The 2014 CYBERFEST Educational Program brings world class artists and thinkers together with students and young people for innovative workshops, performances and screenings.
CYBERFEST is the original, biggest festival for tech based art in Russia. Founded in 2007, CYBERFEST expanded to Germany in 2013. In 2014, CYBERFEST reaches international levels by branching to 5 innovative cities on the Art & Tech frontier, strengthening cultural exchange among innovators. The CYBERFEST Educational Program enhances the innovative Art & Tech programming with workshops, screenings and performances from the internationally renowned artists.
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CYLAND presents The CYBERFEST Educational Program |
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— 2014 CYBERFEST & CYLAND Educational Program —
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| NOV — DEC ST PETERSBURG HERMITAGE MUSEUM |
CYBERFEST: Live Feed from Berlin, Tokyo, NYC Curated by Sophia Kudriavceva Youth Education Center, Palace Sq, 6-8 |
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| NOV 5, 18:30 ST PETERSBURG HERMITAGE MUSEUM |
Opening of the CYBERFEST Educational Program Ken Butler, “Hybrid Visions” Youth Education Center, Palace Sq, 6-8 |
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| NOV 5, 19:00 ST PETERSBURG HERMITAGE MUSEUM |
CYBERFEST: Performance Ken Butler, “Voices of Anxious Objects” Youth Education Center, Palace Sq, 6-8 |
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| NOV 6, 15-19:00 ST PETERSBURG HERMITAGE MUSEUM |
CYBERFEST: Exhibition Ken Butler, “Voices of Anxious Objects & “Hybrid Visions” Youth Education Center, Palace Sq, 6-8 |
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| NOV 7, 15-21:00 ST PETERSBURG HERMITAGE MUSEUM |
CYBERFEST: Exhibition Ken Butler, “Voices of Anxious Objects” & “Hybrid Visions” Youth Education Center, Palace Sq, 6-8 |
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| NOV 8, 13:00 NEW YORK TBA |
CYBERFEST: Workshop AL DOYLE, “An Introduction to Game Design Tools” TBA |
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| NOV 8, 16:00 ST PETERSBURG CYLAND |
CYBERFEST: Artist Talk Sergei Teterin “The Early Heroes & Gurus of Electronic Music” Media School |
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| NOV 9, 16:00 ST PETERSBURG HERMITAGE |
CYBERFEST: Workshop Ken Butler, “Sound Invention for Kids” Youth Education Center, Palace Sq, 6-8 |
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| NOV 18 — DEC 9 MOSCOW GROUND MOSCOW |
CYBERFEST Educational Program KEN BUTLER, “Hybrid Visions” Khodynka (Irina Levchenko Street, 2) |
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS & ARTWORKS SELECTED:
KEN BUTLER
“HYBRID VISIONS”
Exhibition, Performance & Workshop
KEN BUTLER is a renowned sound artist known for his “Hybrid" instruments. He is internationally recognized as an innovator of experimental sound which he creates from diverse materials including tools, sports equipment and household objects. He has exhibited and performed extensively throughout the USA, Canada, South America, Japan and Europe including at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Lincoln Center and The Metropolitan Museum among other important venues.
Butler's works have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Artforum, Smithsonian, and Sculpture Magazine and have been featured on PBS, CNN, MTV, and NBC, including a live appearance on The Tonight Show. Awards include fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pollack/Krasner Foundation. Exhibiting in Russia for the first time, Ken Butler’s free performance kicks off CYBERFEST. Butler will also lead youth in a special, hands-on sound invention workshop.
Ken Butler’s hybrid musical instrument sculptures, performances, and other artworks explore the interaction and transformation of common and uncommon objects, sounds, and altered images as function and form collide in the intersections of art and music.
Created primarily from urban detritus, the hybrid instruments express a poetic spirit of re-invention and hyper-utility as hidden meanings and associations momentarily create a striking and re-animated cultural identity for common objects. String instruments become body, tool, weapon, toy, symbol, machine, phallus, creature, sculpture, icon, and voice. Pianos and keyboards become cybernetic and symbolic architecture. Anxious objects speak in tongues...
The artist-musician performs mesmerizing world textures and driving melodic grooves with passion and purpose on an amazing arsenal of amplified hybrid string instruments made from household objects and tools. Duchampian Dada meets Hybrid Hindu Hendrix as function and form collide in an environment of hyperactive hardware. Musical influences include Indian Raga, Middle Eastern, and Roma music mixed with a noisy «downtown» improv aesthetic all held together by African-American jazz and blues?
Virtually indescribable and unclassifiable, Butler mixes high and low technology and audio-visual antics to create an ancient/future music that forms a provoking cultural portrait of human/machine adaptation and transformation.
(single session, adaptable from K — 8th grade) For up to 30 students, perhaps more.
Using demonstrations and simple materials, artist/musician Ken Butler explores the basics of how sound is produced by vibration, how to describe it, and how it can be amplified and processed with microphones. The artist shows how simple instruments can be created from readily available household objects. Participants in the “hands-on” demonstrations discover the relation between sound, noise, and music and hear their voices altered with electronic effects. Various objects like scissors, paper, and rubber bands are amplified and played as the nature of musical instruments is discussed.
In longer workshop residencies students make drawings of imaginary instruments and create their own simple string instrument from a coffee can and other simple materials.
AL DOYLE
“AN INTRODUCTION TO GAME DESIGN TOOLS”
Workshop
Al Doyle has been teaching with technology in public and private k-12 schools, colleges, and museums for over three decades. The work he has done with Game Design with his students has been recently featured on ABC News, the NY Times, the Village Voice, Edutopia, Bloomberg Radio and several educational technology magazines and websites.
Al Doyle developed a popular course for adults Learning Photoshop Through Art at the Guggenheim Museum Sackler Center for Arts Education. Al Doyle received a Cisco Innovation Grant in 2010 for a Game Simulation project at Quest 2 Learn, A NYC DOE iZone School “for digital kids”.
As Director of Internet Training at the National Teacher Training Institute for Thirteen / WNET in New York, Al Doyle has written several Math, Science and Education online courses and was “Teacher of the Year” for his work on the online PBS Olympic Cybershool for the Nagano Winter Olympics in 1998.
Al Doyle's workshop will begin with an overview of all of the tools that Doyle has used with students over the last six years from Gamestar Mechanic to Unity 3D so as to put a context to how far the field has evolved over time. Doyle will introduce Kandu since the artist himself has been beta-testing it and it is a unique tool that deserves mention. Another tool that deserves mention is Beta the game since it allows for a free trial and is inexpensive and very engaging.
After the demos and question and answer session, Doyle will lead a hands-on workshop using Unity to create Classic Video Games. Unity will allow users to create basic games based on the early classics: Pong, Brickout, Pacman since these games are relatively easy to implement and I have access to documentation that will allow participants to experience the intricacies of Unity without being overwhelmed.
SERGEI KOMAROV AND VLAD DOBROVOLSKY
“SELECTED WORKS FROM THE CYLAND AUDIO ARCHIVE”
Curatorial Talk
CYLAND AUDIO ARCHIVE (CAA) explores the archival posterity and possibilities of Sound Art as a medium. CAA has created a platform to allow free, publicly accessible listening for Sound Art online as well as producing tangible records of Sound Art works in limited editions. The published editions of Sound Art records are made of the contemporary polycarbonate – a durable and historically established means of storing sound works in context to the digital files of these works available online.
