MIR is an open database of interdisciplinary art in Russia.
The project of the European University in St. Petersburg and the Techno-Art Center is being implemented with the support of the Presidential Grants Fund. MAST is developing and supporting the database.
What's this?
It is a collection of data and an accessible information resource dedicated to the history of technological art, digital art, science art, and other interdisciplinary experiments in Russia that combine art, technology and science.
The history of technological art in Russia has not yet been written, and there are more and more events in this area. They pass and partially disappear along with art that is difficult to preserve, document and reproduce. Digital technologies make it possible to write a “moving” history, supplement it with found facts and fill it with details.
Project objectives:
- To make visible the development of hybrid types of art in Russia as a whole, regardless of whether we consider its individual elements significant today or not;
- Promote continuity and reflection on the accumulated experience;
- To simplify access to information for young artists, curators, researchers who are not familiar with the professional environment of technological art and science art in Russia, creating a timeline, maps, a convenient search system;
- Provide new opportunities for professional researchers, namely: statistical data analysis, network analysis, unloading of individual data blocks.
Website: https://www.miropendatabase.org
Timeline and search: http://mir.eusp.org