VIDEO PROGRAM ARCHIVE
The CYLAND Video Archive Programs present a curated selection of contemporary and experimental video art developed by CYLAND MediaArtLab and shown as part of CYFEST. Organized around thematic frameworks, each program combines single-channel works, experimental films, and documentation of media art practices. Functioning as a dynamic archive, the programs are continuously reassembled, allowing shifting connections and new readings to emerge in response to an evolving digital landscape.
Co-curated special screenings and video programs: “A Short Term Effect”, 2010, curator Olga Jürgenson (Great Britain); “Not So Distant Memory”, 2011, curator Boshko Boscovic (USA); “Action Planning: Reaction”, 2011, curators Natalia Prikhodko (Russia) and Yulia Garbuzova (France); “Cross-Over”, 2012, curator Miguel Petchkovsky Morais (Brazil-Netherlands), “Digital Revolution”, 2017, curator Leah Stuhltrager (USA-Germany); “Voyage”, 2024, curator Gabriel V. Soucheyre (France); “Beyond interfaces”, 2024, curator Mu Tuan (Taiwan); “Korean VR & Video”, 2024, curator Seungah Lee (South Korea).
Alexandra Lerman (USA), The Return of the Return of the Giant Hogweed, 4 min. 47 sec., 2018. Digital Fermentation of the Moving Image, CYFEST-14 Video Program, NPAK, Yerevan, Armenia, 2022. Photograph by Anton Khlabov.
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CYFEST: Midpoint
Sensory/Nuances
2025
The program Sensory/Nuances explores the sophisticated ways contemporary media artists and directors are redefining our understanding of perception. Rather than merely documenting the senses, the artists in this program employ innovative techniques to transform perception into abstract, metaphorical, and scientific concepts. Their work suggests that perception is not a passive reception of external stimuli but a complex, embodied, and culturally mediated process.
Taken together, the works in Sensory/Nuances propose that contemporary artistic practice has become a new site for philosophical and scientific inquiry. These artists use their media to investigate reality, consciousness, and what it means to perceive in a world mediated by technology and culture. The program raises questions about the role of technology in shaping perception, exploring how it can both reveal sensory mechanisms and act as a new kind of filter.
Sergei Parajanov
Mathilde Reynaud
Amy Karle
Alessandro Zannier
Ethel Lilienfeld
Louis-Paul Caron
Julia Sharkina
Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina
CYFEST-16
The Crosses of Digital Landscapes
2025
2025
The program explores the theme The Crosses of Digital Landscapes through a range of interconnected artistic strategies. A central focus is the evolving relationship between nature and technology — particularly how digital tools mediate or even simulate unmediated contact with the natural world. These interactions often reflect the environmental consequences of human activity. The way of natural data inscriptions — such as tree rings — chronicle ecological change, echoing how digital systems archive human experience.
Across the program, artists engage with ideas of environmental awareness, digital embodiment, shifting identities, societal structures, and personal histories. Together, they map the intersections of data, memory, and emotion within post-industrial and digital landscapes.
Tanya Akhmetgalieva
Alek Borisov
Francesca Fini
Elena Gubanova & Ivan Govorkov
Sid Iandovka, Anna Tsyrlina
Yuliya Lanina
Alexandra Lerman
Anna Sowa, Gohar Sargsyan
Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina
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2024
The program explores various approaches that artists take to preserve, understand, and transform different types of information: individual, social, historical, socio-cultural, biological, and technological, both analog and digital.
The works featured in the program illustrate the diverse perspectives of contemporary artists on the global issue of preserving human memory, which remains critically crucially important today.
Gagik Ghazareh (Armenia)
Daria Belova (Germany)
Heejeong Jeong (South Korea)
JML (France)
Liza Dandy (Russia)
Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina
2023
New structures are appearing, adapting to the current world’s dynamic nature and resisting violence. They are launched by the disruption of traditional systems from sociopolitical cataclysms, eradications of the displacement of trauma, and losses.
In the works selected for this program, the artists reexamine notions common to us: language, motherland, home, nature, matter. They do it by deconstructing and rebuilding their personal stories and documentary evidence through the use of performative practice, verbal and nonverbal communication, digitizing and 3D modeling of their surroundings or by algorithms of computer-assisted instruction and artificial intelligence.
Anna Ivonina (Russia)
Nadezhda Bey (Russia)
Marisa Benito (Spain)
Maria Kuptsova (Austria)
Selena Isho (Russia)
Anastasia Lonshakova (Russia)
Mariam Arami (Papoyan) (The Republic of Armenia)
Eléonore de Montesquiou (France–Estonia–Germany)
Gor Margaryan (Germany)
Pim Zwier (Netherlands)
Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina
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2022
This program examines several aspects of analog and digital fermentation of the moving image. By fermentation, we mean the introduction of a certain reactive element to an artwork, which changes the very “fabric” of the moving image, its structure, and accordingly the message too. The program includes artistic experiments to shift the boundaries of perception of physical and virtual reality, studying the inhuman and human using new digital technologies.
Sonia Balassanian (Armenia)
Andrius Venclova (Russia)
Boris Kazakov (Russia)
Polina Komyagina (Croatia)
Konstantin MiTenev (Switzerland)
Lidiya Rikker (Russia)
Anya Tsyrlina (Switzerland)
Alek Borisov (Russia)
Ksenia Galkina (Russia)
Elena Demi-dova &
Maxim Kalmykov (Russia)
Victoria Ilyushkina (Russia)
Alexandra Lerman (USA)
Lilia Li-Mi-Yan &
Katherina Sadovsky (Russia)
Alena Tereshko (Russia) &
Antti Kukkonen (Finland)
Silvana Chobanyan &
Aram Zurabyan (Armenia)
Aizek (Georgia)
Pole-Fromage (France)
Rinatto L'bank (Kazakhstan)
Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina
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2021
Today, fundamental changes are taking place on our planet, and our entire lifestyle is being re-examined. We see other forms of life existing in what feels like a parallel universe — which we used not to pay such close attention to. Perhaps this crucible of changes will transform society and our everyday reality drastically, help us to shed the unnecessary and superficial things in life, and gain a better understanding of ourselves and the people around us.
Francesca Fini (Italy)
Aristarkh Chernyshev (Russia)
Ellen K. Levy (USA)
Arina Slobodianik (Russia)
Yuki Hayashi (Japan)
Mikhail Zheleznikov (Russia)
Guilherme Bergamini (Brazil)
Jonathan Phanhsay-Chamson (France)
Andréa Stanislav (USA)
Fay Heady (Ireland–Japan)
Phyllis Baldino (USA)
Prantik Narayan Basu (India)
Tonoptik (Russia)
Boris Shershenkov (Russia)
Anton Vidokle (USA)
(Special Screening)
Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina
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2020
The technological progress of recent years has strengthened the ties between humanity and technology, machines and artificial intellect, and made the interaction between organic and synthetic life more intimate. Personalities surrounded by a mirror cube of social networks hide behind their avatars and continue to exist in their accounts even after death. Who are we? What is our future going to be like?
Emma Bayer (Russia)
Masha Godovannaya (Russia)
Mascha Danzis (Germany)
Gioula Papadopoulou (Greece)
Summer McCorkle (USA)
Mahta Hosseini (Iran)
Citron | Lunardi (Italy)
Necko (Spain)
Di Hu (China)
Marisa Benito (Spain)
Virginia Lee Montgomery (USA)
Joe Hambleton (Canada)
Bram Lattré (Belgium)
Yanina Chernykh (Russia)
Vladimir Abikh (Russia)
Elena Artemenko (Russia)
DVENEODNA (Russia)
Reza Masoud (Iran)
Marina Blinova (Russia)
Nataliya Lyakh (Russia–France)
Sid Iandovka &
Anya Tsyrlina (Russia–Switzerland–USA)
Almagul Menlibayeva (Germany-Kazakhstan)
Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina
CYFEST-12
PERSONAL MYTHOLOGY
2019
At the turning-point of eras, new philosophical and aesthetic narratives are born. Their adepts and heralds are artists and scholars who are sensitive to the fabric of time and create myths. There is a rich tradition of myth-making in Russian art in the post-Soviet space: Moscow conceptualism, pirate television, neoacademism, necrorealism, medical hermeneutics. Today, Russian and American artists appeal to the study and mythologization of global layers of civilization: to the classical heritage, the ancient epic, the avant-garde, ideas of Russian cosmism and urbanism, ideology, gender and mass-media.
Anton Vidokle (USA)
Anton Ginzburg (USA)
Olga Tobreluts (Russia)
Polina Kanis (Russia)
Sid Iandovka &
Anya Tsyrlina (Russia–Switzerland–USA)
Almagul Menlibayeva (Germany-Kazakhstan)
Alexandra Lerman (USA)
Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina
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CYFEST-11
TO TOUCH THE SKY
2018
Flights of fancy of humanity, dreams of fame, instantaneous movement, high above the clouds and to other planets — all these things are practically a reality today. Our thoughts and feelings have moved to digital clouds, to computers and gadgets. Our bodies exist in impossibly tall towers, in deserts, in conditions that were previously impossible for life, in space; and consciousness moves across the world without hindrances. Two worlds: the real and the virtual are irrevocably intertwined and can no longer be separated. What used to be unimaginable becomes reality!
Tanya Akhmetgalieva (Russia)
Alexander Borisov (Russia)
Ksenia Galkina (Russia)
Ivan Govorkov (Russia)
Karina Golubenko (Russia)
Ben Grosser (USA)
Elena Gubanova (Russia)
Dagnini (Russia)
Alexander Dupuis (USA)
Andrey Kasay (Russia)
Alina Kvirkveliya (Russia)
Egor Kraft (Russia)
Ariane Loze (Belgium)
Greg Marshall (Canada)
Eden Mitsenmacher (Netherlands)
Jean-Michel Rolland (France)
Mark Cypher (Australia)
Alexander Senko (Russia)
Andréa Stanislav (USA)
Rebecca Tritschler (Netherlands)
Pekka Tynkkynen (Finland)
Kuesti Fraun (Germany)
Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai (Russia)
AUJIK (Sweden)
YOmoYO (Russia)
Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina
2015
The media — it's the machines of abstraction that create information flows. These flows are subjected to various forms of transcoding: the physical reality into the virtual one, analog into digital, verbal into nonverbal, image into sound, 2D images into 3D models, various failures and glitches in the process of file-coding, up to the complete deconstruction of an image. MODUS OPERANDI include the works whose parameters are neither digital nor physical-instead, they exist in a new virtual / material hybrid trajectory that, one of these days will, will not need a human being in order to function.
Eden Mitsenmacher (Israel)
Jeroen van Loon (Netherlands) Nelmarie du Preez (South Africa)
Egor Kraft (Russia)
Blanca Rego (Spain)
Michael Wirthig (Austria)
Veronika Reichl (USA-Germany)
Luigia Cardarelli (Italy)
Felice Hapetzeder (Sweden)
Silvia Winkler (Austria)
Stefan Koeperl (Germany)
Martina Menegon (Italy)
Nicholas Steindorf (USA)
Francesc Martí (Spain)
claRa apaRicio yoldi (Spain)
Anthony Stephenson (USA)
Oleg Elagin (Russia)
Myriam Thyes (Switzerland-Germany) Lei Lei (China)
Sebastián Mira (Colombia)
Jeroen Cluckers (Belgium)
Michael Beitz (USA)
Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina
Modus Operandi
2014
“The Other Home” explores the commonalities and differentiations among physical, emotional and cultural manifestations attached to the concept of «home». Following the tradition of legendary apartment shows of Soviet time — this exposition explores correlations between public and private, inner and outward, practical and idle.
Anna Jermolaeva (Austria)
Francesca Fini (Italy)
Marcantonio Lunardi (Italy)
Mark Salvatus (Philippines)
AUJIK (Sweden)
Rasmus Albertsen (Denmark)
Yuri Vassiliev (Russia)
Alena Tereshko (Russia)
Mauricio Sanhueza (Peru)
Sandrine Deumier, Alx P.op (France)
Yannis Kranidiotis (Greece)
Arya Sukapura Putra (Indonesia)
Jean-Michel Rolland (France)
Éléonore Joulin (Belgium)
Maria Korporal (Germany)
Liuda Kartoshkina (Russia)
Emilija Skarnulyte (Lithuania)
Ryo Ikeshiro (UK)
Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina
CYFEST-7
CHANGING LANDSCAPES 2
2013
In “Changing Landscapes 2”, 12 film/video works selected from CYLAND’s Video Archive create together a genuine, introspective look at contemporary New Media. These videos/film by active Eastern European artists offer personal perspectives into the continuum of their country’s past, present and future.
Boris Kazakov (Russia)
Anton Khlabov (Russia)
Masha Sha (Russia)
Maxim Svischev (Russia)
“Upward!” Community (Russia)
Yuriy Vassiliev (Russia)
Laboratory of Poetry Actionism (Russia) Soap Group (Russia)
Ludmila Belova (Russia)
Dimitri Lurie (Norway)
Daria Pisareva (Russia)
Таnya Akhmetgalieva (Russia)
Victoria Begalskaya (Russia)
Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina
CYBERFEST-6
WAY UP
2012
Struggle for survival, rites and rituals, timeless values and power of the word’s impact, uncharted abandoned territories, fantastic and abstract transformations of the familiar landscape and architecture, optical illusions and the geometry of space-time relations.
Mariateresa Sartori (Italy)
Francesca Fini (Italy)
Anna Jermolaewa (Austria)
Tina Willgren (Sweden)
Joaquin Palencia (Philippines)
Rimas Sakalauskas (Lithuania)
Heini Aho (Finland)
Pink Twins Group (Finland)
Hakeem b (France)
Loudwig van Ludens (Germany)
AUJIK, Stefan Larsson (Sweden)
Anssi Kasitonni (Finland)
Natalia Abalakova (Russia)
Leyla Rodriguez (Germany)
Cristian Straub (Germany)
Anatoliy Zhigalov (Russia)
Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina
CYFEST CO-CURATED SPECIAL PROGRAMS
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2024
Beyond Interfaces—Taiwanese Video program is inspired by CYFEST 16’s curatorial theme of Archive of Feelings. A Journey. Through the perspective of seven groups of Taiwanese artists with diverse viewpoints of historical memory, cartography, alchemy, nostalgia, virtual relationships, and gaming disorders, “Beyond Interfaces” examines the connection between technological objects and human emotions.
lololol — Xia Lin (Taiwan) & Sheryl Cheung (Сanada)
Jiun-Ting Lai (Taiwan)
Yen-Cheng Chen (Taiwan)
Chen Chen (Taiwan)
Poyuan Juan (Taiwan)
Margot Guillemot (France) & Chiehsen Chiu (Taiwan)
Ya-Lun Tao (Taiwan)
Curated by Tuan Mu, independent curator and visual artist based in Taipei.
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2024
Humanity has always imagined the future as a journey toward a better, smoother life, a utopian paradise on Earth. It’s been and still is a long way to go, especially when so many singularities find it challenging to match with each other in a world that extends to the infinite in its digital dimension and experimentations. What is left of humanity, then? Does it belong to memories of long-gone feelings?
Should we imagine a cold future, wherein human relationships are reduced to a minimum, where the machine is privileged for a smoother dialogue or stuffed with artifacts that fill the need for sweetness and serenity? Are we able to imagine a future when we find it difficult to remember, to stimulate used feelings? These selected works offer a panel to discuss our human dimension and contradictions.
Francesca Fini (Italy)
Úrsula San Cristóbal (Spain)
Mattia Bioli (Italy)
Brecht De Cock (Belgium)
Curated by Gabriel V. Soucheyre, artistic director at VIDEOFORMES, Hybrid and Digital International Arts Festival.
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2024
The special section of CYFEST 16 explores how Korean artists express their collective experiences shared from the past, as well as individual memories and emotions regarding specific events or current situations, in line with this year's festival theme, Archives of Feelings. A Journey, within the rapidly changing technological era. With these five works, what deserves attention is the "subtle sensitivity" of the artists (humans) that forms the basis of the works, grounded in memories and information beyond new technology. I expect that this intriguing journey will allow us to encounter the interaction of "human senses and various emotions" that underpins empathy and communication between art and technology in virtual space.
Anna Kim
Studio MBUS703 (Chiwook Nho)
Jeong Han Kim
YeSeung Lee
Kira Kim
Curated by Seungah Lee, director of Urban Art Lab in Seoul.
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2016–2017
The division of Art :: Tech has been broken through, and artists’ visions of what is technologically possible in the present is shaping our perspective future. Vive la Digital REvolution!
Egor Kraft, Alexander Letsius (Russia) Yuliya Lanina (USA-Russia)
Katerina Pits (Russia)
Susan MacWilliam (Northern Ireland) Boris Kazakov (Russia)
Emily McFarland (Northern Ireland) AES+F Group (Russia)
Joseph Michael (New Zealand)
Faith Holland (USA)
Cameron Askin (New Zealand)
Carla Gannis (USA)
Julia Zastava (Russia)
Polina Kanis (Russia)
Tatyana Zambrano (Colombia)
Paola Michaels (Colombia)
Andres Castaño (Colombia)
Veronika Rudyeva-Ryazantseva (Russia) Zlye Group (Russia)
Michael Hanna (Northern Ireland)
Curated by Leah Stuhltrager
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CYBERFEST-6
CROSS-OVER
2012
Cross-Over is a contribution to the CYBERFEST 2012, that refers the curatorial framework At Heaven’s Door. This concept contribution is articulated within the idea of crossing over the meta narratives of globalization, spirituality and established social constructs in which the creative exercise and practice contributes significantly to bridge world’s cultural understanding, as an essential building block to share creative inner sensibilities within the significance of the Other, and how its own tangible vision of the world, similarity within difference, the paradigms of the self and the social renewal.
Alex Villar (Brazil–USA)
Fernanda d'Agostino (USA)
Fernando Velazquez (Brazil)
Carolina Redondo (Chile)
Angie Bonino (Peru)
Rachel Rosalen (Brasil)
Sergio Ulhoa (Brasil)
Cesar Meneghetti (Brasil)
Mat Rappaport (USA)
Curated by Miguel Petchkovsky Morais
2011
Urban environment and public space are a part of our everyday life, where local culture and topography form а certain standard of human behavior. Order or chaos of streets and parks become a kind of test of our sensitivity. In these public places artists propose actions in which the dynamics of everyday life is understood as a new plastic experience and the forms of people’s spontaneous reaction to a proposed situation become an autonomous language independent from the pragmatism of the urban system.
Ivan Argote (USA)
Jerome Gras (France)
Andrea Acosta (Germany)
Lienor Dauchez (Germany)
Florent Mattei (France)
Francis Alys (Mexico)
Tieri Riviere (France)
Blue Noses (Vyacheslav Mizin Alexander Shaburov) (Russia)
Curated By Julia Garbuzova, Natalia Prikhodko
CYBERFEST-5
NOT SO DISTANT MEMORY
2011
The exhibition comprises of an hour- long presentation of video works from the territory of what used to be Yugoslavia. One is fully aware that returning to the past is an irrecoverable process and the aim of this presentation is to showcase recent artworks that happen to be framed upon a country that once existed.
Borjana Mrdja (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
Marija Djordevic (Serbia)
Alban Muja (Kosovo)
Danilo Prnjat (Montenegro)
Mladen Miljanovic (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
Sandra Dukic (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
Boris Glamocanin (Slovenia)
Leban-Kleindienst (Slovenia)
Zoran Poposki (Macedonia)
Renata Poljak (Croatia)
Curated by Boshko Boskovic
CYBERFEST-4
A SHORT TERM EFFECT
2010
Contemporary video art from the UK
Nicola Naismith
Olga Jurgenson
Laure Prouvost
Cinzia Cremona
M4SK 22 (Simon Woolham and David Moss)
Tessa Garland
Simon Woolham
Dominique Rey
Curated by Olga Jurgenson
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CYBERFEST-1
OPEN SCORE
2007
A documentary produced by Experiments in Art and Technology of Robert Rauschenberg’s “Open Score” (1966) performed in 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, held in October 1966, at the 69th Regiment Armory, New York, NY, United States, footage edited circa 1997.
Open Score by Robert Rauschenberg, 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering. Produced by Billy Klüver and Julie Martin; directed by Barbro Schultz Lundestam. New York: Experiments in Art and Technology and ARTPIX, 2007.
Curated by Julie Martin