Category: 2011

Photo and text: Leah Stuhltrager

CYBERFEST is Russia’s annual exposition of technology art by top international artists.

CYBERFEST enters its 5th year this November with over 80 artists from 20 countries participating. A citywide event, CYBERFEST’s programming is housed across iconic institutions and emerging art venues throughout St Petersburg. From visual arts to music performances to interactive installations to films to lectures to children’s workshops – all programming is entirely free (no charge) to the public.

CYBERFEST 2011’s theme is “Show Us Your Tongue!”, a curatorial title embodying this years’ participants who all address the philosophical question: “Are new technologies capable of creating a new tongue of art?”

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November 18 – 23, 2011
5th International festival of cybernetic art – CYBERFEST 2011
will take place in St.Petersburg, Russia.

Organizers: St. Petersburg Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts, Cyland Foundation Inc. (New York), CYLAND MediaLab. General sponsor: OneMarketData, New York. Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg. Curators: Anna Frants, Marina Koldobskaya, Sofia Kudryavtseva, Viktoria Ilyushkina. Video Curators: Boshko Boskovic, Natalia Prikhodko, Yulia Garbuzova. Board: Dmitry Ozerkov (The State Hermitage), Anna Yermolayeva (ZKM), Fred Forest, Olesya Turkina (State Russian Museum)

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NATIONAL CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
CYLAND MEDIA LABORATORY
Cyland Foundation Inc.

present

V festival of cybernetic art CYBERFEST 2011
which will be held in St. Petersburg on November 18-25.

We accept suggestions from artists, curators, culture personalities, who want to take part in 5th Cyberfest – send your applications for participation through the festival website www.cyfest.art.

SHOW US YOUR TONGUE

Tongues could be simple or complex, archaic or modern, alive and dead, one’s own and somebody else’s. One’s own, native tongue, is, as a rule, but one. We acquire it practically at birth and lose it together with life.

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