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CYFEST -15 MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
From September 2 -18, 2023, Yerevan will host the CYFEST -15 Media Art Festival. The events of the Festival — exhibition, sound art, performances, lectures, video program – will be held at three partner organizations: HayArt Cultural Center, Institute for Contemporary Art Yerevan Botanical Garden.
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DILIGENT MACHINE: NAO NISHIHARA
It is one of the creative works shown within the Yerevan CYFEST -15 Media Art Festival in HayArt. The work “Deligent Machine,” shifts our sense of time in our daily lives. It runs on a railway very slowly with sounds of instruments and daily objects. The audience have to wait and keep the senses quite…
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LOTTE IN THE LAND OF SHADOW
The exhibition “Lotte in the Land of Shadows: L. Reiniger – Avant-Garde of the Animation Film (1899-1981)” – the first ever exhibition in Armenia of Charlotte “Lotte” Reiniger – a German film director, and a pioneer of animated film and silhouette animation. The exhibition is a multi-screen video installation and is a unique opportunity to…
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POST-SOVIET MEANINGS OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPES
The post-Soviet changes in Yerevan are also taking place at the level of individual parts of the city. And not by simply changing the names of streets and squares but as a result of fundamental economic, social and cultural changes, for example, the spread of consumer culture. Freedom (Theatre) Square and Cascade are examined from…
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YEREVAN IN NATIONAL NARRATIVES OF THE SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET PERIODS
The speech discusses several stages of changes in the meaning of Yerevan as the capital of Soviet Armenia and then the Republic of Armenia. Yerevan’s master plan (1924) brings with it the idea of a modern city in contrast to “Eastern Yerevan”. It covers the modernizing society (the people). In the post-Stalin period and the…