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Young scientist Alexander Osadchiev, who discovered two new currents in the Arctic, winner of the Presidential Prize in Science and Innovation for young scientists, will speak about how life works in the marine environment a scientific expedition. What scientists do on expeditions, what happens under the Arctic ice, and how scientific discoveries happen.

The lecture introduces the unique collection of the State Darwin Museum, which contains an extensive collection of expedition diaries and field drawings from trips to the Arctic lands of the most famous scientists, zoologists and environmentalists, including zoologist, Darwin Museum founder and participant of the 1921 Taymyr expedition on the Malygin icebreaker V. A. Vatagin; researcher and artist who created illustrations for several thousand scientific publications, explored the depths of the Arctic seas, and made many discoveries — N. N. Kondakov; and creators of the "Mammals of the USSR" atlas, brothers V. M. and Yu. M. Smirins, who traveled all over the country.

The materials of the lecture make it clear that full-scale drawing has become the main tool for recording the unique biodiversity of the Arctic expanses.

Introductory lecture of the seven-lecture series, which tells in detail about science art as a big umbrella trend, including such areas as bio-art, robo-art, generative art and many other genres.
The lecture introduces the stages of the formation of the latest technological art (science art), which was preceded by a long development of modern science and art culture. The author defines and identifies the characteristics and distinctive features of the plasticity language of science art.

The lecture also gives examples of works by Russian and foreign artists that make the viewer more aware of the natural processes that accompany our existence, which are perceived by people as a given or as a background for everyday life. For example, the movement of clouds in the air, fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field, melting glaciers, oxygen generation through photosynthesis, etc.

Examples of projects help the viewer to shift the focus of attention from the usual forms of communication to alternative ways of communication and feel how important and fundamental natural processes are, which we perceive as a natural and limitless.

The lecture focuses on events that contribute to the development of cybernetics in the 1960s, and special attention is paid to the personality of Gordon Pask – multidisciplinary artist, writer, inventor, cyberneticist and psychologist. He introduced the concept of "interactivity" to modern art and opened the era of interactive technological artistic creativity.

Fascinating stories about the natural resources and history of the Trans-Baikal Territory and the history of the development of the mining territory.
Students will learn about the West-East transport route — the contact zone for world cultures as a model of interethnic stability (epicenter of the great migrations (Xiongnu, North American Indians, Kalmyks). Biological diversity of flora and fauna and distribution invasive species, geochemical anomalies of these places (natural endemicity). How to develop the mining industry in this area and not destroy the ecosystem.

Lecture tells about Alexander Borisov, who was called "Russian Nansen" — the first Russian painter who reached Novaya Zemlya in his travels, a connoisseur of the life and customs of the northern peoples, who created the "phenomenon of the Arctic landscape". He popularized the polar theme in Russian visual art, being a member of many Arctic expeditions. His paintings can be seen in museums in Paris, New York, Moscow and St. Petersburg.

The lecture tells the story of creating photograms, and gives examples of the works of artists who experimented with this technique in their artistic practice, including such names as: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, El Lissitzky, Varvara Stepanova and others. Further, the lecturer tells about her own projects and how she came up with the idea of printing "fullmoongraffiti" — works created using moonlight and water. One of the most famous cycles of Fedotova's fullmoongraffiti is associated with studies of the Yenisei River water.

Arctic Birdwatching — combining the beautiful with the useful. How photography helps ornithologists on expeditions and how it can be used in civil science.
Currently, the direction of bird photography has become very popular among both amateur birdwatchers and professional photographers and ornithologists. But not everyone knows that this can be not only a personal hobby, but also bring huge benefits to science, even if you are not a scientist. Photographing live objects helps specialists capture various aspects of their lives from a safe distance, without disturbing them, and further analyze them. Images of amateur photographers help scientists clarify the spatial distribution of not only common, but also rare species. To do this, you need to upload all the photos, regardless of their artistic quality, to various databases – this way they will become available to scientists who can help not only with the correct definition of the species, but also use the information obtained in their work. And it happens that the image can also be used to identify some interesting features that were not previously known or confirmed. Another important aspect of photography is the ability to show the beauty of the world around us, especially to children. After all, our task is not only to study, but also to preserve, and for this you just need to teach to love and appreciate the native nature of each person. Both photography and birdwatching are the best helpers in this!

The lecture will be about Nikolai Vasilyevich Pinegin — artist, photographer, documentary filmmaker and writer, an outstanding polar explorer, a member of the first Russian scientific expedition to the North Pole led by G. Ya.Sedov in 1912-1914, creator of the first color images of the Arctic.

The lecture will be about Nikolai Vasilyevich Pinegin — artist, photographer, documentary filmmaker and writer, an outstanding polar explorer, a member of the first Russian scientific expedition to the North Pole led by G. Ya.Sedov in 1912-1914, creator of the first color images of the Arctic.

Picturesque green lake can be dangerous. Lecture on how to distinguish harmful "blooming" of water and how it is dangerous, what causes water eutrophication, and how to save the lake so that it does not turn into green slush.

What measures to combat "blooming" are effective?

Macro photography is a type of film and photo shooting in which the depicted objects are shot at a scale of 1:1 or larger. MK will tell you how to make such a survey, what you can see so interesting, why it is "photo", and how it helps to manifest new species.

The lecture features materials on different types of vision. Perception analysis, chemical basics. Evolutionary aspects. Dependence of the vision level on adaptation to various environmental conditions. Fantasies about alien vision.

Lecture introduces the biography of the Argentine artist Tomas Saraceno, the organizer of the first longest recorded flight, carried out at the expense of solar heat and infrared radiation from the Earth's surface, the creator of the "Aerocene" theory.

You can also learn from the lecture:
- about the history of the creation of aircraft and the development of aeronautics
- ideas of Russian cosmism that influenced the artist's worldview
- about futuristic projects of "flying cities" by Russian architects and foreign designers
- research in the field of arachnology that Thomas Saraceno uses to create his projects.

Lecture tells about eco-art, as a separate genre of contemporary art, aimed at preserving, restoring and updating the forms of life, resources and ecology of the Earth, as well as the formation of an eco-oriented public opinion.

Lecture will introduce the history of the Lapland Nature Reserve, learn about 3 existing nature trailы and 2 museums dedicated to key figures in the history of the reserve.
Animal world: who lives in the Lapland Nature Reserve and who can visitors meet on the nature trail? Flora: let's get acquainted with representatives of the northern flora and find out why scientists annually mark the dates of mass flowering and fading? Winter excursions. What the White Book of Nature tells us: reading footprints.

The lecture delves into the history of the technology of creating images using light long before the appearance of the pinhole camera, which did not lose its relevance even with the spread of traditional photography, and also introduces the bold experiments of avant-garde artists, surrealists and modern artists created using photogram printing technology.

A fascinating story about the most unusual nature reserves in the country: about the largest and smallest, the very first and recently received status, what they are interesting for.

What is the difference between a nature reserve and a national park, and what you can do there.

Lecture tells about the multifaceted and largely contradictory personality of Bern Porter, the creator of the term "sci-art", and then the first manifesto of "technological art", a physicist, a participant in the Manhattan project, who survived the "internal conflict" after the 1945 explosion, he developed ideas about the need to humanize science, including through the reflection of scientific achievements by means of modern art.

Lecture is dedicated to Alexander Nikolaevich Formozov — zoologist, ecologist, evolutionist, biogeographic scientist, creator of a huge collection of full-scale sketches of animals, birds and plants that make up the "golden collection" of the State Darwin Museum.

A. N. Formozov is one of the founders of the national ecological school in the field of studying mammals and birds.

The lecture introduces the rarest artifacts, interprets the deep, millennial meanings of the culture of indigenous peoples of the Arctic. The small indigenous peoples of Taimyr still retain a strong connection with nature and the traditional way of life, they are also remarkable for their archaic culture and decorative arts, dating back to ancient totemic cults and shamanic rituals.

The lecture examines the relationship between the ideas expressed by Vladimir Vernadsky at the beginning of the XX century about "the whole community of organisms, plants and animals, including humans" and his approach to mineralogy as a science charged with "dynamic" potential, as well as pieces of science art created using the concept of "deep media," which reveals the fundamental media properties of materials extracted from the bowels of the Earth, thanks to which, in particular, the functions of all new media become possible.

The lecture provides examples of the first mechanized projects created by people in ancient times, starting with Ancient Greece and Ancient China. It describes prerequisites for the appearance of a robotic art, as well as its connection with kinetic art. The article explains the goals and objectives that artists who create projects with the use of automated mechanisms set for themselves. The concept of technocenosis, first developed by the Russian engineer Boris Kudrin in the 1970s-1980s, and the theory of Post-and Transhumanism are also considered.

Лекция рассказывает о многогранной и во многом противоречивой личности Берна Портера, создателе термина «sci-art», а затем и первого манифеста «технологического искусства», физике, участнике Манхэттенского проекта, пережившем «внутренний конфликт» после взрыва 1945 года, развивавшем идеи о необходимости гуманизации науки, в том числе и через рефлексию научных достижений средствами современного искусства.

Лекция посвящена Александру Николаевичу Формозову – зоологу, экологу, эволюционисту, биогеографу, создателю огромной коллекции натурных зарисовок животных, птиц и растений, составляющих «золотую коллекцию» Государственного Дарвиновского музея.

А.Н. Формозов – один из основоположников отечественной экологической школы в области изучения млекопитающих и птиц.

Лекция знакомит с редчайшими артефактами, интерпретирует глубинные, тысячелетние смыслы культуры коренных народов Арктики.

Малочисленные коренные народы Таймыра до сих пор сохранили прочную связь с природой и традиционным укладом жизни, они также замечательны своей архаической культурой и декоративно-прикладным искусством, восходящим к древним тотемическим культам и шаманским ритуалам.

В лекции приводятся примеры первых механизированных проектов, создаваемых людьми еще в древние времена, начиная с Древней Греции и Древнего Китая. Описываются предпосылки появления роботического искусства и его связи с кинетическим искусством, поясняются цели и задачи, которые ставят для себя художники создающие проекты с участием автоматизированных механизмов. Также рассматривается концепция техноценоза, впервые разработаная российским инженером Борисом Кудриным в1970-1980 годы XX в. и теории Пост и Трансгуманизма.

Лекция рассматривает взаимосвязь идей, высказанных Владимиром Вернадским в начале XX века о «всей общности организмов, растительных и животных, в том числе и человека» и его подхода к минералогии, как науке, заряженной «динамическим» потенциалом и работ художников сайнс-арта, созданных с применением концепции «deep media» раскрывающей фундаментальные медийные свойства материалов добытых из недр Земли, благодаря которым, в частности, становятся возможными функции всех новых медиа.