General Information

 

CYFEST 16 International Media Art Festival

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Dates 

November 13—December 1, 2024​​

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Location

Yerevan, Armenia

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Venues

HayArt Centre

Yerevan Botanical Garden

Institute for Contemporary Art

Mirzoyan Library + Varpet

The State Philharmonia of Armenia + Arno Babajanyan Concert Hall

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Organiser 

CYLAND Foundation Inc.

 

General Sponsor 

One Market Data

 

Opening Program

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November 13, 7 pm: Hammettlogue world premiere — an opera for video and voice by Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya, featuring mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg and bass-baritone Nicholas Isherwood at the State Philharmonia of Armenia. 

November 14, 7 pm: Opening of Markos Grigorian's Performative Metaphors at ICA Yerevan. 

November 15, 7 pm: Tribute Concert for Phill Niblock (1933–2024), featuring Katherine Liberovskaya, Anna Clementi, Biliana Voutchkova, and Davide Aiden Capobianco at the State Philharmonia of Armenia. 

November 16, 6 pm: Opening of CYFEST 16: Archive of Feelings. A Journey at HayArt Centre.

November 17, 6 pm: Opening of CYFEST 16: Archive of Feelings. A Journey at Yerevan Botanical Garden.

November 18, 6 pm: Presentation and screening of Voyage Video Program (curated by Gabriel V. Soucheyre) and Beyond Interfaces: Taiwanese Video Program (curated by Mu Tuan) at Mirzoyan Library.

November 19, 6 pm: Presentation and screening of the CYLAND Video Archive Program (curated by Victoria Ilyushkina) at Varpet.

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Participants

Jama Adilov, Thomas Ankersmit, Maria Arendt, AUDINT, Daria Belova, Liudmila Belova, Mattia Bioli, Elina Bolshenkova, broken vows (Alexey Grachev), CAA (CYLAND Audio Archive), Davide Aiden Capobianco, Chen Chen, Yen-Cheng Chen, Anna Clementi, Brecht De Cock, Úrsula San Cristóbal, Lyudmila Davydova, Liza Dandy, Alexandra Dementieva, Francesca Fini, Anna Frants, Wei Gao, Gagik Ghazareh, Alexey Grachev, Styopa Grigoryan, Elena Gubanova & Ivan Govorkov, Margot Guillemot & Chiehsen Chiu, Gysin–Vanetti, G.H. Hovagimyan, Regina Hübner, Nicholas Isherwood, Heejeong Jeong, Poyuan Juan, Kai Lab, Anna Kim, Jeong Han Kim, Kira Kim, Jiun-Ting Lai, YeSeung Lee, Katherine Liberovskaya and Phill Niblock, JML (José Man Lius), Loré Lixenberg, lololol (Xia Lin & Sheryl Cheung), Lev Manovich, Tigran Martirosyan, Anna Martynenko, Tuan Mu, Mariam Papoyan, Matteo Polato, Roberto Pugliese, Katarzyna Oliwia Serkowska, Satyarth Mishra Sharma and Robert Poghosyan, Raphaele Shirley, Dmitriy Shishov, Hugo Solís García, stackedplot (Alexander Bochkov and Matvei Peshkov), Studio MBUS703 (Chiwook Nho), Hans Tammen and Shelley Hirsch, Ya-Lun Tao, TELLUS, the Audio Cassette Magazine, Alain Thibault, Adam Vackar, Eric Vernhes, Biliana Voutchkova, Mathieu Zurstrassen

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Websites

cyfest.art

cyland.org