November 19-26, in St. Petersburg will host the next, the fourth festival of cybernetic art "Cyberfest"

19-26 November, in St. Petersburg will host the next, the fourth festival of cybernetic art "Cyberfest", organized by the National Centre for Contemporary Art, Медиалабораторией Cyland and St. Petersburg Art Projects Inc.

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«Cyberfest 2010" is dedicated to understanding home wares and utensils in a digital civilization. Continually services to the consumer there are all new, more sophisticated and advanced stuff and services - appliances, utensils, furniture, tools, clothing, communication channels, personal hygiene products, etc. On the one hand, life is improving, on the other - technical progress formulates new challenges human being. A change in velocity, the boundaries of privacy, communications capabilities, moreover, the fundamental concepts of real and imaginary, living and inanimate.

Opening "Cyberfest will be held on 19 November at 19:00 in new exhibition Space Art Hall «Poligraf» (Embankment. Karpovka, 1).

November 20th at 16:00 to open exhibition in the Peter and Paul Fortress (casemate and Poterna), and 18: 00 in Gallery "Borey" will host a third site of the festival.

Also at the festival - a program mediaperformansov, two programs of video art, educational program at the Youth Center and the Hermitage Gallery ESG-21, a concert in CSI them. Kuriokhin and media project "taxi" in the urban environment.

• Manya ALEKSEEVA , Boris Kazakov jitney St. Petersburg, Russia. 2010
  Source: cylandfest.com

schedule of all activities "Cyberfest" See here .

Pdf-festival catalog here.

Programme of events here .

curators of the festival offered artists the following topics:

• rebellion /disobedience /individual /secret life of machines;
• programming error that leads to paradoxical /catastrophic /heuristic results;
• normalization of /domestication of artificial intelligence;
• new idea of home comfort /fear /pleasure;
• a change of scenery /repair /upgrade in a digital civilization;
• digital pets /fumes and household.

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Home cockroaches (House bugs)

Artificial Intelligence - a great thing. But to him that something was wrong. Simple machines just break down. Smart cars are crazy. By e-mail come sexual advances, sent a robot. Intelligent vacuum cleaner clean eating Cat food. Intelligent dryer makes your favorite pancake-colored dress. Camera mobile phone turns into a banal landscape Suprematist composition. So far, so chudesatee and curiouser . All this fun, interesting and even fun - but a little scary. Because to do without these little tyrants, we can not. Mobile phone, laptop and iPod as needed, like a cup of coffee in the morning, the car during the day and a hot tub in the evening. We are surrounded by, but not surrender. We are responsible for those who tamed - and who, in turn tames us. We will compete with these crazy gadgets that make our lives better.

curated festival Marina Koldobskaya

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Manya, are you ready?

starting point of the St. Petersburg Festival Cyberfest "can be considered the arrival of the living legend of media art Julie Martin, his wife and colleague Billy Kluver, the founder of EAT (Experiments in Art and Technology). It was from her I heard the story of the creation of such masterpieces as "The Oracle" by Robert Rauschenberg, "Field painting" Jasper Johns and many others. Now they are all in major museums around the world. This year Cyberfest "turned on many platforms. Participate in this program artists from 20 countries and is particularly pleased to numerous media artist from all over Russia. In connection with these successes prophetically looks greeting kiberkofevarki Mani, whom I met in the gallery "Borey". The question, "Manya, are you ready?" She cheerfully blinking red light. Mania is definitely ready! "Manya, seethe, please coffee" - Manya gurgling, smacking a first-class and pours a small cup of espresso ... On the other hand, why be surprised? Petersburg, it is always known for good coffee, if not since the days of Peter, since the "Saigon" exactly!

festival curated by Anna Frants

The festival CYLAND media laboratory organizes a roundtable on the topic "Collecting is impossible" (mediator Anne Francis) to private collectors and museum-type institutions to discuss difficult issues arising in connection with exhibiting and collecting art New Media. As one of the most exciting new genre of contemporary art, it is at the same time, raises some cause for concern in connection with collecting such art - for example, the authenticity of works of art, from which, in essence, it is easy to duplicate without any loss of data and archival properties of digital media .

Source: cylandfest.com