Polytechnic exhibition in Gorky Park. Street science festival "Polytech"

It will be held with the support of Megafon, a technology partner and trustee of the museum, and sports partner Nike.

The theme of the 2018 festival is “Energy”. With the help of energy, we can describe all the processes occurring in the Universe: from a human whisper to the explosion of a supernova, from a football player kicking the ball to the launch of a rocket. Energy is a universal property of the world, “the measure of all things”, which allows you to compare incomparable things.

The main event of the festival is a dance performance - VR_I from the team of Swiss choreographer Gilles Joban

VR_I

Armed with virtual reality glasses, participants in the performance explore worlds imagined by the artist: an endless desert, a non-existent city or a loft on a mountain top. Spectators of the performance will be able to interact with each other and move freely in spaces, getting completely new sensations and watching the movements of virtual dancers. The traditional perception of reality will change - thanks to the use of new technological capabilities that appear to the choreographer in a world free from physical laws.

The winner of the 2018 open call, the Green Spark project, will occupy a special place in the Park. Elena and Ivan Mitrofanov, the authors of the project at the Shukhov Lab (Laboratory for Prototyping Future Cities), together with Paolo Bombelli from the University of Cambridge, will bring to the festival an installation demonstrating the technology of biological photovoltaics. “Green Spark” is a structure with walls two and a half meters high, consisting of dozens of plants suspended in ceramic modules, acting as batteries. They are connected in series and parallel electrical circuits to charge the screen, illustrating the number of incoming Volts. Electricity is produced by special bacteria that live in the roots of plants: they consume the remains of vital activity and photosynthesis that enter the soil. The ingenious synthesis of botany and physics can be studied in detail once inside the installation.


Installation by Ekaterina Galyuk (City+Light) Russia / Holland, 2015 A large-scale public art object in shape resembles a paper boat made using the origami technique and enlarged 60 times. This familiar image takes us back to childhood and reminds us of the pioneering spirit.

The main property of energy is the conservation of its quantity in the Universe: energy does not appear from anywhere and does not disappear anywhere, but only passes from one form to another. At the festival we will try to free up as much of our energy as possible and convert it into useful things: Nike and Polytechnic have prepared a sports and intellectual quest for the festival “Free the energy”. For the kilojoules of energy spent, participants will be able to receive gift cards for visiting the Nike sports center in Gorky Park, which will open on June 10.

The park will install a “Storm Laboratory” - an installation in the form of a transparent membrane, inside which wind currents will move thousands of charged carbon particles. The particles will react to the human electromagnetic field, and Festival visitors will be able not only to observe a simulated storm, but also to regulate its strength.

The “Water Robot”, a project of the Hamburg studio Ronnenberg Creative Technology, which works with computer technology and conceptual design, will run throughout the Polytech festival site.


Water robot

The robot will offer visitors fresh drinking water, which it extracts using condensation directly from the air, and in return will ask to recharge its battery by turning a special handle on the side of the body.

The Water Robot is an elegant solution to the issue of free drinking water, which has evolved from an affordable resource into a successful commercial product over the course of several decades. The project is intended as an illustration of a new reality in which robots are integrated into human everyday life.

A traditionally important part of the festival is the lecture program, which brought together scientists from all over the world and artists participating in the festival.

This year's Kinnote speaker will be Jesse Behring, an American psychologist and professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Behring is called the Hunter Thompson of science journalism - he has published in Scientific American, Slate, The Guardian, and The New York Times. In his latest book, “Me, You, Him, Them and Other Perverts. On the Instincts We're Ashamed of,” he looks at gender issues with a scientific perspective and argues that sexual “weirdness” is normal. On May 19, Bering will give a lecture “How Passion Makes Us Stupid.”


Show "Ice and Fire"

Another stellar speaker is Ben Umbridge, a professor at the University of Liverpool and a favorite TED speaker who works at the intersection of psychology and zoology. Umbridge's new book, Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee, has just been published by Individuum. Fight amazingly smart animals." On May 20, Umbridge will present the book, dispel myths about animal life and talk about latest discoveries zoologists and zoopsychologists.

For two days, May 19 and 20, 2018, the fifth Polytech street festival will be held in Moscow’s Gorky Park. It intertwines science, art and technology. During these two days, the Park will turn into a VR portal and a platform for experiments. Guests will enjoy space installations and performances.

The Polytech festival is a joint project of artists from Russia and abroad, family and children's programs, experimental shows, and a scientific laboratory. By taking part in it, you can become a listener to lectures by famous world scientists.

The main event of the 2018 Polytech festival will be the dance performance VR_I

The theme of the festival this year is “Energy”. It is with the help of it that various processes in the Universe are described. It also leads to various changes around us. A person feels energy during sports activities, driving a vehicle, walking, scientists are exploring all possible ways of its manifestation.

This year, the main event of the Polytech festival will be the dance performance VR_I from a team from Switzerland, led by Gilles Joban. Having put on VR glasses, festival participants will find themselves in the artist’s fictional world: an endless desert, a non-existent city, a loft on mountain peak. In such an environment, the audience will interact with each other and move freely in space. It will be interesting to watch virtual dancers.

Surely, the “Green Spark” project will gather many spectators in Gorky Park. At the festival, Elena and Ivan Mitrofanov, Paolo Bombelli will present an installation of biological photovoltaic technologies. The project will be a structure with 2.5-meter walls, of 10 plants suspended in ceramic modules, connected in series and parallel electrical circuits to recharge a display that shows the number of incoming watts. At the festival, all participants will spend maximum of their energy, but convert it into useful things. For example, Polytech and Nike are organizing the sports and intellectual quest Free the energy.

The Storm Laboratory will feature an installation - a transparent membrane with wind currents moving charged carbon particles. A “Water Robot” created by Ronnenberg Creative Technology will ride around the site. As part of the lecture program, Jesse Bering will act as a speaker.

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 festival open air attracted more than 100 thousand spectators.

The theme of the fifth festival is "Energy". With its help 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 incomparable things.

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 worlds imagined by the artist: an endless desert, a non-existent city or a loft on a mountain top.

Another headliner will be Project "Green Spark"— an installation demonstrating the technology of biological photovoltaics. The Park will also install "Storm Laboratory" in the form of a transparent membrane, inside which wind currents will move thousands of charged carbon particles. Festival visitors will be able not only to observe a simulated storm, but also to regulate its strength.

There will be a shuttle throughout the festival site "Water Robot"- a project of the Hamburg studio Ronnenberg Creative Technology. The robot will offer visitors fresh drinking water, which it extracts using condensation directly from the air, and in return will ask to recharge its battery by turning a special handle on the side of the body.

A traditionally important part of the festival is lecture program. The main speaker this year will be Jesse Behring, an American psychologist and professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Behring has been called the Hunter Thompson of science journalism. In his latest book “Me, You, Him, Them and Other Perverts. About the instincts that we are ashamed of,” the author examines gender issues from a scientific perspective and proves that sexual “oddities” are normal. On Saturday, May 19, Bering will give a lecture “How Passion Makes Us Stupid.”

Will also come to the festival Ben Umbridge, a professor at the University of Liverpool and a favorite TED speaker who works at the intersection of psychology and zoology. Umbridge's new book, Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee, has just been published by Individuum. Fight amazingly smart animals." On Sunday, May 20, Umbridge will present a book, dispel myths about animal life and talk about the latest discoveries of zoologists and animal psychologists.

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On May 19 and 20, the fifth street festival of science, art and technology "Polytech" will be held in Gorky Park. For 48 hours, the park will become a portal to virtual reality, a platform for space installations and performances, and a space for scientific experiments.

The Polytech festival includes projects by Russian and foreign artists, family and children's programs, experiments and shows from Polytech scientific laboratories, lectures by famous scientists from all over the world and the best way to spend your energy.

The theme of this year's festival is "Energy". With its help, we can describe all the processes occurring in the Universe: from a human whisper to a supernova explosion, from a football player kicking a ball to a rocket launch. Energy is a universal property of the world, “the measure of all things,” which allows us to compare incomparable things.

The main event of the festival is dance performance VR_I from the team of Swiss choreographer Gilles Joban.

Armed with virtual reality glasses, participants in the performance explore worlds imagined by the artist: an endless desert, a non-existent city or a loft on a mountain top. Spectators of the performance will be able to interact with each other and move freely in spaces, getting completely new sensations and watching the movements of virtual dancers. The traditional perception of reality will change: thanks to the use of new technological capabilities that appear to the choreographer in a world free from physical laws.

The winner of the 2018 open call will have a special place in the park – Project "Green Spark". Elena and Ivan Mitrofanov, the authors of the project at the Shukhov Lab (Laboratory for Prototyping Future Cities), together with Paolo Bombelli from the University of Cambridge, will bring to the festival an installation demonstrating the technology of biological photovoltaics. “Green Spark” is a structure with walls two and a half meters high, consisting of dozens of plants suspended in ceramic modules, acting as batteries. They are connected in series and parallel electrical circuits to charge the screen, illustrating the number of incoming Volts. Electricity is produced by special bacteria that live in the roots of plants: they consume the remains of vital activity and photosynthesis that enter the soil. The ingenious synthesis of botany and physics can be studied in detail once inside the installation.

The main property of energy is the conservation of its quantity in the Universe: energy does not appear from anywhere and does not disappear anywhere, but only passes from one form to another. At the festival we will try to release as much of our energy as possible and convert it into useful things: Nike and Polytechnic have prepared sports and intellectual quest at the festival "Free the energy" For the kilojoules of energy spent, participants will be able to receive gift cards for visiting the Nike sports center in Gorky Park, which will open on June 10.

Will be installed in the park "Storm Laboratory"– an installation in the form of a transparent membrane, inside which wind currents will move thousands of charged carbon particles. They will respond to a person's electromagnetic field, and festival goers will be able to not only observe a simulated storm, but also adjust its strength.

The “Water Robot”, a project of the Hamburg studio Ronnenberg Creative Technology, which works with computer technology and conceptual design, will run throughout the site.
The robot will offer visitors fresh drinking water, which it extracts using condensation directly from the air, and in return will ask to recharge its battery by turning a special handle on the side of the body.

The traditionally important part is lecture program, which brought together scientists from all over the world and artists participating in the festival. This year's Kinnote speaker will be Jesse Behring, an American psychologist and professor at New Zealand's University of Otago. He has been called the Hunter Thompson of science journalism - he has published in Scientific American, Slate, The Guardian, and The New York Times. In his latest book, “Me, You, Him, Them, and Other Perverts: About the Instincts We're Ashamed of,” he examines gender issues from a scientific perspective and argues that sexual “weirdness” is normal.

Another stellar speaker is Ben Umbridge, a professor at the University of Liverpool and a favorite TED speaker who works at the intersection of psychology and zoology. Umbridge's new book, Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee? Take on Amazingly Smart Animals, has just been published by Individuum. On May 20, Umbridge will present a book, dispel myths about animal life and talk about the latest discoveries of zoologists and animal psychologists.

#festivalpolytech is a vibrant interactive street festival, a giant educational attraction for children and adults. This year at the festival: educational, artistic and gaming projects from all over the world, scientific and theatrical shows, public art and a two-day discussion program from foreign and Russian speakers.

The theme of the 2018 festival is “Energy”. A universal property of the world, “the measure of all things”, which allows you to compare incomparable things.

Festival guests will be able to dance in virtual reality, control the storm and convert their energy into useful things at the sports-intellectual quest “Free the energy”, prepared jointly with Nike.

This year's film speakers are American psychologist Jesse Behring with a lecture “How Passion Makes Us Dumber” and University of Liverpool professor Ben Umbridge, who will present his new book “Are You Smarter than a Chimpanzee? Fight amazingly smart animals."

This year the festival will be held with the support of MegaFon, technology partner and museum trustee, sports partner Nike+ Run Club, British Council Russia, Pro Helvetia Moscow and with the participation of the Direct Speech Lecture Hall.

The book program of the festival will be held as part of the Art Book Fair at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. You will find new items from the Polytechnic publishing program, children's master classes from the Open Collections of the Polytechnic and the mathematical artist Rinus Roelofs, as well as a show by Ilya Kolmanovsky based on the book of the same name “How the Pear Hit the Brain.” The venue will again be Gorky Park.

#festivalpolytech is the best way to spend energy!

 

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