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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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Anna Frants. “VISIONARY DREAMS # 3245-3350”

December 18 – 29, 2007
4 Video Installations in the gallery halls

Fish talk or “mute as a fish”
Cyber Installation
Fresh fish, video projection, the global internet network

Drawing from pop art traditions with the idea of “returning to reality”, Fish talk combines the unified style of anime with the realism of Snyders’ still lifes, while allowing its silent heroes to speak, borrowing information from internet blogs in real-time.

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CYLAND Medialaboratory is opened

PLACE: Kronstadt, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

CYLAND Medialaboratory is a new artistic laboratory created by St. Petersburg branch of National Center for Contemporary Art in cooperation with Cyland Foundation Inc., New-York. Together, it is a hospitable residence for the artists of the whole world, who would like to use new technologies in an artistic way. The project is created by Anna Frants and Marina Koldobskaya.

CYLAND has enough technical resources to be an artistic playground for organizing team-work on videoprojects, media-art projects as well as any other artistic activity concerned with up-to-date technologies.

About CYLAND Media Art Lab (pdf)

Related links:
WHAT IS CYLAND
ЧТО ТАКОЕ CYLAND?

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Anna Frants. «Visionary dreams #2391-95»

December 19 – 30, 2006
«VISIONARY DREAMS #2391-95»
video installation/cyber installation
in the gallery halls

Anna Frants is a multimedia artist living in New York. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 1989, she graduated from the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Arts named after V.I. Mukhina (now Saint Petersburg Academy of Design), receiving a classical education. Later, mastering new fields (computer graphics and animation), she expanded her creative interests.
Anna’s works have been recognized with awards in prestigious competitions. She received a prize for her three-dimensional computer animation “Angel” at the Autodesk Planet Studio Award. Her short computer animated film “Angel” also participated in the competitive program of the SouthSide Film Festival (Pennsylvania, 2006) and in the New York festival “Red Shift” in 2004. Her works can be found in the Museum of Contemporary Art KyoseinoSato (Japan) and in private collections. Continue reading “Anna Frants. «Visionary dreams #2391-95»”

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