Category: In Russia

🗓️ November 25-30, 2008

FRANTS GALLERY SPACE
📍23-29 Rubinshteina St., Saint-Petersburg, Russia

The Youth Center of The State Hermitage Museum
 Griaznaya Gallery, LUDA Gallery

The Second International Cyber Art Festival

Robot animals by Zlata Ponirovskaya

Frants Gallery SPb, St. Petersburg Arts Project (NY), Russian National Center for Contemporary Art SPb, CYLAND MediaArtLab (RU) 

CYBERFEST is the first international festival of cyber art in Russia. It  was established in 2007 and 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). Continue reading “CYBERFEST-2008”

🗓️Tuesday, August 19, 2008

FRANTS GALLERY SPACE
📍23-29 Rubinshteina St., Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Contemporary art exhibition “RUBBERS”
– rubber art objects by
Vladimir Kozin

It seems like galoshes were called product ”number one” by the language of soviet official papers. They were dull and unpleasant, according to those days fashion, but now they became amusing and even stylish. At the same time, it is a bit creepy thing, if you remember the unforgettable “Krasnyj Treugolnik” (“Red Triangle”) – a place of forced labor, called “chemistry”, where galoshes were produced. Rubber product “number two” was a condom ” an amusing, indecent and even secret, but very unpleasant thing, according to soviet way of thinking. Now it is banal, like a sugar candy. There are also enemas, pipettes, pacifiers, gas masks, police batons ” tools of salvation and suffering.

In short – rubber is not an ordinary material. Continue reading “VLADIMIR KOZIN“RUBBERS””

February 15-18, 2008

KRONSHTADT CYLAND RESIDENCE
📍2 Yakornaya St. Kronstadt
Saint-Petersburg, 197760 Russia

“Movement Perception” – an online interactive installation by media artist Sergej Kotsun

Project concept: displaying realtionship between the space and the viewer, changes of space in the process of perception viewer’s movements (motion, hand moving, etc…); development of system to perceive audio-visual art, where viewer becames the author himself, the main character of an interactive audio-visual performance. Continue reading “Movement Perception”