From March 16 to March 29, 2009, the ScienceArtFest International Popular Science Festival is being held in Moscow at two central venues of the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art. The main event of the festival is the first science art exhibition in Russia "Science as Suspense".
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From March 16 to March 29, 2009, the ScienceArtFest International Popular Science Festival is being held in Moscow at two central venues of the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art. The main event of the festival is the first science art exhibition in Russia "Science as Suspense".
From March 16 to March 29, 2009 in Moscow, at the two central venues of the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art (CSA), the ScienceArtFest International Popular Science Festival is being held, which presents a picture of modern scientific life in a variety of dynamic forms.
The main event of the festival is the first science-art exhibition in Russia Science as Suspense with the participation of "stars" of this genre of contemporary art.
The project is carried out with the support of Dmitry Zimin's Dynasty Foundation for Non-Commercial Programs (Moscow), the Kaliningrad branch of the State Center for Contemporary Art, the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, the general partner is the Snob project.
The curator of the exhibition is Dmitry Bulatov, an employee of the Kaliningrad branch of the National Center for Contemporary Art.
Scientists and artists from Australia, USA, Austria, Canada, France, Great Britain, who have received worldwide recognition, are invited to participate in ScienceArtFest. The exhibition will show the works of the most interesting representatives of scientific art: Bill Worn, Emma Howes and Jonathan Villeneuve (Canada), Paul Granion (France), Erwin Driessens and Maria Verstappen (Netherlands), Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignono (Austria), Floris Kaik ( Netherlands), Orlan (France), Nicholas Reeves (Canada), Ken Rinaldo (USA), Stelarc (Australia), as well as the "SymbioticA" group (Australia) and Steve Potter Laboratory (USA).
As part of the project, Australian artist Stelarc will demonstrate a third ear that he has implanted into his hand. In the future, the artist is going to implant a Bluetooth system into him, which will allow him to hear other people in different parts of the planet.
Stelarc will also show an interactive installation - a video projection of his head that you can talk to in real time. This work was created using artificial life technologies and is a kind of dialogue agent.
Canadian artist Nicholas Reeves created his installation based on futuristic architectural projects of flying cities. Reeves made three cubes 2x2 meters, which are inflated with gas. These lightweight constructions are equipped with computers and a motor. Cubes fly like a flock of birds. This flock moves around the hall, feeling the boundaries of the surrounding space.
Frenchman Paul Granion brought robots of different sexes to Moscow. As conceived by the artist, they, a man and a woman, are looking for each other in the allotted territory in order to give rise to a new life.
The Science as a Premonition exhibition presents a collection of documentary videos about the works of art that have been created in recent years by artists using the latest technologies - artificial life, robotics, bio- and genetic engineering.
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