two” was a condom – an amusing, indecent and even secret, but very unpleasant thing, according to soviet way of thinking. Now it is banal, like a sugar candy. There are also enemas, pipettes, pacifiers, gas masks, police batons – tools of salvation and suffering.
In short – rubber is not an ordinary material. Continue reading “Vladimir Kozin – “RUBBERS””
At the late August – early September, “tactical Cyland crew” arrived to an American Nevada desert to take part in beautiful festival of radical arts BURNING MAN. Crew included: Sergey Teterin, Mikhail A Krest Arxenekrohen, Darja Prawda. The leader of our landing force: New York artist and gallery owner Anna Frants, a BM veteran (attended festival for the forth (!) time).
Design by Rod Garret and Larry Harvey. Rendering by Andrew Johnstone and Rod Garrett.
Cyland presented at BM an audioinstallation Bragophone Animator and several local art-performances by Darja Prawda.
Cyland Foundation Inc.
Frants Gallery Space in SPb
NCCA SPb, Russia
cordially invite you
to attend the opening reception
“Acqua vita. Short trip”
Jane Greer, NY, photography.
Ljudmila Belova (Saint-Petersburg), video, photography
Opening: August 25, 2009
7:00 -10:00 pm.
Rubinshteina str., 23-39
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Tel: 764 83 37
“Acqua vita. Short trip”
This project consists of photos by New York artist Jane Greer, shot in Varanasi (India), documenting the ritual of committing ash to the water, and also videos and photos by St. Petersburg artist Liudmila Belova, shot in Venice, during the recent Biennale of contemporary art.
On July 9th Daniil and Anna Frants made a workshop with robot-toys for Japanese children in Amagi elementary school (Fukuoka, Japan). Children tear off “unnecessary” plastic parts of robot-toys, make new from papier-mache, stick it and paint. Look at few video recording from this workshop:
