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CYLAND / IVAN GOVORKOV / DANIIL FRANTS
“PATTERNS OF THE MIND”
Live Drawing, Pencil on Paper
(translated into 3d by CYLAND technology creator Daniil Frants)

Not a sketch, painted canvas, nor a performance – CYLAND artist Ivan Govorkov’s “Patterns of the Mind” is a hybrid between graphics, easel painting and action in the spirit of Abstract Expressionism or Late Surrealism. Drawn by the artist live in the exhibition space, viewers experience the composition alongside the artist as it comes from hand in 2D and is translated into 3D by accomplished technology teen wonder – CYLAND artist Daniil Frants.

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Cyland Foundation Inc.

ARE PROUD TO PRESENT:

CAPITAL OF NOWHERE

New Media Artworks by Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova & Ivan Govorkov, Marina Koldobskaya, Vitaly Pushnitsky, Peter Belyi, Alexander Terebenin, Petr Shvetsov, Ludmila Belova, Alexandra Dementieva, Kurvenschreiber Collective

A collaboration between Cyland Foundation Inc., CYLAND MediaArtLab (St. Petersburg, Russia) & Centro Studi sulle Arti della Russia (CSAR, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy). Curated by Silvia Burini & Matteo Bertelé (Assistant Curator)

Vernissage: May 31 (7 PM)
Dates: May 27 – July 10, 2013 (Press Preview: May 27)

Venue / Site: CFZ Ca’ Foscari Zattere / Cultural Flow Zone
Address: Zattere, Dorsoduro 1392, 30123 Venezia (Boat stop: Zattere)

Continue reading ““CAPITAL OF NOWHERE” exhibition at Venice Biennale”

Cyland Foundation Inc.
cordially invites you

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.

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:

In the beginning of July Cyland MediaArtLab (Anna Frants and Marina Koldobskaya in particular) will arrange a number of presentations in Japan, Kurogava Inn Museum, Konya2023 gallery and elementary school of Fukuoka town. Here is a short plan and links:

CYLAND MediaArtLab – JAPAN PROGRAM
6th of July, Kyounosei No Sato (Kurogava Inn Museum)
Marina Koldobskaya – workshop, painting

9th of July, Amagi elementary school (Fukuoka)
Daniil and Anna Frants will present a workshop with robot-toys for japan children

10th of July, gallery Konya2023, Fukuoka
media system Drumpainting (Cyland MediaArtLab)
“Red Ice” performance, dance by Yoshiko Swain, painting by Kazunobu Yanagi

11th of July, Onrakukan
Russian night – “Drumpainting Brush Stroke”
www.onrakukan.com

May 4th 2005- May 28th 2005
Berliner Kunstprojekt gallery (Berlin)
“Sarcophagus, Ghanaian Style, or The funeral of a Dreamer”

SARCOPHAGUS, Ghanaian Style, or THE FUNERAL OF A DREAMER, curated by ANNA FRANTS.
Among hosts of inevitable events stored for every one living, none is so mystifying in its essence than the phenonmenon of death. Most cultures have religious and philosphic systems, rituals, and certain principles of social order that facilitate the living to accept the death of their neighbors. For Ghanaians, death is by no means a mournful event, but a logical completion of one’s life’s journey. The funeral is a feast in honor of a well-lived life and the coffin plays a special symbolic role in cermeonies. Continue reading ““Sarcophagus, Ghanaian Style, or The funeral of a Dreamer””