Art Night Venezia
June 19, 12:00 PM — Sala Marino Berengo, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
LASER Talk CYLAND #50: Hybrid Ecologies: Natura Naturans. Panel discussion.
Participants: Silvia Burini, Alan Boldon, Carla Gannis, Alexandra Dementieva
Moderator: Natalia Kolodzei
LASER Talk CYLAND #50: Hybrid Ecologies: Natura Naturans is presented within the framework of the Leonardo/ISAST LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks initiative — a global program of conversations and presentations connecting artists, scientists, technologists, and scholars.
Making the 50th edition of LASER CYLAND, Hybrid Ecologies: Natura Naturans continues this tradition by bringing together contemporary artistic practices and critical discourse focused on ecology, artificial intelligence, hybrid environments, and evolving relationships between human and non-human systems. Participants include Silvia Burini, art historian, curator, professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Director of the Centre for Studies in Russian, Central Asian and Caucasian Art (CSAR); Alan Boldon, artist, social entrepreneur, curator, writer, and founder of Weave, known for initiatives connecting education, culture, sustainability, and regenerative futures; Carla Gannis, a transmedia artist, educator, and Industry Professor at NYU Tandon, internationally recognized for her work exploring AI, mythology, identity, and internet culture; and Alexandra Dementieva, media artist known for interactive installations examining perception and technological experience. The discussion is moderated by Natalia Kolodzei, curator, art historian, Executive Director of the Kolodzei Art Foundation, and Co-Chair of Leonardo LASER Talks CYLAND.
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June 20, 6:30 PM — 7:00 PM — Cortile Grande, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Andy Barrt
The Snow Flower of the North
sculptural performance
Performed by Andy Barrt, Anton Ershov, and Gabriele Grassi
Composer: Felix Ventouras
The Snow Flower of the North is presented as part of CYFEST 17: Natura Naturans: Human Beings, Nature, Landscape, the international media art festival organised by CYLAND MediaArtLab in collaboration with Ca' Foscari University of Venice, running at CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo. The performance revives an ancient form of reindeer herders' communication, in which messages were left using symbolic objects placed near stones or mounds. Embodying the Snow Flower, the artist conceals messages within its petals that viewers may receive in exchange for leaving one of their own — creating a living circulation of information rooted in trust and reciprocity. Accompanied by the original score by Felix Ventouras, the work unfolds as a ritual of exchange, memory, and survival
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Spaces of Transition
video program curated by the CYLAND Video Archive
Artists have long possessed an uncommon capacity to anticipate the future, encoding premonition into form. Presented as part of the Sleepless Video Art Night, this program brings together works by interdisciplinary artists who construct a post-futuristic vision of the world through a constellation of practices and technologies — computer graphics, digital art, animation, moving image, scientific inquiry, and performance.
The works gathered here navigate three interlocking fields of inquiry: the environmental conditions of a planet in flux; the psychophysical entanglements between human and machinic bodies; and the embodied experience of consciousness across landscapes both material and imagined. Together, they trace an expanded territory of existence — one in which the boundaries between the real and the dreamlike, the personal and the planetary, remain perpetually, productively unstable.
Featuring: Eric Vernhes, Sandrine Deumier, Gioula Papadopoulou & Olga Papadopoulou, Lu Wei, Jaanika Peerna, Yuliya Lanina, Mu Tuan, Gohar Martirosyan, Shao-Gang Wang, Mathilde Lavenne, Ruth Groesswang
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