December 25 – 29, 2018
Multimedia Installations
Borey Art Center
St. Petersburg, Liteyny Prospekt 58
Vernissage on December 25 at 18.00
Traditionally, for the twelfth year in a row, at the end of December, American multimedia artist Anna Frants presents her new project from the “Phantom Dreams” series to the cultural community of Saint Petersburg in the halls of the gallery. The project was realized in collaboration with the Cyland MediaArt Lab (Cyland MediaArt Lab).
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The Creative Machine 2 Exhibition
Private View:
November 7, 2018 (Wednesday), 6 pm – 9 pm
Location:
Hatcham Church Gallery, Goldsmiths,
St. James, New Cross Gate,
London, SE14 6AD, UK
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Exhibition Open to Public:
November 8 – 18, 2018
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CYFEST, international festival of art and technology, for the first time in Italy
The XI edition of the Russian festival arrives in Caserta, after New York,
St. Petersburg, Beijing and Brighton.
Reggia di Caserta
22th June -1st July 2018
On June 22, 2018, CYFEST will arrive at the majestic eighteenth-century Reggia di Caserta in Italy, the largest royal residence in the world and one of the UNESCO World Heritage sites. In the outstanding baroque rooms, art and technology will dialogue with ancient classical visions. Italian and Russian artists will explore the theme “Weather Forecast: Digital Cloudiness”.
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May 20 – June 17, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Museum of the Academy of Arts, Cast Department
Universitetskaya Embankment, Bldg. 17, 1st floor
May 19, 6:00 pm – Opening, as part of the International event “Night of Museums”
Curator – Elena Gubanova, co-curator Lydia Gryaznova
The division between traditional and contemporary art adds to the list of dichotomies, more interconnected than separated. However, the question arises, what does this bifurcation of art mean from the perspective of the artist, museum, and viewer?
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This year, CYFEST is partnering with Lumen to exhibit in St. Petersburg 2016 Lumen Prize Gold Award winner Hyperplanes of Simultaneity by Fabio Giampietro and Alessio de Vecchi and the 2017 Founders Award, Slide to Expose by by Nicole Ruggiero, Molly Soda, and Refrakt alongside a showreel of selected moving image works.
(img: © Maurice Benayoun, Emotion Winds, 2014)
The human being is constantly looking for a comfort zone. Changes induce anxiety and a desire to stick to the already known, familiar and comfortable. We suggest to treat changes in the realm of the digital technologies, which became integrated to our mundane life, as if they were the weather patterns. As something that is beyond our control, but what directly affects our routine.
February 8 at 19.00 at Sreda Space
Screening of the film by Bjørn Melhus “Freedom and Independence”
DIGITAL VIDEO PROGRAM “TO TOUCH THE SKY”
Sreda Space
St. Petersburg, Nevsky Prospekt, 35, Bolshoy Gostiny Dvor
entrance from Sadovaya Street across from the Vorontsov Palace, 3nd Floor
Curated by Viktoriya Ilyushkina (Russia)
THE CYFEST 11 DIGITAL VIDEO PROGRAM is curated selection of video art works via open call, in various innovative genres: animated gifs, net art, 3D and stop-motion animation, cinema 4D, mockumentary and performance art, gaming, digital collage, and experimental films. The program features Russian artists from Petersburg and Moscow.
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PROXIMA
EXHIBITION PROJECT
February 3–12
Youth Educational Centre of the State Hermitage Museum
Сurated by Sofia Kudryavtseva (Russia), Elena Gubanova (Russia)
Сo-curated by Anna Zavediy (Russia)
The Proxima project (from Latin, meaning ‘‘nearest’’) unites artists which carry out observations of the world around. The represented works are all based on an attempt to get closer to things via various repetitive actions. The flow of imitations, the strive to recreate a kind of habitual landscape expose the fact that the perception of the nearest — objects and time — is ever mediated. We are only able to grasp fragmentary, to get close selectively and if doing so unable to recognize.
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WE’LL HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE
EXHIBITION PROJECT
February 2–5
Annenkirche
Curated by Anna Frants (Russia-USA), Elena Gubanova (Russia), Sergey Komarov (Russia) Continue reading “11th CYFEST – Annenkirche Exhibition Project”
WEATHER FORECAST: DIGITAL CLOUDINESS
EXHIBITION PROJECT
February 2–12
St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design
Сurated by Anna Frants (Russia-USA), Elena Gubanova (Russia)
Сo-curated by Varvara Egorova (Russia), Isabella Indolfi (Italy), Silvia Burini (Italy), Giuseppe Barbieri (Italy), Vlad Strukov (UK), Natalia Fuchs (Russia) Continue reading “11th CYFEST – Museum of Applied Arts Exhibition Project”