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Cyberfest ath the Youth Education
Center of the State Hermitage
From November, 25 to November, 30 the Youth Education Center of the State
Hermitage is the main ground for the Cyberfest-2008 which is the second
international festival of cyber art in Russia. Cyberfest is organized
on the basis of Cyland Media lab, a cooperation project of Russian National
Center for Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg, Russia) and the non-commercial
organization Saint Petersburg Arts Project (New York, USA).
On the opening different performances were demonstrated. They show how
current technologies, electronics, cybernetics, and virtual reality can
become artist's tools. Moreover, these objects correspond to efforts to
comprehend a role of technique and technologies in the contemporary world
by language of art.
Michael a Crest sator Agafja from St. Petersburg presents his audio installation
called "Bragofon-stvol-distillator "Liquidator" which is
a mix of performance, music improvisation, alchemic experiment and friends'
party. Bragophone is a complex system of bottles, retorts and chemical
flasks which distils mysterious liquids. This chemical device is transformed
by artist into a music instrument which plays extensive symphonies of
bubbles, hisses, squeaks and falling drops sounds.
"Drumpainting" is an interactive media performance by Anna
Frants, Michael Chernov and Marina Koldobskaya, where music is transformed
into painting, and the audience is immediately involved into the process.
Visitors have a chance to see a net video project "Touch me"
(idea Anna Frants, curator Anna Kolosova), put on a "Trip" cyber
helmet (produced by Cyland Media lab, concept Anna Frants & Marina
Koldobskaya, programming Oleg Rodionov, engineer Michael Chernov), which
allows a spectator to move inside the exhibition room wearing a helmet
with wireless video goggles. A sensor registers the spectator's walking
speed and transmit their signals to a computer which transforms the signals
into psychedelic visual images. The faster the spectator moves (walks,
turns around, dances), the more intense the psychedelic Trip is.
Among objects showed at the Youth Education Center there is also a cult
"Silver Clouds" installation by Andy Warhol, an artificial "Tide"
of Brose Partington, Ryan Wolfe's "Field of Grass", and a "Model
of bipolar activity" (Dmitry Kawarga, audio George Beloglazov, biofeedback
Timour Shchoukine), which transforms biological currents into music.
On the opening day there was even an opportunity to shoot an artist,
who appears on the screen, and to look at his reaction in a simple but
impressive installation "37" by Vladimir Smirnov-Lilo.
During the Cyberfest two special events will be held at the Youth Education
center:
November, 27 at 6 pm - "The Game of War": lecture and performance
by Richard Barbrook and Class Wargames team
November, 28 at 5 pm - "Leo Theremin. An Electronic Odyssey":
demonstration of a film and a performance "Thereminvox Populi"
by Dmitry Shubin
Youth Education Center of the State Hermitage
The General Staff Building, 6-8, 3rd floor. Tel. 710-95-30
Cyberfest is opened daily, 12 am to 5.30 pm
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At the opening of the exhibition
Audio installation called
"Bragofon-stvol-distillator "Liquidator" by Michael a Crest
Model of bipolar activity
by Dmitry Kawarga
Trip cyber helmet by Cyland
Media lab
37 Media Happening by Vladimir
Lilo
Drumpainting by Cyland Media lab
Artificial Tide of Brose Partington
Silver Clouds installation by Andy Warhol
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