Russia

Cities

Moscow, St Petersburg, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Sebastopol, Perm

Predecessors

• VKhUTEMAS, Russian architectural avant-garde school 1920-1930 in Moscow. Together with the French rationalism, German and Dutch functionalism it is a turning point in the historical development of the world architectural process. [1] [2] Tomáš Štrauss (1998) pp 180-182
• 1921 exhibition of Constructivist art, put together by Obmokhu, or the Society of Young Artists, a group founded in 1919 by recent graduates of the First State Free Art Studios [3]
• Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, in 1924 he had the first presentation of his optophonic piano during a performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow - a synaesthetic instrument that was capable of creating sounds and coloured lights, patterns and textures simultaneously.

Artist groups

Arts and engineering groups and collectives in CEE#Soviet Union, Russia

Experimental film

• Cine Fantom aka Parallel Cinema circle (*1984, Moscow and St Petersburg): Igor Aleinikov, Glen Aleinikov, and others
• Mzhalalafilm group (1980s, St Petersburg): Evgeny Ufit (necrorealism), Evgeny Kondratev
• Che-Paev group (*1988, St Petersburg)
• Leningrad Film School (*1988, St Petersburg): Alexander Sokurev and others
• Vladimir Kobrin

Interactive environments and installations

Artists

• Dvizheniye group (Moscow), 1960s-1970s
• Prometei group (Kazan), 1960s-1990s
• ARGO group (Moscow), 1970s

Events

• 1965 - Exhibition - Kinetic Art, Dvizheniye (Movement) group, House of Architect, Leningrad
• 1967 - EXPO '67, Soviet Pavilion, Montreal, Canada
• 1978 - Science and Art, House of Scientists, exhibition, Moscow
• 1979 - Colour - Form - Space, Exhibition Hall on Malaja Gruzinskaja, exhibition, Moscow
• 1987 - Retrospection of Moscow Unofficial Art (1957-1987), Exhibition Hall of the association "Ermitazh" in Belajevo, Moscow
• 1988 - Geometry in Art, Exhibition Hall on Kashirskaja, Moscow

Works

• Cybertheater, 1967, Lev Nusberg and the 'Movement' Group. A 20 m2 complex of kinetic "cyber-creatures", mostly 130 X 80 cm. Members of the Russian 'Movement' Group built in St. Petersburg (then, Leningrad) cyber-creatures, or "cybers", which had five to six degrees of freedom. In this theater of artificial creatures, the actors were capable of controlling the color and intensity of the lights, as well as sounds and smells. A color film was planned by the "Movement" Group. A much bigger and more complex programmed "Cybertheater" was also projected.

Articles

• Leonardo, Vol. 27, No. 5, 1994. Prometheus: Art, Science and Technology in the Former Soviet Union: Special Issue. [4]

Video art

• Boris Yukhananov, first video in 1985
• Aleksandr Molodkin and Vitaly Bashmolkin
• 1990s: Bulat Galeyev
• collectors: Antonio Geusa, Dmitry Pilikin (St Petersburg)
• http://videotochka.ru/ - russian video art gallery, edition 2009

Articles

• Anatoly V. Prokhorov, "HALF A KINGDOM FOR A STRANGE HORSE !", [5]

Resources

• Anthology of Russian Video Art, [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]

Electroacoustic and experimental music, sound art

Electro-acoustic music

• Valery Beluntsov, composer, founded Electro-acoustic studio in Moscow State Musical College
• Julia Dmitryukova, Composer, Musicologist
• Dmitry Tcheglakov, Composer, cellist
• Stanislav Kreichi, Composer, Sound Engineer. In 1961 joined group of engineers and composers who designed ANS synthesizer and with the ANS composed music for several films, performances and shows
• Vladimir Nikolaev, composer
• Tatyana Mikheyeva, composer
• Sergei Zagny, composer and musicologist
• Michael Prosniakov, Musicologist, Founder and Director of Stockhausen Institute, Moscow.

Electronic music

• Yurii Yukechev
• Andrei Rodionov
• Viktor Ulyanich
• Viktor Katayev
• Igor Mikhailenko

Works

• Electronic_music_instruments_in_CEE
• CD Mrs. Lenin. Electro-Acoustic music from the Theremin Center, http://payplay.fm/theremincenter

Events

• 1996 - Concert program for Lev Theremin’s 100 anniversary.
• 1997 - The Theremin Center. The Multimedia Concert Program at Russian Musical Academy, Moscow.

Centres

• Stockhausen Institute, Moscow, *1991, founded and directed by Michael Prosniakov
• Theremin Center, Moscow, *1992, directed by Andrey Smirnov
• Electro-acoustic studio in Moscow State Musical College

New media art, Media culture

Articles

• Collaborative research on internet in Russia, [14]
• Katherine Liberovskaya, "Behind the Cyrillic Curtain : Notes on Internet Art and Culture in Russia", 2001, [15]
• Lev Manovich, "Behind the Screen / Russian New Media", 1997. [16]
• Andrea Hapke, Andrea Jana Korb, "Russische cyberfeministische Strategien", course plan, 2002. [17]
• Andrea Hapke and Andrea Jana Korb, "'Russische' cyberfeministische Strategien zwischen Realität, Virtualität und Fiktion – Ein Dialog", German. [18]
• Florian Schneider and James Allen. Runet - interview with olia lialina. 2000. [19]
• Jürgen Bruchhaus, "Runet 2000 - Politik und russisches Internet", Master thesis, 2000, German. [20] [21]

more

• Viacheslav Koleichuk, one of the leaders of constructivist art in Russia.

Bibliography

• Media Art in Russia. ISEA Newsletter #95, January-February 2004. [22], [23]
• Bibliography of Articles Published in Leonardo on Art, Science and Technology in the Former Soviet Union [24]

Resources

• Eva Wohlgemuth and Kathy Rae Huffman, Siberian Deal, travel report, 1995. [25], [26]
• Mediatheque, First collection of media art in Russia with a non-commercial access, [27]
• http://www.mediamuseum.ru, [28]
• Russian Avantgarde Foundation, [29]
• diss.cetera ostWEB, [30]

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