From November 5 to 9, the educational program of international media-art festival CYFEST was carried out at the State Hermitage Youth Education Center. Also, there was a screening of the video-art works at Luda Gallery. The festival, which was founded eight years ago in St. Petersburg by the lab Cyland, has expanded its geography in the recent years, and now its participants include Berlin, Tokyo, New York and Moscow. The theme for 2014 is “The Other Home”. This event united international venues that have become “other homes” for each other. All the festival’s visitors, regardless of the place where it was held, were invited with the help of contemporary technologies and means of communication to plunge into the art life in other cities and countries.
INTERVIEW WITH CURATOR ANNA FRANTS AT VENICE BIENNAL 2015
Outside the service entrance of the Cultural Flow Zone at Ca’Foscari Zattere, on an old wooden dock overlooking the canals, the team behind one of the preeminent satellite exhibitions on view now in conjunction with the 56th Venice Biennale takes the occasional cigarette break or stops to relax for a moment in the sunshine. Inside the Cultural Flow Zone, contemporary New Media art, digital video, and performative installations are carefully arranged in conversation with 20th century Russian paintings from the Arfiev group. With the exhibition On My Way finally open to the public after weeks of preparation and a glittering opening, co-curator and participating artist Anna Frants sat down to answer some questions about her own artistic practice, her career as a curator and running one of the Russia’s most significant New Media non-profits.
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