CYLAND MediaArtLab is a nonprofit media laboratory and arts organization founded by independent artists and curators. Bridging art, science, and technology, CYLAND promotes collaboration between artists, engineers, and programmers. It initiates exhibitions, workshops, sound and video programs, and supports the creation, presentation, and archiving of media art worldwide. It organizes the international media art festival CYFEST, one of the longest-running festivals dedicated to new media art. The festival provides a platform for both emerging and established practitioners working with time-based installations, sound, video, algorithmic composition, and hybrid artistic forms.
The CYLAND Video Archive (est. 2008) is featuring over 600 works by more than 100 artists and collectives, the archive includes video art, experimental film, computer graphics, 3D and stop-motion animation, poetic video, and documentation of artistic and educational projects. Exhibitions and screenings of programs from CYLAND Video Archive have been held in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, Armenia, Sweden and across Eastern Europe. Curated by Victoria Ilyushkina.
The CYLAND Audio Archive (CAA) (est. 2013) is a division of CYLAND MediaArtLab, created to investigate archiving and exhibiting methodologies of sound art. The archive is a continuous process of working on a structure of various subgenres of sound art, making compilations, and cataloging the growing archive. To date, there are 60 releases, including works by more than 80 artists. All the records are available for listening on cyland.bandcamp.com. Each release presented is a stand-alone piece accompanied by an artist statement. Curated by Sergei Komarov and Lidiia Griaznova.