An exclusive media performance of presentations of the best works by participants of the Graffiti 3024: Art of the Future in Cities project, organized by the St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design, VK Education, the creative platform Prostor, as well as the Lumion multimedia platform, has ended in the Brusnitsyn cultural Quarter in St. Petersburg. The closed event featured unique presentations of works by talented media artists exploring the theme of urban environment development and urban space transformation.
Students of the Institute of Graphic Design of Ƶ entered the TOP 10 of the project. Their work demonstrated a high level of craftsmanship. They reflected modern trends in art, offering non-standard solutions and interpretations of the graffiti theme. Violetta Kosenko and Veronika Morskaya presented a work dedicated to returning to the roots.
— St. Petersburg was built on water, hence our theme. In the future, graffiti may be underwater. We want to connect graffiti through the stories of specific people. The city on the Neva River has remained a city on the water for centuries, where whole generations lived and worked, the author says.
The video "Deconstruction" by Vugar Shukyurov plunged the viewer into a futuristic space where graffiti art reaches a new level. It is an interweaving of shapes and colors that is transformed and at the same time disassembled again.
Maria Lisova presented a work called "PSR B1919+21" or simply "PULSAR" for short. There are several leitmotives here: abstract visual star waves that read the walls of the house; pulsation visible through an abstract radar; generation of linear shape and color animated abstraction, which varies depending on the situation or person, yielding to the effect of the observer.
— In the future, graffiti will be more lively, the concept will resemble live animated canvases in VR/AR. They will be created through the use of special plates/sensors placed on houses and art objects that will be able to read the pulsation frequencies of stars, and then generate and convert these same pulsations into abstract living geometry. She will react to people and change to fit them, while maintaining a connection with the stars. That is, anyone can directly touch and interact with cosmic bodies through graffiti, Maria believes.
"The Moscow-Andromeda Train" is the work of Gleb Tali. The author presented the world of the future in the form of railways laid through endless space and connecting the familiar world of the present with an incomprehensible and unpredictable future.
Veronika Kopylova, Vasilina Kononenko and Kristina Mironova presented a small animated sketch about a character illegally painting walls and a law enforcement officer in the work "The Future awaits new ideas!".
The duo of students Valeria Kotova and Anastasia Nemchinova presented the guests with a video project called "Writers from 3024" — an assumption about how graffiti artists might look, perhaps they will not even be people, and their works in 3024.
"Graphic or realistic?". This is the question asked by its author Anna Lozhechnik in her video. The heroine of her video is trying to make sense of the following: is what she saw a reality or are these all echoes of the past. In the end, it turns out that she is just a picture of an unknown writer.
The award ceremony featured the best works showing how graffiti merges with innovative technologies and futuristic visions. The guests were able to learn how street art can change the urban environment in 1000 years. The works were striking in their technical complexity, details and creativity, the visitors noted.
Anastasia Kodatenko, Senior lecturer at the Department of Advertising Design of St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, member of the Eurasian Art Union, acted as an artist consultant from the University of Industrial Technologies and Design.
Among the honored guests who attended the exclusive presentation were representatives of GAZPROM Neft, MTS, RASKROI design space, the Youth Initiatives Support Fund, TINKOFF, TEREMOK, the St. Petersburg Union of Designers, SPb FASHION WEEK, ARNY PRAHT, Au Pont Rouge Department Store, as well as public figures, directors and representatives of business clubs.