Russia

Cities

Moscow, St Petersburg, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Sebastopol, Perm

Predecessors

• VKhUTEMAS, Russian architectural avant-garde school 1920-1930 in Moscow. Together with the French rationalism, German and Dutch functionalism it is a turning point in the historical development of the world architectural process. [1] [2] Tomáš Štrauss (1998) pp 180-182
• 1921 exhibition of Constructivist art, put together by Obmokhu, or the Society of Young Artists, a group founded in 1919 by recent graduates of the First State Free Art Studios [3]
• Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine, in 1924 he had the first presentation of his optophonic piano during a performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow - a synaesthetic instrument that was capable of creating sounds and coloured lights, patterns and textures simultaneously.

Artist groups

Arts and engineering groups and collectives in CEE#Soviet Union, Russia

Experimental film

• Cine Fantom aka Parallel Cinema circle (*1984, Moscow and St Petersburg): Igor Aleinikov, Glen Aleinikov, and others
• Mzhalalafilm group (1980s, St Petersburg): Evgeny Ufit (necrorealism), Evgeny Kondratev
• Che-Paev group (*1988, St Petersburg)
• Leningrad Film School (*1988, St Petersburg): Alexander Sokurev and others
• Vladimir Kobrin

Video art

• Boris Yukhananov, first video in 1985
• Aleksandr Molodkin and Vitaly Bashmolkin
• http://videotochka.ru/ - russian video art gallery, edition 2009

Electronic music

• Yurii Yukechev
• Andrei Rodionov
• Viktor Ulyanich
• Viktor Katayev
• Igor Mikhailenko
• Gedrius Kuprevichius (Lithuania)
• Mindaugas Urbaitis (Lithuania)
• Arturas Medonis (Lithuania)
• Birute Sinkevichiute (Lithuania)
• Linas Paulauskas (Lithuania)
• Lepo Sumera (Estonia)
• Mark Rais (Estonia)
• Peeter Vähi (Estonia)
• Alo Mattisen (Estonia)
• Stephan Rostomyan (Armenia)

Electro-acoustic music

• Valery Beluntsov, composer, founded Electro-acoustic studio in Moscow State Musical College
• Julia Dmitryukova, Composer, Musicologist
• Dmitry Tcheglakov, Composer, cellist
• Stanislav Kreichi, Composer, Sound Engineer. In 1961 joined group of engineers and composers who designed ANS synthesizer and with the ANS composed music for several films, performances and shows
• Vladimir Nikolaev, composer
• Tatyana Mikheyeva, composer
• Sergei Zagny, composer and musicologist
• Michael Prosniakov, Musicologist, Founder and Director of Stockhausen Institute, Moscow.

more

• Viacheslav Koleichuk, one of the leaders of constructivist art in Russia.

Works

• Electronic_music_instruments_in_CEE
• Cybertheater, 1967, Lev Nusberg and the 'Movement' Group. A 20 m2 complex of kinetic "cyber-creatures", mostly 130 X 80 cm. Members of the Russian 'Movement' Group built in St. Petersburg (then, Leningrad) cyber-creatures, or "cybers", which had five to six degrees of freedom. In this theater of artificial creatures, the actors were capable of controlling the color and intensity of the lights, as well as sounds and smells. A color film was planned by the "Movement" Group. A much bigger and more complex programmed "Cybertheater" was also projected.
• CD Mrs. Lenin. Electro-Acoustic music from the Theremin Center, http://payplay.fm/theremincenter

Events

• 1965 - Exhibition - Kinetic Art, Dvizheniye (Movement) group, House of Architect, Leningrad
• 1967 - EXPO '67, Soviet Pavilion, Montreal, Canada
• 1978 - Science and Art, House of Scientists, exhibition, Moscow
• 1979 - Colour - Form - Space, Exhibition Hall on Malaja Gruzinskaja, exhibition, Moscow
• 1987 - Retrospection of Moscow Unofficial Art (1957-1987), Exhibition Hall of the association "Ermitazh" in Belajevo, Moscow
• 1988 - Geometry in Art, Exhibition Hall on Kashirskaja, Moscow
• 1996 - Concert program for Lev Theremin’s 100 anniversary.
• 1997 - The Theremin Center. The Multimedia Concert Program at Russian Musical Academy, Moscow.

Centres

• Stockhausen Institute, Moscow, *1991, founded and directed by Michael Prosniakov
• Theremin Center, Moscow, *1992, directed by Andrey Smirnov
• Electro-acoustic studio in Moscow State Musical College

Bibliography

• Leonardo, Vol. 27, No. 5, 1994. Prometheus: Art, Science and Technology in the Former Soviet Union: Special Issue. [4]
• Media Art in Russia. ISEA Newsletter #95, January-February 2004. [5], [6]
• Collaborative research on internet in Russia, [7]
• Bibliography of Articles Published in Leonardo on Art, Science and Technology in the Former Soviet Union [8]
• Anatoly V. Prokhorov, "HALF A KINGDOM FOR A STRANGE HORSE !", [9]
• Katherine Liberovskaya, "Behind the Cyrillic Curtain : Notes on Internet Art and Culture in Russia", 2001, [10]
• Florian Schneider and James Allen. Runet - interview with olia lialina. 2000. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0002/msg00120.html

Resources

• Anthology of Russian Video Art, [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
• Mediatheque, First collection of media art in Russia with a non-commercial access, [19]
• http://www.mediamuseum.ru, [20]
• Russian Avantgarde Foundation [21]

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