A very actual for this summer video installation “Breath of Air” by Anna Frants was set and shown on 25th of July 2010 at a festival in Ozerki with support from CYLAND Laboratory. “Festival of Workshops” took place from 30th of July till 30th of June in the “Village of Artists”, nearby St.Petersburg in Ozerki. Exact address is Novoselkovskaya street, building 16, “Rural Life” gallery.
|
TREMBLING CREATURES by Anna FrantsFelting by Hannes Kivits
Robotics and programing Aleksei Grachev
In collaboration with CYLAND MediaLab
North Pole - New York, 2010
Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky pondered a question: “Am I a trembling creature or have I the right?” This installation answers positively both parts of this compound question: Yes, you are a trembling creature, and yes, you have the right... to tremble from any change in the world around you as do these hats felted by the Estonian artist ... and set into moving or, rather, into trembling by any motion or gesture of the viewer. Perhaps, they literally follow the mandate of the Apostle Paul and “work out their salvation with fear and trembling”. Or they remind us that life is movement unlike, for instance, immovable stones above the Arctic Circle that, ironically, served as an inspiration for this work. www.annafrants.net |
On 11th June 2010, Sergey Teterin, member of CYLAND MediaLab, presented in Perm his new art-device, which he called “poetophone”. Check the description below.
POETOPHONE (from greek poiētēs – poet and φωνή – voice, sound) – original art device, constructed in 2010 by media artist from Perm – Sergey Teterin. First show took place on 11th June 2010 in “Piotrovsky” book store, Perm, Lunacharskogo street, building 51A.
Poetophone represents a device for the astral connection with russian futurist poets: Burliuk, Mayakovsky, Kruchenykh, Kamensky. During the first presentation of poetophone, there was a reading of famous five-cornered book “Tango with cows” and the ghost of futurist from Perm – Vasily Kamensky hovered over the auditory, invoked with the help of an obsolete, but still operational technology of VHS recording. All participants and spectators of the first poetophone show could listen to the voices of legendary russian futurists and see the flying shadow of Vasily Kamensky over them. While flying over the heads of audience, Kamensky played accordion and yelled futurist chants-poems ( undecipherable).
|
CYLAND member Vladimir Lilo presents photos, video and audio, made with mobile phone. Exhibition opens on April 8, 2010 at St. Petersburg NCCA address. Call in advance to attend the exhibition: 275-47-71 or 8-911-255-3000
Opening on April 8, 18:00
Address: embankment of Fontanka river, 34, A ( left wing of the Sheremetevsky palace).
map
|
Project by Media Lab CYLAND
Concept: Marina
Koldobskaya
Development, computer programming, mechanics: Oleg
Rodionov
Design, smithery: Anton Chumak
St.
Petersburg, Russia. 2009.
|
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”.
gazeta.spb.ru - 17 february. 2010
|
|
Installation
Anna Frants: Concept
Sergey Komarov: Computer Programming
St.Petersburg - New York. 2009.
Old slide projectors create visuals for the
installation: high quality images of new art forms in St. Petersburg.
In the same time projectors take part in creation of sound: rhythmical
change of frames "sings along" with Brahms' music. This symphony is
conducted by a Mac. Spectator selects pictures which he likes from the
kaleidoscopic abundance of those, thereby taking part in creation of
this world, where old and new technologies achieve ideal consonance and
classical music accompanies a rather non-classical look at the city.
{ login: 'sergeyteterin', author: 'sergeyteterin', photo: '176225',
offered: true, ticket: 'e57ed1fb382ce9dc36a861afe1e85dcc', nodes: {
confirm: 'photo-notes-confirm', text: 'photo-notes-text', add:
'photo-notes-add' }, areas: [ ] }
ACT mediasystem, Anna Frants, Marina Koldobskaya,
Sergey Komarov, Anna Matveeva, CYLAND
photo: mansch
|
Cyberhelmet "TRIP"
developed by CYLAND media laboratory
idea by Anna Frants and Marina Koldobskaya
programming by Oleg Rodionov
hardware by Mikhail Chernov
helmet design by Olga Rostorosta
Viewer moves through the exhibition hall in a helmet with wireless video glasses. Motion sensors are embedded into helmet. Glasses and sensors are connected with computer by radio signal. Sensors catch velocity of viewer’s movement and send signals by wireless network to a computer, where they transform into psychedelic visual pattern. Faster moves the viewer (walks, swirls, dances) , stronger the psychedelic TRIP.
|
|
Specially for Cyberfest-2008, a media artist and CYLAND Lab member Anna Frants (USA) prepared new “retro-oriented” art project – “Soda Water”.
Computer technologies bring new life to old things. With the help of special hardware, an ancient soda machine turns into stylish multimedia device, a kind of time machine. Viewer switches this mechanism on by dropping 3 real soviet kopecks, receiving not a glass of soda water after that, but a nostalgic video about relativity of time.
“Soda water” Installation in Frants Gallery Space
Exhibition opening at 26 November 2008
"Lyuda Gallery", Saint Petersburg Russia Additional links: Anna Frants site: www.annafrants.net
Frants Gallery Space site: www.frantsgallery.com |
|
Under the auspices of:
St. Petersburg Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Art
St. Petersburg Arts Project, New York
CYLAND Media Lab Presents
Media Performance DRUMPAINTING
Idea by Anna Frants
programming by Mikhail Chernov
artwork by Marina Koldobskaya
at Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center, CYBERFEST-2009
|
|
Andy Warhol's avatar for cellular phones
Project by Sergey Teterin (CYLAND Media Art Lab)
This project resulted in launching of non-commercial (i.e. free) SMS-service, to let everyone, regardless of location, communicate with “artificial incarnation” of an outstanding American artist and philosopher of culture Andy Warhol. Program of a russian speaking “avatar-lookalike” was based on autobiographical book “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”.
Talks with Warholbot: From US to WB and Back Again
telecommunication art happening
(real logs of talks with Andy Warhol SMS-bot
tel. +7 922 642 2022, number is not available now)
Creatures who take part:
US – Unknown (also accidental) Subscriber of mobile network
WB – WarholBot, answering incoming SMS
Dialogue one
US: Ira is that you?
WB: Friends call me Drella. It is something between Dracula and Cinderella.
US: Say me more about yourself.
WB:
I am always sure, I can look into mirror and see nothing. Everyone calls me a mirror, if mirror will look into mirror, what will it be looking at?
US: So, you are not existing?
WB: I am the same Nothing as you – if you’ll look at this honestly.
US: I can see myself in the mirror, opposing to you.
WB: What is the date of your birthday?
US: Do you want to come?
WB: As soon as you stop wanting something, you immediately get it. I found out, this is an absolute axiom.
|
|
Movie Mincer – PC-compatible device for cinema and VJ showsProject by Sergey Teterin (CYLAND Media Art Lab) Media art performance, with cinema show MOVIE MINCER is an original artistic tool: an old Soviet mincingmachine, bought at city flea market in Russia, turned into PC compatible devicefor manual production of 'original moving pictures', projected on the big screen.Computer connection is done through standard PS/2 port. Movie Mincer allows to show motion pictures by turning the mincer's handle, reviving and parodying the atmosphere of the first performances from the very dawn of cinema era.  Sergey Teterin in Lviv with the Movie Mincer, September 2008 Movie Mincer was constructed by Russian media artist Sergey Teterin in 2004. An old soviet mincer is used as a laptop-connected device for manually generated cinema (mincer > laptop > beamer > screen). No special video-software is required. No video at all - just a real 'moving pictures'!
First show from the Movie Mincer – 21st may 2004 Central Exhibition Hall, Perm, celebration of Salvador Dali jubilee. |
|
|
Our Projects
