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• #10YearChallenge in Technology

  Modern technologies make our life way easier: credit cards, smartwatches, robots, virtual reality, and functional foods are no longer a novelty, but part and parcel of our daily routine. In this article, we’ll tell you about how people’s life and the world around us have changed over the last decade.

  30.01.2019

• The Best of CES 2019: Highlights and Trends

  Despite the economic crisis and rising inflation, smartphones sales in Russia broke all records in 2018. The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which showcases the breakthrough in innovative technologies, has recently kicked off in Las Vegas. ITMO.NEWS gathered information about the latest trends and technological advances in the field and talked to ITMO University lecturer and CES’s participant Andrey Korsakov.

  15.01.2019

• Civilization Historian, Cyber Security Ace, Filmmaker: Who’s Who at ITMO’s New Art&Science Program

  This academic year marks the start of ITMO University’s brand-new Art&Science Master’s program, Russia’s first-ever education program exploring the cutting-edge field of scientific art. Taught in English, the program combines the resources of the university’s state-of-the-art laboratories with the expertise of leading Russian and international art specialists. Art enthusiasts from Russia and all over the world came to St. Petersburg to study contemporary art, art entrepreneurship, execution of high-tech art projects, museum and exhibition management, and many other innovative fields that have only just started to emerge on the market. At a meeting with the program supervisor, a Russian art expert and head of the Department of Contemporary Art at the State Hermitage Museum Dimitri Ozerkov, ITMO.NEWS talked to the program participants to find about the fields they come from and expectations they have for their studies.

  08.10.2018

• Transcending Humanity: Evolution of Technological Art

  Last week, the first FUTURE ART festival was held in St. Petersburg. The event explored the cutting-edge sphere of BioArt, an Art&Science current encompassing the synthesis of artistic, scientific, creative, and technological methods of contemporary art-making. BioArt adherents work with live materials and organic processes. In her FUTURE ART lecture, art expert and head of ITMO’s Art & Science Center Anastasiia Yarmosh talked about how the technological art changed over the years, in which direction it is now heading, and what questions it deals with today.

  12.09.2018