The 10th CYFEST in Saint-Petersburg – Educational Program

CYFEST 2017: ABOUT FESTIVAL – PROGRAM – EXHIBITIONS – SOUND ART – EDUCATION – PARTICIPANTS – OPENING HOURS AND TICKETS – PRESS AND REPORTS – CONTACTS

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

Youth Educational Centre of the State Hermitage Museum
Curated by Sofia Kudryavtseva (Russia)

St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design
Сurated by Anna Frants (Russia-USA), Sofia Kudryavtseva (Russia)

Participants
Dmitry Bulatov (Russia)
Alexandra Dementieva (Belgium)
William Latham (UK)
Igor Molochevski (USA)
Irina Nakhova (Russia)
Danielle Siembieda (USA)
Anna Frants (Russia-USA)

Youth Educational Centre of the State Hermitage Museum
Lectures at the Youth Educational Center of the State Hermitage accessed from Moika emb. 47.

January 26, 19:00
Irina Nakhova (Russia)
20–21. Sentimental Education in the Global Village
lecture

Photography Anton Khlabov

The Moscow artist Irina Nakhova, using the example of individual works, will trace the development of art from a traditional picture to multimedia installations. The topics of her lecture are the space of the individual and the challenge to the artist in the world of common illusions and private opinions.

Irina Nakhova
Artist. Born in 1955 in Moscow, USSR. Graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute (USSR). She is a pioneer of the genre of total installation in Soviet underground art. Nakhova concurrently works with painting and installation, the most vivid of which employs painting, digital printing, sculpture and interactive video and audio. In 2013, she won the Kandinsky Prize (Russia) for Best Project of the Year for “Untitled”, an installation that uses photography and film from the 1920’s until today from her own personal archive. Since 1989, her work has been exhibited throughout Europe and the USA. Nakhova has been selected to have a solo exhibit at the Russian Pavilion for the 56th Venice Biennale (Italy, 2015). Lives and works in Moscow, Russia, and in the USA.
Irina Nakhova – Wikipedia
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January 27, 19:00
William Latham (UK)
Mutator VR
lecture

William Latham will talk about the history of his pioneering art, from his early rule-based drawings created in the mid-’80s, to his recent work creating immersive evolving worlds in Virtual Reality for HTC Vive. He will also talk about his time applying his organic art style to Rave music visuals and games development in Soho, London in the ’90s. He will finally talk briefly about recent collaborative art/science projects in Neuroscience and Bioinformatics.

William Latham
Artist, computer scientist. Born in 1961 in the UK. Originally trained as an artist at the Oxford University (UK) and the Royal College of Art (London, UK). Well known for his evolutionary art created from 1987 to 1993 whilst a Research Fellow at the IBM Scientific Centre in Winchester, UK. His pioneering organic art based on the concept of “evolution by aesthetics” was shown widely in major touring shows in the UK, Germany and Japan in the 90s. From 1993 to 2003 he worked in Rave Music and computer games development working with Universal, Sony SCEE and Warner Bros. In 2007 Latham became Professor of Computer Art at Goldsmiths (University of London, UK) and returned to his artistic origins and restarted his long term collaboration with mathematician Stephen Todd. Since late 2015 he has worked extensively in VR developing “Mutator VR”. Lives and works in London, UK.
latham-mutator.com
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January 31, 19:00
Danielle Siembieda (USA)
“Leonardo” Focused
lecture

Photography Anton Khlabov

Danielle Siembieda, Deputy Director of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology “Leonardo”, will talk about the society’s work and publishing activities in the field of interdisciplinary art.

CYFEST 10 – Interview with Danielle Siembieda (VIDEO)

Danielle Siembieda
Art service provider, creative entrepreneur. She works at the intersection of Social Practice, Institutional Critique, Intervention and New Media. Most of her work includes an emphasis on the environment and technology. Her most recent project, “The Art Inspector” began in 2009 as a method to reduce the carbon footprint of art. Currently she is the Deputy Director of Leonardo/ISAST, an organization that showcases work in the intersection of art, science and technology. Lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA.
www.siembieda.com
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February 2, 19:00
Dmitry Bulatov (Russia)
Art & Science: Art in Research Labs
lecture

The ambition of modern science to understand and thus to overcome a whole series of natural laws makes us recall the famous dictum of Goethe “Stirb und werde” — die and become. Or, to use contemporary language, it involves the effort of mastering the post-biological “personology”, i.e. the infinitely profound intertwinement of living and nonliving, artificial and natural etc. With a focus on works of art created with the use of cutting-edge methods of the 21st century — robotics, IT and biomedicine — the curator of the National Center for Contemporary Art Dmitry Bulatov attempts to ascertain what lies at the basis of the emergence of the “artificial”, “technological” reality, how this reality affects us, and whether it is possible to reinvent a language that would construct and describe the world of technologies. The purpose of this lecture is to demonstrate how artists create new forms and new identities, not as protagonists of a technological narrative defined by history, but as its creators.

Dmitry Bulatov
Artist, art theorist, curator, organizer of exhibition and publishing projects in the fields of science art and new media. Born in 1968 in Kaliningrad, USSR. His works were showcased at various exhibitions and festivals including the 49th and 50th Venice Biennale (Italy, 2001, 2003), Ars Electronica Festival (Linz, Austria, 2002) and others. He organized and curated over 20 international exhibitions, among which is “Soft Control: Art, Science and Technological Unconscious” as part of the program “Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012” (Maribor, Slovenia). Member of editorial boards of the contemporary-art magazines “DOC(K)S” (France) and “Noema” (Italy). Twice the recipient of national prize “Innovation” (Russia, 2008, 2013). In 2014, he was nominated for Golden Nica of the Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) in the category “Visionary Pioneers of Media Art”. Lives and works in Kaliningrad, Russia, being the curator of Baltic Branch of NCCA.
www.ncca-kaliningrad.ru/staff/dmitrijj-bulatov/

St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design
St. Petersburg, Solyanoy per., 13–15

January 28, 19:00
Alexandra Dementieva (Belgium)
New Technologies in Public Space Installations
lecture

Photography Anton Khlabov

Installations of digital art open up new possibilities for the viewers in terms of active participation in a work of art. Artists and designers have the opportunity to play with “real / virtual” boundaries. Touching, physical participation and social interaction are becoming essential. Museums, galleries and many public places follow their lead by creating new spaces and adapting old ones for digital art installations and projections.

Alexandra Dementieva
Artist. Born in 1960 in Moscow, USSR. Studied journalism and fine arts in Moscow (USSR) and Brussels (Belgium). Her principal interest as an artist is the use of social psychology, perception theory and behaviorism in her installations as well as the development of film narration through the point of view of a subjective camera. She has been an active participant of the CYLAND Media Art Lab since 2008. Professor at the Royal Academy of Arts (Brussels, Belgium). Dementieva received the first prize for the best monochannel video at VAD Festival (Girona, Spain). She is a participant of numerous exhibitions in major Russian and international cultural institutions, including Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (Russia), Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City, Mexico) and others. Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
www.alexdementieva.org
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February 2-3, 16:00
Igor Molochevski (USA)
Interfaze
master class

Photography Anton Khlabov

The New York-based media artist Igor Molochevsky holds a master class about creating interfaces on the basis of the program Isadora from the company Troika Troni.

Igor Molochevski
Artist, photographer. Born in 1976 in Kiev, USSR (now Ukraine). His workflow includes live coding, interactive and generative programing, kinetic sculptures, sound design and digital imaging. He has exhibited his work in such cultural centers as Museum of Contemporary Art (Zagreb, Croatia), Museum of Russian Art (Minneapolis, USA), Whitebox Art Center (New York, USA), Winzavod Contemporary Art Center (Moscow, Russia). He is currently employed by the Department of Digital Art of the Pratt institute, New York, USA. Lives in New York, USA.
www.bareimage.com
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February 6, 19:00
Anna Frants (Russia-USA)
Design vs. Art vs. Design
lecture

Design and art are created on the same database with the help of unique imagination and a unique set of skills that are usually expressed in visual form, and nowadays also in computer programming, sound and other forms. “Design vs. Art vs. Design” is a lecture and discussion about how contemporary forms of electronic depiction influence our concept of similarities and differences in art and design.

Anna Frants
Artist, curator in the field of media art. Born in 1965 in Leningrad, USSR. She graduated from the Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design (Leningrad, USSR) and Pratt Institute (New York, USA). Cofounder of the nonprofit cultural foundation St. Petersburg Arts Project, CYLAND Media Art Lab and Cyfest festival. Frants’ interactive installations have been showcased at Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Russia), Video Guerrilha Festival (Brazil), SIGGRAPH Asia Conference (Hong Kong), Manifesta 10 Biennale (St. Petersburg, Russia, 2014), Museum of Art and Design (New York, USA), Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), Chelsea Art Museum (New York, USA), Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), Kunstquartier Bethanien (Berlin, Germany) and at other major venues all over the world. The artist’s works are in the collections of Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), Museum of Art and Design (New York, USA), Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Kolodzei Art Foundation (New York, USA) as well as in numerous private collections. Lives and works in New York, USA, and St. Petersburg, Russia.
www.annafrants.net