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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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The Sixth Cyberfest, the largest annual international festival of cybernetic art in Eastern Europe, is taking place in St. Petersburg. Cyberart is a cunning blend of living substance with technical, computer components. “Are there no more artists, in the conventional sense of the word, working with brushes and paints, and are they gradually being replaced by programmers and electricians?” pondered the “VP” correspondent. Ivan Govorkov, a professor at the Academy of Arts, shared his thoughts about art and culture.

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