2016 Festival booklet / Буклет фестиваля

Public art
July 23 — August 7
ZIKADEN
Authors
Tonoptic art–group
Place
Fab Lab Polytech, Polytechnic University’s garden,
29 Politehnicheskaya st., building 12,
metro station “Politehnicheskaya”
Audio and light installation by Tonoptik art–group is located in
Polytechnic University’s garden. Sound component of installation
consists of complex and volumetric experimental composition,
generated by more than thirty sound sources. They are
located at different points in space as if it the park was filled
by the unknown technogenic insects swarm. At night, visitors
can see the visual component of the installation: every sound
is accompanied by a corresponding light pulse, which visually
emphasizes the sense of rhythm.
Tonoptik project is a collaboration of media artists Yuri Tolstoguzov
and Alexander Inkov. At the beginning of their careers
team members were engaged in electronic music experiments
and their performances were accompanied by generative video
which responds to sound. In 2013–2014 they made a number
of multimedia music performances at the Erarta Museum of
contemporary art, in the frameworks of the project "The Superposition".
In late 2014, the artists announced the creation of a
new project Tonoptik, and in 2015 they showed their work at
the International Festival "Open Look" at the New Stage of the
Alexandrinsky theater and at the multimedia festival "Cross–
Art". In 2016 the team was nominated for Sergey Kuryokhin
Contemporary Art Award
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