In Moscow, the educational program "200 beats per minute" begins

On February 9, the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOMA) opens the educational program “200 beats per minute”, inspired by the exhibition of the same name and dedicated to both the technical aspects of the engineering and the cultural understanding of its phenomenon.

The exhibition “200 beats per minute” is a cultural study, an attempt to determine the significance of a printing machine for Russian literature and art in particular and for the history of Russia last century as a whole, the Polytechnic Museum reports.

In addition to the exhibition, the curators of the Polytechnic Museum, the State Literary Museum and Mom have prepared an educational program: lectures, poetic evenings and master classes.

It will open the cycle of poetic evenings “Typeracup”, which will perform poets of the typewriter and keyboard era: February 9 - Sergey Gandlevsky, Alexander Shilyaeva and Maria Galkina, February 14 - Timur Kibirov and Nikita Sungatov, February 21 - Anatoly Nayman and Ekaterina Sokolova.

The 125th anniversary of Osip Mandelstam is dedicated to the evening on February 13 with the participation of the historian of Anton Skulachev’s literature, on February 19 , a music journalist, the editor-in-chief of the “Perfect Music” section Colta.ru Denis Boyarinov will tell about John Cage and his symphony for 16 printed cars, 18 calculators, duplicator and elevator.

On February 22, the poet and literary critic, director of the State Literary Museum, Dmitry Bak, tells how the appearance of a typewriter changed the world and why it became the hero of books, films and musical works.

On February 27 and 28, artist Elena Demidova will hold a master class for teenagers 12-15 years old. Participants will trace the path of an art object-from spot to Shakespeare's text, try themselves in folding new meanings, changing the lines and entire pieces of works of different authors, will create their own objects of the art-art based on combinatorics and Letrism.

The lecture by the head of the cognitive research of St. Petersburg State University Tatyana Chernigovskaya is devoted to what has become with our consciousness under the influence of a computer.