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the group
ULTRAFUTURO Group is an international group which works in the intersection of technology, ethics and human/machine identity. The group is established on 1st May, 2004, and based on the activity of the Supernova Group. ULTRAFUTURO is an initiator of the International Robot Day (IRD- 5.February) and founder of the online magazine Ultrafuturo (2004). Ultrafutoro develops new projects in the field of bio-art.
members
Boryana Rossa makes photographs, movies, artistic actions and combinations of all these. Till 1st August 2004, she works under the name Boryana Dragoeva. Her videos "Celebrating the Next Twinkling", "Back & Forth", "The Moon and the Sunshine"; "Why Beauties Fall in Love with Beasts" have been shown internationally at venues such as Video Medeja, Novi Sad; Steirischer herbst, Graz; The 8-th International Biennial, Cairo; Regina Gallery, Moscow; Kunsthalle, Vienna.
Rossa’s last projects - “Spookybots”, “Robo-Sapiens”,
“Roboriada”, “Citizen
Robot” and the curatorial project "Defenseless
and Bad" are dedicated to the rights of the robots in contemporary
society and have been exhibited at L Gallery Moscow, Foundation for Art
and Creative Technologies (FACT), Liverpool, Society for Art and Technology
(SAT), Montreal; CMU Art Museum, Chiangmai, Thailand; National Gallery
of Fine Arts and Goethe Institute, Sofia.
They are based on the research of Supernova
Group (Russia/Bulgaria), now called ULTRAFUTURO. Rossa is a member
of Supernova since 2000.
Oleg
Mavromatti is an interdisciplinary artist, who works in the fields
of performance, installation, film, video and computer animation. An outstanding
representative of the Moscow radical art and a founder of the Supernova
Film Union.
Mavromatti’s performances and artistic actions react rapidly to the socio-political
changes in Russia during the 1990’s. His performances “Do Not Kill” (dedicated
to every electronic soldier, killed in the computer games), “Do Not Believe
Your Eyes”, “Citizen X” etc. have been shown at.Museum of Contemporary
Art, Denver; The Culture Center of Stockholm, Pro-Arte Institute, St.
Petersburg; Museum of Cinema, Moscow; Media Art Bienalle WRO 01 and their
documentation is a part of the collection of the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Mavromatti is also one of the founders of STIK Moscow Film Festival.
Anton Terziev, Katia Damianova and Miroslav Dimitrov are representatives of the youngest generation of Bulgarian artists, who declare their critical attitude towards contemporary society trough their works.
Stanislav Ganchev - Troyt is a new member of the group. He made teh new design of the helmets of Roboriada.
Oleg Mavromatti in the experimental hothouse, Sofia. In this hothouse the Ultrafuturo group had groun the transgenetic peas "Satana 666".
Boryana Rossa takes care of the new satanic plants in the experimental hothouse, Sofia.
Boryana Rossa in the experimental hothouse, Sofia.