💥 We are excited to announce that CYLAND MediaArtLab in partnership with the HayArt Cultural Center is participating in #DigiTec Expo 2023 in Yerevan – the largest tech exhibition event in the region bringing together the entire IT community. We are deeply grateful to our partner, the HayArt Cultural Center, for inviting us to join forces in developing an ART:TECH program for this remarkable international event.
Featuring artworks by Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants, Sergey Komarov, Alexey Grachev and Nao Nishihara.
📆 13-15 October 2023
📍 Meridian Expo & Event Centre (1 Voskerichneri)
❗️All welcome, but registration is required
📸 1-3: Ann Prilutckaia
4:Yuri Goryanoy
Featuring artworks by Alexandra Dementieva, Anna Frants, Sergey Komarov, Alexey Grachev and Nao Nishihara.
📆 13-15 October 2023
📍 Meridian Expo & Event Centre (1 Voskerichneri)
❗️All welcome, but registration is required
📸 1-3: Ann Prilutckaia
4:Yuri Goryanoy
⏳‘Chronoscape’ by Alexandra Dementieva features at #DigiTec Expo-23:
The totem consists of a clock mechanism, a monitor, and hidden video camera. It is a symbolic representation or embodiment of the concept of time and serves as a reminder of its flow, the impermanence of life or the cyclical nature of existence. Standing in front of it, the visitors speeds up the clock with their presence — the more they stand, the faster the hands spin, the ticking sound speeds up, their image on the monitor screen breaks up into pixels and disappears completely. When the visitors leave, the clock returns to the original local time position.
Engineers: Alexey Grachev, Denis Markov, Sergey Komarov
Supported by CYLAND MediaArtLab
📸 Ann Prilutckaia
The totem consists of a clock mechanism, a monitor, and hidden video camera. It is a symbolic representation or embodiment of the concept of time and serves as a reminder of its flow, the impermanence of life or the cyclical nature of existence. Standing in front of it, the visitors speeds up the clock with their presence — the more they stand, the faster the hands spin, the ticking sound speeds up, their image on the monitor screen breaks up into pixels and disappears completely. When the visitors leave, the clock returns to the original local time position.
Engineers: Alexey Grachev, Denis Markov, Sergey Komarov
Supported by CYLAND MediaArtLab
📸 Ann Prilutckaia
🥁 Today! #DigiTec Expo-23 opens its doors welcoming the entire tech community.
Join us and experience one of the highlights of this year’s CYFEST-15 the kinetic sound installation ‘Diligent Machine (Yerevan)’ by Nao Nishihara:
"Diligent Machine," shifts our sense of time in our daily lives. It runs on a railway slowly with sounds of instruments and daily objects. The audience has to wait, and keep their senses sharp. These ideas and process are rooted in the "MA 間", the traditional Japanese notion of time and space.
Nao Nishihara is an artist and active practitioner of sound activities, sound art, performance, recording, and instrument production. An object or human body inevitably produce sound. Nao explores these sounds and attempts to show them through their activities, by using self-built machines and his own body. /http://nishiharanao.blogspot.com/
📸 Ann Prilutckaia
Join us and experience one of the highlights of this year’s CYFEST-15 the kinetic sound installation ‘Diligent Machine (Yerevan)’ by Nao Nishihara:
"Diligent Machine," shifts our sense of time in our daily lives. It runs on a railway slowly with sounds of instruments and daily objects. The audience has to wait, and keep their senses sharp. These ideas and process are rooted in the "MA 間", the traditional Japanese notion of time and space.
Nao Nishihara is an artist and active practitioner of sound activities, sound art, performance, recording, and instrument production. An object or human body inevitably produce sound. Nao explores these sounds and attempts to show them through their activities, by using self-built machines and his own body. /http://nishiharanao.blogspot.com/
📸 Ann Prilutckaia
Check out the another recording from the Cyland Audio Archive made during anniversary 10th CYFEST:
Nao Nishihara
'Oil Drums', sound installation, 2015
Nao's installation is brilliantly simple: three drums are spinned by electric motors and rubber balls are rubbing against their bottoms making loud drawling sound. The simplicity stops here, and the listener is enveloped by the sound of literally fractal complexity: the tone quality keeps changing because the system is imperfect. The temperature, the humidity, the friction of the rubber balls, the unstable mechanism etc all affect the sound.
Even in the short moments of stability the throbbing of the three sound sources in the huge hall makes a strong impression, alternatively changing from exultation to long reverberation.
Therefore this sound exists only now and here in front of you.
Also, it is a kind of gap that this light and bright sound are originated from the oil drum which is deeply oiled in the heavy industries. A gap is the possibility of a human being because human beings always try to fill the gap.
https://cyland.bandcamp.com/album/caa-37
Nao Nishihara
'Oil Drums', sound installation, 2015
Nao's installation is brilliantly simple: three drums are spinned by electric motors and rubber balls are rubbing against their bottoms making loud drawling sound. The simplicity stops here, and the listener is enveloped by the sound of literally fractal complexity: the tone quality keeps changing because the system is imperfect. The temperature, the humidity, the friction of the rubber balls, the unstable mechanism etc all affect the sound.
Even in the short moments of stability the throbbing of the three sound sources in the huge hall makes a strong impression, alternatively changing from exultation to long reverberation.
Therefore this sound exists only now and here in front of you.
Also, it is a kind of gap that this light and bright sound are originated from the oil drum which is deeply oiled in the heavy industries. A gap is the possibility of a human being because human beings always try to fill the gap.
https://cyland.bandcamp.com/album/caa-37
CAA
CAA—37, by Nao Nishihara
1 track album
Anna Frants, Artist Union. Still life, from the series “Matter of Chance”, media Installation, 2019.
The “Artist Union. Still life” is a reflection on the law of large numbers. Is it applicable in visual arts — to colors in painting, lines in graphics, forms in sculpture, and the image integrity in installations?
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The law of large numbers is a principle that describes the completion of the same experiment many times. According to this law, the joint action of a large number of random factors leads to a result almost independent of the chance. For example, in the XVI century the length of the English foot was defined, by a royal order, as the arithmetic average length of the foot of the first 16 people leaving the church on Sunday matins. Although the law of large numbers was not yet defined, it serves as the basis for the principle of arithmetic mean used in determining the length of a foot.
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📸 Anna Prilutckaia
The “Artist Union. Still life” is a reflection on the law of large numbers. Is it applicable in visual arts — to colors in painting, lines in graphics, forms in sculpture, and the image integrity in installations?
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The law of large numbers is a principle that describes the completion of the same experiment many times. According to this law, the joint action of a large number of random factors leads to a result almost independent of the chance. For example, in the XVI century the length of the English foot was defined, by a royal order, as the arithmetic average length of the foot of the first 16 people leaving the church on Sunday matins. Although the law of large numbers was not yet defined, it serves as the basis for the principle of arithmetic mean used in determining the length of a foot.
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📸 Anna Prilutckaia