CYFEST11 Weather Forecast Exhibition Opens in New York

CYFEST is proud to once again partner with The Made in NY Media Center by IFP for an exhibition opening December 7, 2017.

CYLAND MediaArtLab in collaboration with Made in NY Media Center by IFP present:
CYFEST11: Weather Forecast : Digital Cloudiness
EXHIBITION: December 7th-30th
VENUE: The Made in NY Media Center by IFP
30 John St, Brooklyn, NY

CYFEST11: Weather Forecast : Digital Cloudiness opening night. Photography by Kevin Josephs.

Video Curator Victoia Ilyushkina presented CYFEST’S DIGITAL VIDEO ART PROGRAM:

TO TOUCH THE SKY

The annual CYFEST Digital Video Art Program is a selection of 20 art works which are chosen from international submissions via an open call.

The series explores the role of art in our current forecast — bringing into focus how artists absorb modern technologies as tools to create mirrors of our current selves; uncovering how we, the population at large, currently rely on augmentation through vast digital means.

THE CYFEST 11 DIGITAL VIDEO PROGRAM is a curated selection of video art works, in various innovative genres: animated gifs, net art, 3D and stop-motion animation, cinema 4D, mockumentary and performance art, gaming, digital collage, and experimental films. The program features Russian artists from Petersburg and Moscow.

Alexander Borisov (Russia), Mark Cypher (Australia), Kseniia Galkina (Russia), Ariane Loze (Belgium), Egor Kraft, Pekka Tynkkynen Alina Kvirkveliya & Karina Golubenko (Finland-Russia), Maxim Svishyov (Russia), Alexander Dupuis (USA), Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai (Russia), Ben Grosser (USA), Kuesti Fraun (Germany), Eden Mitsenmacher & Rebecca Tritschler (Netherlands), Dagnini (Russia), Greg Marshall (Canada), Andréa Stanislav (USA), AUJIK (Sweden), Tanya Akhmetgalieva (Russia), Alexander Senko (Russia), Elena Gubanova & Ivan Govorkov (Russia), Andrey Kasay (Russia).

Also on display are an installation by Donato Piccolo, an Italian artist working with new technologies, and Cloudy with a Chance of Pixels, a collaborative work made specifically for the 27-screen video wall by Blake Marques Carrington’s Interactive Studio I class at Pratt Institute’s Department of Digital Arts.

Donato Piccolo – Walking on the Cloud

shoes, electronic systems, motors, plexiglass, steel, distilled water, nebulizers, dim. 100x100x100cm
Courtesy CYLAND MediaArtLab and Galerie Mazzoli, 2017

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“Walking on the Cloud” by Donato Piccolo. Installation view: The Made in NY Media Center by IFP, 2017

Donato Piccolo works on the imaginary line between art and science, sculpture and machine; he plays on new technologies with a keen sense of irony. Natural, dynamics, physics, and electronic phenomena are turned into kinetic installations, emotional states, bachelor machines, pure abstraction of the human spirit. For 11th Cyfest in New York, Donato Piccolo is going to show a part of the project “Thinking the unthinkable”, curated by Isabella Indolfi and premiered in the Hermitage State Museum in St Petersburg on November 2017 and developed thank Cyland Media Art Lab and Galerie Mazzoli.

“Thinking the unthinkable” is a metaphor, an experiment on human limits and possibilities, on the relationship between nature and artifice.

Donato Piccolo (b. 1976 in Rome, Italy) participated in the 52 and 54th Venice Biennale and exhibited in important museums around the world: Himalayas Art Center, Shanghai (China) / Centro de Desarollo de las Artes Visuales de Havana (Cuba) / MAXXI e MACRO, Roma (Italia) / Cini Foundation, Venezia (Italia) / Fondation Francès, Senlis (France) / Galleria Civica, Modena (Italia) / Boghossian Foundation, Brussels (Belgium) / Beyond Museum, Seoul (South Korea) / George Kolbe Museum, Berlin (Germany) / StadtGalerie Museum, Kiel (Germany) / ISCP, New York (USA)

Cloudy with a Chance of Pixels

Video installation, 2017

Cloudy with a Chance of Pixels CYFESTStill from “Cloudy with a Chance of Pixels”, 2017

Cloudy with a Chance of Pixels is a collaborative work made specifically for the 27-screen video wall by Blake Marques Carrington’s Interactive Studio I class at Pratt Institute’s Department of Digital Arts. Taking inspiration from the festival theme of “Digital Cloudiness”, a team of 9 digital arts students explore ideas around pixelated nature, universal simulation, and the data cloud as a new form of environment. These young artists investigate possibilities for tearing open analog reality, finding consciousness and meditation in a torrent of data.

Collaborating artists: Holly Adams, Tess Adams, Anthony Caviels, Heidy Cordero-Avias, Lauren Dimaya, Miachel Lee, Krystal Li, Jared Lynch, Naeem Murdic.

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CYFEST (КИБЕРФЕСТ) – one of the largest international media art festivals, it was founded in St. Petersburg in 2007 by independent artists and curators. The festival promotes the emergence of new forms of art and high technology interactions, developing professional connections between artists, curators, engineers and programmers around the world and exposing wide audiences to the works in the field of robotics, video art, sound art and net art. Over the years, the festival has invited artists from Russia, USA, Germany, Japan, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Finland, Italy, the Philippines and other countries.
During its existence, the festival has earned a reputation as the original and the most significant New Media event in Russia. Making a pivotal leap in 2013 — CYFEST’s 7th edition expanded for the first time outside Russia to Berlin, attracting over 10,000 visitors over 5 days. In 2014/2015, CYLAND & CYFEST reached further by branching to 5 innovative cities (St Petersburg, Moscow, Tokyo, Berlin, New York) on the Art & Tech frontier, strengthening cultural exchange among innovators. For its 10 anniversary 2017, CYFEST gathered more than 100 artists from 20 countries.
CYFEST has had partnerships with respected classical and experimental art institutions including the Scientific Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, Museum of Applied Arts of St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, Youth Educational Centre of the State Hermitage Museum, Taiga Creative Space, Luda Gallery, Golitsyn Hall, and St. Petersburg Sound Museum.

CYLAND MediaArtLab is one of Russia’s most active New Media art nonprofit organizations and has headquarters in St Petersburg, Russia and NYC.

The Made in NY Media Center by IFP, designed by MESH Architects, is a multi- disciplinary creative space with over 20,000 square feet at 30 John Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

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