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.
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2022
Silvia Burini (Italy)
Georgy Yakulov: an Armenian in Moscow
Alexandra Dementieva (Belgium)
Interactive Art, behavioral patterns and cultural mechanisms
Eugenia Kikodze (Italy)
Irina Korina. Models of Contemporaneity
Anne Marie Maes (Belgium)
The Garden of Knowledge : on Symbiosis, Fermentation and Interspecies Collaboration
Antonio Geusa (Italy)
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 (Russia–Lithuania)
Ekaterina Drakunova (Russia-Armenia), From the Local to the Global: CYLAND LASER Talks
CYFEST-11
2019
Antoni Abad (Spain)
BlindWiki, Unveiling the Unseen
Foteini Aravani (UK)
Collecting the Present: Digital in Museum Collections
Alan Boldon (UK)
A Radical Approach to Learning: Facilitating Collective Intelligence
Dmitry Bulatov (Russia)
The Other Side of Sound: Sources and Patterns of Sound Art in Russia
Alexander Burenkov (Russia)
Economics of Attention and Curating Exhibitions in Post-Internet Age
Valentino Catricalà (Italy)
Rethinking Cinema and Media Through Media Art
Elena Gubanova, Ivan Govorkov (Russia)
Technology and Visuality
Sergey Kostyrko (Russia)
About Some Methods of Data Sonification Derived during the Studies of Biological Systems
Egor Kraft, Natalia Fucs (Russia)
Content Aware Studies
Janine Randerson (New Zealand)
Cloud Worlds: Recent Digital Art from Aotearoa-New Zealand
Vladimir Rannev, Marina Alekseeva (Russia)
Opera “Prose” at the “Electrical Theater Stanislavsky”: Analog Technologies at the Theater Space as Illusions of Digital Ones
Carla Rapoport (UK)
A Brief History of the Lumen Prize
Danielle Siembieda (USA)
Re-imagining the Future of Collaborative Communities
Vlad Strukov (UK)
Ocular Velocity: Art in the Age of Big Data
2021
Bettina Forget (Canada–Germany)
Exoplanet Zoo: Contemplating Alien Worlds Though Art and Science
Christiana Kazakou (Greece–UK)
Transdisciplinarity: Narrative Spatial Trajectories
Yiannis Melanitis (Greece)
A Humanized Transgenic Butterfly Named Leda Melanitis
Patricia Olynyk (USA)
“Dark Skies”: A Meditation on Nightfall
Daniela de Paulis (Italy–Netherlands)
Artistic Research through Radio
Danielle Siembieda (USA)
Collide: Impact
Emilio Vavarella (Italy–USA)
Between Form and Information
Anton Vidokle (USA)
Cosmist Aesthetics
Victoria Vesna (USA)
[ALIEN] STAR DUST
Signal to Noise: Molecular Light for Russia
CYFEST-10
2018
Dmitry Bulatov (Russia)
Art & Science: Art in Research Labs
Alexandra Dementieva (Belgium)
New Technologies in Public Space Installations
William Latham (UK)
Mutator VR
Igor Molochevski (USA)
Interfaze
Irina Nakhova (Russia)
Sentimental Education in the Global Village
Danielle Siembieda (USA)
“Leonardo” Focused
Anna Frants (USA)
Design vs. Art vs. Design
2020
Nina Czegledy (Canada)
Shifting Educational Landscapes
Eduard Khaiman (Russia)
What’s the Matter With Digitocene?
Art in Times of the Digital and Material Confusion
William Latham (UK), Lance Putnam (UK/USA)
Creating Formscape VR, the History of Mutator VR
Boris Magrini (Switzerland)
Digital Art, Artificial Intelligence
and the Creation of New Paradigms
Max Philipp Schmid (Switzerland)
Experimental practice and content
Dominique Roland (France)
Centre Des Arts digital art center and Bains Numériques festival
David Rosenboom (USA)
Propositional Music of Many Nows
Sergey Teterin (Russia-Lithuania)
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