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Anna Frants and Marina Koldobskaya are cofounders of the Media Lab CYLAND that provides creative technical needs (from any kind of equipment to the services of computer programmers) for art ideas. Since 2007, they have held the festival of media art CYFEST: started in St.Petersburg, now it is completely delocalized and, this year, it takes place in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, New York and Tokyo as well as on the internet. Anna Matveyeva talked with the festival founders about media, globalization and about the fact why the spiritual bonds do not work.

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Curators Anna Frants and Elena Gubanova titled the eleventh “Cyberfest” as “Weather Forecast: Digital Cloudiness,” inviting participants to perceive changes in digital technologies as akin to changes in the weather. At the opening at the A. L. Stieglitz Academy, attendees included BigDataSolutions president Leonid Frants, artist Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai, curator Olesya Turkina, and many others. Guests were inspired by the combination of architectural historicism and media art, even finding allusions to Andrei Tarkovsky’s films in the desperately swinging monkey from the work “To Think the Unthinkable” by Italian artist Donato Piccolo.

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February 5th, 2018
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The “Cyberfest” is marking its tenth anniversary with special grandeur, showcasing an international festival of art that utilizes new technologies. The event features exhibitions at eight prestigious venues with the participation of 80 artists, retrospectives of video programs from previous years, a mini-festival of sound art (audio art), and an educational program.

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