Life Zone Audiovisual Art Exhibition at M’ARS Center 
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M’ARC Center (Moscow) is changing the format of exhibition and educational activities. The new development vector will be aimed at implementing projects in the field of audiovisual culture. From February 2015, exhibitions and festivals will be held in the renovated space of the center, as well as training in generative graphics, sound art, kinetic sculpture and other relevant areas of art.
The first project of the "reboot" will be the Life Zone exhibition. She will present the work of 15 media artists from Moscow and St. Petersburg, created specifically for the project.
The exhibition will be held from February 27 to April 15, 2015.
Life Zone is an interactive maze that immerses the viewer in the space of sound, image and light through new technologies. Among the participants of the exhibition are Alexander Lezius (TUNDRA), Andrey Svibovich, Maxim Svishchev, Jan Kalnberzin, the Spin creative association, the Mathrioshka, Kuflex groups and others. The exposition will be located in 8 halls of the center’s two-story space in Pushkarevsky Lane.
The starting point for the creators of the project was the idea of "live communication" between a work of art and the audience. Artists used the principles of generative graphics, where sound and video is an ever-changing code, and the replacement of one element entails a new change, giving rise to a flexible audiovisual organism. Thanks to this, each visitor will be able to interact with objects at the exhibition, changing their shape and sound using their own movements.
The exhibition explores the theme of life in the space of the universe. The term "zone of life" in astronomy means the area most favorable for existence. Artists reflect on theories of the origin of the world and involve the viewer in this dialogue. Thematic exposition is divided into two parts: “Causes of life” and “Dimensions of life”. The basis of the audiovisual maze is formed by spatially interactive, sound, video and kinetic installations.
Project participants:
Maxim Svishchev (St. Petersburg) works with computer graphics and animation. Participant of exhibitions in New York, Turin, Sao Paulo, Berlin, Seoul, Venice, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Perm and other cities of the world. In 2011 - laureate of the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize, nominee of the Innovation Prize and winner of the special prize of the French Embassy for the Innovation Prize.
Andrei Svibovich (St. Petersburg) - composer, musician, sound designer and audio artist. The creator of the PoliarPoliar projects, TheVoicesofSaint-Peterburg, a participant in the festival "Electromechanics".
Alexander Lezius (St. Petersburg) - video artist, programmer. Since 2009, he was engaged in video sets for productions of the Mariinsky Theater and the Youth Theater on the Fontanka. In 2012, he was nominated for the "Breakthrough" theater prize. Since 2012, he has been a member of the TUNDRA creative team (St. Petersburg), specializing in interactive audio-visual installations. In 2013, the TUNDRA "TheVoid" project was widely covered in leading international multimedia publications in art (CreatorsProject, Co.Design, Gizmodo); in 2014 was presented at the MappingFestival in Geneva.
Creative Association Spina (St. Petersburg)
Form Evolution is a production within the framework of the interdisciplinary Superposition project, the aim of which is to search for new forms in the field of performance and audiovisual art. Using electroacoustic experiments, modern multimedia tools and plastic improvisation, where project participants propose to follow the process of developing an abstract artistic composition from an elementary object, endowing it with size, sound and movement. Alina Nikolskaya; Alexander Mashanov; Yuri Gorbachevsky; Sergey Kostyrko; Yuri Tolstoguzov; Olga Libets.
Mathrioshka (Moscow) is a community studio of interactive art of design and architecture. The activity is aimed at finding new formats for the use of interactive technologies, new images of reality and representing the space around us. Founders - Vadim Smakhtin, Eduard Hyman.
Kuflex (Moscow) is a laboratory where experiments are conducted with various forms of interactive art. All Kuflex projects are aimed at finding a new digital aesthetic with an expanded spectrum of understanding of interactivity - the formation of audiovisual images with the intense inclusion of the viewer in the reality of what is happening. The creators and main participants of the Kuflex team are Igor Tatarnikov, Denis Perevalov and Ksenia Lyashenko.
Vtol :: Dima Morozov (Moscow) - is engaged in the creation of interactive audio-visual installations, experimental electronic music, soundart and non-standard electronic musical instruments. The main engineering and creative principle of creating devices and musical works is “circuitbending” - the conscious removal of microcircuits and devices to the limit and non-standard operating modes, which are achieved by introducing chaotic changes in the electrical circuits.
Jan Kalnberzin (Moscow) - artist, video artist. Since 1996, he has been filming foot motion films and VJing. The films “Cold Sweat”, “Flights” and “Metro” are on the account. He acted as a VJ at the festivals of Abracadabra, MIGZ and others. He is actively exploring the possibilities of 3D graphics. Member of the Requiem Symphony Performance (dir. K. Serebrennikov). One of the main members of RussianVisualArtists.
Alexander Chaliapin (St. Petersburg) - engaged in modern realtime graphics, specializes in interactive. Competencies: mocap, development and prototyping of interfaces, media production. Collaborates with media studios in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
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