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CYBERFEST 2013: TIME & PLACE

 

🗓️November 13-17, 2013

THE WYE

📍68, Skalitzer Straße   Berlin 10997 Germany

🔹 CYBERFEST 2013: Time & Place🔹

 

 

FESTIVAL CURATORS:
Anna Frants, Marina Koldobskaya, Lea Stuhltrager, Vika Ilyushkina, Sergey Komarov

FESTIVAL BOARD:
Silvia Burini (Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy),
Dmitry Ozerkov (State Hermitage Museum),
Irina Karasik (Doctor of Art History, Senior Researcher at the Russian Museum, Russia),
Gediminas Urbonas (USA, Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
Tatiana Bazzichelli (Germany, Curator at Transmediale),
Manuela Benetton (Germany, Curator),
Phill Niblock (USA, Composer)

TIME & PLACE
The Experience of a Changing Landscape

We record time, and time records us. Some people have implanted electronic clocks into their bodies. They say it helps with jet lag.

We change our locations at a dizzying speed. There are people who live on airplanes having business across four continents, homes in three climate zones, daily speech in five languages.

The traditional “unity of time and place” has paradoxically been revived on the internet: there, we all live together, simultaneously and instantly. Time: now.
Place: nowhere.

In traditional societies, time was the variable, place the constant. Cyclical time (day–night, winter–summer, youth–old age repeating in the next generation)
struggled with apocalyptic time—from Creation to the Last Judgment.

Generations came and went far faster than the environment changed. Ideally, it never changed at all, because reshaping the landscape required catastrophes—natural or human-made—like a volcanic eruption or a great migration. No one welcomed such changes, just as no one welcomes catastrophic changes to their own body.

With the rise of modernism, Einstein’s space-time loomed somewhere at the edge of consciousness, a reminder that things are not as they seem. And so it was—modernism may rightly be called a catastrophe—both natural and humanitarian. Industrialization, urbanization, revolution, world war, and another, and endless reconstruction— they scorched the ground beneath our feet and turned us all into nomads, whether we wanted it or not.
Those who began life in one set of circumstances ended it in another entirely.

Then Microsoft and Macintosh triumphantly swept over everything.

So what surrounds us—here and now? Houses, trees, statues, temples, and graves still stand, still visible, still occupy some place in our lives—or rather, in our memory. Because now the house is “smart,” the landscape is “cultural,” the space is “informational.”

Where do we live? The city walls are no longer stone upon stone, protection and sanctuary. Nor are they the futurists’ dream—transparent, luminous glass reflecting the whole world. It’s a screen now, showing you whatever you want—
God, the devil, your grandmother, dying children in Africa, polar bears in the Arctic. Swap them around as you like—grandma in Africa, happy children at the North Pole, penguins in paradise.

When do we live? Time is activated with a mouse click and splits into segments of preferred length and scroll speed.

The exhibition TIME & PLACE is about life among flickering images.
What is an artist to do, knowing their true worth?

Make new images. With sheer will, draw their own coordinate system in the electronic chaos, where nothing is real anymore, and only two things still fill the soul with sacred awe: the starry sky above us and the moral law within.

— Marina Koldobskaya

Exhibitions

CAPITAL OF NOWHERE
Venue: The WYE Event Hall
Curators: Anna Frants, Marina Koldobskaya
Artists and Works:

  • Lyudmila Belova, Forced Perspective

  • Pyotr Bely, Useless Alphabet

  • Elena Gubanova & Ivan Govorkov, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

  • Anna Frants, Made in Ancient Greece, Sock Snatcher

  • Pavel Ivanov, Alexey Grachev, Shards

  • Marina Koldobskaya, Roman Holiday, Changing Landscape

  • Vitaly Pushnitsky, Waiting

  • Pyotr Shvetsov, Tanya

  • Alexander Terebenin, Horizon Line

  • Sergey Teterin, Meat Grinder Cinema

  • Andriy Linik, Om

  • Anton Chumak, Protozoa III

PARADIGM SHIFT
Venue: The WYE Lounge & Conference Room
Curator: Lea Stuhltrager

Artists and Works:

  • Ryan Wolfe, Branching Systems

  • Disney Nasa Borg, Aesthetics of Decay, Design for Dying Electronics

  • Ken Butler, Voices of Anxious Objects

  • Cris Dam, Explosive Target

  • Christine Gedeon, Divergent Walks; Gridded Cities

  • Pablo Fernandez, 0–100

  • Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Blood Sacrifice

Video Art Program

CHANGING LANDSCAPES 2
Video works from the CYLAND media lab archive, curated by Victoria Ilyushkina

BERLIN FILM COMMUNITY SCREENING
“KOMM UND SPIEL” (COME AND PLAY)
Director: Daria Belova

Sound Art Program

AETHER
Sound art from the CYLAND media lab archive, curated by Sergey Komarov and Vladislav Dobrovolsky

Artists and Works:

  • Nick Edwards

  • Peter Vogel

  • Hans Tammen

  • Pete Um

  • Jonas Gruska

  • Vlad Dobrovolsky

  • Art Electronix

  • Yohio Machida

  • Vasily Stepanov

  • ::vtol::

Performances

  • Ken Butler (USA)

  • Yohio Machida (Japan)

  • ::vtol:: (Russia)

  • Kurvenschreiber (Russia)

  • Ame Zek (Germany)

  • KETEV (Yair Elazar Glotman, Germany)

Educational Program

  • Discussion: Art Meets Tech

  • Discussion: Artistic Discourse in the Digital Age

  • Discussion: Sound Art in Contemporary Musical Practices

  • Seminar: Leap Motion Technology by Daniil Frants (USA)

  • Seminar: Data Visualization in Creative Coding Environments by Pavel Ivanov and Alexey Grachev (Russia)

  • Live broadcast of CYBERFEST 2013 at the Youth Education Center of the State Hermitage Museum (Russia)

Extended Program

SCHIZOPHRENIA 2.0 TAIWAN
November 26 – December 1, 2013
at the Youth Education Center of the State Hermitage Museum

 

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