MARS Center opens a branch in St. Petersburg with the exhibition FIELD THEORY

The MARS Center announces the opening on October 7 of its own site in St. Petersburg, the first exhibition of which will be the multimedia project THE FIELD THEORY. Unique digital installations created by artists from different countries will be presented to the attention of the viewer. Among the participants: Tuna Pamir (Turkey), Guillaume Marmin (France), Curiosity Media Lab, the Tundra team, Maxim Svishchev and Andrei Svibovich and others.

The name of the exhibition FIELD THEORY refers to the same section of physics, which describes the invisible forces that form the so-called fields that permeate and bind together everything in the space surrounding us. The exhibition project FIELD THEORY is an artistic attempt to recreate an all-consuming stream directed at the viewer, and, at the same time, dependent on him. Digital installations presented at the exhibition, like broadcasting, completely surround the viewer with optical-sound fields. Each of the works fascinates with audio-visual effects: some of them change their appearance in a dialogue with the viewer, others can be observed in three-dimensional space.

So, in the installation “Timaeus, or the music of the spheres” (Guillaume Marmin) several hundreds of thin light rays are directed at the viewer, changing their direction and intensity. In the work of Black Noise (Tundra), the environment around the visitor becomes voluminous, stretching out in a space where streams from digital noise pass by, in different planes, and the maximum effect of immersing the viewer is achieved by active 3D technology.

In a separate area of the exhibition, viewers will be able to feel like media artists themselves. The author’s interactive digital installation by Tuna Pamir, using eye tracking technology, will allow visitors to create an image by controlling the eye with a digital brush. Wearing a virtual reality helmet, the viewer finds himself in a world where interaction with the virtual environment is elevated to the degree of art. As you move around the exhibition, visitors will first-hand get acquainted with artists and their works with the help of a virtual explorer - a specially developed mobile application MARS SPB, which will also surprise viewers.

The exposition will be valid from October 7, 2016 in the exhibition halls of the Passage trading house at the address: 48 Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg.