MULTIMEDIA ART
march 1998

Campaign Against Illiteracy in the Art of Future
Capital, March 27 - April 2, 1998

There is one quiet place in Moscow where art of future is being forged. <...>

No one quite understands what this so called media art means. Some people say it means video, not that one we got used to, but with special effects and peculiarities... Others say there exists some interactive space where the viewer can affect the work somehow, change it according to his odd things openly. Together with Goethe Institute, TV Gallery invited Mr. Knut Gerwers from Berlin, theorist and practician in the art of future, who is ready to disclose own taste. And what is completely incomprehensible, so called web projects, when many people, being on the opposite sides of the globe, make some Jokonde together. <...> There is TV Gallery in Moscow, the only place where they deal with these all its secrets to a wide Moscow audience. And not just to explain them, but to show by means of an example of German multimedia art, from its first steps till nowadays.

Computer Is Inevitable
Georgiy Litichevskiy
Russky Telegraph (Russian Telegraph), #57 (129), April 2, 1998

TV Gallery presents its next event, prepared together with Goethe Institute, not only in its own hall on Yakimanka, but also in a cozy space of Internet Cafe "Base 14" in Stoleshnikov Pereulok. This time those who are fond of nontraditional technologies, can see not only the samples of video art, but artistic CD-ROMs and art in Internet as well. CD-ROMs and videos are presented at the Gallery itself, and trips through web projects you can make with the help of the "Base 14" equipment. The whole program has been prepared by Goethe Institute and the Center of Art and Media Technologies (ZKM) in Karlsruhe. Mainly these are the works of German authors, but there are also Americans and West- and Easteuropians.

The site has been created with the assistance of the "Open Society Institute" (Soros Foundation). Russia