"Mediaartlab" leaves "Manege"

Today, March 13, art critic Olga Shishko leaves the post of Deputy General Director of the Manezh Museum and Exhibition Association. Museum of the screen culture "Mediaartlab", which it leads, leaves the "Manege".

“As a museum of screen culture" Manege / MediaArtlab "we lasted within the walls of" Manege "2.5 years. It was a time of hopes, luck and doubts, and disappointments ... The main of which occurred last week - the project that we have prepared for the last six months - the festival and the exhibition "Sound and Improvisation" will not be in the space of the Manege, - wrote Olga Shishko on Facebook.

She recalled the projects implemented by MediaArtlab over the years of cooperation with Manezhe, including the Videra exhibitions, thinking about death, Sound-Frame, Golden Age of the Russian Avangard , the MediaArtlab open school, the educational project of the projection of the avant-garde , and the conference "Pro & Contra" , "Media Forum".

“In the“ Manege ”recently there are fewer opportunities for contemporary art,” said Olga Shishko Colta.ru. - We have a large archive. I hope someday we will get our own site. ”

The Center for Culture and Art “Mediaartlab” is an independent non-profit organization operating in the fields of culture and new information and communication media technologies. This is the network community of alternative directors, artists, video activists forming the concept of “media culture”.

Mediaartlab is engaged in the creation of a practical and theoretical base for the development of innovative projects in the field of media culture in Russia, organizing all -Russian and international interdisciplinary projects, in which representatives of both humanitarian and technical communities, as well as media culture figures from Russia, countries of the former USSR, Eastern and Western Europe, America, Australia, and Japan.