HayArt Cultural Centre
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The speech is dedicated to the changes that took place in the street environment of Yerevan during the years of Armenia’s independence, the clash between public and private, the commercialization of urban areas and the discussion of the right to the city. The first half of the 1990s were the most chaotic times of the […]
“They came with joy: the revolution, the new man, the proletariat marching towards communism with a hardened tongue and a hammered body. Iron muscle was their seed. The sun was their food. And the thought was the action. They came to the working districts of Yerevan with the tram established in 1933 and connecting the […]
The speech is dedicated to the transformations that took place in the street life of Yerevan in the post-Soviet period, particularly the formation of the so-called “thief” subculture and the spread of its influence on the organization of human relationships on the street. In the second half of the 1950s, more than a million prisoners […]
The speech is dedicated to the presentation of the practices of everyday life in Yerevan in the 1960s-1980s and the features of their modernization. One of the exciting phenomena characteristic of late-Soviet Yerevan was that the modernization process here had formal-official and shadow dimensions, which were expressed through parallel manifestations of the Soviet and the […]
“Benoît and the Mandelbrots” see the laptop as their primary instrument, mainly dedicated to live coding.They use the programming language as an at-first-sight, non-intuitive, but simultaneously graphic interface between man and machine to improvise sound and music. Sonic conceptions and structures are expressed live as source code and interpreted by the computer. The laptop musicians […]