In March, 2014 Polytechnic Museum launched Polytech.Science.Art program, dedicated to one of the most significant phenomena of contemporary culture — interdisciplinary collaboration between artists, scientists and technology specialists. The program includes researches, exhibitions and other experimental projects. Within the series of workshops and lectures, leading Russian and international experts helped to formulate a comprehensive idea on the synthesis of science, art and technology as an artistic method by the example of their own projects. In 2014, Polytech.Science.Art embraced

such scientific disciplines as information technology, neurobiology, physics, psychoacoustics, fibertronics and many others. The workshops welcomed practicing media artists as well as technology experts and young researchers, who managed to work out collaborative projects, which were later displayed to the general audience within the public presentations throughout the year and at the final exhibition at the annual Polytech.Science.Art Week hosted by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. All the workshops were run free of charge for the participants, so everyone interested in contemporary

BehavioursViewers at the premiere of the interactive performance created during Emotional Skin workshop by Sonia Cillari

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art, new technologies and cutting edge researches, could apply to attend the sessions. Thanks to Polytech.Science.Art program, Polytechnic Museum became the first Russian institution to be approved by Leonardo  – distinguished international association for art, science and technology experts. Now Museum has a chance to participate in the Leonardo’s international programs and cooperate with organizations, companies, scientists and artists within collaborative interdisciplinary research, educational and innovation projects. In the following years Polytech.Science.

Art program of the Polytechnic Museum plans to extend cooperation with research and educational centers and institutes, industrial productions, strengthen partnership with regional and international organizations; fully present the artworks created within the program events at festivals, museums and galleries in Russia and around the world.Encouragement of effective cooperation between science, art and technology experts at national and international scale is one of the key objectives of the program.

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In the 21st century the division between science and art is being overcome successfully: artists tend to use cutting edge technologies in their work, not merely a dialogue between art and scientific community is being observed, but creative collaboration yielding unexpected, prominent results as well. Thanks to the great advance of science and technology, the world has been changing dramatically, that has had its effect on the outlook, on the treatment of the verges of possibility. Methods used in contemporary art objects creation and in the field of scientific innovations intersect and complement each others, communication between artists, scientists and technology specialists kick-starts the development of common

space of ideas and discoveries. For the present moment many science art labs of leading universities and science and technology museums are functioning around the world, specialized camps are being run, while leading technology corporations cooperate with artists and curators of contemporary and digital arts in search of a breakthrough research approaches and innovative technologies. Polytechnic Museum in Moscow, Russia, supports the development of that promising cultural movement too and creates a platform for innovation activities, collaborative projects, information exchange between artists and scientists and technology specialists of different fields as well.

Natalia FuchsCurator of Polytech.Science.Art program, Polytechnic Museum

OTHERNETworkshop by Danja Vasiliev

Russian net artist Danja Vasiliev run a workshop on hacktivism philosophy —efficient use of internet in art and social practices. The workshop participants were invited to create their own local networks. At the public event of the workshop participants presented their projects designed in the past three days. Two projects — u-tube by Maria Kramar and p2p by Aleksander Serechenko – were exhibited within the Polytech.Science.Art Week 2014. Danja Vasiliev was born in Saint Petersburg, studied in Institute of Culture,

Faculty of Information and Media Design, and in Proarte Institute, then lived and worked in Moscow. In 1999 he was a winner of Da-Da-Net festival nomination Contemporary Art in Web for the project Koala.ru. Danja has started his Eurotrip from Netherlands, where he headed for studying, for the present moment he lives and works in Germany. The project Newstweek brought Vasiliev an award in the Cyberart nomination of the oldest and the most representative new technologies art contest Ars Electronica.

March 19-21, 2014

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EMOTIONAL SKINworkshop by Sonia Cillari

May 13-17, 2014Italian media artist Sonia Cillari dedicated her Moscow workshop to the theory and practice of interactive performance, interaction between human and virtual environment. During five days of the workshop, the participants studied the features of perception of virtual reality, creating the interactive performance behaviours, which premiered at the 3d International Media and Performance Festival at Platforma in Moscow. Sonia Cillari, based in Venice, studies the aspects of identification of human

consciousness inside the virtual environment. She has been a participant of the NIMk residence, Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) and The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2010 she won the VIDA 13.0: Art & Artificial Life International Competition in Madrid, Spain, and in 2011 she was noted by the jury of the Prix Ars Electronica of Linz, Austria in the nomination Interactive Art. The workshop EMOTIONAL SKIN has been specially designed for the Polytechnic Museum and Polytech.Science.Art program.

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ARTVERTISERworkshop by Arturo Castro

July 9-12, 2014The workshop by Arturo Castro, artist and engineer from Berlin, provides insights on how artists, designers, programmers, IT experts and urban activists can use the methods of augmented reality approaching urban spaces. During the workshop, the participants walked around Moscow and created modified virtual urban spaces embedding art objects with the Artvertiser application. Arturo Castro is one of the core developers of the open source toolkit for artists and

designers open Frameworks, as well as a co-author of the project Artvertiser — a software platform which allows to replace billboards with art objects in real time. His works has been exhibited in a number of museums around the world: Maison d’Ailleurs in Switzerland, the London Design Museum or Moscow’s Multimedia Art Museum.The workshop was a part of the Polytech at Strelka initiative presented at the Institute Strelka and supported by MegaFon.

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HAPTIC CITYworkshop by Artemis Papageorgiou

August 5-8, 2014Artemis Papageorgiou, an artist from Greece, works in the field of fibertronics  — a study investigating potential use of digital components in textile. What would be the purpose for textile with microchips and sensors embedded, and how could it be used by the people? An interactive map of Moscow, made of textile, digital sensors and LEDs was created within the workshop and was exhibited within the Polytech.Science.Art Week 2014.

After receiving her Masters in Computational Arts at Goldsmiths College, she stayed in London where she collaborated with Cinimod Studio and Jason Bruges Studio. Upon arrival in Athens she founded Athens Plaython, an annual festival which runs workshops on design and related technologies, as well as urban games, quests and parties.The workshop was a part of the Polytech at Strelka initiative presented at the Institute Strelka and supported by MegaFon.

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PLAYFUL MEDIAworkshop by Thorsten S. Wiedemann

August 27-29, 2014Workshop by German curator Thorsten S. Wiedemann was dedicated to gamification and video game design. The participants of the three-day workshop formed interdisciplinary teams, uniting programmers, researchers and media artists. They elaborated prototypes of video games, two of which — thagame by Alexey Larchenkov and never miss the last Friday of summer by Ilya Sobol and Ildar Yakubov  — were exhibited within the Polytech.Science.Art Week 2014. Thorsten S. Wiedemann is the founder of the digital art festival A MAZE, which

takes place annually in Berlin (Germany) and Johannesburg (South Africa). It is in fact an open platform for experiments and cooperation in the field of computer technologies and art. In 2012, the award A MAZE was established to honor the best games contributed by media artists. The main object of the festival is to inspire game-based approaches in media art. The workshop was a part of the Polytech at Strelka initiative presented at the Institute Strelka and supported by MegaFon.

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ART & NEUROWAVESworkshop by Enzo Varriale

September 19-21, 2014Italian media artist Enzo Varriale was one of the first to use neural wave recordings in his works, captured with medical devices. Enzo frequently uses neural interface Emotiv EPOC in his experimentation. Capturing brain’s electrical impulses, the neural interface interprets not only basic mental commands, but also detects gloomy faces and smiles. One of the works created during the workshop — Winged Swing by Vadim Epstein — was exhibited within the Polytech.Science.Art Week 2014. Enzo Varriale performing under alias

Lanvideosource is not only an artist, but also a VJ. Brain’s impulses recordered via electroencephalography are converted into footage to be used in music videos. Enzo has been a frequent participant of the electronic music festival Meet in Town (Rome, Media Façade Festival (Brussels) on urbanism and new media in city life, and Play With Fire (New York).The workshop was organized with a participation of the MIGZ International Festival of Contemporary Music and Media Art.

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SONIC INTERACTIONworkshop by Medialogy

November 11-13, 2014Workshop by the Aalberg University research team (Copenhagen, Denmark) is about using sound as one of the channels conveying information and meaning in interactive contexts. Studying the sound is principal for the artists working with cinema and multimedia, as well as video game designers. The workshop participants were introduced to the latest researches in sound design, and the sound miniatures created during the workshop were released online. Participating Vladimir Derevyanko and

Mikhail Soloshenko created the installation Randocinemizer which was exhibited within the Polytech.Science.Art Week 2014. Medialogy Lab founder — Stefania Serafin, Aalberg University professor. She received a PhD degree in computer-based music theory and acoustics from Stanford University, in 2004. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Virginia (2003), and a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Cambridge University, and KTH Stockholm.

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June 12, 2014Interactive project behaviours emerged as a result of the five-day Emotional Skin workshop by Italian artist Sonia Cillari, which took place within Polytech.Science.Art program in May, 2014. The performance premiered on June 12, 2014, at the the 3d International Media and Performance Festival at Platforma in Moscow.

Concept: Sonia Cillari (Italy)Curator: Natalia Fuchs (Russia)Visuals/sound: Alexey Yepishev,

Sergey Kasich, Yan Kalnberzin (Russia) Performers: Yulia Chekmas, Vagan Saroyan (Russia)

Authors: Vera Iguchi, Sergey Tubashov, Vera Shchelkina, Ilya Trofimov, Denis Zaporozhan, Marina Levakova, Dmitriy Guryev, Vera Golovina (Russia)

«Behaviours — is an important event, it is an approach to the academic level!» —commented Anna Belayeva, Platforma’s media curator, on the performance.

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interactive performanceBEHAVIOURS

August 14, 2014Lecture by the media art pioneer Maurice Benayoun (France) was dedicated to the way fiction and reality can be merged into a piece of art and create more deep and critically evaluated sense of reality. Works of Maurice Benayoun constitute the golden collection of the world’s media art. HDTV series Quarxs (1991-1994), where he first used computer 3D graphics, was screened at almost all film festivals around

the world, including Cannes. Art project Is The Devil Curved? (1994, Le Diable Est-il Courbe?), virtual installation The Tunnel under the Atlantic (1995, Le Tunnel sous l’Atlantique), the first immersive space, created on a base of the SAS Cube personal computer (2002).His lecture was a part of the Polytech at Strelka initiative presented at the Institute Strelka and supported by MegaFon.

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Maurice BenayounCRITICAL FUSION

October 12, 2014Imaging Science is a program of video art and auteur short films created by multimedia artists and composed of the best recent works on science research, technology and innovation. Many of them participated and got awards from international festivals (Biofiction, Prix Ars Electronica, Berlinale). The program features pieces by movie makers such as world-famous conceptual artist Adam Brown (US), Geraldine Cox, who’s holding

a degree in physics (UK), interdisciplinary artist Joshua Bonnetta (US), linguist and designer Sonja Bäumel (Austria), mathematician and cinematographer Alfredo Hubar (France), microbiology researcher Joe Davis (US) and others —they all were directors and creators of their films. Screening sided by discussion was held within the IV Contemporary Science Film Festival 360˚ supported by MediaNovation.

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IMAGINING SCIENCE

October 19, 2014Multimedia artists from Mexico attended the presentation of the Matters of Gravity presentation. In October, Ale de la Puente, Arcángel Constantini, Fabiola Torres-Alzaga, Gilberto Esparza, Iván Puig, Juan José Díaz Infante, Marcela Armas, Miguel Alcubierre, Nahum and Tania Candiani participated in a series of parabolic flights at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia. During the flights they created artworks —photographs, videos, installations. All these artworks will be a part of the

exhibition about artistic interpretations of the gravitation phenomenon at the Polytechnic Museum, which will be held within Polytech.Science.Art program and become a part of the series of events dedicated to the 125th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Mexico.Partners: Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico), Fundación Telefónica Fundación (Spain), The Arts Catalyst (UK), Space Affairs (Austria), Yuri Gagarin Research Center and Polytechnic Museum (Russia).

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MATTERS OF GRAVITY

POLYTECH.SCIENCE.ART WEEK

December 1–7, 2014December 1, 2014 15.00 Positive Changes — workshop by Matt Kenyon (SWAMP, US). Day 1. The workshop by artist and researcher Matt Kenyon (SWAMP, US) on positive changes in human life caused by the synthesis of science, art and technology. 19.00 Artist, Hacker or Scientist? — lecture by Matt Kenyon (SWAMP, US)20.30 Music and Technology — sound performance by Speck (Russia); video by VJ Intektra (Russia)

December 2, 2014 10.00 Positive Changes — workshop by Matt Kenyon (SWAMP, US). Day 2.December 3, 2014 10.00 Positive Changes — workshop by Matt Kenyon (SWAMP, US). Day 3.19.00 Public presentation of projects created within the workshop by Matt Kenyon (SWAMP, US).20.00 Music and Technology — sound performances by Aleksei Borisov, Dmitry ::vtol:: Morozov; video by VJ Poloka (Russia)

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Polytech.Science.Art Week of the Polytechnic Museum is organized in collaboration with the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. The series of events is dedicated to the results of the first year of the Polytech.Science.Art program and the interdisciplinary cooperation between artists, scientific researchers and technology experts. Polytech.Science.Art Week became an annual event.

Venue: Educational Center of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

December 4, 201420.00 Opening of the exhibition Hopscotch representing results of Polytech.Science.Art program in 2014Authors: Vadim Epstein, Maria Kramar, Alexander Serechenko, Ildar Yakubov, Ilya Sobol, Alexei Larchenkov, Vladimir Derevyanko and others20.30 Music and Technology — sound performance by Ilya Artyomov (Russia)December 5, 2014 16.00 FemTechNet — theoretical workshop by Lisa Nakamura (US), Irina

Aristarkhova (Russia/US) and Natalia Fuchs (Russia)19.30 Development Platforms and Media Archeology — lecture by Lisa Nakamura (FemTechNet, US)21.00 Music and Technology — sound performances by Brinstaar, Foresteppe (Russia)December 6, 2014 16.00 Public panel discussion Trialogue: Science. Art. Technology featuring Dmitry Bulatov (NCCA Kaliningrad, Russia), Lisa Nakamura (FemTechNet,

US), Aristarkh Chernyshev (Rodchenko Art School / Electromuseum, Russia), Matt Kenyon (SWAMP, US), Alla Mitrofanova (Russia), Irina Aristarkhova (Universiti of Michigan, Detroit, US). Moderated by Natalia Fuchs (Polytechnic Museum, Russia).19.00 Behaviours interactive performance. Participants: Sonia Cillari (Italy), Natalia Fuchs, Ian Kalnberzin, Sergei Kasich, Alexey Yepishev, Julia Chekmas, Vagan Saroyan, Vera Iguchi, Sergei Tubashov, Dmitry Guryev, Denis

Zaporozhan, Marina Levakova, Vera Shchelkina, Ilya Trofimov (Russia)19.30 Music and Technology — sound performances by Fizzarum, Ambidextrous, Sal Solaris (Russia); video by VJ Eva_KliSH, Oleg Potiy (Russia)December 7, 2014 18.00 On Future of Contemporary Art  — lecture by Dmitry Bulatov (NCCA Kaliningrad, Russia)20.30 Music and Technology — sound performances by Peter Theremin and Anton Maskeliade (Russia)

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