ScienceArtFest begins on March 16

		From March 15 to March 29, 2009, the Winzavod Contemporary Art Center will present an international festival devoted to contemporary art and science. The Dynasty Foundation has organized ScienceArtFest as part of its support program for Popular Science. The festival's general partner is Project Snob.

Festival Highlights:

• LenNauchFilm Studio marks its seventy-fifth anniversary with a program of its films made between 1933 and 2008, as well as a retrospective of the work of Pavel Klushantsev.
• Public lectures by specialists on such hot scientific topics as genetics, the brain, and new forms of matter in the universe:
• Nikolai Yankovsky, director, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics (Moscow);
• Konstantin Anokhin, head of the department of systemogenesis, Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology (Moscow);
• Anatoly Cherepashchuk, director, Shternberg Astronomy Institute, Moscow State University;
• Mikhail Alshibaya, leading Russian cardiac surgeon.
• Journalists and members of the greater public are invited to a scientific roundtable entitled “Scientific Falsifications and Science-Based Mass Psychoses,”  where such topics as ozone holes, cloning, the Large Hadron Collider, and global warming will be discussed.
• One of the pavilions at Winzavod will house a workshop where children, parents, and teachers can learn how to make their own popular-science animated films.

ScienceArtFest Program (.doc, in Russian)

Other highlights include:

• the conference Creative Technologies in Science Museums;
• and the roundtable Designing Science Museums.

The conference and roundtable will be attended by directors of the world's leading science museums and public education centers—London Science Museum, NEMO (Amsterdam), Bloomfield Science Museum (Jerusalem)—as well as by directors of Russian museums and educational organizations, and artists with practical know-how in creating contemporary science exhibits.

As part of ScienceArtFest, the Dynasty Foundation will hold an awards ceremony for its second Science Museums of the 21^st Century grant competition. The ceremony itself will be an exciting, eye-catching production directed by Maxim Isaev and Pavel Semchenko (Akhe Engineering Theater), winners of the Golden Mask Russian theatrical prize.

At Science as Suspense, the first science-art exhibition in Russia, viewers will have the chance to see works by the stars of this genre of contemporary art.