Category: In Russia

Cyland Foundation Inc.

ARE PROUD TO PRESENT:
BOBBY WAS KILLED TWICE
in the LUDA Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
11-25 OCTOBER, 2014

Mokhovaya 42, St Petersburg, Russia
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Teleportation is a complex experience. He awoke in the twilight coolness of a new setting. Here and now. Gathering his thoughts, he tried to remember what to commit to memory. The narrow rearview mirror. A diorama of a suburban forest park, illuminated by the tremor of a street lamp. Creating a photofit of his own face, finding a map of pre-hidden reliquaries, feeling under the seat for the ignition key. Continue reading “BOBBY WAS KILLED TWICE”

As part of the Art in Progress programme at the Youth Centre of the State Hermitage Museum at the General Staff building on 29 May, the Time Keeper multi-media project was opened. An international group of famous artists, representatives of New Media Anna Frants, Alexandra Dementieva, Aranaud Jacobs and Koen Theys showed their work on the eternal theme of the transient nature of time in the life of Man. Continue reading “Time Keeper multi-media project at the Youth Centre of the State Hermitage Museum”

Youth Center at the State Hermitage Museum,
Cyland Foundation Inc.,
Kolodzei Art Foundation (NY)
With the support of CYLAND Media Art Lab
Within the scope of the project:
“Cutting-Edge Art of St. Petersburg. A Retrospective”.

SIMPLE RULES
From private collections of St. Petersburg art collectors
Curator: Leonid Frants
January 23-27, 2013

Artists: Nikolai Akimov, Aleksandr Arefiev, Aleksandr Baturin, Viktor Burtas, Richard Vasmi, Solomon Gershov, Yevgenia Gorokhova, Valentin Gromov, Rodion Gudzenko, Nikolai Zhukov, Anatoly Zaslavsky, Iosif Zisman, Igor Ivanov, Anatoly Kaplan, Aleksandr Kozhin, Pavel Kondratiev, Boris Koshelokhov, Ludmila Kutsenko, Valentin Levitin, Yevgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko, Gerta Nemenova, Leon Nissenbaum, Valentina Povarova, Valeriy Rabchinsky, Solomon Rossin, Ivan Sotnikov, Vladimir Sterligov, Gennady Ustugov, Vladimir Shagin, Sholom Shvarts, Boris Ender, Vladimir Yashke.

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By Bruce Sterling, WIRED

Address: The State Hermitage Museum, Dvortsovaya sq., 6-8, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Info: Over 80 artists, groups and scholars represent more than 20 countries in Russia’s largest annual New Media Festival, CYBERFEST. CYBERFEST was established in 2007; it is organized on the basis of CYLAND Media Art Lab, a cooperation project of PACT Charitable Foundation (Saint Petersburg, Russia) and the non-commercial organization Cyland Foundation Inc. (New York, USA).

CYBERFEST 2012: ‘AT HEAVEN’S DOOR’ / November 23-28, 2012
Held at: The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg State University, Creative Space Tkachi, Art re.FLEX Gallery, Frants Gallery Space among others

For the 6th Annual Edition, CYBERFEST 2012 explores the impacts of art and technology on society’s future through a 6 day multidisciplinary event titled ‘AT HEAVEN’S DOOR’. Exhibits, events and performances across St Petersburg’s top cultural venues present varied perspectives on the physical state of international New Media and the metaphysical directions it leads society.

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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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