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THE 9TH ANNUAL CYBERFEST = EXHIBIT=20 PROGRAM
November 25 =E2=80=93 December = 2
Exhibition PATTERNS OF THE=20 MIND
Curated by Anna Frants = and=20 Elena Gubanova
The Youth Educational Center of the = State=20 Hermitage Museum
Dvortsovaya pl. 6/8
TU =E2=80=93 SA 11:00 =E2=80=93 = 18:00
OPENING: November 25, 6:30 PM
State Hermitage, General Staff,
entrance from Moika River Embankment, = d. 47
The 9th ANNUAL CYBERFEST Exhibition, =E2=80=9CPATTERNS OF THE = MIND=E2=80=9D,=20 explores the resurgence of the artist=E2=80=99s message across media and = the complex new=20 forms that have evolved to complicate the production and perception of = art=20 itself.
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photography by Mikhail Grigoryev
Featured works:
Reciprocal Resonances Refracted (St Petersburg version)
Sound installation
This acoustic project involves projecting sound visualisations = activated by=20 live audience participation, and was initially shown in a collateral = exhibition=20 at Palazzo Bembo within the 55th Venice Biennale 2013. The program = Overtone=20 Analyzer allows interactive sound generation to become visual = mark-making=20 through reciprocal sonic play, and here is activated by many triangles = suspended=20 in the space. In the St Petersburg version an interest in Russian bell = ringing=20 and its ways of communicating collectively will be echoed in the way = that the=20 triangles are hung and interacted with. Revolvingperspex tubes will = refract the=20 sound visualisations into circular patterns that amplify the space, = recalling=20 lighthouse beams across water.
Nicola lives and works in London, UK. Her art practice = engages with=20 sonic visualizations through sited acoustic experimentation either = interactively=20 or through the use of pre-recorded sounds. Since 2012 she has developed = the=20 visualization of interplanetary electro-acoustic transmissions picked up = by=20 receivers on earth =E2=80=93 http://www.nicolarae.co.uk/
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Hands
Video
On this video, we observe the hands of an artist. We shall never = learn what=20 they would ultimately mold =E2=80=94 we only see the unending = creative process.=20 Whatever instrument an artist uses =E2=80=94 a paintbrush, a chisel = or a=20 computer =E2=80=94 he holds it in his hands while creating his work = of art. And=20 sometimes, as it is the case here, it is done with his bare hands. Hands = are a=20 symbol of the artist's craft, his creative work=E2=80=A6 and = miracle-working.
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Anna Frants = is an=20 international new media artist and curator.
Anna Frants=E2=80=99 interactive art installations have been = exhibited at top venues=20 across the world.
An accomplished artist, Frants is also a distinguished curator active = in=20 expanding and progressing the international field of New Media. She is=20 co-founder of Cyland =E2=80=94 a nonprofit that organizes an annual = new media=20 festival held throughout St Petersburg. Cyland also houses Eastern = Europe's=20 largest video archive and hosts an artist residency program.
Anna = graduated=20 from Baron Stieglitz St.Petersburg Academy of Art & Industry in = Russia and=20 Pratt Institute School of Advanced Studies in New York. She spends her = time=20 split between Russia and New York.
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Running High
Video installation
Thematically the work deals with the concept of virtuality, = especially the=20 electronic network based virtuality, the way it is manifested and = implemented=20 almost everywhere in today's modern society. The art project also = concerns the=20 challenges and consequences resulting from the great paradigm shift of = our time=20 i.e. the change as we now definitely and irreversibly leave the physical = based=20 society and enter the virtual networked electronic based society.
=E2=80=9CRunning High=E2=80=9D will deal with the constant changes = and the fast pace of=20 change. The constant development of movement in all areas, the = expectation of=20 constant growth. Modern human beings are now more or less in a state of = constant=20 motion and at an ever more faster pace. But most people are not = physically in=20 motion, actually rather less, due to the ever increasing situation = working in=20 front of computers, The high pace and speed is mostly taking place in = the mind,=20 leading to high stress levels and frustrations. Both the intensity and = speed of=20 change is in stark contrast to how the human species has evolved and = developed=20 physically and intellectually over the last thousands of years up until=20 today.
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Sven Pahlsson is a Swedish visual artist who was born in = 1965. Sven=20 Pahlsson has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at = the The=20 Field Museum and at the Arkitektur Museet =E2=80=94 The Norwegian = Museum of=20 Architecture. There have been Several articles about Sven Pahlsson, = including=20 'Art Review; Architectural Visions Keep Dreamers Awake' written by = Holland=20 Cotter for New York Times in 2002.
Runaways
Video
The Runaways is a performance video, where the artist (filmed running = in a=20 real landscape) and =E2=80=9CI=E2=80=9D (artist=E2=80=99s avatar = recorded running in a virtual=20 construction of a landscape) converge as operators in an ontological=20 metanarrative.
The central question Carla is posing is =E2=80=9Cwho are we, as 21st = Century minds=20 and bodies, existing within the porous frameworks of sublime natural and = technological environments? Emerging from this query is in an absurdist=20 =E2=80=9Csurvival of the fittest=E2=80=9D race, where she competes = against her virtual self,=20 i.e. her =E2=80=9Csuper self=E2=80=9D, a seemingly immortal piece of = encoded human=20 representation residing in a highly mutable digital land of Oz.
In the realm of the algorithmic mind anything is possible and virtual = her can=20 teleport within seconds to an exotic tropical island or to a snowy = winter=20 wonderland, but what are the implications of a real woman running down = the=20 middle of a rural highway, not yet denatured, on an icy morning, quite = possibly=20 imperiling her life? Once digital entertainment value is added, a = kaleidoscopic=20 sky and a 3D avatar, thinner and faster than she, do we really care?
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Carla Gannis, originally from Oxford, North Carolina, today lives and = works=20 in Brooklyn, New York.
Gannis identifies as a visual storyteller. = With the=20 use of 21st Century representational technologies she narrates through a = =E2=80=9Cdigital looking glass=E2=80=9D where reflections on power, = sexuality, marginalization,=20 and agency often emerge. She is fascinated by contemporary modes of = digital=20 communication, the power (and sometimes the perversity) of popular = iconography,=20 and the situation of identity in the blurring contexts of technological=20 virtuality and biological reality.
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GogatsuByo
Music: Philippe Lamy
Video
In GogatsuByo, an avatar based on the artist is in permanent = conversation=20 with its reflection in moments of demise =E2=80=94 a contemporary = nod to the Greek=20 Narcissus myth and the virtual narcissistic culture of today=E2=80=99s = social media. The=20 artists play with numbers, computer interfaces, and word commands = accompanied by=20 an electronic soundtrack
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Sandrine Deumier has exhibited internationally including in the Miami = New=20 Media Festival, at Espacio Enter, BilbaoArte Art Production Center, = Maison=20 Folie, and Festival Voix de Femmes#12 in Belguim. Deumier=E2=80=99s work = has been=20 included in festivals and screened at many venues including FILE Anima = in=20 Brazil, Agence Topo in Canada, the Athens Digital Arts Festival, = Contemporary=20 Art Center, Sala Rekalde in Spain, Visualcontainer in Italy, Alchemy = film and=20 Moving Image Festival in Scotland, and Streaming Festival in Netherland = among=20 others.
Philippe Lamy is a painter and electroacoustic composer. = Lamy=E2=80=99s=20 artwork =E2=80=93 combining colors, materials and textures with sounds = (recordings,=20 voices, instrumental sounds, dialogues) =E2=80=94 has been exhibited in = France and=20 beyond. Lamy has made albums on the labels La p'tite maison, High Linear = Music,=20 Nephogram, Nowaki, DataObscura, Mystery Sea, Taalem, and Ripples=20 Recordings.
Nothing New
Video
Over the last 3 years he has collaborated on a number of occassions = with=20 Llangollen based photographer, film-maker and visual wizard Andrew Gale. = In May=20 2012 they situated a piano in the middle of a field up a hill near Vivod = on the=20 outskirts of Llangollen. Ant tuned the piano as well as he could using a = computer based tuning program and an online tutorial on equal = temperament (that=20 he mostly ignored) and started to play. He has at this point in time = been=20 playing this piano for 10 months and Andrew has been filming the=20 =C2=ABperformance=C2=BB.
The piano has stood in that field through all weather; The constant = rain of=20 June 2012, brief periods of sun, hard frosts and the crazy snow = blizzards of=20 January 2013. They obviously have not sat in the filed for all of that = time.=20 They have instead visited the piano at regular intervals. Andrew to film = it and=20 Ant playing it as it battles the elements and inevitably, like every = object=20 does, decomposes and withers. Eventually it will die. Eventually Ant = will not be=20 able to get anything from it at all. It will be spent.
Ant is a musician, sound designer and creative technologist based in = North=20 Wales. He uses unconventional instrumentation combined with digital = practices=20 integrating elements of improvisation, indeterminism and mechanics. = Alongside=20 linear editing software he works with Pure Data, Arduino, Openframeworks = and=20 Cocoa.
He recently completed two projection mapping pieces working in = collaboration with artist Jessica Lloyd-Jones for exhibition at Adelaide = Festival in Australia in February 2015 and is currently working with her = developing digitally controlled archectural lighting at Plas Heli, = Pwllheli.=20
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Recycled
Video
The following images come from negatives salvaged from a recycling = plant on=20 the edge of Beijing, where they had been sent to be filtered for their = silver=20 nitrate content. Over the years French collector Thomas Sauvin built = this=20 archive of more than half a million 35mm negatives, depicting the = capital and=20 the life of her inhabitants over the last thirty years.
From 2011 to 2012, Chinese artist Leilei selected over 3000 photos to = create=20 the animation you are about to see, an almost epic portrait of anonymous = humanity.
An up-and-coming multimedia Chinese animation artist with his hands = on=20 graphic design, illustration, short cartoon, graffiti and music = also,
In 2009 He got a master's degree from Tsinghua University.
In 2010, his film was shown at Ottawa International Animation = Festival and=20 awarded The 2010 Best Narrative Short. In 2013 his film < Recycled = > was=20 selected by Annecy festival and was the Winner Grand Prix = shorts =E2=80=94=20 non-narrative at Holland International Animation Film Festival.
In = 2014 he is=20 the Jury of Zagreb / Holland International Animation Film Festival. and = he was=20 the winner of 2014 asian cultural council grant.
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