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'Anti-museum' displays computer technology from the Soviet era
(29 Sep 2017) LEAD IN:
A new anti-museum in Russia offers visitors the chance to experience 20th century technology.
On offer are original Macintoshs, ancient Nintendo games and old Soviet PCs.
STORY-LINE:
Once upon a time, these computer keyboards would have been cutting-edge technology.
Now, they look like ancient artefacts.
This is the 'anti-museum of computers and video games', officially named Skynet, and it was launched in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
The largest museum of its kind in the country, it features more than 600 exhibits which have been harvested from across the world over the last four years.
Founder Sergei Martyanov receives all the pieces broken, in some shape or another.
He and and the local techies spend months looking for documentation in archives, matching spares, ordering them in from around the globe, or improvising if necessary - finally repairing these machines to working order.
Some museum pieces cost up to 6000 US dollars, while others narrowly escaped being thrown on the dump
The oldest device here is a Soviet oscilloscope produced in 1953, and it still works.
That's just a display of the first mainframe of 1950 that was called M1, and was a display, for outputting the information (to the screen), explains Martyanov.
Later (people) learned to output depictions to TV screens, and then the TV screens were transformed into so called displays or monitors.
Its display is a big lamp, and it doesn't show any digits or letters, only a curve line, but pioneering computer specialists are able to understand this computer language.
One of those, Gennadiy Basargin, donated this exhibit, which had lain in the pantry of his apartment for almost 40 years.
He worked as an engineer at a defence enterprise in the Soviet era and was keen on collecting computer equipment during those years:
When our enterprise undertook a write-off (of the equipment), there was a special shop. So the equipment was no longer needed in manufacturing, it was passed to this shop, and everyone who wanted it, bought it. I bought such things there.
When Basargin found out about the opening of the museum, he decided to make dozens of his collectibles a part of computer history, picking them up off the dusty shelves and donating them to Skynet.
Year by year it becomes more difficult to find old Soviet computers - most people have thrown out old hardware.
We have several dozens of Soviet computers here, says Martyanov.
Actually, there were a lot of various computers produced in the Soviet Union, and the engineering industry kept pace with the times, striving to replicate and improve exhibits, so to improve those developments from abroad.
While computers today can fit in the palm of our hands, those of the past were a much larger operation.
Martyanov switches on an old computer and the whirring of the fan starts up.
There were five of those fans in a single cupboard. And there could be a few dozens of the cupboards in a big room. All of this was a single computer, he says, marvelling at the thought.
The place where the computer was located was called a machine hall. You can imagine what noise was made by one cupboard and what noise was in a room where the computer was installed.
Today, these old devices make today's users laugh: calculators were bigger than modern tablets and units looked more like chandeliers stuffed with lamps.
Every month up to 4000 people come to Skynet, most of them are students of local schools and colleges.
The most popular part of the exhibition is the gaming zone.
These youngsters are trying out video games.
They can't understand how people used the devices in the past.
But the gaming zone also features more up-to-date technology.
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Lenin - The reimagining of a Russian revolutionary
(16 Aug 2019) LEAD IN
The former Communist dictator and revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin was the architect of the Soviet Union.
Now an exhibition in Russia shows how local artists are grappling with his legacy of political repression and mass killings.
STORY-LINE:
In Russia there are few faces better known than that of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - or Lenin.
But for all that familiarity, few Russians have seen Lenin like this.
Here at this exhibition in Yekaterinburg, Lenin's face - once depicted throughout the former Soviet Union as part of a cult of personality - is being re-imagined.
There's Lenin as Pharaoh, Lenin as the French Sun King, and even Lenin as a craggy-faced part of the landscape.
In this work, the former Marxist revolutionary is re-imagined as Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator.
Sergey Martynaov of Yekaterinburg's Antimuseum of Computers and Games explains the how the image came about:
Our Lenin is a cyber-Lenin, he says.
The idea is about combining history and technology. Lenin is still not buried - he is in a mausoleum. So we explored ideas of eternal life and biotechnology in our work by representing Lenin as a cyber-machine, a kind of Terminator, one who's still alive and will stay alive.
For this exhibition, which is being shown at the Museum of Soviet Life in Yekaterinburg, a city of 1.5 million people east of the Urals, artists were given free rein.
They were invited to explore Lenin's legacy from many perspectives.
The final products are an invitation to locals to reflect.
Such personalities as Vladimir Ilyich, who changed the course of history, they have very strong energy. Such personalities will not be forgotten, and will attract attention for many many years, says Martynaov.
In her work, artist Irina Podkorytova reflects on the Soviet cult of personality that sprung up during Lenin's life and endured well after his death.
With this bust, she draws a comparison with the myths surrounding the French Sun King, Louis XIV.
The bust stands aside two small bottles of French perfume.
He is a dictator who tore Russia apart, millions and millions of people were killed, millions left their motherland, and all his French perfumes in the form of (nice stories about) Lenin in Gorki, Lenin with children, Lenin with peasants, that will not be able to drown out that bad smell from his deeds. He is a dictator, this is our history, that's how it is, Podkorytova says.
Here in his workshop, Yekaterinburg artist Ivan Mikheev is tackling the subject using a new medium for him.
Mikheev's signature style is post-apocalyptic, or gothic.
But in this work, he depicts the former Soviet leader as a craggy rock face - a part of the landscape of Russia's 20th century history.
Lenin here is a part of history, and in this case, in this work as part of nature already, in which we live taking it for granted, not even thinking this is that very man who laid a powerful foundation for our lives, he explains.
Artist Anastasia Postnikova focuses on how traces of the former Soviet Union that Lenin helped to build are still felt today.
Her Lenin bust sits behind barbed wire.
She is using the work to make a comment on her childhood, spent in a closed city in Russia's Sverdlovsk region, 70 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg.
For some of the other 12 artists who've made contributions, the preoccupation is how much things have changed since Lenin's time.
Marina Kozlachkova is using Lenin's bust as a canvas to paint in her favourite colours - green and orange.
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The museum of ancient computer technology
(30 Sep 2017) LEAD IN:
A new anti-museum in Russia offers visitors the chance to experience 20th century technology.
On offer are original Macintoshs, ancient Nintendo games and old Soviet PCs.
STORY-LINE:
Once upon a time, these computer keyboards would have been cutting-edge technology.
Now, they look like ancient artefacts.
This is the 'anti-museum of computers and video games', officially named Skynet, and it was launched in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
The largest museum of its kind in the country, it features more than 600 exhibits which have been harvested from across the world over the last four years.
Founder Sergei Martyanov receives all the pieces broken, in some shape or another.
He and and the local techies spend months looking for documentation in archives, matching spares, ordering them in from around the globe, or improvising if necessary - finally repairing these machines to working order.
Some museum pieces cost up to 6000 US dollars, while others narrowly escaped being thrown on the dump
The oldest device here is a Soviet oscilloscope produced in 1953, and it still works.
That's just a display of the first mainframe of 1950 that was called M1, and was a display, for outputting the information (to the screen), explains Martyanov.
Later (people) learned to output depictions to TV screens, and then the TV screens were transformed into so called displays or monitors.
Its display is a big lamp, and it doesn't show any digits or letters, only a curve line, but pioneering computer specialists are able to understand this computer language.
One of those, Gennadiy Basargin, donated this exhibit, which had lain in the pantry of his apartment for almost 40 years.
He worked as an engineer at a defence enterprise in the Soviet era and was keen on collecting computer equipment during those years:
When our enterprise undertook a write-off (of the equipment), there was a special shop. So the equipment was no longer needed in manufacturing, it was passed to this shop, and everyone who wanted it, bought it. I bought such things there.
When Basargin found out about the opening of the museum, he decided to make dozens of his collectibles a part of computer history, picking them up off the dusty shelves and donating them to Skynet.
Year by year it becomes more difficult to find old Soviet computers - most people have thrown out old hardware.
We have several dozens of Soviet computers here, says Martyanov.
Actually, there were a lot of various computers produced in the Soviet Union, and the engineering industry kept pace with the times, striving to replicate and improve exhibits, so to improve those developments from abroad.
While computers today can fit in the palm of our hands, those of the past were a much larger operation.
Martyanov switches on an old computer and the whirring of the fan starts up.
There were five of those fans in a single cupboard. And there could be a few dozens of the cupboards in a big room. All of this was a single computer, he says, marvelling at the thought.
The place where the computer was located was called a machine hall. You can imagine what noise was made by one cupboard and what noise was in a room where the computer was installed.
Today, these old devices make today's users laugh: calculators were bigger than modern tablets and units looked more like chandeliers stuffed with lamps.
Every month up to 4000 people come to Skynet, most of them are students of local schools and colleges.
The most popular part of the exhibition is the gaming zone.
These youngsters are trying out video games.
They can't understand how people used the devices in the past.
But the gaming zone also features more up-to-date technology.
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Выступление министра связи Российской Федерации в Екатеринбурге
Николай Анатольевич Никифоров провел рабочую встречу с ИТ компаниями Екатеринбурга и уральского федерального округа в Уральском федеральном университете. Состоялась презентация первой очереди Технопарка, которая будет ориентироваться на ИТ отрасль.
The museum of ancient computer technology
(2 Oct 2017) LEADIN:
A new anti-museum in Russia offers visitors the chance to experience 20th century technology.
On offer are original Macintoshs, ancient Nintendo games and old Soviet PCs.
STORYLINE:
Once upon a time, these computer keyboards would have been cutting-edge technology.
Now, they look like ancient artefacts.
This is the 'anti-museum of computers and video games', officially named Skynet, and it was launched in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.
The largest museum of its kind in the country, it features more than 600 exhibits which have been harvested from across the world over the last four years.
Founder Sergei Martyanov receives all the pieces broken, in some shape or another.
He and and the local techies spend months looking for documentation in archives, matching spares, ordering them in from around the globe, or improvising if necessary - finally repairing these machines to working order.
Some museum pieces cost up to 6000 US dollars, while others narrowly escaped being thrown on the dump
The oldest device here is a Soviet oscilloscope produced in 1953, and it still works.
That's just a display of the first mainframe of 1950 that was called M1, and was a display, for outputting the information (to the screen), explains Martyanov.
Later (people) learned to output depictions to TV screens, and then the TV screens were transformed into so called displays or monitors.
Its display is a big lamp, and it doesn't show any digits or letters, only a curve line, but pioneering computer specialists are able to understand this computer language.
One of those, Gennadiy Basargin, donated this exhibit, which had lain in the pantry of his apartment for almost 40 years.
He worked as an engineer at a defence enterprise in the Soviet era and was keen on collecting computer equipment during those years:
When our enterprise undertook a write-off (of the equipment), there was a special shop. So the equipment was no longer needed in manufacturing, it was passed to this shop, and everyone who wanted it, bought it. I bought such things there.
When Basargin found out about the opening of the museum, he decided to make dozens of his collectibles a part of computer history, picking them up off the dusty shelves and donating them to Skynet.
Year by year it becomes more difficult to find old Soviet computers - most people have thrown out old hardware.
We have several dozens of Soviet computers here, says Martyanov.
Actually, there were a lot of various computers produced in the Soviet Union, and the engineering industry kept pace with the times, striving to replicate and improve exhibits, so to improve those developments from abroad.
While computers today can fit in the palm of our hands, those of the past were a much larger operation.
Martyanov switches on an old computer and the whirring of the fan starts up.
There were five of those fans in a single cupboard. And there could be a few dozens of the cupboards in a big room. All of this was a single computer, he says, marvelling at the thought.
The place where the computer was located was called a machine hall. You can imagine what noise was made by one cupboard and what noise was in a room where the computer was installed.
Today, these old devices make today's users laugh: calculators were bigger than modern tablets and units looked more like chandeliers stuffed with lamps.
Every month up to 4000 people come to Skynet, most of them are students of local schools and colleges.
The most popular part of the exhibition is the gaming zone.
These youngsters are trying out video games.
They can't understand how people used the devices in the past.
But the gaming zone also features more up-to-date technology.
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Lenin - The reimagining of a Russian revolutionary
(16 Aug 2019) LEAD IN
The former Communist dictator and revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin was the architect of the Soviet Union.
Now an exhibition in Russia shows how local artists are grappling with his legacy of political repression and mass killings.
STORY-LINE:
In Russia there are few faces better known than that of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - or Lenin.
But for all that familiarity, few Russians have seen Lenin like this.
Here at this exhibition in Yekaterinburg, Lenin's face - once depicted throughout the former Soviet Union as part of a cult of personality - is being re-imagined.
There's Lenin as Pharaoh, Lenin as the French Sun King, and even Lenin as a craggy-faced part of the landscape.
In this work, the former Marxist revolutionary is re-imagined as Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator.
Sergey Martynaov of Yekaterinburg's Antimuseum of Computers and Games explains the how the image came about:
Our Lenin is a cyber-Lenin, he says.
The idea is about combining history and technology. Lenin is still not buried - he is in a mausoleum. So we explored ideas of eternal life and biotechnology in our work by representing Lenin as a cyber-machine, a kind of Terminator, one who's still alive and will stay alive.
For this exhibition, which is being shown at the Museum of Soviet Life in Yekaterinburg, a city of 1.5 million people east of the Urals, artists were given free rein.
They were invited to explore Lenin's legacy from many perspectives.
The final products are an invitation to locals to reflect.
Such personalities as Vladimir Ilyich, who changed the course of history, they have very strong energy. Such personalities will not be forgotten, and will attract attention for many many years, says Martynaov.
In her work, artist Irina Podkorytova reflects on the Soviet cult of personality that sprung up during Lenin's life and endured well after his death.
With this bust, she draws a comparison with the myths surrounding the French Sun King, Louis XIV.
The bust stands aside two small bottles of French perfume.
He is a dictator who tore Russia apart, millions and millions of people were killed, millions left their motherland, and all his French perfumes in the form of (nice stories about) Lenin in Gorki, Lenin with children, Lenin with peasants, that will not be able to drown out that bad smell from his deeds. He is a dictator, this is our history, that's how it is, Podkorytova says.
Here in his workshop, Yekaterinburg artist Ivan Mikheev is tackling the subject using a new medium for him.
Mikheev's signature style is post-apocalyptic, or gothic.
But in this work, he depicts the former Soviet leader as a craggy rock face - a part of the landscape of Russia's 20th century history.
Lenin here is a part of history, and in this case, in this work as part of nature already, in which we live taking it for granted, not even thinking this is that very man who laid a powerful foundation for our lives, he explains.
Artist Anastasia Postnikova focuses on how traces of the former Soviet Union that Lenin helped to build are still felt today.
Her Lenin bust sits behind barbed wire.
She is using the work to make a comment on her childhood, spent in a closed city in Russia's Sverdlovsk region, 70 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg.
For some of the other 12 artists who've made contributions, the preoccupation is how much things have changed since Lenin's time.
Marina Kozlachkova is using Lenin's bust as a canvas to paint in her favourite colours - green and orange.
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