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Cyborgia Manifesto

The children of the eighties are the prototypes of upgraded humanity. They are the children of the digital age, children of the first generation cyborg. The concept of humanity is being transformed, ...

Trans-cending to the Void

“The posthuman predicament is such as to force a displacement of lines of demarcation between structural differences, or ontological categories, for instance between the organic and the inorganic, th...

Blue Noses

In the late 1990s, young Siberians read in the national press about the latest thing in contemporary art – actionism. All you had to do was take off your clothes and the next day you would be on the ...

Iced Architects

The Iced Architects (??????????? ????????????) group was founded in 1993 by Ilya Bilashenko, Mikhail Leikin and Ilya Voznesensky. The current members are Igor Bury, Alexei Kononenko, Ilya Voznesensky...

Samara Wave

In the twenty-first century, Samara has developed into one of the most active centres of Russian art life. Founded by Tsar Feodor I in 1586 and known as Kuibyshev between 1935 and 1991, the city on t...

Maltese Rossica

One of the most fascinating episodes in the history of Russia is the establishment of close ties with the Knights of St John of Jerusalem, a religious and military order of the Roman Catholic Church ...

Swiss Rossica

The cultural ties between Russia and Switzerland enjoy a long history, stretching back over three hundred years. In the early eighteenth century, Peter the Great invited Swiss engineers, architects a...

Imperial Russian Jewellery 19th–20th Centuries

The Russian jewellery industry developed in the nineteenth century, when precious objects made to special order encountered opposition from merchandise accessible to all classes of society. The pione...

Imperial Russian Jewellery 18th–19th Centuries

For most of the eighteenth and part of the nineteenth century, Russian art was dominated by three main styles – Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassicism. Each trend personified the aesthetic ideals and tast...

Medieval Russian Jewellery

The Mongol invasion was unable to completely extinguish cultural life in Russia. In the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, there was a movement to restore Russian towns. Several works fr...

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