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Acqua vita. Short trip

Cyland Foundation Inc.
Frants Gallery Space in SPb
NCCA SPb, Russia

cordially invite you
to attend the opening reception
“Acqua vita. Short trip”
Jane Greer, NY, photography.
Ljudmila Belova (Saint-Petersburg), video, photography

Opening: August 25, 2009
7:00 -10:00 pm.
Rubinshteina str., 23-39
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Tel: 764 83 37
“Acqua vita. Short trip”

This project consists of photos by New York artist Jane Greer, shot in Varanasi (India), documenting the ritual of committing ash to the water, and also videos and photos by St. Petersburg artist Liudmila Belova, shot in Venice, during the recent Biennale of contemporary art.

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Cyland Workshop for Japanese children

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:

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Cyland goes to Japan!

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

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Two lectures from “Prometheus” research institute in St. Petersburg

CYLAND MediaArtLab Kronshtadt,
NCCA St.Petersburg branch and SPB Arts Project, New York
present
Lectures by Alexander Ovsyannikov
(“Prometheus” research institute, Kazan)
Leon Theremin – the pioneer of electronic art
“Prometheus” research institute – art of the space age

FREUD’S DREAM MUSEUM, St.Petersburg

– Sportivnaya metro station, Bolshoy prospekt Petrogradskoy storony, building 18 A,
Institute of psychoanalysis, Contacts: 8 911 784 21 17
Two lectures in one day – 14th of June.
Beginning will be at 17.30.

A curator of Kazan light music center “Prometheus” Alexander Ovsyannikov will present a program about activities of the world-famous collective “Prometheus”, which started in 1962 and since this time worked its way up from amateur student’s construction department to the joint research institute ”Prometheus” of A.N. Tupolev State Technical University of Kazan and Tatarstan Academy of Sciences. The name “Prometheus”, which became a Kazan brand for a long time, closely connected with its permanent leader, light music pioneer, author of all technical and art projects in various spheres, corresponding member of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, professor Bulat Makhmudovich Galeyev.

* «Prometheus» webpage

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Anna Frants. «VISIONARY DREAMS #3245-3351»

December 23 – January 3, 2009
«VISIONARY DREAMS #3245-3351»
Video Installations In the gallery halls

Anna Frants is a multimedia artist living in New York. She was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where she graduated from the Mukhina Academy of Arts in 1989, receiving a solid classical education. She then expanded her range of interests by mastering new areas such as computer imaging and animation. Continue reading “Anna Frants. «VISIONARY DREAMS #3245-3351»”

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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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