Cyland Foundation Inc.
ARE PROUD TO PRESENT:
EVENT: CYLAND Media Art Lab in collaboration
with Made in NY Media Center by IFP present:
CYFEST11:
Weather Forecast : Digital Cloudiness
OPENING: December 7th 6pm – 9pm
EXHIBITION: December 7th-30th
VENUE: NY Media Center
30 John St, Brooklyn, NY
CYFEST is proud to once again partner with The Made in NY Media Center by IFP.
Video Curator Victoia Ilyushkina will present CYFEST’S DIGITAL VIDEO ART PROGRAM:
TO TOUCH THE SKY
The annual Cyfest Digital Video Art Program is a selection of 20 art works which are chosen from international submissions via an open call.
The series explores the role of art in our current forecast — bringing into focus how artists absorb modern technologies as tools to create mirrors of our current selves; uncovering how we, the population at large, currently rely on augmentation through vast digital means.
THE CYFEST 11 DIGITAL VIDEO PROGRAM is a curated selection of video art works, 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.
Alexander Borisov (Russia), Mark Cypher (Australia), Kseniia Galkina (Russia), Ariane Loze (Belgium), Egor Kraft, Pekka Tynkkynen Alina Kvirkveliya & Karina Golubenko (Finland-Russia), Maxim Svishyov (Russia), Alexander Dupuis (USA), Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai (Russia), Ben Grosser (USA), Kuesti Fraun (Germany), Eden Mitsenmacher & Rebecca Tritschler (Netherlands), Dagnini (Russia), Greg Marshall (Canada), Andréa Stanislav (USA), AUJIK (Sweden), Tanya Akhmetgalieva (Russia), Alexander Senko (Russia), Elena Gubanova & Ivan Govorkov (Russia), Andrey Kasay (Russia).
DONATO PICCOLO – WALKING ON THE CLOUD
Shoes, electronic systems, motors, plexiglass, steel, distilled water, nebulizers, dim. 100x100x100cm
Courtesy CYLAND MediaArtLab and Galerie Mazzoli, 2017
Donato Piccolo works on the imaginary line between art and science, sculpture and machine; he plays on new technologies with a keen sense of irony. Natural, dynamics, physics, and electronic phenomena are turned into kinetic installations, emotional states, bachelor machines, pure abstraction of the human spirit. For 11th Cyfest in New York, Donato Piccolo is going to show a part of the project “Thinking the unthinkable”, curated by Isabella Indolfi and premiered in the Hermitage State Museum in St Petersburg on November 2017 and developed thank Cyland Media Art Lab and Galerie Mazzoli.
“Thinking the unthinkable” is a metaphor, an experiment on human limits and possibilities, on the relationship between nature and artifice.
Donato Piccolo (1976 Rome, Italy) participated in the 52 and 54th Venice Biennale and exhibited in important museums around the world: Himalayas Art Center, Shanghai (China) / Centro de Desarollo de las Artes Visuales de Havana (Cuba) / MAXXI e MACRO, Roma (Italia) / Cini Foundation, Venezia (Italia) / Fondation Francès, Senlis (France) / Galleria Civica, Modena (Italia) / Boghossian Foundation, Brussels (Belgium) / Beyond Museum, Seoul (South Korea) / George Kolbe Museum, Berlin (Germany) / StadtGalerie Museum, Kiel (Germany) / ISCP, New York (USA)
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF PIXELS
Video installation, 2017
Cloudy with a Chance of Pixels is a collaborative work made specifically for the 27-screen video wall by Blake Marques Carrington’s Interactive Studio I class at Pratt Institute’s Department of Digital Arts. Taking inspiration from the festival theme of “Digital Cloudiness”, a team of 9 digital arts students explore ideas around pixelated nature, universal simulation, and the data cloud as a new form of environment. These young artists investigate possibilities for tearing open analog reality, finding consciousness and meditation in a torrent of data.
Colaborating Arists: Holly Adams, Tess Adams, Anthony Caviels, Heidy Cordero-Avias, Lauren Dimaya, Miachel Lee, Krystal Li, Jared Lynch, Naeem Murdic.
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