CYBERFEST 2009
November 20th-29th
3rd festival of cybernetic art Cyberfest 2009 will be held in St. Petersburg in November..
CYBERFEST – is the first international festival of cybernetic art in Russia (i.e. art, that combines living, biological and somatic substance with technical and computer devices).
CYBERFEST 2009 programme features artists, curators, theorists and Internet-activists from 22 countries. Great attention is given to audio-visual and music projects. Among those is performance of Dj Spooky – conceptual musician and artist, who is currently one of the key figures of New York art life. Dj Spooky will present a visual performance “Kino-Glaz/Kino-Pravda” in the Hermitage Theatre. Influential American sound art organization Harvestworks, will carry out workshops and concerts with Russian electronic musicians.
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RECYCLING
18th February – 8th March
National Center for Contemporary Art, Saint Petersburg branch and International Educational Center of The State Hermitage Museum
Exhibition represents works of famous mid generation St. Petersburg artists who perform aesthetic recycling, creating new visual appearance based on images inherited from soviet epoch. Their approach has principal differences from the irony of social art or postmodern intellectual game. USSR-born generation came to reconsideration of their cultural luggage, as a natural or even the only possible base for the new Russian art.
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NAVIGATION
Residential program on the basis of NCCA art residence in Kronshtadt is active since 2003. Its tasks:
* development of international connections in St. Petersburg art community
* involvement of artists from regions of Russia
* introduction of contemporary art to city area of Kronshtadt
* exploration of social, urban and ecological problems in Kronshtadt by the means of art
* support of art projects, created in situ
* inclusion of St. Petersburg NCCA branch in international network of residential exchange, development of connections between professional institutions
As a part of this program, large scale international festivals Art Navigation and KronshtadtForEver were carried out.
Agreements on residential exchange were established with several institutions of Nordic countries.
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Gold for the People
14th August 2009
National Center for Contemporary Arts
curator: Marina Koldobskaya
presents exhibition in the small Manege, within the scope of Biennale
of Contemporary Art «DIALOGUES».
Address: channel Griboedova embankment 103 (Russian exhibition hall)
