Anna Frants is a New York based video and net artist. Usually internet serves as network that hosts many individual, fully encapsulated, unconnected artistic efforts. These artistic islands, despite occasionally referencing each other, do not form an internet-aesthetic whole. Nor has internet yet been used as means to build works of art requiring high degree of artistic collaboration, not possible in the physical world. Anna Frants is known to work on the projects that would bring different artists together embracing the greatest communication medium that ever existed — the Internet.

Her accomplishments reflect the broad range of interests she has. She has been awarded the top prize for the best 3D computer animation at the prestigious computer graphics competitions such as Autodesk Planet Studio Award. She has participated in and curated numerous art exhibitions in United States and Russia, for number of years have been teaching media studies and animation  and also published articles on art. Works can be found in KyoseinoSato Contemporary Art Museum (Japan) and in private collections.

Connecting life as an artist in Russia and in America, Frant's video is set in a frozen, harsh and unforgiving setting where occupants are filmed amidst routine of working hard to find and claim their daily bread. Among the crowd, one bird has notably different movements and it becomes clear he/she is sick or injured. Set to Beethoven's Sonata, the impeded pigeon is the weakest in the bunch but nonetheless uniquely different, and thus rises as the star.

Snowballs could be sculpted not just out of snow, but also out of synthetic foam, sugar or some other white material. However, for those whose childhood was spent in the former USSR, there is nothing better than cotton wool and starch that were used for homemade Christmas ornaments. In this installation, thus sculpted snowballs are magnified and placed upon a podium, presenting a monument to child’s plays. At the same time, they serve as screens upon which the animation of a snowball fight is projected. Being simultaneously an instrument and a process, this work signifies the quintessence of the game in all its manifestations – from “Life is a game of chance” from the Titanic to Kruchenykh’s and Khlebnikov’s Game in Hell where a snowball would not have too many chances.

Light or the absence of light, what we call “shadow”, make us experience weightlessness and stimulate associations that lead to emotions.
The installation Window Sash from the series In the Shade of an Olive Tree is a figurative object and, as such, suggests a vague storyline.  Yes, at the same time, the element of time and motion takes our abstract thinking to the next level.
The window sash’s shadow travels in the empty space during 24 hours with the help of an ancient Soviet slide projector placed on the specially programmed Lazy Susan.  Color of the light that “falls” from the window is controlled by painted 35 mm glass plates that the slide projector switches at the “appropriate” time of day.
Of course, it is of no small importance at what point in time the 24-hour cycle begins.