For 6 weeks, 12 artists from all over the European world gathered under their common virtual roof in St. Petersburg – the #VirtualSPAR
Together they developed the content and the concept of the virtual exhibition „The City“, which recived its location on the worldwide web at thecity-eunic.net till 30.11.2021. „The City" is very multidisciplinary and very intermedia project, because each of its „Citizens“ already has her or his own medial signature in the fluid element of „digital art“, which has its own geography and cultural environment.
The short bios below give you a first glimpse into the „windows“ of our virtual metropolis. And the podcast, which was made within the residency runtime, gives some further opportunities for exploration of the „living in The City“. Furthermore you could join our public program (see the schedule at thecity-eunic.net) which includes short tours through the so different „analog“ environments and the digital worlds of our artists. And last but not least there is the lection room in the exhibition virtual hall, where the perspectives on coalitions between analog and virtual realities by artistic interventions in the urban space was being discussed by the artists and experts.
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The virtual residency VITAA (Virtual Artists' Assembly) is a joint project of the EUNIC Cluster in St. Petersburg in cooperation with St. Petersburg Art Residency (SPAR). The project is co-financed by EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture — is Europe’s network of national cultural institutes and organisations, with 36 members from all 28 EU member states), the Consulate General of the Netherlands, the Danish Cultural Institute, the Goethe-Institut, the Institut Français, the Finnish Institute and the Instituto Italiano di Cultura in St. Petersburg. The project runs in English. Curator: Anastasia Patsey.