CyberFest 2009 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia

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Cyberfest 2009 - another addition!

Visual impressions about the "Electric Alien" - Mixed Reality Performance on Nov. 24th 2009 in St.Petersburg and Cyland/SL. In RL Andrey Bartenev´s performance was shown, which was streamed to Cyland/SL, where in an alien space inworld-visitors became aliens themselves and were part of the performance...be impressed!

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Teleport to Alien Space!

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Cyberfest - 2009 in St. Petersburg - introduction

CYBERFEST – is the only International festival of cybernetic art in Russia (i.e. art, that combines living, biological and somatic substance with technical and computer devices). CYBERFEST is carried by CYLAND media laboratory, organized by National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg Branch and non-commercial organization Saint Petersburg Arts Project, New York.

CYBERFEST is an annual festival held in Saint Petersburg since 2007. CYBERFEST 2009 opening will be on Friday, November 20th, at Youth Centre of the State Hermitage Museum. Beginning in 18.00, admission is free. Programme for this evening features:

workshop CYLAND in Second Life by Xpertina Marilu, CYLAND
installation Protozoa by Marina Koldobskaya, Oleg Rodionov, Anton Chumak, CYLAND
installation Pelicula by MODUS
audioinstallation Mosaic Wall "Share your vibe" by SONICSELF
performance quad/round/line by Nikita Tsymbal, Dmitry Shubin
audioperformance Phono Tactics by Dmitry Shubin

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Photos and videos from Cyberfest opening

3rd Cyberfest started on 20th November in the State Hermitage Museum. This is the only International festival of cybernetic art in Russia (i.e. art, which combines living, biological and somatic substance with technical and computer devices). CYBERFEST is carried by CYLAND media laboratory, organized by National Center for Contemporary Art, (St. Petersburg Branch) and non-commercial organization 'Saint Petersburg Arts Project', New York.

Video: DennyDaniel

On Sunday, November 22nd, in a Small hall of St. Petersburg’s Manege opened the exhibition of Cyberfest 2009 projects. And again it gathered a huge amount of audience! There is an interest to this kind of works and a lot of questions to authors, showing a progress of the whole event! Video: DennyDaniel
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Performance KINO-GLAZ/KINO PRAVDA

Paul D. Miller / DJ Spooky
New York, USA. 2009

25th of November, 6.00 PM
at Hermitage Theater, St.Petersburg Russia

With his remix of “Kino-Glaz/Kino-Pravda” of Dziga Vertov, DJ Spooky wants to engage the 21st century fascination with realism and synthesis from archival resources and make a connection with some of the historical concepts that Vertov pioneered. DJ has re-scored and re-mixed the Vertov’s films with a contemporary soundtrack based on a combination of contemporary art’s dialectical relationship with video-montage and his work as a composer, artist, and writer. This project is just a first step along the path to understanding how cinema of the 20th century set the tone for the info-aesthetics of the 21st century.

Third Eye Orchestra

Workshop and Performance by HANS TAMMEN
New York, USA. 2009

Following a workshop for electronic instrumentalists, the performance will see the conductor as a musician, using the orchestra as an instrument, while each laptop performer shapes the music through virtuosic improvisation and the individual stylization of musical performance. The piece employs the techniques of Hans Tammen's THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA concept, in which Tammen works with a score that is rearranged every time it is performed, and which is adaptable to any instrumentation. These open-form compositions for large ensembles are based on hundreds of “building blocks” that are constantly rearranged when performed.

* Supported by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through US Artists International in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Performance Electric Alien by Andrey Bartenev

The multifaceted artist and experimentalist Andrey Bartenev, for whom art is “a single current” offers his performance that represents the neorhythmic structuring of a darkened space and the demonstration of green spots in the slow-motion transformation of volumes.

Performance Electric Alien
by Andrey Bartenev

Video engineering, music: Patrick K.-H.
Computer programming: Oleg Makarov
Moscow, Russia. 2004.

http://bartenevart.blogspot.com/
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ACT or a Symphony for 8 Slide Projectors

Installation

ACT or a Symphony for 8 Slide Projectors

Anna Frants: Concept
Sergey Komarov: Computer Programming
St.Petersburg - New York. 2009.

Old slide projectors create visuals for the installation: high quality images of new art forms in St. Petersburg. In the same time projectors take part in creation of sound: rhythmical change of frames "sings along" with Brahms' music. This symphony is conducted by a Mac. Spectator selects pictures which he likes from the kaleidoscopic abundance of those, thereby taking part in creation of this world, where old and new technologies achieve ideal consonance and classical music accompanies a rather non-classical look at the city.