Program

The secrets of controlling robot dogs and the chance to create your own performance. Theory on robotics and hands-on practice with a neural interface.

How do we create multimedia, engage with audiences and experience urban events? Speakers will discuss what awaits festivals in the next 5–10 years, which technological solutions are already becoming standard today, and how to develop the regional talent pool in the media sector.

Russia's media art pioneer Aristarh Chernyshev will explain how the media art market differs from traditional ones, what collectors look for in multimedia works, and how festival participation helps to monetise art.

We will explore how to generate visual concepts, prepare images for animation, create video with AI and assemble the final result. The structure of a real pipeline: from idea to finished mapping video.

Italian artist Davide Quayola will speak about his work and his research into high-precision laser scanning systems, drawing a parallel between the historical traditions of 19th-century plein air painting and contemporary computational aesthetics.

How do you preserve conceptual complexity without becoming art for three people? Experts and lecturers from the Media Art MA at Central University will discuss how research work is organised in the industry.

Nikolai Popov will deliver a lecture on the core principles of creating electroacoustic works: from capturing raw sound to its complete transformation through digital technologies and multimedia.

The artists will speak about their collaborative practice and share details about the RAIN STATION installation: its philosophy, design and stages of development.

The workshop will explore how musical perception works, how to engage with musical form, and which tools help to manage a listener's attention.

Choreographer Vladimir Varnava is the director of the INTERVALS 2026 Opening Concert. He will explore how the collaboration between Gruppa Varnava, the choir Attaque de panique and the dreamlaser team was built.

Olga Shchedrina will trace the history of light spectacles: from phantasmagoria to colour music and light-kinetic installations of the 20th century. Contemporary media art festivals as a scaling-up of historical practices.

The discussion is dedicated to the intersection of creativity, market mechanisms and AI. Speakers will address authorial identity when delegating tasks to neural networks, the ethics of AI use, and the paradox whereby its mass adoption restores the value of manual craft.

Olga Arshanskaya will examine the Noche de Luz festival as an example of a project following the classic hero's journey: from the birth of an idea to crisis and rebirth. A lecture on how dramatic logic helps build strategy in cultural production.

We will build a DIY synthesiser. In 3 hours you will learn what synthesisers are, master soldering, assemble the housing, flash the device and take home a working instrument.

Through the lens of personal experience, Sasha Kojjio explores the creative process from the perspectives of metaphysics, mathematics and psychology.

We will examine the educational ecosystem as a whole: how different formats work, their strengths and hidden risks. A conversation about the environment that nurtures new names in multimedia.

How does the transition from 'sign' to 'symbol' happen in corporate cultural support? How much do artist partnerships cost, and what does business receive in return?

We will examine the key principles of developing an exhibition concept and shaping the visitor experience, studying cases where an idea becomes a complete exposition.

Tatyana Alisova will demonstrate how to create a competitive mechanic in TouchDesigner, where a smartphone serves as the interaction tool.

The workshop will explore the key properties of typefaces, relate them to character traits, and create a typographic self-portrait.

You will not just create an avatar — you will design the personality, logic and actions of a digital interlocutor.