home  gallery December 20 - 27, 2011. Anna Frants. Video & audio-installations.
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December 20 - 27, 2011. Anna Frants. Video & audio-installations. |
«Visionary Dreams # 3253-3357» By Anna Frants and Cyland Media Lab
video & audio-installations
In gallery halls |  | Hoist by Anna Frants and Cyland MediaLab
New York and St. Petersburg
2011 Americans use the word “elevator” for the device that the British and Russians call “lift”. But no matter what it is called, this is basically a hoist – something that raises us from the ground, and we, like Antaeus, having temporarily lost our footing, lose our strength. In this installation, the video projector, which is moving with rasping noises on a rail and projecting the video of an elevator shaft on the wall, reminds us of that anxiety. However we see the slides that a couple of old Kodak projectors show at our foot level, and these impressions keep us firmly on the ground.
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«GRAVITY», 2011
Old television tubes, ropes, animation
Courtesy of the author In the installation, the artist successfully reconciles two irreconcilable technologies: digital and analog. A pixel moves down the screen of an old TV image tube. It seems to obey gravity, the same that governs the tube that does not fall to the floor only because it is tied to the celing. In this case, both the obsolete cumbersome kinescope and the ultramodern smallest picture element act in accordance with the same law as Newton’s apple.
| | | |  | “Acrobats” by Anna Frants and Cyland Medialab
New York/ St Petersburg
2011 A modern screen in the room corner showcases the stop-frame photography by Edward Muybridge – the exercising acrobats. Over a century ago, Muybridge consistently studied movement, its capture and portrayal. He invented the zoopraxiscope – a device for film projection that came into being before the celluloid film. Antiquated vises, attached to the edge of a plywood sheet, demonstrate the metallic acrobatics of their own. The athletes demonstrate the capabilities of a trained body. Tense human muscles and fast-tight metallic screws of the vises – the live naked people and the mechanical “tools-acrobats” are trying to outdo each other. | 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.
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