CYLAND Video Archive: Open Call Results
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CYLAND Video Archive Announce the Results of the CYFEST 17 Video Program Open Call
CYLAND MediaArtLab and the CYLAND Video Archive are pleased to announce the results of the open call for the video program of the International Media Art Festival CYFEST 17: Natura Naturans: Human Beings, Nature, Landscape, to be presented in The Cafesjian Center for the Arts (Cascade Complex), Yerevan.
The selected works reflect a wide range of artistic approaches to ecology, technology, landscape, memory, and the complex relationships between human and more-than-human worlds. Bringing together artists from across the globe, the program includes single-channel installations and a curated screening program.
Selected Works
Single-Channel Installations
Eric Vernhes — Ektachrome (2026)
Sung Nam Han — Video Installation JUAM 2024 — U / D / L / R Reference (2026)
Jaanika Peerna — All that is Kelp Melts into Ice (2024)
Screening Program
Anabela Costa — Wind (2026)
Studio Above&Below (Daria Jelonek & Perry-James Sugden) — Critical Landscapes – Series One (2024)
Garush Melkonyan — Ubi sunt, 2019
Sid Iandovka with Leslie Thornton — Twins of Earth (2025)
Arnaud Laffond — Breathing (2025)
Guli Silberstein — MATERIALIVE (2025)
Susannah Sayler & Edward Morris (Sayler / Morris) — The Amazon is Elsewhere (2025)
Hong Chen — The Command of Origin (2025)
Marc Lee — Hi, AI agents! Create new chimeras based on scientific publications such as genetics and robotics.(2026)
Citron | Lunardi — Kingdom Plantae (2025)
Liudmila Belova — DIARY OF OBSERVATIONS (2026)
Jean-Michel Rolland — Affordance (2020)
Mark Cypher — Dis_place (2025)
Anton Khlabov — Distortion of Signal (2026)
Sami Keskikallio — Bordering (2026)
Tonoptik — Latent Space (2025)
Arman Ayvazyan — Dragonfly (2024)
Lin Yen-Ju (林晏竹) — 0 (2019)
Edward Kulemin — Swarm (2024)
Sid Iandovka — (e)scape goat (2020)
Ani Chopuryan — iNexxus – Art of Animation (2025)
Yanina Chernykh — The Nivkhs (2026)
Diana Kapizova — There, over the rainbow, we will hide in the shadow (2025)
Ellen Pearlman — Brenda (2026)
Alongside the Yerevan program, a selection of works from the CYLAND Video Archive was presented in "Spaces of Transition", curated for Art Night Venezia 2026. The program took place on June 20 at the Auditorium Santa Margherita – Emanuele Severino, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and featured works by Eric Vernhes, Sandrine Deumier, Gioula & Olga Papadopoulou, Lu Wei, Jaanika Peerna, Yuliya Lanina, Mu Tuan, Shao-Gang Wang, Amy Kong, Gohar Martirosyan, Mathilde Lavenne, and Ruth Groesswang.
We would like to thank everyone who submitted their work to the open call. We greatly appreciate everyone's participation and continued engagement with the CYLAND Video Archive.
