* 3rd CYBERFEST opened at
November! CYBERFEST – is the only International festival of cybernetic art in
Russia (i.e. art, that combines living, biological and somatic
substance with technical and computer devices).
* CYLAND Media Art Laboratory in Kronstadt is an artistic laboratory created by St.
Petersburg branch of Russian National Center for Contemporary Art in
cooperation with St. Petersburg Arts Project Fund, 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. Read more...
Russian videoart exhibition online!
Our site presents an exhibition of Russian videoartists.
An exhibition, where CYLAND
MediaArtLab artists are taking part, opened on 26th February in Berlin.
It runs inConcentArt e.V.at:
Kreuzbergstr.28, D-10965 Berlin - until 27th March. Project organized
byDam, Stuhltrager gallery (New
York).
CYLAND MediaArtLAb presents Russian videoart program in New York (program selection by Vika Ilyushkina):
A Video Serenade:
Selected works by artists from Norway, Serbia, Russia, and the UK
Tuesday March 2, 2010 at 6:30pm
at EFA Project Space : 323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor
EFA Project Space presents A VIDEO SERENADE, a screening of recent works selected by ArtVideoExchange (AVE) and Format Network. AVE is an international exchange program and initiative between artists and curators that promotes the production and circulation of video programming worldwide. Format Network is an artists’ group based in Bristol, UK that focuses on staging activities of exchange and engagement, including screenings and exhibitions, lectures by invited artists, critics and theorists, and open-mic performance evenings.
A VIDEO SERENADE presents a wide range of contemporary video, from the performative to the personal to the fictive and the documentary. The program aims to reflect the unique mix of themes and approaches to video as exemplified by the artists supported by these two groups.
The kinetic sculpture Connect consists of thirteen oscillating spheres of steel connected to a matrix with a rubber bund. A rod with a magnet on each side controls the action of each of the system elements. Once a sphere is connected to the rod, a motor activates its oscillation as long as the rod detaches and rebuilds a new connection to another sphere. Each element has its own simple program logic and there is no main program which controls the system from the outside. No random or chaos must be simulated, because the always rebuilt physical structure of the sculpture becomes its own analogue program for non-linear behavior. Therefore the system produces complex behavior, although its structure and rules are very simple.
One more piece of news about Cyland residence in Kronshtadt was added to our projects in three different versions (three reports from baltic mass media):
Icicle grew upwards in Kronshtadt
According to the information from “BaltInfo”,
this is not a nature's freak, but a high tech work of art.
An ice lance, 4.5 meters high, located near the doors of National Center for Contemporary Arts, Kronshtadt residence – is a work of artist Mikhael Crest. He grew it for four days. Using a special mast, he took out the piping from the window of a residence and poured very thin trickle of water to the ground. With more than ten degrees below zero outside, drops of water quickly turned into ice.
“This is an ecological sculpture – explained Mikhael Crest. Not in the environment protection sense, but it is made of environment, hence it is ecologically pure”.
I didn't cut it, didn't polished -this is half natural, not processed with hands outgrowth. A falsification of reality. Some kind of hyper realism: like if it grew out of the ground, ruling out all gravity laws. I searched Internet – no one is doing such things. So, this is one of a kind giant icicle. Next year I want to grow it seven meters high. And then we can even make a festival of such icicles. Ten-twenty degrees below zero are optimal for the creation of such things.
By the way, Mikhael called his sculpture “American Icicle” or “Positive Icicle”.
FoAM's burgeoning intergenerational residency programme, combined with Alex
Davies and Alexandra Crosby's experiment in parenting has produced some
interesting results. Alex Davies is a Sydney artist, until recently based in
Austria working with Time’s Up (http://www.timesup.org)
In On Gaps and Silent Documents international artists
question the
absence of documents and data in archives, data banks and memory.
What is
missing? Has it never been there or has it been removed? Does
available
information exist that is not looked at, read or used? Archives and
data
banks are primarily determined by these gaps and silent documents.
As Sven
Spieker notes, "Archives are less concerned with memory than with
the
necessity to discard, erase, eliminate." Creating archives is
continual
selection. As such, it reveals the priorities and blind spots of the
keeper
of the archives, his world and his time.
St. Petersburg branch of National Center for Contemporary Arts
and Cyland media laboratory
present
Video show «Trails of Fabrika»
February 12th , 19:00
NCCA exhibition hall
Address: Emb. of the Fontanka river, 34, A (a wing of the Sheremetevsky palace).
Video program curator: Eleonore de Montesquiou
Organizer: Viktoria Ilyushkina
Works from the «For example, Fabrika» exhibition in «PROEKT_FABRIKA», Moscow, will be presented within the frame of this show. Also, there will be video projects of artists, who worked in the residency of NCCA, Spb branch at different times - Eleonore de Montesquiou and Romana Schmalisch.
One more video from Transmediale 2010, by Xpertina Marilu:
With VALU€S I-Wei Li attempts to resolve the stressful and difficult issue of which ingredients add value to an artwork or reputation of an artist by revealing to artists their exact market value in real time. Using a super-powerful machine, specifically designed for transmediale.10, the artist will record a participant’s neurological reactions to five questions relating to art or their own art practice. A mega-computer linked to a reliable database of cultural references calculates the potential value of each participant on the basis of the given answers. Each candidate obtains a ‘diploma’ whose size is proportional to the value achieved. Thus, people at transmediale.10 can compare their VALU€S and contemplate – what is the greatest value of all?
