Overt contemporary media-art gallery

Project is granted by the Russian Foundation for Human Sciences Resarch N 96-04-12067B

During the project different directions are developed:

Web actions:
Establishment of relationship between French and Russian artists and scientists. The PSI RAS and CYPRES research centre (France) made a common research along two lines:
1. information exchange and telecommunication stage production via the Internet (IMUTE performance of 26 September, 1997)
2. network art actions (RAT conference, 27-28 October, 1997)
Web-resources:
1. Vent d'Est eastern media-art collection
  The "Vent d'Est" collection proposes a catalogue including almost 120 audiovisual titles: video art, archives of action, fiction, documentaries, music clips, mixs. That catalogue is unique. It is composed by old (from the very beginning of Eastern video-art) and the last creations including 100 artists of the "new generation". More than 75 video clips linked. There is calling for the participation of artists whose work fully exploits the possibilities and constraints of the Internet.
2. Virtual Theater Studio
  1. Students projects 1997 - "Fly in the virtual space"
  2. Students projects 1993 - "Play with simple things"
Repweb
The use of repertory grids in collaborative creative activity The research involved Russian and French students and professional experts. By way of elements we took several videos from the Gallery of modern Russian video-art and several web-sites from the hypertext of Annick Bureaud. A user was asked to classify videos or web-sites, giving each a description in the terms (constructs) of his/her choice, and ranging the videos relative to every single construct. Fragments of all videos or web-sites were available to the user.
It is supposed that every time, a method can be offered to a user which would let him/her see the films from a different prospective, and thus produce a different classification of the same videos. Running this procedure several times yields a collection of "rods" that is in real use by people. The collection is available for reviewing.