CYLAND on CAMP PIXELACHE 2012

On May 11-12 CYLAND media art lab takes part in International festival on new media art and activism CAMP PIXELACHE 2012 in Helsinki

The 7th Berlin Biennale

(Russian)

С 27 апреля по 1 июля 2012 года проходит  7-я Берлинская Биеннале

С момента своего создания в 1998 году в Берлине Биеннале современного искусства стала одним из важнейших событий современного мира искусства, проводится раз в два года в Берлине.

Центральной темой 7-го Берлинского Биеннале является исследование социально-критического потенциала искусства и его возможности активно влиять на политические процессы.

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paraflows.7 in Vienna

paraflows.7 – REVERSE ENGINEERING 

The topic of the seventh festival for digital arts and cultures in the city
of Vienna is REVERSE ENGINEERING

To achieve a system from an existing thing, to reveal the theory using an
example. To reconstruct processes arbitrarily, to employ and reproduce
them variably, to make them ready to go into mass production. The word
„engineering“ contains the words engine – motor – the drive, and also the
word engineer – the technician tasked with the implementation – the
driven. Being driven and motivated, eternally progressing in creation,
immersing oneself in a project, submerging oneself in new subjects – a
sensuos devotion. The artist, as an explorer, as a researcher, experiences
a renaissance because of the renewed fusion of the disciplines. The high
velocity of the industry, however, causes artists to no longer be at the
forefront of invention – they rather need to reinterpret, repurpose and
augment existing technologies and make them accessible to cultural and
sociocultural projects.

Art has in fact become a corrective for industry and science. Technology
is not only analyzed and used, but also thematized, documented and
criticized. Reverse engineering therefore not only signifies understanding
and (re)constructing an existing system, but also implies the yearning for
improvement or more applicability, also for adaption to changing
requirements.

paraflows .7 - REVERSE ENGINEERING is not only a festival that concerns
itself with the analysis of existing systems, but it will also use and
adapt an existing system in its own formation and structure. The topic of
paraflows .7 permeates content and system.

We are looking for artistic positions dealing with the issues as afore
mentioned.

Pls send your application as pdf file via e-mail to:office(at)paraflows.at

or ship to:

paraflows

Museumsplatz 1

A-1070 Vienna

AUSTRIA

Mandatory information for submissions:
1) name, institution (if existing), address, e-mail, phone number, website/s
2) submitted work: title, medium, author/artist, year of production
3) work description: 1 DIN A4-page maximum
4) technical explanation, room/space requirements (hardware, operating
system, additional software)
5) biographies
7) documentation of earlier projects, e.g. a link to your website

Language: all submissions have to be in English or in German or need to
have subtitles in one of the two languages. Works in any other language
have to include a text list in either German or English. We especially
encourage international submissions.

DEADLINE: April 30th, 2012

For more information on paraflows visit http://www.paraflows.at

Festival management: Guenther Friesinger
Exhibition management: Judith Fegerl

CYBERFEST 2011

5th International festival of cyber arts – CYBERFEST 2011

November 18 – 23, 2011
5th International festival of cybernetic art – CYBERFEST 2011
will take place in St.Petersburg, Russia.

КИБЕРФЕСТ / CYBERFEST 2011

 

Organizers: St. Petersburg Branch of the National Center for Contemporary Arts, Saint Petersburg Arts Project (New York), CYLAND MediaLab. General sponsor: OneMarketData, New York. Supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Committee for Culture of St. Petersburg. Curators: Anna Frants, Marina Koldobskaya, Sofia Kudryavtseva, Viktoria Ilyushkina. Video Curators: Boshko Boskovic, Natalia Prikhodko, Yulia Garbuzova. Board: Dmitry Ozerkov (The State Hermitage), Anna Yermolayeva (ZKM), Fred Forest, Olesya Turkina (State Russian Museum)

CYBERFEST 2011’s theme is: “Show Us Your Tongue!”

Curatorial title embodying this years’ participants who all address the philosophical question: “Are new technologies capable of creating a new language of art – or will it remain the mocker that would everlastingly stick out its tongue?” Marina Koldobskaya (More on the site).

Festival program features: exhibition of interactive installations and objects, music and media performances, movies and media opera, video programs, talks and workshops.

Participants: more than 80 notable participants from 12 countries, including USA, Canada, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria, countries of former Yugoslavia. Among St. Petersburg artists are Marina Alekseyeva and Boris Kazakov (winners of the Kuryokhin Prize 2010), Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova, Masha Sha, Anton Chumak. From Moscow come artists Alexandra Dementieva, Iraida Yusupova and Alexander Dolgin,  Blue Noses Group and Art Business Consulting. Also, Kazan artists from the legendary Prometheus center and Yekaterinburg group Where Dogs Run are featured. International talents include theremin queen Dorit Chrysler (Austria-USA), the patriarch of conceptual music Phill Niblock (USA), and musical sculptor Peter Vogel (Germany).

CYBERFEST 2011 venues:

- Exhibition of interactive media installations and objects will take place in the Youth Educational Center of The State Hermitage Museum, which will be opened for the first time after major overhaul. Here will be shown musical sculpture by the European media art classic Peter Vogel, installation with interactive kisses by Canadian artists Jean Dubois & Chloe Lefebvre, “Contact Field” installation by Alexandra Dementieva, which was already shown at Venice this year, new work by Blue Noses group “New media-titres”, specially made for Cyberfest and much more.

- Kuryokhin Modern Art Center will host the “Long evening of media art” on Nivember 19th. Media performances, music program, movies and video art will be presented at the big stage.  Dorit Chrysler, international electronic music star, will give her first performance at the theremin homeland, with the audiovisual performance “Dorit Chrysler and Theremin”. Phill Niblock – one of the founders and pillars of the conceptual music since 1970s, together with Katherine Liberovskaya will show a selection of his most famous performances. Famous Moscow mysteriographers  Iraida Yusupova and Alexander Dolgin will show “Birds” movie for the first time. Rising star of Moscow video art Maxim Swischev prepared a large scale work “Don Quixote”. Small halls will feature a program of video art works from the ex-Yugoslavia countries “Not So Distant Memory”, collected by one of the most famous video art curators  Boshko Boskovic. Young curators Natalia Prikhodko and Yulia Garbuzova in collaboration with Victoria Ilyushkina will present a video program “Action Plan/Reaction”.

- A set of movies, talks and performances will take place at  Gallery of Experimental Sound, Pushkina street, building 10. Audience will see film by Iraida  Yusupova and Alexander Dolgin “Ambient” and media opera “Webs & Spaces”. Artist and art theorist Dmitry Bulatov will show and comment a set of videos named “Evolution Haute Couture: art in the post biology age”

- This year, St.Petersburg galleries from the Association of actual art galleries started working together with Cyberfest. Art Rephlex gallery shows festival's special object – sound art collection by Phill Niblock. In Dmitry Semyonov gallery audience can see exhibition of Moscow media artists – Lidya Vitkovskaya and Denis Mikhaylov.

Educational program: Within the frame of educational program visitors can listen to lectures by Dorit Chrysler, Phill Niblock, Canadian “engineer in art” David St-Onge. The only Russia's specialist in bio-art Dmitry Bulatov will lecture about sci art and technological unconscious. Workshop on creative sound art programming will be hosted by American Art Group Z-interface. Traditionally, Daniil Frants will do a workshop for children during the festival.
 
CYBERFEST 2011 participants:

Alban Muja, Alexander Dolgin, Alexandra Dementieva, Alienor Dauchez, Anastasia Maksimova, Andrea Acosta, Anna Frants, Anton Chumak, ABC group, Boris Glamocanin, Borjana Mrdja, Boris Kazakov, Blue Noses (Alexander Shaburov, Viacheslav Mizin), Daniil Frants, Danilo Prnjat, Dasha Khlapova, David St-Onge, Denis Mikhailov, Dmitry Bulatov, Dmitry Shubin, Dorit Chrysler, Elena Gubanova, Floran Mattei, Francis Alys, Garik Vinogradov, Iraida Yusupova, Ivan Argote, Jean Dubois & Chloe Lefebvre, Jerome Gras, Katherine Liberovskaya, Leban-Kleindienst, Maks Ilyhin, Manya Alexeeva, Marija Djordevic, Michel De Broin, Mladen Miljanovic, Pavel Snov, Peter Vogel, Phill Niblock, Renata Poljak, Sandra Dukic, Sergey Komarov, Uliya Garbuzova, Nataliya Prihodko, Villy Melnikov, Vladimir Kitlyar and Toys Market, “Where dogs run”, Zoran Poposki...

There will be an online video stream of main Cyberfest happenings at www.cyberfest.ru.
More info about program details and changes at www.cyberfest.ru and fb CYBERFEST.

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for collaboration matters, please contact:
Daria Schastlivtseva
PR-director of festival
d.schastliv[AT]gmail.com
(812) 275-47-71
8911-767-42-05

Call for sound art from Sweden

Behind Closed Doors

Sound art exhibition at the Stian [con] temporary art gallery in Ko"llero"d, Sweden.
…Curated by Anders Weberg.

 

http://con-temporary.com/ stian.gallery@gmail.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stian-contemporary-art-gallery/179071322124611

The artworks will be played behind an old red door. The door will be locked with the sound pieces inside.
Visitors will be able to hear it if they come close to the door. Best experienced with the ear against the door.
The door will not be opened as long as the exhibition last.

Looking for sound artists willing to interpret the phrase "Behind Closed Doors".

Five artists will be selected for the exhibition.
Not open for Swedish artists.

The exhibition will run August 14 – August 31.
A pdf catalogue will be produced.

 

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Get Your Theremin On With Hands OFF!

Hands OFF! 2011 kicks off
this Thursday, July 28th for an intensive weekend of discussions, workshops,
masterclasses and a theremin rich environment featuring Lydia Kavina, Barbara
Buchholz, Carolina Eyck, Thorwald Jorgensen, Gordon Charlton/Beat Frequency,
master theremin builder Thierry Frenkel and many others. Hands OFF! is hosted in
the English town of Scarborough – the very first seaside holiday resort.

During the week following HO2011 there will be theremin performances
throughout Scarborough, culminating in a spectacular concert at the Spa Theatre.

If you can get to the UK, get to Hands OFF! It’s going to be a fantastic
week for players and lovers of the theremin.

Congratulations to Gordon
Charlton and Anthony Springall on producing this unique theremin event.
 
http://www.thereminworld.com/news.asp?s=1046

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Cat by Marina Koldobskaya

Cyland news from Lithuania. Cyland artist (and director) Marina Koldobskaya writes at Facebook  “Now I’m back from Art Vilnius, where I was encouraged by Anna Frants to paint directly on the wall of her stand. The picture was bought, and the new owner had to disassemble the stand and to bring home a piece of wall as big as 3×6 meters. That was a fun, really. “

 
“Cat” by Marina Koldobskaya (FrantsGallery, ArtVilnius)

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Performance Festival 2011

From the Virtual CYLAND blog: "at ODYSSEY
took place the last two weeks. I could not make it to the half of the
events, but what I have experienced, definitely blew my mind. In the end
of the very last show, performed by Ze Moo called "The Future of Social
Mass Media", Pinkpink died for her very first time – it was really
brutal, she bought a panzer for 1 L$ and weapons but could not handle
them.."

 

during "Screen me" by Saveme Oh
 

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St. Petersburg Theremin Festival

Thereminsts will gather and perform in the home town of Lev Termen, aka Leon
Theremin, for the St. Petersburg Theremin Festival (info. on Sergei Teterin’s
blog: rough
transled link, original
Russian, Сергей Тетерин Ньюс.) at the legendary club Griboyedov. Performers
will include Lydia Kavina (UK), Olesya Rostovskaya, Vladimir "RadioBOB" Kitlyar,
and Dmitry Gurovich.

St. Petersburg Theremin Festival @Griboedov Hill

Undoubtedly the first of many annual events, the
festival aims to celebrate the diversity of music made with the theremin.
The festival takes place on July 13th, at the Griboedov Club, beginning
at 8:00 pm/20:00. Admission is free!

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