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CYFEST-13: Cosmos and Chaos | New York

December 14, 2021 to January 6, 2022​
National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South,
New York City, USA

Hours
Mon–Sun: 10 am – 5 pm

The “Cosmos and Chaos” project at the National Art Club in New York is the latest in a series of exhibitions organized as part of the CYFEST-13 International Media Art Festival. This exhibition brings together artists working in different media including painting, drawing, graphic art, photography, video, new media and interactive installations. They all share an interest in the proposed topic, which evokes a wide range of responses to space exploration, climate change, the contemporary cultural and historical context and the social environment. In one space, the project will unite Soviet nonofficial art from the Frants Family Collection and Kolodzei Art Foundation, as well as media objects and installations by contemporary artists.

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Symphony for 2 bicycles by Alexey Grachev and Alexander Bochkov

Installation | Performance
United Kingdom
2021

Performance, interactive sound installation, 2021
by Alexey Grachev, Alexander Bochkov and CYLAND MediaArtLab
2 bicycles, 2 bike trainers, synthesizers, max/MSP, microcontroller

In this piece, the cadence of the sound is generated by the speed at which the cyclist pedals. How the “symphony” is performed depends on who is pedaling. Performance duration — ongoing, during the exhibition hours. Continue reading “Symphony for 2 bicycles by Alexey Grachev and Alexander Bochkov”

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“Staying with Trouble” at the AIR Gallery of ITMO University

04 March 2021 – 11 April 2021
Saint Petersburg, Birzhevaya Line, House 16, Art & Science Center
Supported by CYLAND MediaLab.

Exactly one year after the start of the pandemic, an international exhibition of scientific and technological art dedicated to exploring the dynamics of viral matter opened in the exhibition space of the Art & Science AIR Center. The project “Staying with the Trouble” brought together well-known contemporary artists from 7 countries, with this exhibition being the first in Russia for most of the foreign participants. Among the exhibits is a new project by the famous artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg, which is being shown for the first time in the world.

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Exhibition “Homage to a Personage” at the Sergei Kuryokhin Center for Contemporary Art

Art Works by Anna Frants and Lyudmila Belova will take part in the exhibition «Homage to a Personage» at the Sergei Kuryokhin Center for Contemporary Art.

Exhibition opening:  February 18 at 7 PM
Hours:
Mon-Sat: 12 AM — 9 PM
Sun: Closed

Sergey Kuryokhin CCA, St. Petersburg,
Ligovsky pr. 73, 4th floor
T: +7 812 322 4223
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Special issue of Leonardo – “Cosmos and Chaos”

Cyland Foundation Inc.

ARE PROUD TO PRESENT:

“Cosmos and Chaos”

A special issue of Leonardo journal (MIT Press).

Leonardo is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by The MIT Press. Founded in 1967 in Paris by kinetic artist and astronautical pioneer Frank Malina, Leonardo has become the leading international journal on the influence of science and contemporary technology on art and music, and also on how art and discoveries in the humanities change science and technology. Leonardo articles are actively indexed and hold third place on Google Scholar among texts on visual art (data for 2020).

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