Festival “Polytech. Moscow Polytechnic
– a large-scale popular science educational weekend of the Polytechnic Museum for adults and children. The festival annually gathers in the open air for about 30,000 spectators. On May 27-28, 2017, the festival will be held for the fourth time. Its theme is "The Force of Attraction". This year the festival will be held in Gorky Park.
The force of attraction is, first of all, a fundamental scientific concept that affects each of us. Scientists have explored this force for centuries, and overcoming it has been the dream of engineers since the time of Leonardo da Vinci. Today - in the age of drones, exoskeletons and private space - we know more about the force of gravity than ever.
But the force of attraction is also the interaction that occurs between people in addition to the laws of physics. A force that each of us has experienced at least once in a lifetime.
We invite artists and artistic groups, engineers and inventors who are ready to develop and implement their own project within the framework of the festival to take part in the festival.
Project requirements and conditions:
We are interested in projects that are inspired by scientific ideas, interpret the concepts of modern science, inspire your own research, draw attention to the role of a scientist in the modern world and arouse curiosity.
The project must:
carried out in the open air without additional shelter;
assume a greater cross-country ability in the format of a street festival;
reflect the theme of the 2017 festival.
Project formats:
installation
performance
public art object
scientific attraction
The project must be feasible within the budget (no more than 500,000 rubles) or with additional co-financing of the participant.
The festival provides a platform for the project, security for the duration of the festival, PR support for the project as part of the festival, if necessary, power supply, water supply and volunteer assistance.
The grant covers production costs, but does not include author's royalties and travel expenses.
Application approval procedure
To apply, fill out the form and send it to us by email along with project images / video (up to 10 images) or a link to download the archive. Please indicate in the subject line: "Open call Polytech 2017".
The list of participants who received a grant will be published no later than March 3, 2017 on the website of the Polytechnic Museum.
The winner is determined by the curatorial group of the festival "Polytech", after which the project goes for approval to the Development Fund of the Polytechnic Museum. The project budget must include production costs only and cannot include artist fees or travel expenses.
On May 27 and 28, Gorky Park will host the fourth free street festival Polytech, which will combine multimedia art, modern theater, new scientific experiments, public art, discussion, educational and game programs. "Polytech" will become a giant scientific — popular attraction, built on48 hours for more than50,000 spectators.
The theme of the festival will be "the force of attraction" as a fundamental scientific concept that affects each of us. The study of this force has occupied scientists for centuries, and overcoming it has been the dream of engineers since the time of Leonardo da Vinci. Today - in the age of drones, exoskeletons and private space - we know more about this force than ever. The force of attraction is also the interaction that occurs between people in addition to the laws of physics; a force that each of us has experienced at least once in a lifetime. This year we invited inventors and artists to think about the direct and metaphorical meaning of this concept.
The headliner of the festival will be the performance Inferno by Canadian artists, classics of technological art Bill Warne and Louis-Philippe Demer, in which the audience is invited to take the stage themselves, dressed in an exoskeleton. The movements of the participants will be completely subordinated to the movements of the robotic suits: depending on the choreography, sometimes the audience can move freely, but more often they are provoked to certain physical reactions.
Especially for the festival, the artists of the laboratory of experimental ephemeral architecture Plastique-Fantastique are developing a site-specific project. At night it will be a light installation, and during the day it will be a pavilion and an interactive sound art labyrinth that reproduces the pulse of the hearts of visitors to the facility.
The festival program will include collective sculptures, interactive installations, performances, scientific attractions, a lecture program, as well as entertainment activities from festival partners.
By participating in the project of the festival "Smell Me, Smell You", the winners will have the opportunity to look into the special Absolut lounge area. Absolut Sniff Dating, a special scent laboratory, will operate here, where participants will be offered to experiment with the aromas of attraction and get the main prize - an ideal date in the best bars of Moscow with a tasting of rare cocktails.
The largest object of the festival will be the Museo Aero Solar, created from plastic bags. This open-source project was launched in 2007 by artist Tomas Saraceno, where volunteers assemble a large scale sculpture from recycled plastic and then launch it into the sky. Museo Aero Solar is a collective work that consists of individual actions and turns an object that pollutes the environment into an object that expands the boundaries of our consciousness.
Festival "Polytech"- these are projects of Russian and foreign artists, family and children's programs, experiments and shows of scientific laboratories, lectures by famous scientists from all over the world and the best way to spend your energy. In 2017, the open-air festival gathered more than 100 thousand spectators.
Theme of the fifth festival - "Energy". With the help of it, we can describe all the processes occurring in the Universe. This is a universal property of the world, "the measure of all things", which allows you to compare the incomparable.
The main event of the festival will be dance performance - VR_I from the team of Swiss choreographer Gilles Joban. Armed with VR glasses, participants explore the worlds invented by the artist: an endless desert, a non-existent city or a loft on top of a mountain.
Another headliner will be project "Green spark"— an installation demonstrating the technology of biological photovoltaics. The park will also install "Storm Lab" in the form of a transparent membrane, inside which the wind currents will move thousands of charged carbon particles. Visitors to the Festival will be able not only to watch a simulated storm, but also to regulate its strength.
Throughout the festival site will run "Water Robot" is a project of the Hamburg studio Ronnenberg Creative Technology. The robot will offer visitors fresh drinking water, which it extracts by means of condensation directly from the air, and in return will ask you to recharge its battery by turning a special handle on the side of the body.
Traditionally an important part of the festival - lecture program. This year's keynote speaker is Jesse Behring, an American psychologist and professor at New Zealand's University of Otago. Behring has been called the Hunter Thompson of science journalism. In his latest book, Me, You, He, They and Other Perverts. On the instincts we are ashamed of, the author examines gender issues from a scientific point of view and proves that sexual “strangeness” is normal. On Saturday, May 19, Bering will give a lecture on "How Passion Makes Us Stupid."
Also coming to the festival Ben Umbridge, a professor at the University of Liverpool, a favorite TED speaker who works at the intersection of psychology and zoology. Umbridge's new book, Are You Smarter Than a Chimp? Fight amazingly intelligent animals." On Sunday, May 20, Umbridge will present a book that will dispel myths about animal life and talk about the latest discoveries of zoologists and zoopsychologists.
Entrance to all festival venues free. You can register using the link.
The festival program can be found.
On May 27 and 28, Gorky Park will host the fourth Polytech street festival, which will combine multimedia art, modern theater, new scientific experiments, public art, discussion, educational and game programs. "Polytech" will be a giant popular science attraction built for 48 hours for more than 50,000 adults and children.
For more than one hundred and forty years, the Moscow Polytechnic Museum has been collecting, storing and displaying objects illustrating the stages in the development of technical thought. The new management of the museum, having updated the concept of its development, at the same time closed the historical building for reconstruction. Now lectures are given at his temporary addresses, scientific discussions are held, experiments are being set up and educational programs are being conducted.
This year the festival "Polytech" will be held for the fourth time. The venue for the festival will be Gorky Park, where viewers will see educational, artistic and gaming projects that develop interest in the scientific perception of the world.
The theme of the festival is "the force of attraction" as a fundamental scientific concept that affects each of us. The study of this force has occupied scientists for centuries, and overcoming it has been the dream of engineers since the time of Leonardo da Vinci. Today - in the age of drones, exoskeletons and private space - we know more about this force than ever. But the force of attraction is also an interaction that occurs between people in addition to the laws of physics; a force that each of us has experienced at least once in a lifetime. We invited inventors and artists to think about the direct and metaphorical meaning of this concept. The festival program includes collective sculptures, interactive installations, performances and scientific attractions.
The headliner of the festival will be the performance Inferno by Canadian artists, classics of technological art Bill Warne and Louis-Philippe Demer, in which the audience is invited to take the stage themselves, dressed in an exoskeleton. The movements of the participants are almost completely subordinated to the movements of the robotic suits: depending on the choreography, the audience can move freely, but more often they are provoked to certain physical reactions.
The largest object of the festival will be the Museo Aero Solar created from plastic bags. This open-source project was launched in 2007 by artist Thomas Saraceno. During his workshop, volunteers assemble a large-scale sculpture made from recycled plastic, and then launch it into the sky. Museo Aero Solar is a collective work that consists of individual actions and turns an object that pollutes the environment into an object that expands the boundaries of our consciousness. At the moment, the Polytechnic Museum has opened