Gyumri International Art Week Festival

Gyumri Technology Center, Gyumri, Armenia
Curator: Sargis Hovhannisyan, Victoria Ilyushkina (Cyland)
Artists: Anna Sowa, Anton Khlabov, Alena Tereshko, Alfiya Shamsutdinova, Gohar Sargsyan, Sasun Margaryan, Suren Tadevosyan, Ruzan Petrosyan, Mariam Arami, Marc Lee, Boris Kazakov, Eléonore de Montesquiou, Lilit Stepanyan, Liza Dandy, Sofia Barova, Selena Isho, Samvel Saghatelyan, Victoria Ilyushkina, Rinalto L’Bank (Rinat Abdrakhmanov)
04.08.2023 - 20.08.2023
https://gtc.am/

Exhibited Artwork


Non-Places

16-Channel Video Installation, 16 x HD 1080p 4'30'' Stereo

Non-Places deals with urbanization and globalization in the digital age. In the synchronized videos, the user moves through visual worlds posted publicly by others on social networks such as Flickr, Freesound, Twitter and YouTube. The viewer participates in the social movements of our time and makes a virtual journey in which one experiences local, cultural and linguistic differences and similarities. more …


Used to Be My Home Too

Real-time cartography

This experiment shows photos of animals, fungi and plants that are uploaded right now by unknown users to iNaturalist.org via mobile phone. On Google Earth, these are mapped at the exact location where they were photographed. In addition, taxonomically similar species that occurred in the same country and became extinct within the last 30 years are automatically added in real time via RedList.org. Used more …


Time to Nest Time to Migrate

Mobile App as Interface for Interactive Installations

With this 360° New Media Art Mobile VR App Time to Nest Time to Migrate you fly through your own inner world. What happens in there? Bacteria, cells, fungi, parasites, phages, protists, prions, viruses communicate. Do they determine what we are? Not scientific, but rather fake scientific, philosophical and emergency poetically. (We know that we know nothing, we know). A little dance of life and more …