Bulat Galeyev
Born |
October 2, 1940 Tashkent, Usbekistan, USSR |
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Died | January 5, 2009 | (aged 68)
A science researcher and artist. Born Bulat Maxmudovich Galeyev in 1940. He graduated from Kazan State Pedagogical Institute, Kazan, USSR, in 1962, and attained a Ph.D. in 1986. He has been a teacher in physics and aesthetics, 1962-1963; a lecturer in physics and philosophy at KAI, Kazan, 1963-1966; a scientific worker, 1966-1994; head of SKB Prometheus, director of scientific and research institute for experimental aesthetics affilated with the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan and Kazan State Technical University, Kazan, 1994-present; a film director, theatrical performances director, director of light-music performances and video art installations, SKB Prometei, 1964-1995; and a professor of aesthetics of Kazan Conservatory, since 1990.
He is the author of several books and has contributed more than 500 articles to professional journals. He has been a member of the editorial board of Leonardo, since 1987; of Language of Design magazine, USA, 1992-1997; and Kazan magazine, since 1993. He was the organizer of 15 All-Union and All-Russia Light and Music conferences and a participant in many international symposia and festivals. He received a Diploma for Spectacle from the All-Russia Theatrical Society, Moscow, 1970; a diploma for film awarded by the organizing committee of the international Techfilm festival, Prague, 1975; and an honorary medal awarded by the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, Moscow, 1983. He was a member of Russian Academy of Humanities and of the Russian Cinemamakers Union, as well as a corresponding member ofthe Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan. Member of International Society for Art, Science and Technology. Died 2009.
Bibliography
- Books
- Bulat Galeyev, Light-Music: Birth and Essence of New Art, 1976
- Bulat Galeyev, Poem of Fire, 1981
- Bulat Galeyev, Light-Musical Instruments, 1987
- Bulat Galeyev, Man, Art, Technology (Problem of Synaesthesia in Art)
- Bulat Galeyev, Soviet Faustus, 1995. A book about Leon Theremin. A brief digest. (Russian, English)
- Bulat Galeyev, Art of the Cosmic Era, 2000
- Bulat Galeyev, Art of the Space Age. Selected Works, Kazan: Fan Publishers, 2003. 600 pages. (Russian)
- Bulat Galeyev, Spatial Music (joint edition), 2005.
- Bulat Galeyev, Light-Music, Synesthesia, "Color-Hearing": An Annotated Bibliography (Russia 1742-2002, Kazan: Fan Publishers, 2006. (Russian)
- Bulat Galeyev (ed.), Synaesthesia: The unity of the senses and synthesis of arts, Kazan: Tupolev KSTU, 2008. (Translated to French under the title Synesthesie)
- Articles
- B. M. Galeyev, "Music-Kinetic Art Medium: On the Work of the Group 'Prometei' (SKB), Kazan, U.S.S.R.", Leonardo, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Summer, 1976), pp. 177-182.
- B. M. Galeyev, "The Fire of "Prometheus": Music-Kinetic Art Experiments in the USSR", Leonardo, Vol. 21, No. 4 (1988), pp. 383-396.
- B. M. Galeyev, "Music and Technology in Soviet Union", 1995.
- B. M. Galeyev, Review - Ostranenie Festival, 1995.
- B. M. Galeyev, "Institute "Prometei", Kazan, Russia (1962-1997)" 1997.
- B. M. Galeyev, "Light-Music Today: The development of Scriabin's Ideas (on the example of Kazan school of new art)", Transactions of Scriabin Museum, Moscow, 1998, No 3, pp. 52-71.
- Bulat Galeyev, "Are 'Cognitive Fossils' Significant for Art? Studies of Synesthesia", Leonardo 38, No. 4, 365-366 (2005).
- Bulat Galeyev, "The Nature and Functions of Synesthesia in Music", Leonardo Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 285-288, 2007.
- Brian Droitcour, "The Prometheus Institute and the Work of Bulat Galeyev" 2009.
- Jörg Jewanski, "Obituary: Bulat Maxmudovich Galeyev (2 Oct. 1940 - 5 Jan. 2009)"
- Bulat Galeyev, "Periodical System of Art", undated.
- Bulat M. Galeyev, "The New Laokoon: A Periodic System of the Arts", undated.
- Bulat Galeyev, "Computers and Art: Myths and Reality", undated.
- B. M. Galeyev, "Abstract Cinema and Light-Music", undated.
- B. M. Galeyev, "Spatial Music", undated.
- B. M. Galeyev, "Sound and Light Performances", undated.