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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National Center for Contemporary Art (St.Petersburg Branch)
invites you to the First Cyber Art festival
CYBERFEST 2007
25 October – 11 November 2007
Cyberfest 2007 is a new cyber art festival in Peter And Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Cyberfest is organized by National Center for Contemporary Art (Saint-Petersburg) and Cyland Foundation Inc. (New York).
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?
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»”
Exhibition by Aron Zinshtein
December 1st-January 15th, 2006 at Frants Gallery Space (NY)
May 26th -June 12th, 2006 at Frants Gallery Space (NY) in collaboration with Mathew Bown Gallery (London)
April 7th -23rd, 2006 The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg)
www.hacckersinternational.com (web.archive.org)
“The Sterligov Group”
December 9th -January 13th 2006 Frants Gallery Space (NY)
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””
Exhibition “Alexander Baturin and Galina Pisareva”
December 10 2004 – January 10 2005 Frants Gallery Space (NY)