So-called “Ostalgie” has attained a place in our cultural imaginary that fetishises the well-worn geographical binary between East and West. D’EST: A Multi-Curatorial Platform for Video Art from the Former …
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Imagine the pages of your ancestors’ diaries were uploaded to an online database for the world to see. Since 2015, archivist and historian Misha Mel’nichenko has been working to do just …
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In February 2018, St. Petersburg welcomed the eleventh edition of Cyfest, an annual international festival of media art, organised by Cyland International MediaArtLab (https://cyland.org/lab/). This year’s theme is ‘Weather Forecast: …
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В современном глобальном информационном обществе люди формируют представления о мире за пределами своих национальных границ посредством медийных образов. Воображаемая реальность мест, пространств и сообществ становится реальностью международных отношений, вступая в …
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‘Sex, Power, Love and Money: Media and Sexualisation of Everyday in the Post-Soviet spaces’ is the title of a recent workshop held at the University of Leicester. It dealt with the topical …
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Attentat 1942, a historically accurate video game about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, ruler of the Nazi-occupied Czech Lands, has been greenlit on the Steam market. Developed by Charles University …
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С 2014 года меня, как независимого куратора, главным образом интересуют две темы: украино-российский конфликт и война, длящейся на востоке Украины по сей день. В частности, это выставочные проекты «Дрессированные глитчи» …
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In January-February 2017 the artistic community in St. Petersburg held its 10th International Media Art Festival CYFEST. It was curated by Anna Frants and Elena Gubanova (CYLAND: https://cyland.org). For its …
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The sexualisation of figures of disagreement in politics is today, however regrettably, a central feature of media discourse. In reducing Putin and, by means of his place as privileged metonym …
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