June 14, 2009
7:30 pm
FREUD’S DREAM MUSEUM
Institute of Psychoanalysis
18 A, Bolshoy prospekt Petrogradskoy storony, St.Petersburg, 197198 Russia
Tel: 8 911 784 21 17
CYLAND MediaArtLab Kronshtadt, NCCA St.Petersburg branch and SPB Arts Project, New York present two lectures in one day from “Prometheus” research institute in St. Petersburg
Speakers:
Alexander Ovsyannikov (“Prometheus” research institute, Kazan)
Leon Theremin – the pioneer of electronic art “Prometheus” research institute – art of the space age.
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.