LEARNING PROGRAMS ARCHIVE
One important field of CYFEST’s activity is conducting educational events, master classes and internships for students, young specialists and wide audience. Open lectures and learning programs designed to generate a platform for dialogue and debates about the role that contemporary media art and culture can play within society.
2024
Gabriel V. Soucheyre
Voyage… a quest for paradise lost? Or?
Mu Tuan
Beyond Interfaces — Taiwanese Media Art Scene
G.H. Hovagimyan
Punk Conceptualism, Hacker Art and DIY
Toby Heys (AUDINT) and Matteo Polato
Phantom Channel
Lyudmila Davydova
Archive of Feelings. “A Journey into Greek Antiquity”
Andranik Meliksetyan
Presentation by Andranik Meliksetyan FUSION OF MINDS: Bridging Art, Engineering, and Science for a New Era of Innovation. CYLAND MediaArtLab & Engineering City Special Project on Media Installation Development.
Lev Manovich
The Future of Art
2023—2024
Alan Boldon, Alice Oswald, Sha Xin Wei, Muriel Mambrini-Doudet, Brian MacCraith, Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas
Panel Discussion: Vulnerability
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
Ellen K. Levy, Patricia Olynyk, Sargis Hovhannisyan, Natalia Kolodzei
International Media Festivals and the Evolution of Transcultural Communities
A Joint LASER: LASER New York and LASER CYLAND
Marc Lee
Workshop: Imagining a Future where AI Controls our Ecosystem
Danielle Siembieda
Co-Operative Existence in a Post-People World
Ellen K. Levy
How Real Do Models Need To Be?
Patricia Olynyk
Spectacular Bodies: Tinkering by Design in the Posthuman Era
Alan Boldon
Vulnerability in art, education and change-making
Gustavo Matamoros
Sound: Audible Manifestation Of Change
Maria Cristina Finucci
How art can help the Planet and the humans
Mascha Danzis
The Motherboard, digital motherhood and other close relationships
Lyudmila Davydova
Vulnerability of Memory
Ellen Pearlman
Language Is Leaving Me – An AI Opera Of The Skin 2023 – Work In Progress
Silvia Burini, Olga Shishko, Maria Redaelli, Anastasia Kozachenko-Stravinsky, Maria Gatti Racah
Mapping Diaspora: Russian Art in Exile
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2022
Silvia Burini
Georgy Yakulov: an Armenian in Moscow
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Alexandra Dementieva
Interactive Art, behavioral patterns and cultural mechanisms
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Eugenia Kikodze
Irina Korina. Models of Contemporaneity
Anne Marie Maes
The Garden of Knowledge : on Symbiosis, Fermentation and Interspecies Collaboration
Antonio Geusa
Revolution in the Evolution: 100 Years of Challenging the Definition of Art
LASER Talk CYLAND "Fermentation. Transformations. Moving Image and Beyond" with Carla Gannis, Antonio Geusa, Katherine Liberovskaya, and Natalia Kolodzei
Sergey Teterin
Ekaterina Drakunova (Russia-Armenia), From the Local to the Global: CYLAND LASER Talks
2021
Bettina Forget
Exoplanet Zoo: Contemplating Alien Worlds Though Art and Science
Christiana Kazakou
Transdisciplinarity: Narrative Spatial Trajectories
Yiannis Melanitis
A Humanized Transgenic Butterfly Named Leda Melanitis
Patricia Olynyk
“Dark Skies”: A Meditation on Nightfall
Daniela de Paulis
Artistic Research through Radio
Danielle Siembieda
Collide: Impact
Emilio Vavarella
Between Form and Information
Anton Vidokle
Cosmist Aesthetics
Victoria Vesna
[ALIEN] STAR DUST
Signal to Noise: Molecular Light for Russia
2020
Nina Czegledy
Shifting Educational Landscapes
Eduard Khaiman
What’s the Matter With Digitocene?
Art in Times of the Digital and Material Confusion
William Latham, Lance Putnam
Creating Formscape VR, the History of Mutator VR
Boris Magrini
Digital Art, Artificial Intelligence
and the Creation of New Paradigms
Max Philipp Schmid
Experimental practice and content
Dominique Roland
Centre Des Arts digital art center and Bains Numériques festival
David Rosenboom
Propositional Music of Many Nows
Sergey Teterin
Collecting C-beams at the Tannhauser Gate. Lecture and presentation Quentin Lengele’ VR-project Blade Runner 9732
Conversations about ID. Project by Vlad Strucov
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Contemporary Art in Academic Environment:
Mechanisms, Strategies and Perspectives Of Integration
Round Table
CYFEST-11
2019
Antoni Abad
BlindWiki, Unveiling the Unseen
Foteini Aravani
Collecting the Present: Digital in Museum Collections
Alan Boldon
A Radical Approach to Learning: Facilitating Collective Intelligence
Dmitry Bulatov
The Other Side of Sound: Sources and Patterns of Sound Art in Russia
Alexander Burenkov
Economics of Attention and Curating Exhibitions in Post-Internet Age
Valentino Catricalà
Rethinking Cinema and Media Through Media Art
Elena Gubanova, Ivan Govorkov
Technology and Visuality
Sergey Kostyrko
About Some Methods of Data Sonification Derived during the Studies of Biological Systems
Egor Kraft, Natalia Fucs
Content Aware Studies
Janine Randerson
Cloud Worlds: Recent Digital Art from Aotearoa-New Zealand
Vladimir Rannev, Marina Alekseeva
Opera “Prose” at the “Electrical Theater Stanislavsky”: Analog Technologies at the Theater Space as Illusions of Digital Ones
Carla Rapoport
A Brief History of the Lumen Prize
Danielle Siembieda
Re-imagining the Future of Collaborative Communities
Vlad Strukov
Ocular Velocity: Art in the Age of Big Data
CYFEST-10
2018
Dmitry Bulatov
Art & Science: Art in Research Labs
Alexandra Dementieva
New Technologies in Public Space Installations
William Latham
Mutator VR
Igor Molochevski
Interfaze
Irina Nakhova
Sentimental Education in the Global Village
Danielle Siembieda
“Leonardo” Focused
Anna Frants
Design vs. Art vs. Design