CYFEST 15 International Media Art Festival on the theme of Vulnerability opened Tuesday 5 September. Alexandra Dementieva developed a new installation for the festival that runs for the second time in Yerevan, Armenia and is also one of the festival curators.
The 15th edition of the nomadic CYFEST festival focuses on imagining new perspectives regarding the ostensible (anti)fragility of the human and non-human body, bio and cyber environments, histories and futures, encounters and relationships with the world in transition.
For this edition Dementieva developed Chronoscape, a multimedia interactive installation with engineers Alexey Grachev, Denis Markov and Sergey Komarov.
Using amongst others 3D modeling and printing the totem consists of a clock mechanism, a monitor, and hidden video camera. It is a symbolic representation or embodiment of the concept of time and serves as a reminder of its flow, the impermanence of life or the cyclical nature of existence. Standing in front of it, the visitors speeds up the clock with their presence — the more they stand, the faster the hands spin, the ticking sound speeds up, their image on the monitor screen breaks up into pixels and disappears completely. When the visitors leave, the clock returns to the original local time position.
Photos Ludmila Belova
CYFEST is one of Eastern Europe’s largest international media art festivals. Founded by a group of independent artists in 2007, its primary mission is to support interdisciplinary collaboration, dialogue, and experiments, examine various visual languages and technological cultures and present them to a wide audience. CYFEST unites professionals in the field of art and representatives of scientific communities: artists, curators, engineers, programmers, media activists, and theoreticians.
The festival that runs until 18 September, takes place at three venues, HayArt Cultural Centre where the installation of Dementieva can be experienced, Yerevan Botanical Garden and The Institute for Contemporary Art. There’s also a video and sound performance program. In total there are more than 60 participating artists from 15 countries: Armenia, Belgium, Great Britain, Hungary, Spain, Italy, Columbia, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, U.S.A., Finland, France, Switzerland, and Japan.
For more info visit this dedicated site.
Supported by CYLAND MediaArtLab
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